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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 227 212
Rank change year-on-year -14 -15 -53
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 169 175 337
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.37% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 5.26% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 104 96 271
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £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 £87,500 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £122,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,155 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% +0.85% -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 3,154 3,325 5,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.84% 26.03% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,200 2,459 4,688
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,363 £47,500
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 £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £66,646 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.56% +10.46% -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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +12 27 £90,000 -28.00% 15
South London -29 7 £70,000 -15.15% 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 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.78%) Apache
3 3 (1.78%) Liferay
4 2 (1.18%) JBoss
4 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.59%) Camunda
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 71 (42.01%) AWS
2 29 (17.16%) Azure
3 16 (9.47%) GCP
3 16 (9.47%) OpenShift
4 14 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (5.92%) Serverless
6 7 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (4.14%) SaaS
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.96%) dbt
8 5 (2.96%) GitHub
8 5 (2.96%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.37%) Apigee
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.78%) Anthos
10 3 (1.78%) Stripe
11 2 (1.18%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) AMQP
2 1 (0.59%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 23 (13.61%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 12 (7.10%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.96%) MySQL
6 5 (2.96%) Redis
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.37%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.78%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.59%) Flink
9 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) GitLab
2 15 (8.88%) Git
3 11 (6.51%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.51%) Gradle
4 9 (5.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.14%) JUnit
6 5 (2.96%) Selenium
7 3 (1.78%) JIRA
7 3 (1.78%) Postman
8 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 2 (1.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.59%) git-flow
9 1 (0.59%) MLflow
9 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 55 (32.54%) Finance
2 27 (15.98%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.02%) Telecoms
4 19 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.47%) Billing
6 12 (7.10%) Financial Institution
7 11 (6.51%) Front Office
8 9 (5.33%) Games
9 6 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.37%) Advertising
10 4 (2.37%) Banking
11 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.59%) iGaming
12 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (48.52%) Developer
2 71 (42.01%) Java Developer
3 67 (39.64%) Java Engineer
4 55 (32.54%) Senior
5 29 (17.16%) Software Engineer
6 27 (15.98%) Senior Developer
7 26 (15.38%) Senior Java Engineer
8 25 (14.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (14.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (8.88%) Lead
10 14 (8.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (6.51%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (5.92%) Architect
13 10 (5.92%) Principal Java Engineer
13 10 (5.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (4.73%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (4.14%) Consultant
15 7 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 7 (4.14%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (94.08%) Spring
2 44 (26.04%) Kafka
3 37 (21.89%) React
4 33 (19.53%) REST
5 23 (13.61%) AngularJS
6 20 (11.83%) RESTful
7 13 (7.69%) Bootstrap
7 13 (7.69%) Node.js
8 12 (7.10%) CSS
8 12 (7.10%) Hibernate
8 12 (7.10%) HTML
8 12 (7.10%) Web Services
9 11 (6.51%) JSON
9 11 (6.51%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (5.92%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (5.92%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (5.33%) Spring Integration
12 7 (4.14%) Akka
12 7 (4.14%) Spring MVC
12 7 (4.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.92%) e-Learning
4 10 (5.92%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.59%) Equities
9 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Linux
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (55.62%) Microservices
2 70 (41.42%) CI/CD
3 52 (30.77%) Agile
3 52 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 50 (29.59%) DevOps
5 47 (27.81%) Mentoring
6 44 (26.04%) Containerisation
7 35 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (20.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (16.57%) AI
9 28 (16.57%) Event-Driven
10 27 (15.98%) Test Automation
11 26 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (11.83%) BDD
12 20 (11.83%) Fintech
13 18 (10.65%) Roadmaps
13 18 (10.65%) Scrum
14 16 (9.47%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 169 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (21.89%) SQL
3 32 (18.93%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.65%) Python
5 13 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.92%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.55%) PHP
8 4 (2.37%) C++
9 2 (1.18%) C#
9 2 (1.18%) Go
10 1 (0.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.59%) Delphi
10 1 (0.59%) Groovy
10 1 (0.59%) Korn
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (15.38%) Degree
2 13 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.10%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.92%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (27.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (37.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.28%) Terraform
3 6 (3.55%) Grafana
4 5 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.78%) Ansible
6 1 (0.59%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (4.14%) Solace
2 3 (1.78%) Google
2 3 (1.78%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.78%) Revolut
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle
4 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat