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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 10 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.41% 2.68% 3.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.62% 9.60% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £421 £419 £400
25th Percentile £443 £456 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -4.26%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £480
90th Percentile £510 £638 £510
Scotland median daily rate £405 £463 £435
% change year-on-year -12.54% +6.32% -5.74%

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 151 177 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.30% 27.87% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 111 132
10th Percentile £406 £420 £382
25th Percentile £425 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.68% +2.66%
75th Percentile £554 £543 £566
90th Percentile £639 £600 £685
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.83%

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
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 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Db2
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
2 9 (90.00%) REST
3 8 (80.00%) React
4 6 (60.00%) Next.js
5 5 (50.00%) CSS
5 5 (50.00%) OAuth
5 5 (50.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (40.00%) HTML
6 4 (40.00%) Node.js
6 4 (40.00%) Spring Security
7 3 (30.00%) Playwright
7 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (30.00%) Spring MVC
7 3 (30.00%) Vue
8 2 (20.00%) RESTful
8 2 (20.00%) Spring Web Flow
8 2 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
9 1 (10.00%) .NET
9 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 1 (10.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Observability
4 4 (40.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Kanban
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kibana
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle