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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 41 64
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 18 26 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.95% 3.78% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.06% 14.94% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 21
10th Percentile £419 £400 £400
25th Percentile £444 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £625 £476 £500
90th Percentile - £487 £538
Scotland median daily rate £581 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +36.76% -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 128 174 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.98% 25.33% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 101 188
10th Percentile £413 £380 £398
25th Percentile £434 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £675 £611
Scotland median daily rate £500 £457 £480
% change year-on-year +9.53% -4.90% +1.05%

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 25 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (11.11%) git-flow
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) Subversion
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Java Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Lead
6 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (33.33%) React
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) Spring Web Flow
4 4 (22.22%) Thymeleaf
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 2 (11.11%) CSS
5 2 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) SOAP
5 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) XML
6 1 (5.56%) Jest
6 1 (5.56%) JMS
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Front End Development
5 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (22.22%) MVC
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) System Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle