REST Contracts in Edinburgh

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 23 31 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.68% 3.80% 6.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.08% 17.03% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 66
10th Percentile £406 £416 £411
25th Percentile £414 £440 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -4.20% -
75th Percentile £532 £650 £530
90th Percentile £544 £700 £562
Scotland median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%

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 143 182 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.88% 22.33% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 121 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £417 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £529 £619 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for REST in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
3 4 (17.39%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) GIS
4 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) MSTest
3 1 (4.35%) NUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) Storybook
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Back Office
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) React Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Node.js
1 6 (26.09%) React
1 6 (26.09%) Spring
1 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
2 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
3 4 (17.39%) SOAP
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 3 (13.04%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) PostGIS
5 2 (8.70%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) Web Services
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (4.35%) EDI
6 1 (4.35%) Express.js
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) Middleware
6 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
4 8 (34.78%) TDD
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
5 5 (21.74%) Kanban
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
6 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Data Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Human-Centred Design
7 3 (13.04%) Inclusive Design
7 3 (13.04%) Migration
8 2 (8.70%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 7 (30.43%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
3 1 (4.35%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Workday
3 1 (4.35%) Commvault
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) NetApp
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat