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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 227 196
Rank change year-on-year -24 -31 -38
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 128 218 286
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.91% 1.41% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 5.27% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 83 101 249
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £128,500 £127,500 £120,000
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 2,658 4,138 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.85% 26.67% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,553 4,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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
South London +18 15 £62,600 -7.26% 2
Central London +31 11 £100,000 -5.88% 11
West London 0 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 (5.47%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) Liferay
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Camunda
3 1 (0.78%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 83 (64.84%) AWS
2 30 (23.44%) Serverless
3 21 (16.41%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (13.28%) Azure
5 16 (12.50%) GCP
6 15 (11.72%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (11.72%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (11.72%) SaaS
7 8 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.47%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.91%) Apigee
9 5 (3.91%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.91%) Figma
9 5 (3.91%) GitHub
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 19 (14.84%) Relational Database
4 16 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 15 (11.72%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.34%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.56%) MySQL
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.78%) Big Data
8 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Flink
Development Applications
1 27 (21.09%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.50%) JUnit
3 15 (11.72%) Git
4 14 (10.94%) Mockito
5 13 (10.16%) GitLab
5 13 (10.16%) JMeter
6 9 (7.03%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.69%) JIRA
8 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.91%) Vite
9 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.78%) Gradle
11 1 (0.78%) MLflow
11 1 (0.78%) Selenium
11 1 (0.78%) Storybook
11 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 35 (27.34%) Finance
2 31 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.97%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.84%) Financial Institution
5 13 (10.16%) Telecoms
6 9 (7.03%) Banking
7 7 (5.47%) Billing
8 4 (3.13%) Games
9 3 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Front Office
11 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 56 (43.75%) Developer
2 42 (32.81%) Java Developer
3 41 (32.03%) Java Engineer
4 40 (31.25%) Senior
5 27 (21.09%) Software Engineer
6 20 (15.63%) Java Software Engineer
6 20 (15.63%) Senior Java Engineer
7 18 (14.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (13.28%) Lead
9 14 (10.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (9.38%) Senior Developer
11 11 (8.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 11 (8.59%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (7.81%) Kafka Engineer
13 9 (7.03%) Architect
13 9 (7.03%) Backend Developer
14 8 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (5.47%) Technical Leader
16 5 (3.91%) Senior Technical Manager
16 5 (3.91%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (99.22%) Spring
2 32 (25.00%) Kafka
2 32 (25.00%) React
3 27 (21.09%) REST
4 23 (17.97%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (16.41%) Hibernate
5 21 (16.41%) HTML
6 20 (15.63%) JSON
7 18 (14.06%) RESTful
8 17 (13.28%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (13.28%) XML
9 16 (12.50%) Apache Camel
10 15 (11.72%) Web Services
11 14 (10.94%) jQuery
11 14 (10.94%) Node.js
12 13 (10.16%) WireMock
13 11 (8.59%) AngularJS
14 10 (7.81%) Akka
14 10 (7.81%) JMS
14 10 (7.81%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 42 (32.81%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.19%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.34%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (60.16%) Microservices
2 64 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 56 (43.75%) Agile
4 41 (32.03%) Software Engineering
5 39 (30.47%) DevOps
5 39 (30.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (28.13%) Mentoring
7 32 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 29 (22.66%) BDD
9 28 (21.88%) TDD
10 25 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (18.75%) Event-Driven
11 24 (18.75%) Fintech
11 24 (18.75%) SDLC
12 19 (14.84%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (14.84%) User Experience
13 17 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (13.28%) Scrum
14 16 (12.50%) Front End Development
15 15 (11.72%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 26 (20.31%) Python
4 22 (17.19%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.50%) SQL
6 13 (10.16%) Kotlin
6 13 (10.16%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.69%) PHP
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) Delphi
8 1 (0.78%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) Korn
8 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.72%) Degree
3 10 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) QA
2 6 (4.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (41.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.50%) Kibana
3 5 (3.91%) Terraform
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Dynatrace
1 13 (10.16%) Splunk
2 7 (5.47%) Google
2 7 (5.47%) Oracle
3 6 (4.69%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.13%) Solace
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.78%) SAP