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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 49 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 19 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.83% 2.84% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.50% 13.24% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile £390 £286 £416
25th Percentile £575 £406 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.28% -2.87%
75th Percentile £625 £487 £488
90th Percentile £647 £514 £506
Scotland median daily rate £588 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +36.63% -7.03% -2.58%

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 131 136 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.49% 21.45% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 102 134
10th Percentile £355 £401 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £477
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +0.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £600
90th Percentile £654 £559 £688
Scotland median daily rate £455 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -3.19% -1.05% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -8.94%

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 16 April 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 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.26%) Banking
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Azure Engineer
1 14 (73.68%) Java Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Software Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) JAX-RS
3 2 (10.53%) Quarkus
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) JMS
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Next.js
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Pair Programming
4 3 (15.79%) TDD
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) AI
5 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.53%) BDD
5 2 (10.53%) Coaching
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Line Management
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.26%) API Design
6 1 (5.26%) Case Management
6 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.26%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana