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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 227 194
Rank change year-on-year -19 -33 -41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 152 217 348
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 1.45% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 5.43% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 98 110 293
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,563 £64,063 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £87,555 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +3.01% -2.86%
75th Percentile £106,875 £120,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,750 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +6.67% -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 2,785 3,995 5,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.82% 26.76% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 2,521 4,800
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +26 21 £100,000 -6.98% 19
South London +4 12 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -11 1 £82,500 - 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 7 (4.61%) Apache
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.97%) Liferay
5 1 (0.66%) Camunda
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 83 (54.61%) AWS
2 24 (15.79%) Serverless
3 17 (11.18%) Amazon EKS
3 17 (11.18%) Azure
4 14 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (9.21%) SaaS
5 13 (8.55%) GCP
6 12 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 10 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.29%) Apigee
10 5 (3.29%) GitHub
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.63%) CloudFront
11 4 (2.63%) Figma
12 3 (1.97%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.97%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.97%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (15.13%) Relational Database
3 20 (13.16%) MongoDB
4 19 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 19 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.97%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.32%) MySQL
8 1 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.66%) Flink
8 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.18%) GitLab
3 13 (8.55%) Git
4 12 (7.89%) JUnit
5 9 (5.92%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.92%) JMeter
5 9 (5.92%) Mockito
6 7 (4.61%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.95%) JIRA
8 4 (2.63%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.63%) Gradle
8 4 (2.63%) Vite
9 3 (1.97%) Postman
10 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.66%) MLflow
10 1 (0.66%) Selenium
10 1 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 48 (31.58%) Finance
2 27 (17.76%) Social Skills
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.82%) Financial Institution
5 19 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.55%) Billing
7 7 (4.61%) Front Office
8 6 (3.95%) Games
9 5 (3.29%) Banking
10 3 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Advertising
11 2 (1.32%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 66 (43.42%) Developer
2 53 (34.87%) Java Engineer
3 51 (33.55%) Java Developer
3 51 (33.55%) Senior
4 33 (21.71%) Software Engineer
5 25 (16.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 24 (15.79%) Senior Java Engineer
7 20 (13.16%) Senior Developer
8 19 (12.50%) Lead
9 18 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Architect
13 9 (5.92%) Kafka Engineer
13 9 (5.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 9 (5.92%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (5.26%) Backend Developer
15 7 (4.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 5 (3.29%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (98.68%) Spring
2 42 (27.63%) Kafka
3 34 (22.37%) REST
4 33 (21.71%) React
5 20 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
6 19 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (12.50%) JSON
7 18 (11.84%) Hibernate
8 16 (10.53%) AngularJS
8 16 (10.53%) Node.js
8 16 (10.53%) XML
9 15 (9.87%) HTML
10 14 (9.21%) RESTful
10 14 (9.21%) Web Services
11 12 (7.89%) Apache Camel
12 10 (6.58%) Akka
12 10 (6.58%) Bootstrap
12 10 (6.58%) JMS
12 10 (6.58%) jQuery
12 10 (6.58%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 29 (19.08%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.26%) e-Learning
3 8 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.66%) Equities
7 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (59.87%) Microservices
2 72 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 63 (41.45%) Agile
4 50 (32.89%) Software Engineering
5 49 (32.24%) Mentoring
6 43 (28.29%) DevOps
7 39 (25.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 30 (19.74%) BDD
9 30 (19.74%) Event-Driven
10 28 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.45%) Fintech
12 23 (15.13%) TDD
12 23 (15.13%) Test Automation
13 22 (14.47%) AI
14 20 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 18 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (11.18%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 152 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (23.68%) JavaScript
3 28 (18.42%) SQL
4 24 (15.79%) Python
5 18 (11.84%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.55%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.92%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.95%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) C#
10 1 (0.66%) Delphi
10 1 (0.66%) Korn
10 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.84%) Degree
3 13 (8.55%) AWS Certification
3 13 (8.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (34.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (48.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.89%) Kibana
3 8 (5.26%) Terraform
4 5 (3.29%) Grafana
5 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
1 9 (5.92%) Splunk
2 7 (4.61%) Solace
3 6 (3.95%) Google
4 5 (3.29%) Oracle
5 4 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.97%) Revolut
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat