Spring Security Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Spring Security (Acegi)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Spring Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 109 119
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring Security 2 8 23
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% 0.45% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 2.13% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 20
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile - £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £469 £455
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% +3.02% -5.55%
75th Percentile - £486 £486
90th Percentile - £492 £504
UK median daily rate £503 £484 £474
% change year-on-year +3.88% +2.00% -2.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Spring Security 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 354 376 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.04% 21.22% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 241 345
10th Percentile £360 £350 £388
25th Percentile £423 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £675 £626
UK median daily rate £502 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.13% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £26.07
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £70.07
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

Spring Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Spring Security job vacancy trend in Scotland

Spring Security
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Spring Security
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 Security within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Edinburgh +2 2 £600 +23.58% 1
Spring Security
UK

Spring Security
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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance