Spring Contracts in Edinburgh

Pivotal Spring Framework
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring 20 21 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.15% 2.48% 4.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.18% 11.17% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 49
10th Percentile £406 £380 £415
25th Percentile £411 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £428 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% -10.75% -4.20%
75th Percentile £533 £472 £535
90th Percentile £580 £501 £570
Scotland median daily rate £463 £428 £475
% change year-on-year +8.19% -10.00% -1.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

Spring 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 141 188 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.24% 22.22% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 121 262
10th Percentile £406 £380 £394
25th Percentile £450 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £521 £600 £540
90th Percentile £599 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £459 £485
% change year-on-year +3.49% -5.36% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year - +15.23% +0.48%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Edinburgh

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in Edinburgh

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Edinburgh

Spring
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 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Camunda
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) GeoServer
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) git-flow
General
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (40.00%) React
3 7 (35.00%) REST
4 5 (25.00%) Node.js
5 4 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (20.00%) SOAP
6 3 (15.00%) AWS CDK
6 3 (15.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (10.00%) LDAP
7 2 (10.00%) PostGIS
7 2 (10.00%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (10.00%) Web Services
7 2 (10.00%) XML
8 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 1 (5.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) Microservices
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (10.00%) Coaching
9 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) VMware