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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 48 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 19 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.17% 3.32% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.84% 11.70% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 14
10th Percentile £420 £250 £422
25th Percentile £520 £438 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £480 £488
90th Percentile - £489 £528
Scotland median daily rate £600 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +41.18% -10.53% -

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 128 171 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.37% 28.41% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 110 146
10th Percentile £406 £399 £390
25th Percentile £431 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £537 £550
90th Percentile £625 £675 £632
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £480
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £56.40
% change year-on-year - - +148.62%

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 26 January 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 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) git-flow
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
1 7 (36.84%) Java Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
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 7 (36.84%) React
3 5 (26.32%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
4 3 (15.79%) REST
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
5 2 (10.53%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (10.53%) Thymeleaf
6 1 (5.26%) Jest
6 1 (5.26%) JMS
6 1 (5.26%) Kafka
6 1 (5.26%) Next.js
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.26%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
6 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
6 3 (15.79%) MVC
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) API Development
7 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 2 (10.53%) Mobile First
7 2 (10.53%) Observability
7 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
7 2 (10.53%) Secure Coding
7 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle