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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 18 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.43% 2.91% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.00% 12.08% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile £350 £286 £415
25th Percentile £575 £406 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £464
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.07% -3.08%
75th Percentile £625 £487 £488
90th Percentile - £514 £557
Scotland median daily rate £438 £427 £461
% change year-on-year +2.58% -7.43% -1.92%

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 150 149 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.24% 24.11% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 117 115
10th Percentile £355 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £484
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +0.72% +0.83%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £622
90th Percentile £643 £600 £715
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.53% - -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £32.63
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £64.50 - £49.63
90th Percentile £64.80 - £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.03%

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 May 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%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Azure Engineer
1 14 (77.78%) Java Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) Quarkus
4 2 (11.11%) JAX-RS
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth
4 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 2 (11.11%) React
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (11.11%) AI
5 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.11%) BDD
5 2 (11.11%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Line Management
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.56%) Dependency Management
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.56%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle