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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 47 70
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 18 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.87% 3.19% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.61% 13.13% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 25
10th Percentile £419 £400 £396
25th Percentile £456 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -3.09%
75th Percentile £528 £480 £500
90th Percentile £638 £510 £519
Scotland median daily rate £463 £435 £462
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.74% -3.85%

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 155 198 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.72% 24.29% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 123 233
10th Percentile £418 £380 £393
25th Percentile £456 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £479
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -0.42% -2.24%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £683 £600
Scotland median daily rate £491 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +3.37% -0.84% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -6.83% -1.09%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) git-flow
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) Subversion
4 2 (11.11%) webpack
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Developer
6 1 (5.56%) IAM Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (83.33%) Spring
2 8 (44.44%) React
3 5 (27.78%) REST
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (22.22%) Thymeleaf
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 3 (16.67%) CSS
5 3 (16.67%) HTML
5 3 (16.67%) SOAP
5 3 (16.67%) Web Services
6 2 (11.11%) Jest
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
6 2 (11.11%) XML
7 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (5.56%) Next.js
7 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Microservices
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
7 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 4 (22.22%) MVC
7 4 (22.22%) TDD
8 3 (16.67%) API Development
8 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
8 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (16.67%) User Experience
9 2 (11.11%) Coaching
9 2 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce