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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 251 226
Rank change year-on-year +32 -25 -67
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 196 146 338
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.18% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.01% 4.60% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 120 85 265
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% -3.13%

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 3,261 3,177 5,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.75% 25.74% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,244 2,353 4,686
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +10 30 £90,000 -28.00% 13
South London -22 10 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 6
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 6 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.04%) Confluence
4 3 (1.53%) Liferay
5 2 (1.02%) JBoss
5 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Apache
6 1 (0.51%) Camunda
6 1 (0.51%) CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.33%) AWS
2 38 (19.39%) Azure
3 20 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (9.69%) GCP
5 15 (7.65%) OpenShift
6 13 (6.63%) Serverless
7 9 (4.59%) GitHub
8 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.06%) SaaS
10 5 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.55%) dbt
10 5 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.04%) Apigee
11 4 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.53%) Anthos
12 3 (1.53%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) AMQP
2 2 (1.02%) DMARC
3 1 (0.51%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.33%) NoSQL
2 24 (12.24%) Relational Database
3 20 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (8.16%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.63%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.57%) Redis
7 6 (3.06%) MySQL
8 5 (2.55%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.53%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.02%) DB2
11 2 (1.02%) DTS
11 2 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.51%) Flink
12 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.24%) GitLab
2 16 (8.16%) Cucumber
3 14 (7.14%) Git
4 12 (6.12%) Gradle
5 11 (5.61%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.08%) JUnit
7 5 (2.55%) Claude Code
7 5 (2.55%) Maven
8 4 (2.04%) JIRA
8 4 (2.04%) Mockito
8 4 (2.04%) Selenium
9 3 (1.53%) Postman
10 2 (1.02%) JMeter
11 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.51%) git-flow
11 1 (0.51%) MLflow
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 67 (34.18%) Finance
2 35 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.22%) Telecoms
5 16 (8.16%) Billing
6 13 (6.63%) Financial Institution
7 11 (5.61%) Front Office
8 9 (4.59%) Games
9 8 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (3.57%) Banking
11 4 (2.04%) Advertising
12 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.51%) iGaming
14 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (45.92%) Developer
2 77 (39.29%) Java Developer
3 76 (38.78%) Java Engineer
4 63 (32.14%) Senior
5 36 (18.37%) Software Engineer
6 30 (15.31%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (14.80%) Java Software Engineer
7 29 (14.80%) Senior Developer
8 26 (13.27%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (9.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (9.69%) Lead
10 17 (8.67%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (7.65%) Principal Java Engineer
13 13 (6.63%) Architect
14 12 (6.12%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (5.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
17 8 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
18 7 (3.57%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (94.39%) Spring
2 53 (27.04%) Kafka
3 41 (20.92%) React
3 41 (20.92%) REST
4 26 (13.27%) AngularJS
5 25 (12.76%) RESTful
6 18 (9.18%) Node.js
7 16 (8.16%) Hibernate
8 15 (7.65%) Web Services
9 13 (6.63%) Bootstrap
9 13 (6.63%) HTML
10 11 (5.61%) CSS
10 11 (5.61%) JSON
10 11 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (5.10%) FIX Protocol
11 10 (5.10%) OAuth
11 10 (5.10%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (4.59%) Spring Integration
13 8 (4.08%) Akka
14 7 (3.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.76%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.65%) e-Learning
3 15 (7.65%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (7.65%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.02%) EPoS
7 2 (1.02%) iSeries
7 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.51%) Equities
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.02%) Linux
1 2 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (60.20%) Microservices
2 78 (39.80%) CI/CD
3 65 (33.16%) Agile
4 64 (32.65%) Software Engineering
5 58 (29.59%) Mentoring
6 53 (27.04%) DevOps
7 52 (26.53%) Containerisation
8 46 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (18.37%) Event-Driven
11 34 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (16.84%) AI
12 33 (16.84%) Test Automation
13 28 (14.29%) BDD
13 28 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (11.22%) Scrum
15 20 (10.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 19 (9.69%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (9.69%) CQRS
17 18 (9.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 194 (98.98%) Java
2 41 (20.92%) SQL
3 36 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.20%) Python
5 17 (8.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.61%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.06%) PHP
8 5 (2.55%) C++
9 2 (1.02%) RPG
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) C#
10 1 (0.51%) Go
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 28 (14.29%) Degree
2 20 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.67%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.59%) QA
2 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 54 (27.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (35.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (2.55%) Grafana
3 5 (2.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.04%) Ansible
5 2 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (3.57%) Solace
2 5 (2.55%) Google
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.53%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.53%) Revolut
4 3 (1.53%) Splunk
5 2 (1.02%) IBM
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle
5 2 (1.02%) SendGrid
5 2 (1.02%) TikTok
6 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.51%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.51%) Workday