Spring Boot
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Spring Boot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Spring Boot over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 272 177
Rank change year-on-year +11 -95 +41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 1,096 1,339 3,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.32% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 4.37% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 572 898 1,167
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,328 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Salary trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +101 762 £65,000 - 103
England -70 652 £75,000 -6.25% 159
Scotland +66 400 £70,576 +4.94% 18
London -57 341 £86,250 -1.43% 83
Work from Home -92 338 £75,000 - 101
North of England +22 99 £80,000 +20.75% 20
South West +21 94 £57,500 -4.17% 15
South East +39 92 £77,500 +16.98% 19
North West -1 65 £80,000 +18.52% 15
Midlands -15 34 £55,000 -11.29% 8
West Midlands -8 28 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Yorkshire +68 27 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Wales +19 19 £43,500 -27.50% 3
Northern Ireland -11 14 £57,500 +15.00% 12
East of England -15 10 £50,000 -30.56% 8
North East -2 7 £42,750 -38.93% 1
East Midlands -13 5 - - 1

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 85 (7.76%) Apache Spark
2 61 (5.57%) Apache
3 46 (4.20%) WebLogic
4 42 (3.83%) OpenStack
5 24 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 23 (2.10%) Confluence
7 21 (1.92%) Camunda
7 21 (1.92%) GemFire
8 17 (1.55%) Cloud Foundry
9 12 (1.09%) JBoss
10 11 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
11 8 (0.73%) Apache Pig
12 3 (0.27%) Drupal
13 2 (0.18%) nginx
13 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.091%) CMS
14 1 (0.091%) Jetty
Business Applications
1 46 (4.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 678 (61.86%) AWS
2 224 (20.44%) Azure
3 136 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
4 134 (12.23%) Serverless
5 81 (7.39%) GCP
6 76 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
9 43 (3.92%) OpenShift
10 32 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (2.83%) Amazon S3
12 30 (2.74%) GitHub
13 28 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (2.19%) SaaS
16 17 (1.55%) Datadog
17 15 (1.37%) BlazeMeter
18 9 (0.82%) Kong
19 7 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
20 6 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.20%) BGP
1 46 (4.20%) DNS
1 46 (4.20%) SSL
1 46 (4.20%) TCP/IP
2 29 (2.65%) AMQP
3 8 (0.73%) Firewall
4 3 (0.27%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.27%) FTP
4 3 (0.27%) HTTP
5 2 (0.18%) Internet
5 2 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (18.61%) Relational Database
2 135 (12.32%) NoSQL
3 109 (9.95%) Big Data
4 104 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
5 94 (8.58%) RDBMS
6 84 (7.66%) MySQL
7 79 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
7 79 (7.21%) Hadoop
8 56 (5.11%) Oracle Database
9 41 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
9 41 (3.74%) MongoDB
10 32 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.65%) CockroachDB
12 28 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
13 26 (2.37%) Cloudera CDH
13 26 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.92%) Hazelcast
16 16 (1.46%) DB2
16 16 (1.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 212 (19.34%) Jenkins
2 171 (15.60%) Git
3 124 (11.31%) Maven
4 76 (6.93%) JUnit
5 55 (5.02%) Cucumber
6 49 (4.47%) Gradle
7 43 (3.92%) JIRA
8 41 (3.74%) GitLab
9 34 (3.10%) Postman
10 33 (3.01%) Cypress.io
11 32 (2.92%) Selenium
12 29 (2.65%) Jaeger
13 24 (2.19%) CircleCI
14 21 (1.92%) Mockito
14 21 (1.92%) Travis CI
15 19 (1.73%) JMeter
16 12 (1.09%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (0.91%) SonarQube
17 10 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 559 (51.00%) Finance
2 380 (34.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 358 (32.66%) Law
4 234 (21.35%) Banking
5 163 (14.87%) Social Skills
6 160 (14.60%) Marketing
7 126 (11.50%) Investment Banking
8 85 (7.76%) Financial Institution
9 72 (6.57%) Legal
10 54 (4.93%) Public Sector
11 53 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
12 32 (2.92%) Private Banking
13 30 (2.74%) Aerospace
14 26 (2.37%) Retail
15 23 (2.10%) Front Office
16 22 (2.01%) Games
16 22 (2.01%) Prime Brokerage
17 19 (1.73%) Retail Banking
18 15 (1.37%) Publishing
19 12 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 418 (38.14%) Software Engineer
2 366 (33.39%) Developer
3 326 (29.74%) Java Developer
4 304 (27.74%) Java Engineer
5 261 (23.81%) Java Software Engineer
6 260 (23.72%) Lead
7 140 (12.77%) Senior
8 106 (9.67%) Lead Software Engineer
9 98 (8.94%) Full Stack Engineer
10 89 (8.12%) Lead Java Engineer
11 88 (8.03%) Architect
