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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 45 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 20 30 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.15% 3.63% 5.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.16% 14.63% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 42
10th Percentile £419 - £432
25th Percentile £443 £380 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £546 £494 £566
90th Percentile £600 £675 £635
Scotland median daily rate £465 £438 £488
% change year-on-year +6.29% -10.26% -2.50%

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 152 205 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.94% 24.79% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 125 230
10th Percentile £419 £380 £393
25th Percentile £456 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +0.21% -2.04%
75th Percentile £546 £563 £538
90th Percentile £600 £685 £600
Scotland median daily rate £496 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.84% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -6.83% -1.09%

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

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 19 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Serverless
3 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (20.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.00%) Dagster
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.00%) Azure
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) Storybook
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) OAuth
2 6 (30.00%) FastAPI
3 5 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 5 (25.00%) React
3 5 (25.00%) SOAP
3 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (20.00%) JWT
4 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (20.00%) RESTful
5 3 (15.00%) boto
5 3 (15.00%) CSS
5 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (15.00%) Hugging Face
5 3 (15.00%) NumPy
5 3 (15.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (15.00%) OpenCV
5 3 (15.00%) Pandas
5 3 (15.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (15.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (25.00%) API Development
7 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (20.00%) Deep Learning
8 4 (20.00%) LLM
8 4 (20.00%) TDD
9 3 (15.00%) Async-Await
9 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (15.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) Go
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Grafana
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Workday
3 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle