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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 51 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 18 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.96% 2.37% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.14% 9.62% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 12
10th Percentile £553 £205 £421
25th Percentile £575 £406 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.28% -1.01%
75th Percentile £625 £486 £488
90th Percentile £650 £534 £506
Scotland median daily rate £600 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +45.45% -13.16% +0.11%

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 137 156 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.50% 24.61% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 103 143
10th Percentile £387 £400 £385
25th Percentile £431 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.32% - -0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £572
90th Percentile £678 £675 £649
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.84%

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

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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 23 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 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) npm
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) Java Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) React
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) JMS
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) Next.js
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) API Design
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Pair Programming
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.56%) ETL
5 1 (5.56%) OO
5 1 (5.56%) OOP
5 1 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (5.56%) SOA
5 1 (5.56%) TDD
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kibana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
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