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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 65 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing REST 2 14 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% 1.81% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 11.20% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile - £40,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £105,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £81,000
Scotland median annual salary £85,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +47.83% +4.55% -8.33%

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 76 125 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.61% 16.15% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 60 49 232
10th Percentile - £32,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £77,368 £81,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £98,500 £88,756 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -

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
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Order Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce