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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 237 254
Rank change year-on-year +24 +17 -43
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 251 160 239
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.36% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.38% 4.90% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 153 69 141
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £145,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -4.29% -2.26%

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 3,937 3,266 5,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.33% 27.69% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,204 3,665
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,375 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%

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 28 September 2026.

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 28 September 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
Central London +28 33 £100,000 - 38
West London +3 13 £80,000 +33.33% 11
South London -31 7 £70,000 -15.15% 2
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 13 (5.18%) Camunda
2 12 (4.78%) Confluence
3 4 (1.59%) Apache
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.80%) JBoss
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 147 (58.57%) AWS
2 83 (33.07%) Azure
3 48 (19.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (14.74%) GitHub
5 23 (9.16%) GCP
6 20 (7.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (7.57%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (5.98%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (5.98%) Azure Storage
9 15 (5.98%) Serverless
10 12 (4.78%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.38%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (4.38%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (3.59%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.98%) DMARC
2 1 (0.40%) AMQP
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) LTE
2 1 (0.40%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.51%) NoSQL
2 41 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (9.16%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.98%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.98%) Db2
5 10 (3.98%) DTS
6 9 (3.59%) Redis
7 8 (3.19%) MySQL
8 5 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.40%) Big Data
12 1 (0.40%) Flink
12 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (21.12%) GitLab
2 45 (17.93%) Cucumber
3 23 (9.16%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.37%) Git
5 19 (7.57%) JUnit
6 18 (7.17%) Mockito
7 16 (6.37%) Maven
8 12 (4.78%) Claude Code
9 8 (3.19%) Gradle
10 6 (2.39%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Spock
12 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.80%) git-flow
12 2 (0.80%) JMeter
12 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.80%) Xcode
12 2 (0.80%) XCTest
12 2 (0.80%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 105 (41.83%) Finance
2 53 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.54%) Banking
4 22 (8.76%) Financial Institution
5 21 (8.37%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Front Office
8 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.99%) Retail
9 5 (1.99%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.59%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.20%) Back Office
11 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.20%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (43.82%) Java Engineer
2 71 (28.29%) Developer
3 70 (27.89%) Senior
4 52 (20.72%) Java Developer
5 43 (17.13%) Software Engineer
6 38 (15.14%) Lead
6 38 (15.14%) Principal Engineer
7 36 (14.34%) Senior Java Engineer
8 34 (13.55%) Principal Java Engineer
9 23 (9.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 22 (8.76%) Architect
11 21 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (7.17%) Senior Developer
13 17 (6.77%) Technical Leader
14 16 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (5.18%) Java Architect
16 13 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (92.43%) Spring
2 114 (45.42%) Kafka
3 50 (19.92%) RESTful
4 49 (19.52%) REST
5 37 (14.74%) React
6 32 (12.75%) Node.js
7 28 (11.16%) OAuth
8 25 (9.96%) OAuth2
9 21 (8.37%) AngularJS
10 20 (7.97%) Hibernate
10 20 (7.97%) Terraform
11 15 (5.98%) YAML
12 14 (5.58%) JPA
13 12 (4.78%) Middleware
14 10 (3.98%) JWT
14 10 (3.98%) Spring Security
15 9 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (3.19%) OpenID
16 8 (3.19%) Web Services
17 7 (2.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (42.63%) Cloud Native
2 84 (33.47%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (17.13%) Public Cloud
4 42 (16.73%) e-Learning
5 31 (12.35%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (8.37%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.98%) EPoS
7 10 (3.98%) iSeries
8 9 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (75.30%) Microservices
2 144 (57.37%) CI/CD
3 115 (45.82%) Event-Driven
4 113 (45.02%) Agile
5 85 (33.86%) Software Engineering
6 79 (31.47%) Test Automation
7 78 (31.08%) Mentoring
8 76 (30.28%) DevOps
9 67 (26.69%) Containerisation
10 64 (25.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 63 (25.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (23.51%) BDD
13 53 (21.12%) AI
14 48 (19.12%) CQRS
14 48 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 42 (16.73%) Performance Testing
16 40 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (14.74%) API Design
17 37 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
18 34 (13.55%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 246 (98.01%) Java
2 63 (25.10%) SQL
3 30 (11.95%) TypeScript
4 29 (11.55%) Python
5 16 (6.37%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.78%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.98%) RPG
8 3 (1.20%) C++
8 3 (1.20%) Scala
9 2 (0.80%) Bash
9 2 (0.80%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) Groovy
9 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.80%) Swift
10 1 (0.40%) C
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.40%) ProC
Qualifications
1 43 (17.13%) AWS Certification
2 42 (16.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 20 (7.97%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.17%) Degree
5 16 (6.37%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) OCP
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) QA
2 8 (3.19%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (24.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (25.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) Grafana
3 2 (0.80%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.80%) Kibana
3 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.40%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (5.98%) IBM
1 15 (5.98%) SendGrid
2 12 (4.78%) Google
3 11 (4.38%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.98%) Oracle
5 8 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.20%) Solace
6 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Apple
7 2 (0.80%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.80%) TikTok
8 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.40%) Workday