Spring Boot Job Trends in London

Spring Boot
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 235 199
Rank change year-on-year -31 -36 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 114 218 290
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.36% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.31% 5.03% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 75 104 261
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,875 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,188 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -3.02%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £127,000 £139,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,643 4,334 5,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.56% 27.07% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 2,734 4,399
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,088 £51,650
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in London

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in London

Spring Boot
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London +24 23 £76,250 +22.00% 1
Central London +34 12 £100,000 -4.76% 7
West London -3 3 £60,000 - 1
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (5.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.75%) Liferay
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 90 (78.95%) AWS
2 35 (30.70%) Serverless
3 27 (23.68%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.28%) SaaS
7 12 (10.53%) Azure
8 11 (9.65%) GCP
9 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
10 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.39%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.39%) Figma
13 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.51%) GitHub
14 3 (2.63%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.70%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.93%) MongoDB
2 25 (21.93%) Relational Database
3 19 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 32 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 19 (16.67%) JUnit
3 18 (15.79%) Mockito
4 17 (14.91%) Git
4 17 (14.91%) JMeter
5 14 (12.28%) GitLab
6 9 (7.89%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.39%) JIRA
7 5 (4.39%) Vite
8 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.75%) Maven
9 2 (1.75%) Subversion
10 1 (0.88%) Gradle
10 1 (0.88%) MLflow
10 1 (0.88%) Selenium
10 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 36 (31.58%) Finance
2 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.18%) Financial Institution
3 23 (20.18%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.89%) Banking
5 4 (3.51%) Billing
5 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Aviation
6 2 (1.75%) Games
6 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 53 (46.49%) Developer
2 41 (35.96%) Java Developer
3 37 (32.46%) Java Engineer
3 37 (32.46%) Senior
4 25 (21.93%) Software Engineer
5 19 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
6 18 (15.79%) Senior Java Engineer
7 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (13.16%) Lead
9 14 (12.28%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 12 (10.53%) Kafka Engineer
10 12 (10.53%) Senior Developer
11 11 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (7.89%) Backend Developer
13 7 (6.14%) Technical Leader
14 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
14 5 (4.39%) Senior Technical Manager
14 5 (4.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (100.00%) Spring
2 34 (29.82%) Kafka
3 31 (27.19%) REST
4 27 (23.68%) ActiveMQ
5 26 (22.81%) React
6 22 (19.30%) Hibernate
6 22 (19.30%) HTML
7 19 (16.67%) JSON
7 19 (16.67%) Web Services
7 19 (16.67%) XML
8 17 (14.91%) Apache Camel
8 17 (14.91%) jQuery
8 17 (14.91%) WireMock
9 15 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (13.16%) RESTful
10 14 (12.28%) AngularJS
11 13 (11.40%) Akka
11 13 (11.40%) RxJava
11 13 (11.40%) Spring WebFlux
12 12 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (35.09%) Cloud Native
2 28 (24.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.63%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (62.28%) Microservices
2 65 (57.02%) Agile
3 62 (54.39%) CI/CD
4 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 35 (30.70%) BDD
5 35 (30.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 35 (30.70%) TDD
6 28 (24.56%) DevOps
6 28 (24.56%) SDLC
7 26 (22.81%) Fintech
7 26 (22.81%) Mentoring
8 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
9 24 (21.05%) Event-Driven
10 21 (18.42%) Scrum
11 18 (15.79%) Workflow
12 17 (14.91%) Collaborative Culture
12 17 (14.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (14.91%) High Availability
12 17 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.44%) Python
4 21 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 19 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.65%) SQL
7 10 (8.77%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
9 1 (0.88%) C#
9 1 (0.88%) Delphi
9 1 (0.88%) Go
9 1 (0.88%) Korn
9 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) Degree
3 10 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (45.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (55.26%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.54%) Kibana
3 4 (3.51%) Terraform
4 3 (2.63%) Ansible
5 2 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Dynatrace
1 17 (14.91%) Splunk
2 7 (6.14%) Oracle
3 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.51%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) Solace
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.88%) SAP