Spring Boot Contracts in Scotland

Spring Boot
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 92
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 68 72 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.19% 3.32% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.75% 16.04% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 64
10th Percentile £297 £400 £418
25th Percentile £350 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £461 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -1.92% -0.05%
75th Percentile £472 £505 £502
90th Percentile £531 £544 £544
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +0.88%

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 383 449 646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.61% 20.73% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 289 484
10th Percentile £325 £325 £400
25th Percentile £411 £405 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +15.87%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in Scotland

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 15 May 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 +1 50 £413 -6.78% 35
Edinburgh +15 18 £450 -3.07% 11
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (2.94%) Camunda
1 2 (2.94%) Confluence
1 2 (2.94%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 40 (58.82%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Serverless
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.76%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 4 (5.88%) GCP
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub
8 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.94%) Apigee
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) FTP
1 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) MongoDB
2 9 (13.24%) DB2
2 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) MySQL
3 6 (8.82%) RDBMS
3 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.94%) GIS
5 2 (2.94%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) JUnit
2 8 (11.76%) Git
2 8 (11.76%) Mockito
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.35%) GitLab
5 4 (5.88%) Maven
6 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.41%) JIRA
7 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.94%) Gradle
7 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.47%) Toad
General
1 23 (33.82%) Finance
2 13 (19.12%) Public Sector
3 12 (17.65%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Front Office
8 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (77.94%) Developer
2 43 (63.24%) Java Developer
3 7 (10.29%) Lead
4 6 (8.82%) Senior
4 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Lead Developer
5 5 (7.35%) React Developer
6 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Architect
8 2 (2.94%) GCP Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (2.94%) Junior
8 2 (2.94%) Junior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (92.65%) Spring
2 17 (25.00%) React
3 11 (16.18%) RESTful
4 10 (14.71%) Kafka
5 9 (13.24%) REST
6 8 (11.76%) Node.js
7 6 (8.82%) AWS CDK
8 5 (7.35%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.41%) Next.js
9 3 (4.41%) OAuth
9 3 (4.41%) SOAP
9 3 (4.41%) Spring Batch
9 3 (4.41%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (4.41%) Swagger
10 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
10 2 (2.94%) JPA
10 2 (2.94%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.94%) Spring MVC
10 2 (2.94%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.41%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
2 28 (41.18%) Agile
3 20 (29.41%) Microservices
4 18 (26.47%) DevOps
5 17 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (23.53%) Process Improvement
6 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 15 (22.06%) Project Delivery
8 11 (16.18%) TDD
9 10 (14.71%) Code Quality
9 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.24%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.76%) Containerisation
11 8 (11.76%) Scrum
11 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (8.82%) Design Patterns
12 6 (8.82%) Event-Driven
12 6 (8.82%) Human-Centred Design
12 6 (8.82%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 66 (97.06%) Java
2 12 (17.65%) SQL
3 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.71%) Python
5 9 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.47%) Bash
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Terraform
2 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.94%) Grafana
3 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) Sybase
3 3 (4.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.47%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.47%) Okta
5 1 (1.47%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Talend