REST Job Trends in Edinburgh

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 79 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing REST 36 18 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.37% 1.63% 3.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.06% 5.49% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 35
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £42,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,659 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -14.05% +9.00%
75th Percentile - £73,750 £84,056
90th Percentile - £135,109 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year -26.92% +15.42% -5.39%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 211 328 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.78% 29.63% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 64 187 292
10th Percentile - £42,500 £46,425
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £53,696
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -12.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,535 £81,952
90th Percentile £82,625 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +2.50%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

REST job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

REST
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing REST

REST
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Balerno - 2 - -
REST
Scotland

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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) Azure
2 22 (61.11%) Azure DevOps
2 22 (61.11%) GitHub
2 22 (61.11%) GitHub Copilot
3 12 (33.33%) SaaS
3 12 (33.33%) Salesforce Einstein
4 10 (27.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 10 (27.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 8 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (22.22%) Boomi
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 4 (11.11%) AWS
6 4 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (83.33%) Finance
2 26 (72.22%) Social Skills
3 12 (33.33%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Games
5 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) SOAP
2 24 (66.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (22.22%) SAML
3 8 (22.22%) Web Services
4 2 (5.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 32 (88.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Agile
2 30 (83.33%) Asset Management
2 30 (83.33%) Coaching
3 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
4 26 (72.22%) Data Modelling
5 24 (66.67%) DevOps
6 22 (61.11%) AI
6 22 (61.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 22 (61.11%) Clean Code
6 22 (61.11%) Observability
6 22 (61.11%) Sprint Planning
6 22 (61.11%) Sprint Retrospective
6 22 (61.11%) Test Automation
7 20 (55.56%) Mentoring
8 14 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (27.78%) Backlog Refinement
9 10 (27.78%) Roadmaps
10 8 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 8 (22.22%) Data Privacy
11 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Apex Code
2 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) SOQL
4 2 (5.56%) SOSL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) GDPR
2 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 8 (22.22%) MuleSoft
2 8 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 8 (22.22%) Workday
3 4 (11.11%) Informatica
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk