Spring Boot Job Trends in England

Spring Boot
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 264 363
Rank change year-on-year -62 +99 -81
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 404 486 615
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.25% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 6.32% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 222 220 492
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £83,438 £97,528 £94,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Spring Boot falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,998 7,691 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 19.74% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 5,682 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in England

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
London -4 183 £75,000 -9.09% 62
North of England -55 139 £71,250 -16.30% 40
Yorkshire -5 71 £76,250 -3.25% 5
North West -57 61 £65,000 -26.69% 27
South West -52 40 £61,250 -5.77% 12
South East -62 34 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Midlands -94 13 £45,000 -5.26% 6
West Midlands -47 12 £45,000 -32.84% 4
North East -43 7 £45,000 -18.18% 8
East of England -22 1 £62,500 -24.24% 5
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 12 (2.97%) Apache
1 12 (2.97%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.24%) Confluence
4 5 (1.24%) JBoss
5 3 (0.74%) Liferay
6 2 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (56.93%) AWS
2 112 (27.72%) Serverless
3 77 (19.06%) Amazon ECS
3 77 (19.06%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (18.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 74 (18.32%) Amazon S3
6 58 (14.36%) Azure
7 55 (13.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (12.87%) Apigee
9 49 (12.13%) Amazon ECR
10 42 (10.40%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (7.92%) GCP
12 26 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.95%) OpenShift
14 17 (4.21%) GitHub
15 14 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (2.97%) SaaS
17 6 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 5 (1.24%) dbt
18 5 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.98%) AMQP
2 5 (1.24%) Internet
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) DMARC
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.34%) NoSQL
2 56 (13.86%) DynamoDB
3 50 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (10.40%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.19%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.21%) RDBMS
7 14 (3.47%) MySQL
8 11 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.24%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.24%) Redis
10 4 (0.99%) Big Data
10 4 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.74%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.74%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.50%) DB2
12 2 (0.50%) Power BI
13 1 (0.25%) DTS
13 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (21.78%) Jenkins
2 71 (17.57%) GitLab
3 55 (13.61%) Maven
4 47 (11.63%) Git
5 46 (11.39%) Cypress.io
6 44 (10.89%) SonarQube
7 22 (5.45%) JUnit
8 21 (5.20%) Cucumber
9 19 (4.70%) Gradle
10 15 (3.71%) JIRA
11 13 (3.22%) Mockito
12 10 (2.48%) Selenium
13 5 (1.24%) JMeter
14 4 (0.99%) Claude Code
15 3 (0.74%) Postman
15 3 (0.74%) TestNG
16 2 (0.50%) Checkstyle
16 2 (0.50%) ESLint
16 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
17 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 86 (21.29%) Finance
2 42 (10.40%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.21%) Banking
6 16 (3.96%) Billing
7 14 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.72%) Advertising
9 11 (2.72%) Front Office
10 9 (2.23%) Games
11 8 (1.98%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.24%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Law
15 2 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (53.22%) Developer
2 174 (43.07%) Java Developer
3 111 (27.48%) Java Engineer
3 111 (27.48%) Senior
4 72 (17.82%) Software Engineer
5 66 (16.34%) Senior Developer
6 57 (14.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 49 (12.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 46 (11.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 41 (10.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 41 (10.15%) Lead
10 38 (9.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (6.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 16 (3.96%) AWS Developer
12 16 (3.96%) Backend Developer
12 16 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (3.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 15 (3.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (3.47%) Architect
15 13 (3.22%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (88.37%) Spring
2 129 (31.93%) AngularJS
3 102 (25.25%) React
4 100 (24.75%) REST
5 72 (17.82%) Kafka
6 47 (11.63%) Node.js
6 47 (11.63%) RESTful
7 43 (10.64%) Gherkin
8 42 (10.40%) Jest
9 36 (8.91%) Hibernate
10 34 (8.42%) Web Services
11 29 (7.18%) HTML
12 21 (5.20%) JPA
12 21 (5.20%) Vue
13 20 (4.95%) CSS
14 19 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (4.21%) JSON
15 17 (4.21%) OAuth
16 15 (3.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 56 (13.86%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.71%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.47%) e-Learning
4 14 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
6 8 (1.98%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.24%) IoT
9 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.74%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.25%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.25%) iSeries
11 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.49%) Linux
2 4 (0.99%) CentOS
2 4 (0.99%) Debian
2 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.50%) Android
3 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (49.01%) Microservices
2 191 (47.28%) CI/CD
3 183 (45.30%) Agile
4 162 (40.10%) DevOps
5 130 (32.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 109 (26.98%) Software Engineering
7 99 (24.50%) Containerisation
8 89 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (21.53%) Mentoring
10 75 (18.56%) Test Automation
11 66 (16.34%) TDD
12 64 (15.84%) Scrum
13 59 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (13.61%) Event-Driven
15 53 (13.12%) Clean Code
15 53 (13.12%) SDLC
16 52 (12.87%) AI
17 51 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
17 51 (12.62%) Secure Coding
18 46 (11.39%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 401 (99.26%) Java
2 87 (21.53%) JavaScript
3 73 (18.07%) SQL
4 72 (17.82%) TypeScript
5 54 (13.37%) Python
6 42 (10.40%) Bash
6 42 (10.40%) Groovy
7 25 (6.19%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.73%) Go
9 6 (1.49%) PHP
10 4 (0.99%) C#
10 4 (0.99%) C++
10 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.50%) C
11 2 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.25%) Korn
12 1 (0.25%) R
12 1 (0.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 52 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.88%) AWS Certification
3 32 (7.92%) Degree
3 32 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 24 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
5 22 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.21%) QA
2 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 159 (39.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 140 (34.65%) Kubernetes
2 41 (10.15%) HP Fortify
3 40 (9.90%) Terraform
4 19 (4.70%) Ansible
5 9 (2.23%) Grafana
5 9 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.98%) Kibana
7 4 (0.99%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Packer
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (4.46%) Oracle
2 10 (2.48%) Google
3 8 (1.98%) Splunk
4 7 (1.73%) Solace
5 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.24%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.24%) IBM
6 5 (1.24%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.24%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.99%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.74%) Revolut
8 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.50%) Pega
9 2 (0.50%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.25%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.25%) Workday