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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 230 193
Rank change year-on-year -31 -37 -44
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 120 223 284
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 1.41% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.53% 5.23% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 79 107 250
10th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £124,000 £137,500 £115,125
England median annual salary £71,750 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 2,651 4,266 4,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.36% 26.91% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,906 2,664 4,258
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% +2.81% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +15 20 £76,250 +12.96% 10
Central London +25 11 £100,000 -4.76% 52
West London -4 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 (5.83%) Apache
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) Liferay
3 2 (1.67%) 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 86 (71.67%) AWS
2 33 (27.50%) Serverless
3 24 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (14.17%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (12.50%) SaaS
7 13 (10.83%) Azure
8 12 (10.00%) GCP
9 9 (7.50%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.83%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.17%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.17%) Figma
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.33%) GitHub
14 3 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (2.50%) Apigee
14 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 22 (18.33%) Relational Database
4 17 (14.17%) RDBMS
5 13 (10.83%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.50%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.67%) 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 (24.17%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.17%) JUnit
3 16 (13.33%) Mockito
4 15 (12.50%) Git
4 15 (12.50%) JMeter
5 13 (10.83%) GitLab
6 9 (7.50%) Cypress.io
7 6 (5.00%) JIRA
8 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.17%) Vite
9 4 (3.33%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.67%) Subversion
11 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.83%) Gradle
11 1 (0.83%) Maven
11 1 (0.83%) MLflow
11 1 (0.83%) Postman
11 1 (0.83%) Selenium
11 1 (0.83%) Storybook
General
1 36 (30.00%) Finance
2 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.33%) Financial Institution
3 22 (18.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.50%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.00%) Billing
7 4 (3.33%) Games
8 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Aviation
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (45.00%) Developer
2 42 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 41 (34.17%) Java Engineer
4 39 (32.50%) Senior
5 27 (22.50%) Software Engineer
6 21 (17.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 20 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (14.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 15 (12.50%) Lead
10 13 (10.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
11 12 (10.00%) Senior Developer
12 11 (9.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (7.50%) Backend Developer
14 7 (5.83%) Technical Leader
15 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 5 (4.17%) Senior Manager
16 5 (4.17%) Senior Technical Manager
16 5 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (100.00%) Spring
2 35 (29.17%) Kafka
3 29 (24.17%) REST
4 27 (22.50%) React
5 25 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
6 23 (19.17%) Hibernate
7 21 (17.50%) HTML
8 20 (16.67%) JSON
9 19 (15.83%) XML
10 18 (15.00%) Web Services
11 17 (14.17%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (13.33%) Apache Camel
12 16 (13.33%) jQuery
12 16 (13.33%) RESTful
13 15 (12.50%) WireMock
14 14 (11.67%) AngularJS
15 13 (10.83%) Akka
15 13 (10.83%) Node.js
15 13 (10.83%) RxJava
15 13 (10.83%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 39 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 25 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.50%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) 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 71 (59.17%) Microservices
2 60 (50.00%) Agile
2 60 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 41 (34.17%) Software Engineering
4 34 (28.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (27.50%) BDD
6 32 (26.67%) TDD
7 30 (25.00%) DevOps
8 29 (24.17%) Mentoring
9 27 (22.50%) Containerisation
10 26 (21.67%) Fintech
10 26 (21.67%) SDLC
11 24 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 19 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (15.83%) Scrum
13 17 (14.17%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (14.17%) High Availability
14 16 (13.33%) Front End Development
14 16 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 120 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.50%) Python
4 20 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 16 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 14 (11.67%) SQL
7 11 (9.17%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) C#
9 1 (0.83%) Delphi
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.50%) Degree
3 10 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.83%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (42.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (51.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.00%) Kibana
3 3 (2.50%) Terraform
4 2 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.67%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 15 (12.50%) Splunk
2 7 (5.83%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.17%) Google
5 4 (3.33%) Solace
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.83%) SAP