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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 228 200
Rank change year-on-year -31 -28 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 129 231 299
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.36% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 4.99% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 71 120 273
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,125 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.27% +1.00% -4.02%

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 2,789 4,627 5,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.10% 27.22% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,953 2,979 4,674
10th Percentile £50,095 £52,500 £51,250
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 £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 3 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 3 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 +30 28 £82,500 +32.00% 1
Central London +33 14 £100,000 - 4
West London +3 3 £60,000 - 3
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 7 (5.43%) Apache
2 4 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) JBoss
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 114 (88.37%) AWS
2 39 (30.23%) Serverless
3 32 (24.81%) Amazon EKS
4 24 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (17.05%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (15.50%) GCP
7 18 (13.95%) Azure
8 14 (10.85%) SaaS
9 13 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.08%) GitHub
10 10 (7.75%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.88%) CloudFront
12 5 (3.88%) Figma
12 5 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.10%) OpenShift
14 3 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.78%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (25.58%) Relational Database
3 28 (21.71%) MongoDB
4 19 (14.73%) RDBMS
5 15 (11.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.10%) MySQL
7 3 (2.33%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.55%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.78%) Big Data
9 1 (0.78%) Flink
9 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (27.13%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.60%) JUnit
3 22 (17.05%) Mockito
4 20 (15.50%) JMeter
5 17 (13.18%) Git
6 16 (12.40%) GitLab
7 9 (6.98%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.88%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.88%) JIRA
9 5 (3.88%) Vite
10 3 (2.33%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.55%) git-flow
11 2 (1.55%) Maven
11 2 (1.55%) Subversion
12 1 (0.78%) MLflow
12 1 (0.78%) Selenium
12 1 (0.78%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 55 (42.64%) Finance
2 38 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 27 (20.93%) Financial Institution
4 24 (18.60%) Public Sector
5 18 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (13.18%) Banking
7 15 (11.63%) Law
8 7 (5.43%) Marketing
9 4 (3.10%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.55%) Aviation
11 2 (1.55%) Games
11 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Billing
12 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (38.76%) Developer
2 44 (34.11%) Java Engineer
3 40 (31.01%) Software Engineer
4 38 (29.46%) Java Developer
5 37 (28.68%) Senior
6 25 (19.38%) Lead
7 24 (18.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 22 (17.05%) Senior Java Engineer
9 19 (14.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (14.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 15 (11.63%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 14 (10.85%) Kafka Engineer
12 11 (8.53%) Backend Developer
12 11 (8.53%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
14 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (5.43%) Technical Leader
15 6 (4.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 6 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
16 5 (3.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (98.45%) Spring
2 53 (41.09%) Kafka
3 31 (24.03%) REST
4 30 (23.26%) ActiveMQ
5 28 (21.71%) React
6 24 (18.60%) Hibernate
6 24 (18.60%) RESTful
7 23 (17.83%) HTML
8 21 (16.28%) Apache Camel
8 21 (16.28%) Web Services
9 20 (15.50%) jQuery
9 20 (15.50%) JSON
9 20 (15.50%) WireMock
9 20 (15.50%) XML
10 15 (11.63%) Akka
10 15 (11.63%) RxJava
10 15 (11.63%) Spring WebFlux
11 13 (10.08%) AngularJS
11 13 (10.08%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (8.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (44.19%) Cloud Native
2 35 (27.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.20%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.43%) Distributed Applications
5 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.33%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (65.89%) Microservices
2 83 (64.34%) Agile
3 78 (60.47%) CI/CD
4 55 (42.64%) Software Engineering
5 43 (33.33%) BDD
6 42 (32.56%) TDD
7 38 (29.46%) Fintech
8 36 (27.91%) SDLC
9 35 (27.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (24.03%) Event-Driven
11 28 (21.71%) DevOps
12 25 (19.38%) Mentoring
13 23 (17.83%) Containerisation
14 22 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (17.05%) Workflow
15 21 (16.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (15.50%) Scrum
17 18 (13.95%) High Availability
17 18 (13.95%) Process Management
17 18 (13.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (30.23%) JavaScript
3 34 (26.36%) Python
4 25 (19.38%) TypeScript
5 22 (17.05%) Shell Script
6 17 (13.18%) Kotlin
7 14 (10.85%) SQL
8 2 (1.55%) Go
8 2 (1.55%) Ruby
8 2 (1.55%) Scala
9 1 (0.78%) C#
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Delphi
9 1 (0.78%) Korn
9 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.08%) AWS Certification
2 13 (10.08%) Degree
3 10 (7.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.43%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (44.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (62.02%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.83%) Kibana
3 9 (6.98%) Terraform
4 5 (3.88%) Argo
5 3 (2.33%) Ansible
6 2 (1.55%) Grafana
7 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.50%) Dynatrace
1 20 (15.50%) Splunk
2 7 (5.43%) Oracle
3 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.65%) Google
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.33%) Solace
5 1 (0.78%) Revolut
5 1 (0.78%) SAP