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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing REST 17 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.56% 3.35% 3.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.88% 15.79% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 21
10th Percentile £346 £406 £416
25th Percentile £363 £409 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £463 £479
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -3.44% -4.20%
75th Percentile £553 £523 £650
90th Percentile £571 £538 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £449 £500
% change year-on-year -5.29% -10.25% -

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 132 133 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.85% 21.25% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 102 134
10th Percentile £354 £401 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £477 £477
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +0.05% -2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £600
90th Percentile £655 £559 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -8.94%

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 April 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
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (17.65%) Dagster
4 3 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Google Ads
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.88%) GIS
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) MLflow
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) AWS CDK
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) OAuth
3 3 (17.65%) boto
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) FastAPI
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Hugging Face
3 3 (17.65%) JWT
3 3 (17.65%) NumPy
3 3 (17.65%) OpenCV
3 3 (17.65%) Pandas
3 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
3 3 (17.65%) Spring
3 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Express.js
4 2 (11.76%) Quarkus
4 2 (11.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Derivative
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) AI
2 7 (41.18%) TDD
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) ETL
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Pair Programming
4 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
5 4 (23.53%) API Integration
5 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (23.53%) Kanban
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) OCR
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) User Experience
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
6 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (23.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (17.65%) QA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Grafana
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock