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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing REST 17 28 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.60% 3.28% 5.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.64% 15.22% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 45
10th Percentile - £380 £450
25th Percentile £406 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% -11.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £494 £575
90th Percentile £600 £688 £613
Scotland median daily rate £469 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.00% -

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 146 184 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.36% 21.55% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 122 276
10th Percentile £400 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £458 £488
% change year-on-year +3.66% -6.00% -1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £38.87
% change year-on-year - +41.52% -17.75%

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 July 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 (11.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) MSTest
3 1 (5.88%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Ranorex
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Storybook
General
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
1 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
2 6 (35.29%) React
3 5 (29.41%) SOAP
4 4 (23.53%) Node.js
5 3 (17.65%) .NET
6 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.76%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (5.88%) CSS
7 1 (5.88%) EDI
7 1 (5.88%) Jest
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) Middleware
7 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
7 1 (5.88%) XML
7 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) API Management
6 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Kanban
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.88%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Manual Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Test Scripting
7 1 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) KVM
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Nagios
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Workday
3 1 (5.88%) Commvault
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) NetApp
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat