Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 20 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.34% 2.30% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.60% 8.70% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 19
10th Percentile £455 £205 £419
25th Percentile £575 £374 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £458 £470
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -2.66% +0.59%
75th Percentile £625 £483 £486
90th Percentile £647 £504 £512
Scotland median daily rate £600 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +50.00% -14.89% -0.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

Spring Boot 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 137 161 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.91% 26.48% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 101 152
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £552
90th Percentile £657 £675 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £469 £480
% change year-on-year +6.61% -2.19% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - £55.70
% change year-on-year - - +35.25%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) npm
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) git-flow
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Java Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (30.00%) React
3 5 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) JMS
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) Next.js
5 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Security
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Web Flow
5 1 (5.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Microservices
2 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) API Design
6 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (10.00%) Mobile First
6 2 (10.00%) MVC
6 2 (10.00%) Pair Programming
6 2 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 2 (10.00%) TDD
7 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (5.00%) OOP
7 1 (5.00%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle