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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 47 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 26 21 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.50% 3.39% 3.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.95% 12.57% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 20
10th Percentile £375 £405 -
25th Percentile £415 £419 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +3.93% -11.00%
75th Percentile £533 £515 £496
90th Percentile £566 £600 £678
Scotland median daily rate £390 £463 £445
% change year-on-year -15.68% +3.93% -7.10%

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 163 167 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.94% 26.94% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 114
10th Percentile £400 £409 £380
25th Percentile £418 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.49% +0.74%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £583
90th Percentile £622 £600 £693
Scotland median daily rate £450 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -8.81% +3.89% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -

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 2 September 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) CICS
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
4 6 (23.08%) GCP
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (19.23%) Serverless
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (11.54%) Azure
7 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (7.69%) GitHub
8 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Db2
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.85%) Power Query
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) MLflow
3 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Retail
5 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) CICS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Spring
1 11 (42.31%) Spring Boot
2 8 (30.77%) React
3 7 (26.92%) HTML
3 7 (26.92%) OAuth
3 7 (26.92%) SOAP
4 6 (23.08%) Next.js
4 6 (23.08%) Node.js
5 5 (19.23%) CSS
5 5 (19.23%) OAuth2
5 5 (19.23%) Terraform
6 4 (15.38%) Spring Security
7 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.54%) AWS CDK
7 3 (11.54%) Playwright
7 3 (11.54%) Quarkus
7 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (11.54%) Spring MVC
7 3 (11.54%) Vue
8 2 (7.69%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) CMDB
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (34.62%) AI
5 9 (34.62%) Microservices
6 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 8 (30.77%) Pair Programming
7 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
7 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
7 7 (26.92%) TDD
8 6 (23.08%) API Development
8 6 (23.08%) DevSecOps
8 6 (23.08%) Observability
8 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (19.23%) Kanban
9 5 (19.23%) LLM
9 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Grafana
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
1 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Okta
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI