Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Spring Boot
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 41 90
Rank change year-on-year -16 +49 +4
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 57 81 53
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.63% 4.71% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.10% 21.66% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 57 42
10th Percentile £425 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £356 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -10.38% -0.16%
75th Percentile £625 £479 £517
90th Percentile - £569 £585
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 354 374 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.53% 21.74% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 240 337
10th Percentile £360 £356 £393
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -7.29% +4.74%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £49.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.34%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Scotland

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -14 36 £538 +38.71% 4
Edinburgh +2 19 £600 +33.33% 5
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (10.53%) CMS
2 2 (3.51%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) AWS
3 6 (10.53%) GCP
4 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
5 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.26%) Serverless
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.75%) Datadog
7 1 (1.75%) npm
7 1 (1.75%) PaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) MongoDB
2 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
4 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.02%) MySQL
6 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) DB2
7 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.54%) Git
3 9 (15.79%) JUnit
4 8 (14.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.26%) GitLab
5 3 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (5.26%) Mockito
5 3 (5.26%) Vite
6 2 (3.51%) git-flow
6 2 (3.51%) Subversion
7 1 (1.75%) Maven
7 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 21 (36.84%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Banking
3 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (54.39%) Developer
2 28 (49.12%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.81%) Software Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 11 (19.30%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (19.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (19.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Senior
7 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Software Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) React Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead Software Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (96.49%) Spring
2 25 (43.86%) React
3 15 (26.32%) AngularJS
3 15 (26.32%) Kafka
4 13 (22.81%) RESTful
5 9 (15.79%) Hibernate
6 7 (12.28%) REST
7 6 (10.53%) Ext JS
7 6 (10.53%) Jest
8 4 (7.02%) J2EE
8 4 (7.02%) Next.js
8 4 (7.02%) Spring Web Flow
8 4 (7.02%) Thymeleaf
9 3 (5.26%) AWS CDK
9 3 (5.26%) JPA
9 3 (5.26%) OAuth
9 3 (5.26%) OAuth2
9 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (5.26%) SOAP
9 3 (5.26%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Public Cloud
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) CI/CD
2 35 (61.40%) Microservices
3 24 (42.11%) Agile
3 24 (42.11%) DevOps
4 22 (38.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (19.30%) Observability
8 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 9 (15.79%) Fintech
8 9 (15.79%) Front End Development
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (12.28%) Multithreading
10 7 (12.28%) SDLC
10 7 (12.28%) User Experience
11 6 (10.53%) Operational Stability
11 6 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 55 (96.49%) Java
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.51%) Python
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (29.82%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Grafana
5 1 (1.75%) Kibana
5 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.75%) DocuSign
3 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow