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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 25 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.26% 3.39% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.15% 15.28% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 25
10th Percentile £365 - £380
25th Percentile £403 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +3.93% -11.00%
75th Percentile £543 £530 £480
90th Percentile £570 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £377 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -18.71% +3.06% -7.69%

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 165 144 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.48% 22.19% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 102 119
10th Percentile £400 £406 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +3.47% -0.89%
75th Percentile £550 £524 £578
90th Percentile £643 £598 £705
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%

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 4 August 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 2 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) CICS
2 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.00%) Serverless
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (8.00%) Apigee
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Db2
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (12.00%) Git
4 2 (8.00%) MLflow
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Postman
5 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Back Office
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) React Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Release Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Spring
1 8 (32.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (28.00%) OAuth
2 7 (28.00%) SOAP
3 6 (24.00%) React
4 5 (20.00%) HTML
4 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 5 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Security
6 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (12.00%) CSS
6 3 (12.00%) Next.js
6 3 (12.00%) Playwright
6 3 (12.00%) Quarkus
6 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (12.00%) RESTful
7 2 (8.00%) boto
7 2 (8.00%) JWT
7 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) CMDB
2 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) AI
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (32.00%) Pair Programming
6 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (28.00%) TDD
7 6 (24.00%) API Development
7 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
7 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (24.00%) Observability
8 5 (20.00%) Kanban
8 5 (20.00%) LLM
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Scrum
8 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) RACF
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Kibana
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle
1 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Okta
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI