REST Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 41 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 19 25 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.53% 3.98% 2.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.58% 16.13% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 18
10th Percentile £350 £406 £416
25th Percentile £375 £417 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £467 £477
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% -2.15% -4.60%
75th Percentile £558 £536 £678
90th Percentile £569 £594 £700
Scotland median daily rate £405 £463 £498
% change year-on-year -12.54% -7.04% -0.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 151 155 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.13% 24.68% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 120 116
10th Percentile £357 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £429 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £482
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -0.36% -1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £620
90th Percentile £650 £600 £731
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.93% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £32.63
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £64.50 - £49.63
90th Percentile £64.80 - £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.03%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

REST job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Edinburgh

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Apache
1 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) CICS
2 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) Dagster
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Apigee
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) Google Ads
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.26%) GIS
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MLflow
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Postman
4 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.26%) CICS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) React Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) AWS CDK
2 6 (31.58%) OAuth
3 4 (21.05%) boto
3 4 (21.05%) FastAPI
3 4 (21.05%) Hugging Face
3 4 (21.05%) JWT
3 4 (21.05%) NumPy
3 4 (21.05%) OpenCV
3 4 (21.05%) Pandas
3 4 (21.05%) PyTorch
3 4 (21.05%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 4 (21.05%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (15.79%) Node.js
4 3 (15.79%) Quarkus
4 3 (15.79%) React
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) JAX-RS
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Online Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) AI
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (36.84%) Pair Programming
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 6 (31.58%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Workflow
5 5 (26.32%) API Integration
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Kanban
5 5 (26.32%) LLM
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) OCR
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 4 (21.05%) API Development
6 4 (21.05%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.53%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) RACF
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.26%) IBM