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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 19 23 26
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.64% 3.70% 3.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.48% 15.86% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 17
10th Percentile £350 £406 £415
25th Percentile £388 £414 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -3.44% -2.74%
75th Percentile £561 £532 £688
90th Percentile £586 £544 £700
Scotland median daily rate £423 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% -7.50% +2.56%

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 141 145 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.56% 23.31% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 113 112
10th Percentile £355 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £480 £482
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -0.31% -0.72%
75th Percentile £581 £528 £625
90th Percentile £647 £600 £723
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £475
% change year-on-year - -1.05% -2.06%
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 12 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 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
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%) Dagster
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
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%) Delta Lake
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%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
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 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data 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%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) React Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
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%) Quarkus
4 3 (15.79%) React
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) JAX-RS
5 2 (10.53%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
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%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) AI
2 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) ETL
3 7 (36.84%) Pair Programming
4 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) API Integration
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Kanban
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) OCR
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
5 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 5 (26.32%) Workflow
6 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
6 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (21.05%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 4 (21.05%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 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 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.26%) IBM