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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 235 244
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 251 159 241
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.34% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.34% 4.83% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 154 68 143
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,938 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +0.59%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £144,500
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 3,962 3,292 5,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.41% 27.75% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,509 2,228 3,675
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,850 £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 £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 27 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 27 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 +25 33 £100,000 - 37
West London -10 13 £80,000 +33.33% 11
South London -32 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
1 148 (58.96%) 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%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.99%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.80%) Flink
10 2 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.80%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.80%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
11 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
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%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (44.22%) Java Engineer
2 70 (27.89%) Developer
2 70 (27.89%) Senior
3 51 (20.32%) Java Developer
4 43 (17.13%) Software Engineer
5 38 (15.14%) Lead
5 38 (15.14%) Principal Engineer
6 36 (14.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 34 (13.55%) Principal Java Engineer
8 23 (9.16%) Java Software Engineer
9 22 (8.76%) Architect
10 20 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (7.17%) Senior Developer
12 17 (6.77%) Technical Leader
13 16 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (5.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (5.18%) Java Architect
15 13 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (92.43%) Spring
2 115 (45.82%) 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 20 (7.97%) AngularJS
9 20 (7.97%) Hibernate
9 20 (7.97%) Terraform
10 15 (5.98%) YAML
11 14 (5.58%) JPA
12 12 (4.78%) Middleware
13 10 (3.98%) JWT
13 10 (3.98%) Spring Security
14 9 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (3.19%) OpenID
15 8 (3.19%) Web Services
16 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%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.80%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (74.90%) Microservices
2 143 (56.97%) CI/CD
3 116 (46.22%) Event-Driven
4 113 (45.02%) Agile
5 86 (34.26%) Software Engineering
6 79 (31.47%) Test Automation
7 78 (31.08%) Mentoring
8 76 (30.28%) DevOps
9 68 (27.09%) Containerisation
10 65 (25.90%) 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
15 47 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
16 42 (16.73%) Performance Testing
17 40 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 37 (14.74%) API Design
18 37 (14.74%) Architectural Patterns
19 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 64 (25.50%) 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