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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 17 32 44
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.76% 4.34% 4.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.28% 16.41% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 30
10th Percentile £419 £380 £431
25th Percentile £419 £384 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £518
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -22.71% +7.92%
75th Percentile £541 £471 £584
90th Percentile £550 £640 £646
Scotland median daily rate £500 £420 £490
% change year-on-year +19.05% -14.29% +0.51%

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 128 195 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.75% 26.46% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 115 192
10th Percentile £416 £380 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.02% +0.89%
75th Percentile £545 £533 £550
90th Percentile £610 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

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 3 November 2025.

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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
4 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (23.53%) GCP
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
6 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (11.76%) Dagster
7 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.88%) GitHub
8 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Liquibase
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) HP UFT
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
3 2 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 6 (35.29%) FastAPI
3 5 (29.41%) AWS CDK
4 4 (23.53%) CSS
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
4 4 (23.53%) JWT
4 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) boto
5 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (17.65%) Hugging Face
5 3 (17.65%) NumPy
5 3 (17.65%) OAuth2
5 3 (17.65%) OpenCV
5 3 (17.65%) Pandas
5 3 (17.65%) SOAP
5 3 (17.65%) Spring
5 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 3 (17.65%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
5 7 (41.18%) Microservices
6 6 (35.29%) AI
6 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 5 (29.41%) API Development
7 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
8 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (23.53%) Deep Learning
8 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
8 4 (23.53%) LLM
8 4 (23.53%) TDD
9 3 (17.65%) API Integration
9 3 (17.65%) Async-Await
9 3 (17.65%) Computer Vision
9 3 (17.65%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (35.29%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Go
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (17.65%) Ansible
5 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock