Spring Boot Contracts in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 62 55
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 21 16 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.22% 1.83% 4.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.29% 8.60% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 43
10th Percentile £326 £414 £413
25th Percentile £406 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £459 £470
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -2.34% -6.00%
75th Percentile £494 £488 £506
90th Percentile £532 £506 £541
Scotland median daily rate £450 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +1.12% -6.32% -2.56%

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 147 186 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.51% 21.31% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 122 276
10th Percentile £400 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.74% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £38.87
% change year-on-year - +41.52% -17.75%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in Edinburgh

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Edinburgh

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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 (9.52%) Camunda
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
2 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (23.81%) GCP
2 5 (23.81%) Serverless
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.52%) Apigee
5 1 (4.76%) npm
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.52%) GIS
3 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Cypress.io
3 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) git-flow
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Lead Developer
3 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (76.19%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) React
3 7 (33.33%) Node.js
3 7 (33.33%) REST
3 7 (33.33%) RESTful
4 5 (23.81%) AWS CDK
5 3 (14.29%) Next.js
6 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 2 (9.52%) LDAP
6 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
6 2 (9.52%) PostGIS
6 2 (9.52%) SOAP
6 2 (9.52%) Spring Security
6 2 (9.52%) Swagger
7 1 (4.76%) CSS
7 1 (4.76%) HTML
7 1 (4.76%) Jest
7 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Microservices
3 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
4 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) TDD
6 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Design Patterns
7 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (19.05%) Human-Centred Design
7 4 (19.05%) Inclusive Design
8 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 3 (14.29%) Kanban
8 3 (14.29%) Pair Programming
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Grafana
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce