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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 224 188
Rank change year-on-year -10 -36 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 159 211 351
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 1.49% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.50% 5.55% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 101 110 290
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.35% -1.43%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.12% +10.00% -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 2,892 3,801 5,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.56% 26.78% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 2,497 4,773
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £48,800
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 £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 23 £100,000 -11.11% 24
South London -4 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -7 1 £82,500 - 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 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.77%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Liferay
5 1 (0.63%) Camunda
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 79 (49.69%) AWS
2 21 (13.21%) Azure
3 20 (12.58%) Serverless
4 14 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (8.81%) GCP
4 14 (8.81%) OpenShift
4 14 (8.81%) SaaS
5 11 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.77%) GitHub
9 5 (3.14%) Apigee
9 5 (3.14%) dbt
9 5 (3.14%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.89%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.72%) Relational Database
2 24 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (12.58%) NoSQL
4 19 (11.95%) RDBMS
5 18 (11.32%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.26%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.63%) Big Data
9 1 (0.63%) Flink
9 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.69%) GitLab
3 12 (7.55%) Git
4 10 (6.29%) JUnit
5 9 (5.66%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.40%) JMeter
6 7 (4.40%) Mockito
7 6 (3.77%) Gradle
8 5 (3.14%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.52%) JIRA
10 3 (1.89%) Postman
11 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.26%) Vite
12 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.63%) MLflow
12 1 (0.63%) Selenium
12 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 49 (30.82%) Finance
2 32 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.21%) Telecoms
5 20 (12.58%) Financial Institution
6 15 (9.43%) Billing
7 8 (5.03%) Front Office
7 8 (5.03%) Games
8 5 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.14%) Banking
9 3 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Advertising
10 2 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 69 (43.40%) Developer
2 58 (36.48%) Java Engineer
3 56 (35.22%) Senior
4 55 (34.59%) Java Developer
5 36 (22.64%) Software Engineer
6 27 (16.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 27 (16.98%) Senior Java Engineer
7 24 (15.09%) Senior Developer
8 22 (13.84%) Senior Java Developer
9 18 (11.32%) Lead
10 15 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (9.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (6.29%) Architect
11 10 (6.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (6.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (5.03%) Kafka Engineer
14 7 (4.40%) Backend Developer
14 7 (4.40%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 5 (3.14%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (98.74%) Spring
2 42 (26.42%) Kafka
3 34 (21.38%) REST
4 33 (20.75%) React
5 19 (11.95%) AngularJS
6 18 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (10.69%) JSON
8 16 (10.06%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (10.06%) Hibernate
8 16 (10.06%) Node.js
9 15 (9.43%) RESTful
10 14 (8.81%) HTML
10 14 (8.81%) XML
11 13 (8.18%) Web Services
12 12 (7.55%) Bootstrap
13 10 (6.29%) Apache Camel
13 10 (6.29%) Spring Cloud
14 9 (5.66%) Akka
14 9 (5.66%) RxJava
14 9 (5.66%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (29.56%) Cloud Native
2 26 (16.35%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.03%) e-Learning
4 8 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.89%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.63%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.26%) Linux
1 2 (1.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (59.75%) Microservices
2 74 (46.54%) CI/CD
3 65 (40.88%) Agile
4 54 (33.96%) Software Engineering
5 49 (30.82%) Mentoring
6 46 (28.93%) DevOps
7 43 (27.04%) Containerisation
8 41 (25.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (18.87%) Event-Driven
11 27 (16.98%) AI
11 27 (16.98%) BDD
11 27 (16.98%) Test Automation
12 23 (14.47%) Fintech
12 23 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (13.21%) TDD
15 19 (11.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 18 (11.32%) Observability
16 18 (11.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 159 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (22.01%) JavaScript
3 31 (19.50%) SQL
4 25 (15.72%) Python
5 16 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.81%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.77%) PHP
9 2 (1.26%) C#
9 2 (1.26%) Go
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) Delphi
10 1 (0.63%) Korn
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.32%) Degree
3 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.92%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) QA
2 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 52 (32.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (47.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.92%) Terraform
3 10 (6.29%) Kibana
4 7 (4.40%) Grafana
5 6 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (4.40%) Dynatrace
1 7 (4.40%) Solace
1 7 (4.40%) Splunk
2 5 (3.14%) Google
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.89%) Revolut
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat