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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 236 260
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -47
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 233 156 224
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.30% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.93% 4.60% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 145 64 144
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -

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 3,926 3,392 5,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.90% 28.25% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,526 2,306 3,748
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +19 34 £100,000 -4.76% 21
West London -9 10 £80,000 +33.33% 13
South London -37 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 12 (5.15%) Confluence
2 11 (4.72%) Camunda
3 4 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.86%) JBoss
5 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 133 (57.08%) AWS
2 77 (33.05%) Azure
3 43 (18.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (13.30%) GitHub
5 22 (9.44%) GCP
6 17 (7.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (6.01%) Serverless
8 13 (5.58%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (5.58%) Azure Storage
9 11 (4.72%) Lucidchart
10 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.29%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.58%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.58%) DMARC
2 1 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) LTE
2 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.89%) NoSQL
2 42 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.01%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.87%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.15%) Redis
6 10 (4.29%) Db2
6 10 (4.29%) DTS
7 9 (3.86%) MySQL
8 5 (2.15%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.86%) Flink
11 2 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.86%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.86%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) Big Data
12 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (21.03%) GitLab
2 41 (17.60%) Cucumber
3 22 (9.44%) Git
3 22 (9.44%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.15%) JUnit
5 17 (7.30%) Mockito
6 15 (6.44%) Maven
7 9 (3.86%) Gradle
8 8 (3.43%) Claude Code
8 8 (3.43%) Selenium
9 3 (1.29%) git-flow
9 3 (1.29%) Spock
10 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.86%) JIRA
10 2 (0.86%) JMeter
10 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.86%) Xcode
10 2 (0.86%) XCTest
10 2 (0.86%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 92 (39.48%) Finance
2 51 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.16%) Banking
4 21 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.58%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.86%) Front Office
8 7 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.15%) Retail
10 4 (1.72%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.72%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.29%) Back Office
11 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.29%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.86%) Advertising
12 2 (0.86%) Billing
12 2 (0.86%) Law
12 2 (0.86%) Publishing
12 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 103 (44.21%) Java Engineer
2 69 (29.61%) Developer
3 65 (27.90%) Senior
4 53 (22.75%) Java Developer
5 39 (16.74%) Software Engineer
6 35 (15.02%) Senior Java Engineer
7 34 (14.59%) Lead
8 30 (12.88%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (12.45%) Principal Java Engineer
10 23 (9.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 20 (8.58%) Architect
12 17 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (7.30%) Senior Developer
13 16 (6.87%) Technical Leader
14 15 (6.44%) Senior Software Engineer
15 13 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
17 11 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
17 11 (4.72%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (91.85%) Spring
2 108 (46.35%) Kafka
3 47 (20.17%) RESTful
4 44 (18.88%) REST
5 34 (14.59%) React
6 29 (12.45%) Node.js
7 26 (11.16%) OAuth
8 23 (9.87%) OAuth2
9 21 (9.01%) Hibernate
10 17 (7.30%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.87%) JPA
11 16 (6.87%) Terraform
12 13 (5.58%) YAML
13 11 (4.72%) JWT
13 11 (4.72%) Middleware
14 9 (3.86%) Spring Security
14 9 (3.86%) Web Services
15 8 (3.43%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (3.43%) OpenID
15 8 (3.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 98 (42.06%) Cloud Native
2 77 (33.05%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (16.74%) Public Cloud
4 38 (16.31%) e-Learning
5 26 (11.16%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (9.01%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.29%) EPoS
7 10 (4.29%) iSeries
8 9 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.29%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.86%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (73.82%) Microservices
2 131 (56.22%) CI/CD
3 105 (45.06%) Agile
3 105 (45.06%) Event-Driven
4 75 (32.19%) DevOps
4 75 (32.19%) Mentoring
5 73 (31.33%) Software Engineering
5 73 (31.33%) Test Automation
6 62 (26.61%) Containerisation
7 61 (26.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 59 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (22.75%) BDD
10 46 (19.74%) CQRS
11 44 (18.88%) AI
12 41 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (17.60%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (16.74%) Architectural Patterns
14 38 (16.31%) Performance Testing
15 35 (15.02%) API Design
16 34 (14.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 229 (98.28%) Java
2 60 (25.75%) SQL
3 29 (12.45%) Python
4 27 (11.59%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.15%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.29%) RPG
8 4 (1.72%) C++
9 3 (1.29%) Scala
10 2 (0.86%) Bash
10 2 (0.86%) C#
10 2 (0.86%) Groovy
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.86%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) ProC
Qualifications
1 39 (16.74%) AWS Certification
2 38 (16.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 19 (8.15%) Degree
4 17 (7.30%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.01%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) OCP
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.44%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (22.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (24.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.72%) Ansible
3 2 (0.86%) Grafana
3 2 (0.86%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.86%) Kibana
3 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (6.01%) IBM
2 13 (5.58%) SendGrid
3 12 (5.15%) Google
4 9 (3.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.86%) Oracle
5 8 (3.43%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.29%) Solace
6 3 (1.29%) Splunk
7 2 (0.86%) Apple
7 2 (0.86%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.86%) TikTok
8 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.43%) Workday