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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 22 17 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.76% 2.60% 3.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.87% 11.64% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 22
10th Percentile £350 - £380
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £481 £448
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% +7.54% -10.50%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £611
90th Percentile £583 £600 £688
Scotland median daily rate £402 £469 £461
% change year-on-year -14.19% +1.63% -7.75%

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 171 146 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.48% 22.32% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 122
10th Percentile £387 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +2.63% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £597
90th Percentile £650 £600 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.37% +2.70% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £32.63
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £64.50 - £49.63
90th Percentile £64.80 - £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £36.25 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -34.09% - +15.23%

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 7 July 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 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) CICS
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 4 (18.18%) Dagster
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Apigee
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Db2
2 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MLflow
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
3 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 2 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) GIS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (4.55%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) SOAP
2 5 (22.73%) AWS CDK
2 5 (22.73%) OAuth
3 4 (18.18%) boto
3 4 (18.18%) FastAPI
3 4 (18.18%) HTML
3 4 (18.18%) Hugging Face
3 4 (18.18%) JWT
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) NumPy
3 4 (18.18%) OpenCV
3 4 (18.18%) Pandas
3 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
3 4 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (13.64%) Quarkus
4 3 (13.64%) Spring
4 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 2 (9.09%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (9.09%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) CMDB
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.55%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) AI
3 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
3 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
5 7 (31.82%) Scrum
6 6 (27.27%) LLM
6 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 6 (27.27%) Pair Programming
6 6 (27.27%) TDD
7 5 (22.73%) API Development
7 5 (22.73%) API Integration
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) ETL
7 5 (22.73%) OCR
7 5 (22.73%) Workflow
8 4 (18.18%) A/B Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Computer Vision
8 4 (18.18%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) RACF
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 4 (18.18%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Okta