12 87 (7.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 81 (7.39%) Senior Developer
14 76 (6.93%) Senior Java Developer
14 76 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
15 58 (5.29%) Full Stack Developer
16 56 (5.11%) Engineering Manager
16 56 (5.11%) Technical Leader
17 55 (5.02%) Software Engineering Manager
18 47 (4.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 890 (81.20%) Spring
2 301 (27.46%) Kafka
3 259 (23.63%) AngularJS
3 259 (23.63%) React
4 217 (19.80%) REST
5 178 (16.24%) RESTful
6 124 (11.31%) Hibernate
7 121 (11.04%) HTML
8 119 (10.86%) Node.js
9 115 (10.49%) Web Services
10 110 (10.04%) CSS
11 86 (7.85%) JSON
12 84 (7.66%) RabbitMQ
13 66 (6.02%) JPA
14 55 (5.02%) Apache Camel
15 53 (4.84%) XML
16 48 (4.38%) SOAP
17 43 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
18 41 (3.74%) Vue
19 40 (3.65%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 297 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 129 (11.77%) Public Cloud
3 92 (8.39%) Algorithms
4 85 (7.76%) Enterprise Software
5 64 (5.84%) Distributed Applications
5 64 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (4.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (4.01%) Legacy Code
8 36 (3.28%) Management Information System
9 32 (2.92%) Private Cloud
10 28 (2.55%) Product Ownership
11 27 (2.46%) Data Structures
12 26 (2.37%) Client/Server
13 21 (1.92%) Replication
14 18 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.37%) PropTech
16 14 (1.28%) Reference Data
16 14 (1.28%) Virtual Team
17 12 (1.09%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.03%) Linux
2 72 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (2.37%) CentOS
3 26 (2.37%) Debian
3 26 (2.37%) Ubuntu
4 10 (0.91%) Unix
5 3 (0.27%) Android
5 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (66.61%) Agile
2 591 (53.92%) Software Engineering
3 534 (48.72%) Microservices
4 442 (40.33%) CI/CD
4 442 (40.33%) SDLC
5 246 (22.45%) TDD
6 229 (20.89%) Full Stack Development
7 217 (19.80%) DevOps
7 217 (19.80%) Scrum
8 200 (18.25%) Operational Stability
9 158 (14.42%) Kanban
10 150 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
11 135 (12.32%) Test Automation
12 134 (12.23%) Machine Learning
13 127 (11.59%) BDD
13 127 (11.59%) Mentoring
14 126 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence
15 118 (10.77%) Open Source
16 117 (10.68%) Community of Practice
17 116 (10.58%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,032 (94.16%) Java
2 368 (33.58%) SQL
3 265 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 188 (17.15%) Python
5 98 (8.94%) TypeScript
6 40 (3.65%) Groovy
7 34 (3.10%) Kotlin
8 31 (2.83%) Shell Script
9 30 (2.74%) Ruby
10 28 (2.55%) PHP
11 20 (1.82%) Scala
12 18 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.09%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.82%) Go
15 7 (0.64%) C#
16 3 (0.27%) Clojure
16 3 (0.27%) Erlang
17 2 (0.18%) Bash
17 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 147 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 133 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.20%) AWS Certification
4 60 (5.47%) Azure Certification
5 59 (5.38%) Degree
6 50 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 45 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.28%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (0.46%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.27%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.18%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.091%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.20%) QA
2 32 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.37%) SLA
4 6 (0.55%) SEPA
5 5 (0.46%) GDPR
6 3 (0.27%) MiFID
7 1 (0.091%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 325 (29.65%) Docker
2 31 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.73%) HDFS
4 1 (0.091%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 356 (32.48%) Kubernetes
2 145 (13.23%) Terraform
3 97 (8.85%) Ansible
4 54 (4.93%) Grafana
5 37 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.65%) Kibana
7 26 (2.37%) Puppet
8 21 (1.92%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.92%) Zipkin
9 8 (0.73%) Kiali
10 7 (0.64%) Graphite
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
12 1 (0.091%) Consul
12 1 (0.091%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.091%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.091%) Packer
Vendors
1 146 (13.32%) Oracle
2 68 (6.20%) Splunk
3 53 (4.84%) Dynatrace
4 51 (4.65%) Google
5 46 (4.20%) Sparx
6 42 (3.83%) WSO2
7 30 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.37%) SaltStack
9 20 (1.82%) Pega
10 13 (1.19%) Databricks
11 9 (0.82%) TOWER Software
12 8 (0.73%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.55%) Confluent
13 6 (0.55%) IBM
14 5 (0.46%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft
15 4 (0.36%) Facebook
15 4 (0.36%) ION Trading
15 4 (0.36%) Vertica
16 3 (0.27%) Sybase