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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 50 37
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 17 15 43
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.79% 2.47% 4.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.23% 9.38% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 31
10th Percentile £385 £390 £416
25th Percentile £452 £404 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £555 £476 £538
90th Percentile £575 £538 £688
Scotland median daily rate £470 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +17.57% -18.08% +0.10%

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 139 160 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.79% 26.36% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 101 147
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £553
90th Percentile £656 £675 £640
Scotland median daily rate £500 £467 £479
% change year-on-year +7.07% -2.51% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.55%

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 11 February 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 3 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
1 8 (47.06%) Serverless
2 6 (35.29%) Amazon S3
2 6 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Dagster
4 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.88%) GIS
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) MLflow
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Financial Institution
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
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%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) AWS CDK
1 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 6 (35.29%) FastAPI
3 5 (29.41%) JWT
4 4 (23.53%) boto
4 4 (23.53%) Hugging Face
4 4 (23.53%) NumPy
4 4 (23.53%) OpenCV
4 4 (23.53%) Pandas
4 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.76%) Express.js
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) Node.js
6 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (23.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
3 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Derivative
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) AI
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) ETL
4 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Kanban
5 5 (29.41%) Pair Programming
5 5 (29.41%) User Experience
6 4 (23.53%) Async-Await
6 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
6 4 (23.53%) Community of Practice
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Vision
6 4 (23.53%) LLM
6 4 (23.53%) OCR
6 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) Accessibility
2 4 (23.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (17.65%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk