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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 234 217
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 -59
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 211 145 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.01% 1.22% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.34% 4.77% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 131 73 264
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.94% -1.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% -3.13%

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 3,329 3,042 5,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.88% 25.66% 24.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 2,186 4,666
10th Percentile £51,310 £50,000 £47,500
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 £100,000 £110,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,625 £133,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +14 32 £90,000 -12.20% 7
South London -27 10 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 4
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 6 (2.84%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.84%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.42%) Liferay
4 2 (0.95%) JBoss
4 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.47%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 86 (40.76%) AWS
2 47 (22.27%) Azure
3 23 (10.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (9.00%) GCP
5 16 (7.58%) GitHub
6 15 (7.11%) OpenShift
7 13 (6.16%) Serverless
8 8 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.32%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.32%) Azure Storage
9 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.84%) SaaS
11 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) DMARC
2 3 (1.42%) AMQP
3 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.59%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.37%) Relational Database
3 23 (10.90%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.16%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.32%) MySQL
6 7 (3.32%) Redis
7 5 (2.37%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.90%) DB2
8 4 (1.90%) DTS
9 3 (1.42%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.47%) Flink
11 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.80%) GitLab
2 19 (9.00%) Cucumber
3 15 (7.11%) Git
4 13 (6.16%) Gradle
5 12 (5.69%) Jenkins
6 9 (4.27%) JUnit
7 6 (2.84%) Claude Code
7 6 (2.84%) Maven
8 5 (2.37%) Mockito
9 4 (1.90%) JIRA
9 4 (1.90%) Selenium
10 3 (1.42%) Postman
11 2 (0.95%) JMeter
12 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.47%) git-flow
12 1 (0.47%) MLflow
12 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.47%) Spock
12 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 73 (34.60%) Finance
2 36 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.43%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.58%) Billing
5 16 (7.58%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.69%) Front Office
7 9 (4.27%) Banking
8 8 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.79%) Games
9 4 (1.90%) Advertising
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.47%) iGaming
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (43.13%) Developer
2 83 (39.34%) Java Engineer
3 77 (36.49%) Java Developer
4 68 (32.23%) Senior
5 38 (18.01%) Software Engineer
6 32 (15.17%) Senior Java Engineer
7 30 (14.22%) Senior Developer
8 29 (13.74%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (12.80%) Senior Java Developer
10 23 (10.90%) Lead
11 20 (9.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (9.00%) Principal Engineer
13 18 (8.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (8.06%) Principal Java Engineer
15 16 (7.58%) Architect
16 13 (6.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
18 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 8 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
20 7 (3.32%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (94.79%) Spring
2 59 (27.96%) Kafka
3 44 (20.85%) React
4 42 (19.91%) REST
5 31 (14.69%) RESTful
6 27 (12.80%) AngularJS
7 25 (11.85%) Node.js
8 16 (7.58%) Hibernate
9 15 (7.11%) OAuth
9 15 (7.11%) Web Services
10 13 (6.16%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.16%) HTML
11 11 (5.21%) CSS
11 11 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (5.21%) JSON
11 11 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.74%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (4.27%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.27%) Spring Integration
14 8 (3.79%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.53%) e-Learning
3 18 (8.53%) Public Cloud
4 17 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.90%) EPoS
7 4 (1.90%) iSeries
8 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.47%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.47%) Equities
10 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.95%) Linux
1 2 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (63.51%) Microservices
2 88 (41.71%) CI/CD
3 70 (33.18%) Agile
4 66 (31.28%) Software Engineering
5 65 (30.81%) Mentoring
6 60 (28.44%) Containerisation
7 59 (27.96%) DevOps
8 49 (23.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (22.75%) Event-Driven
10 42 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (19.43%) Test Automation
12 37 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (17.06%) AI
14 31 (14.69%) BDD
15 28 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 23 (10.90%) Scrum
18 22 (10.43%) CQRS
19 21 (9.95%) Architectural Patterns
20 20 (9.48%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 208 (98.58%) Java
2 44 (20.85%) SQL
3 36 (17.06%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.48%) Python
4 20 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.21%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.84%) PHP
7 5 (2.37%) C++
8 4 (1.90%) RPG
9 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) C#
10 1 (0.47%) Go
10 1 (0.47%) Groovy
10 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 28 (13.27%) Degree
2 22 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.64%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) ISO 20022
3 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (26.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (32.70%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.11%) Terraform
3 5 (2.37%) Grafana
3 5 (2.37%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.90%) Ansible
5 2 (0.95%) Kibana
6 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (3.79%) Solace
2 7 (3.32%) SendGrid
3 5 (2.37%) Google
3 5 (2.37%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.90%) IBM
5 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.42%) Revolut
5 3 (1.42%) Splunk
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle
6 2 (0.95%) TikTok
7 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.47%) Workday