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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 14 28 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.27% 3.47% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% 14.07% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 17
10th Percentile £419 £400 £400
25th Percentile £422 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -3.94%
75th Percentile £567 £480 £500
90th Percentile £694 £492 £538
Scotland median daily rate £475 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +7.95% -7.37% -2.31%

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 140 199 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.73% 24.69% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 116 189
10th Percentile £416 £380 £399
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.46% -0.42%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £545
90th Percentile £600 £685 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £461 £480
% change year-on-year +8.40% -3.81% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

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 15 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) npm
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (14.29%) git-flow
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Subversion
4 2 (14.29%) webpack
5 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (7.14%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Maven
5 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Spring
2 7 (50.00%) React
3 5 (35.71%) RESTful
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (28.57%) Thymeleaf
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) REST
5 3 (21.43%) Web Services
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
6 2 (14.29%) Jest
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (14.29%) SOAP
6 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
6 2 (14.29%) Spring Security
6 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Microservices
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) MVC
6 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (14.29%) System Testing
7 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce