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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 17 17 28
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.16% 2.68% 3.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.90% 12.14% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 21
10th Percentile £350 - £380
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £481 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.15% -11.00%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £494
90th Percentile £585 £600 £688
Scotland median daily rate £358 £463 £461
% change year-on-year -22.59% +0.27% -7.75%

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 156 140 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.80% 22.08% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 102 124
10th Percentile £358 £400 £336
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +2.95% -1.55%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £588
90th Percentile £651 £600 £718
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -7.69%
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 £64.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.36% - +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 23 June 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 (23.53%) Apache
1 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Dagster
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Apigee
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Google Ads
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Db2
1 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (5.88%) GIS
1 1 (5.88%) Metadata
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MLflow
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) CICS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) AWS CDK
1 5 (29.41%) OAuth
2 4 (23.53%) boto
2 4 (23.53%) FastAPI
2 4 (23.53%) Hugging Face
2 4 (23.53%) JWT
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) NumPy
2 4 (23.53%) OpenCV
2 4 (23.53%) Pandas
2 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
2 4 (23.53%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (17.65%) Quarkus
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
1 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) Online Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) AI
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (35.29%) LLM
5 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
5 6 (35.29%) Pair Programming
5 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 6 (35.29%) TDD
6 5 (29.41%) API Development
6 5 (29.41%) API Integration
6 5 (29.41%) ETL
6 5 (29.41%) OCR
6 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
6 5 (29.41%) Workflow
7 4 (23.53%) A/B Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Vision
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) RACF
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.88%) IBM