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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 11 21 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.36% 3.32% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.21% 14.38% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 14
10th Percentile - £326 £400
25th Percentile £350 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +5.11% -7.07%
75th Percentile £625 £494 £479
90th Percentile £648 £532 £502
Scotland median daily rate £405 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -10.06% +2.86% -7.70%

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 177 146 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.91% 23.10% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 105 126
10th Percentile £401 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -0.99%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £597
90th Percentile £643 £600 £713
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -3.65%
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 £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%

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 July 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 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) Db2
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Java Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Software Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Software Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (36.36%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) Quarkus
4 2 (18.18%) CSS
4 2 (18.18%) JAX-RS
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
5 1 (9.09%) Flask
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) OpenID
5 1 (9.09%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) API Development
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle