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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 217 188
Rank change year-on-year -59 -29 -33
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 121 222 283
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.41% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% 5.24% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 81 105 249
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £67,500
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 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £133,500 £115,250
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +2.67% -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 2,647 4,239 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.30% 26.84% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,904 2,634 4,262
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,375 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 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 1 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 +13 19 £76,250 +12.96% 1
Central London +40 11 £100,000 -4.76% 9
West London 0 2 £71,250 -
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 (5.79%) Apache
2 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.65%) Liferay
3 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 87 (71.90%) AWS
2 32 (26.45%) Serverless
3 23 (19.01%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (14.05%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (13.22%) Azure
6 15 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (12.40%) SaaS
7 14 (11.57%) GCP
8 9 (7.44%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.13%) CloudFront
11 5 (4.13%) Figma
11 5 (4.13%) GitHub
12 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.48%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (2.48%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.45%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.66%) MongoDB
3 21 (17.36%) Relational Database
4 16 (13.22%) RDBMS
5 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.48%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) Big Data
8 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (23.97%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.22%) Git
2 16 (13.22%) JUnit
3 15 (12.40%) Mockito
4 14 (11.57%) GitLab
4 14 (11.57%) JMeter
5 9 (7.44%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.96%) JIRA
7 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.13%) Vite
8 4 (3.31%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.65%) Subversion
10 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.83%) Gradle
10 1 (0.83%) Maven
10 1 (0.83%) MLflow
10 1 (0.83%) Postman
10 1 (0.83%) Selenium
10 1 (0.83%) Storybook
General
1 35 (28.93%) Finance
2 32 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.01%) Public Sector
4 21 (17.36%) Financial Institution
5 9 (7.44%) Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.96%) Billing
8 4 (3.31%) Games
9 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Aviation
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (44.63%) Developer
2 42 (34.71%) Java Developer
3 40 (33.06%) Java Engineer
4 39 (32.23%) Senior
5 29 (23.97%) Software Engineer
6 21 (17.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 19 (15.70%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (13.22%) Lead
10 15 (12.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (9.92%) Kafka Engineer
11 12 (9.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (9.92%) Senior Developer
12 11 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (7.44%) Backend Developer
14 7 (5.79%) Technical Leader
15 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 5 (4.13%) Senior Manager
16 5 (4.13%) Senior Technical Manager
16 5 (4.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (100.00%) Spring
2 34 (28.10%) Kafka
3 28 (23.14%) React
3 28 (23.14%) REST
4 24 (19.83%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (18.18%) Hibernate
6 21 (17.36%) HTML
7 19 (15.70%) JSON
8 18 (14.88%) XML
9 17 (14.05%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (14.05%) Web Services
10 16 (13.22%) RESTful
11 15 (12.40%) Apache Camel
11 15 (12.40%) jQuery
12 14 (11.57%) WireMock
13 13 (10.74%) AngularJS
13 13 (10.74%) Node.js
14 12 (9.92%) Akka
14 12 (9.92%) RxJava
14 12 (9.92%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 39 (32.23%) Cloud Native
2 24 (19.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.96%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.48%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (59.50%) Microservices
2 62 (51.24%) CI/CD
3 61 (50.41%) Agile
4 42 (34.71%) Software Engineering
5 36 (29.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (27.27%) DevOps
7 31 (25.62%) BDD
7 31 (25.62%) Mentoring
7 31 (25.62%) TDD
8 30 (24.79%) Containerisation
9 25 (20.66%) Fintech
9 25 (20.66%) SDLC
10 24 (19.83%) Event-Driven
11 20 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (15.70%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (15.70%) Scrum
13 17 (14.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (14.05%) User Experience
14 16 (13.22%) Front End Development
14 16 (13.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (32.23%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.31%) Python
4 21 (17.36%) TypeScript
5 15 (12.40%) Shell Script
5 15 (12.40%) SQL
6 11 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.48%) PHP
8 1 (0.83%) C#
8 1 (0.83%) Delphi
8 1 (0.83%) Go
8 1 (0.83%) Korn
8 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (21.49%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.40%) Degree
3 10 (8.26%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) QA
2 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (42.98%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (52.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.05%) Kibana
3 4 (3.31%) Terraform
4 2 (1.65%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Dynatrace
1 14 (11.57%) Splunk
2 7 (5.79%) Oracle
3 6 (4.96%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.13%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) Solace
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.83%) SAP