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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 35 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 19 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.18% 5.31% 4.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.84% 20.11% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 32
10th Percentile £419 £380 £432
25th Percentile £420 £391 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £508
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -14.12% +6.95%
75th Percentile £541 £473 £603
90th Percentile £550 £623 £649
Scotland median daily rate £500 £420 £503
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.50% +5.01%

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 128 174 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.40% 26.40% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 103 180
10th Percentile £413 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -1.88% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £536 £569
90th Percentile £625 £670 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £461 £498
% change year-on-year +8.40% -7.29% +4.74%

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 9 December 2025.

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 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Serverless
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon S3
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
4 4 (21.05%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (10.53%) Dagster
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 3 (15.79%) Liquibase
4 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) HP UFT
5 1 (5.26%) JUnit
5 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
4 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) OAuth
2 7 (36.84%) AWS CDK
3 6 (31.58%) FastAPI
4 5 (26.32%) React
5 4 (21.05%) CSS
5 4 (21.05%) HTML
5 4 (21.05%) JWT
5 4 (21.05%) OAuth2
5 4 (21.05%) PyTorch
5 4 (21.05%) RESTful
6 3 (15.79%) boto
6 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (15.79%) Hugging Face
6 3 (15.79%) NumPy
6 3 (15.79%) OpenCV
6 3 (15.79%) Pandas
6 3 (15.79%) Spring
6 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 3 (15.79%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (10.53%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Derivative
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (36.84%) AI
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
4 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
4 6 (31.58%) TDD
5 5 (26.32%) API Development
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) User Experience
6 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
6 4 (21.05%) ETL
6 4 (21.05%) Front End Development
6 4 (21.05%) Kanban
6 4 (21.05%) LLM
7 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.79%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) TypeScript
3 6 (31.58%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Accessibility
2 4 (21.05%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (10.53%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Terraform
4 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.79%) Ansible
6 1 (5.26%) Kibana
6 1 (5.26%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft