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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 228 200
Rank change year-on-year -36 -28 -47
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 119 220 290
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.39% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 5.12% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 79 104 256
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,375 £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% -2.86%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £124,000 £137,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -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 2,671 4,297 5,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.38% 27.07% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,932 2,688 4,364
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,729 £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 27 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 27 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 +19 20 £76,250 +22.00% 1
Central London +30 12 £100,000 -4.76% 25
West London -2 3 £60,000 -
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 (5.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) Liferay
3 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Camunda
4 1 (0.84%) JBoss
4 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 87 (73.11%) AWS
2 32 (26.89%) Serverless
3 24 (20.17%) Amazon EKS
4 18 (15.13%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (13.45%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (12.61%) SaaS
7 14 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (10.92%) Azure
9 12 (10.08%) GCP
10 8 (6.72%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.88%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.20%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.20%) Figma
13 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.36%) GitHub
14 3 (2.52%) Amazon MSK
14 3 (2.52%) Apigee
14 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.89%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.01%) MongoDB
3 22 (18.49%) Relational Database
4 17 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 13 (10.92%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.52%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.68%) MySQL
7 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.84%) Big Data
8 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.84%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (24.37%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.29%) JUnit
3 16 (13.45%) Git
3 16 (13.45%) Mockito
4 15 (12.61%) JMeter
5 14 (11.76%) GitLab
6 9 (7.56%) Cypress.io
7 6 (5.04%) JIRA
8 5 (4.20%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.20%) Vite
9 4 (3.36%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.52%) Subversion
11 2 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.68%) Maven
12 1 (0.84%) Gradle
12 1 (0.84%) MLflow
12 1 (0.84%) Postman
12 1 (0.84%) Selenium
12 1 (0.84%) Storybook
General
1 37 (31.09%) Finance
2 30 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.33%) Financial Institution
4 22 (18.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.20%) Billing
8 3 (2.52%) Games
8 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Aviation
9 2 (1.68%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.84%) Front Office
10 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (43.70%) Developer
2 40 (33.61%) Java Developer
2 40 (33.61%) Java Engineer
3 39 (32.77%) Senior
4 27 (22.69%) Software Engineer
5 20 (16.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (16.81%) Senior Java Engineer
6 17 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (12.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (12.61%) Lead
8 13 (10.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 12 (10.08%) Kafka Engineer
9 12 (10.08%) Senior Developer
10 11 (9.24%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (7.56%) Backend Developer
12 7 (5.88%) Technical Leader
13 6 (5.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Senior Manager
14 5 (4.20%) Senior Technical Manager
14 5 (4.20%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (100.00%) Spring
2 34 (28.57%) Kafka
3 29 (24.37%) REST
4 27 (22.69%) React
5 25 (21.01%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (18.49%) Hibernate
7 21 (17.65%) HTML
8 19 (15.97%) JSON
9 18 (15.13%) XML
10 17 (14.29%) Web Services
11 16 (13.45%) Apache Camel
11 16 (13.45%) jQuery
11 16 (13.45%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (13.45%) RESTful
12 15 (12.61%) AngularJS
12 15 (12.61%) WireMock
13 13 (10.92%) Akka
13 13 (10.92%) RxJava
13 13 (10.92%) Spring WebFlux
14 12 (10.08%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (33.61%) Cloud Native
2 25 (21.01%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.04%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.52%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.68%) Replication
7 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.84%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.84%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (59.66%) Microservices
2 62 (52.10%) Agile
3 61 (51.26%) CI/CD
4 40 (33.61%) Software Engineering
5 34 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (27.73%) BDD
7 32 (26.89%) TDD
8 30 (25.21%) DevOps
9 29 (24.37%) Mentoring
10 26 (21.85%) Containerisation
10 26 (21.85%) Fintech
10 26 (21.85%) SDLC
11 24 (20.17%) Event-Driven
12 20 (16.81%) Scrum
13 19 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (14.29%) High Availability
15 16 (13.45%) Front End Development
15 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 119 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (33.61%) JavaScript
3 27 (22.69%) Python
4 21 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 17 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 13 (10.92%) SQL
7 11 (9.24%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.52%) PHP
9 1 (0.84%) C#
9 1 (0.84%) Delphi
9 1 (0.84%) Go
9 1 (0.84%) Korn
9 1 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.45%) Degree
3 10 (8.40%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (52.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.13%) Kibana
3 4 (3.36%) Terraform
4 3 (2.52%) Ansible
5 2 (1.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Dynatrace
1 15 (12.61%) Splunk
2 7 (5.88%) Oracle
3 6 (5.04%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.20%) Google
5 4 (3.36%) Solace
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.84%) SAP