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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 233 199
Rank change year-on-year -24 -34 -35
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 137 241 294
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.05% 1.37% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 5.05% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 70 125 270
10th Percentile £61,250 £49,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -3.02%
75th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £98,438
90th Percentile £140,000 £133,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% - -4.02%

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 2,884 4,771 5,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.01% 27.12% 29.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,983 3,067 4,705
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,972 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +32 29 £82,500 +32.00% 3
Central London +36 14 £100,000 +11.11% 5
West London +2 3 £60,000 - 3
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 (5.84%) Apache
2 5 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) JBoss
3 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 125 (91.24%) AWS
2 43 (31.39%) Serverless
3 33 (24.09%) Amazon EKS
4 25 (18.25%) Amazon ECS
4 25 (18.25%) GCP
5 22 (16.06%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (16.06%) Azure
6 17 (12.41%) GitHub
7 14 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (10.22%) SaaS
8 10 (7.30%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.65%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.65%) Figma
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (2.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.85%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (26.28%) Relational Database
3 30 (21.90%) MongoDB
4 18 (13.14%) RDBMS
5 16 (11.68%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.19%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (2.19%) CockroachDB
8 3 (2.19%) Redis
9 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.73%) Big Data
10 1 (0.73%) Flink
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (27.01%) Jenkins
2 27 (19.71%) JUnit
3 24 (17.52%) Mockito
4 20 (14.60%) Git
4 20 (14.60%) JMeter
5 16 (11.68%) GitLab
6 9 (6.57%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.38%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.38%) JIRA
8 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.65%) Vite
9 4 (2.92%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.19%) git-flow
10 3 (2.19%) Maven
10 3 (2.19%) Subversion
11 2 (1.46%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.73%) Postman
12 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.73%) XCTest
General
1 63 (45.99%) Finance
2 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.71%) Financial Institution
4 25 (18.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (18.25%) Public Sector
5 22 (16.06%) Banking
5 22 (16.06%) Law
6 12 (8.76%) Marketing
7 4 (2.92%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Aviation
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.46%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Advertising
10 1 (0.73%) Electronics
10 1 (0.73%) Games
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (37.96%) Developer
2 45 (32.85%) Software Engineer
3 44 (32.12%) Java Engineer
4 37 (27.01%) Java Developer
5 36 (26.28%) Senior
6 30 (21.90%) Lead
7 24 (17.52%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (15.33%) Senior Java Engineer
9 20 (14.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (13.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 15 (10.95%) Lead Software Engineer
11 15 (10.95%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (10.22%) Kafka Engineer
13 12 (8.76%) Backend Developer
14 8 (5.84%) Senior Developer
15 7 (5.11%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (5.11%) Technical Leader
16 5 (3.65%) Principal Software Engineer
16 5 (3.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 5 (3.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (95.62%) Spring
2 63 (45.99%) Kafka
3 35 (25.55%) REST
4 30 (21.90%) ActiveMQ
4 30 (21.90%) React
4 30 (21.90%) RESTful
5 26 (18.98%) Hibernate
6 24 (17.52%) HTML
7 23 (16.79%) Web Services
8 22 (16.06%) Apache Camel
9 20 (14.60%) jQuery
9 20 (14.60%) JSON
9 20 (14.60%) WireMock
9 20 (14.60%) XML
10 15 (10.95%) Akka
10 15 (10.95%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (10.95%) RxJava
10 15 (10.95%) Spring WebFlux
11 13 (9.49%) AngularJS
11 13 (9.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (46.72%) Cloud Native
2 39 (28.47%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.30%) Distributed Applications
4 9 (6.57%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.19%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.46%) Replication
10 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (66.42%) Microservices
2 89 (64.96%) Agile
3 83 (60.58%) CI/CD
4 62 (45.26%) Software Engineering
5 44 (32.12%) BDD
5 44 (32.12%) Fintech
5 44 (32.12%) TDD
6 40 (29.20%) SDLC
7 36 (26.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (24.82%) Event-Driven
9 31 (22.63%) DevOps
10 26 (18.98%) Mentoring
11 25 (18.25%) Containerisation
12 23 (16.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 23 (16.79%) Workflow
13 21 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (14.60%) Scrum
15 19 (13.87%) Code Quality
15 19 (13.87%) Multithreading
15 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (29.20%) JavaScript
3 36 (26.28%) Python
4 27 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.79%) Shell Script
6 19 (13.87%) Kotlin
7 15 (10.95%) SQL
8 3 (2.19%) Go
8 3 (2.19%) Scala
9 2 (1.46%) C++
9 2 (1.46%) Ruby
9 2 (1.46%) Rust
10 1 (0.73%) C#
10 1 (0.73%) Delphi
10 1 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.22%) AWS Certification
3 12 (8.76%) Degree
4 10 (7.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.46%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (45.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (64.96%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.79%) Kibana
3 9 (6.57%) Terraform
4 8 (5.84%) Argo
5 4 (2.92%) Ansible
6 2 (1.46%) Grafana
7 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (15.33%) Dynatrace
1 21 (15.33%) Splunk
2 9 (6.57%) Oracle
3 7 (5.11%) Google
4 6 (4.38%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.19%) Solace
6 2 (1.46%) SAP
7 1 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.73%) Revolut