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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 226 196
Rank change year-on-year -24 -30 -34
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 143 214 334
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 1.43% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 5.34% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 92 107 284
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,610 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +3.07% -2.86%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,250 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -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 2,784 4,004 5,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.18% 26.67% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,995 2,523 4,851
10th Percentile £50,775 £52,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,959 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +28 18 £100,000 -6.98% 15
South London +9 12 £70,000 -6.67% 3
West London -3 1 £82,500 - 2
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 (4.90%) Apache
2 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.10%) Liferay
5 1 (0.70%) Camunda
5 1 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) JBoss
5 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 81 (56.64%) AWS
2 25 (17.48%) Serverless
3 17 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (11.19%) Azure
5 15 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (9.79%) SaaS
7 12 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (8.39%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (8.39%) GCP
8 10 (6.99%) Amazon S3
9 9 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.29%) OpenShift
10 6 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.50%) Apigee
11 5 (3.50%) CloudFront
11 5 (3.50%) Figma
11 5 (3.50%) GitHub
12 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.10%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (2.10%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.99%) MongoDB
2 20 (13.99%) Relational Database
3 18 (12.59%) NoSQL
4 17 (11.89%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.10%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.40%) MySQL
8 1 (0.70%) Big Data
8 1 (0.70%) Flink
8 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.79%) GitLab
3 13 (9.09%) Git
4 12 (8.39%) JUnit
5 9 (6.29%) JMeter
5 9 (6.29%) Mockito
6 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.59%) Cypress.io
7 7 (4.90%) JIRA
8 5 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.50%) Vite
9 3 (2.10%) Gradle
9 3 (2.10%) Postman
10 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.70%) MLflow
10 1 (0.70%) Selenium
10 1 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 43 (30.07%) Finance
2 28 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 19 (13.29%) Financial Institution
5 17 (11.89%) Telecoms
6 11 (7.69%) Billing
7 6 (4.20%) Games
8 5 (3.50%) Banking
9 3 (2.10%) Front Office
9 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (41.26%) Developer
2 51 (35.66%) Java Engineer
3 47 (32.87%) Senior
4 45 (31.47%) Java Developer
5 32 (22.38%) Software Engineer
6 25 (17.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 23 (16.08%) Senior Java Engineer
8 20 (13.99%) Lead
9 17 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (11.19%) Senior Developer
11 15 (10.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 12 (8.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (6.29%) Architect
13 9 (6.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (6.29%) Kafka Engineer
13 9 (6.29%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 8 (5.59%) Backend Developer
15 7 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (4.90%) Technical Leader
16 6 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (98.60%) Spring
2 36 (25.17%) Kafka
3 33 (23.08%) React
4 31 (21.68%) REST
5 19 (13.29%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (13.29%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (12.59%) Hibernate
7 17 (11.89%) JSON
8 16 (11.19%) Node.js
9 15 (10.49%) HTML
10 14 (9.79%) RESTful
10 14 (9.79%) Web Services
10 14 (9.79%) XML
11 13 (9.09%) AngularJS
12 12 (8.39%) Apache Camel
13 10 (6.99%) Akka
13 10 (6.99%) JMS
13 10 (6.99%) jQuery
13 10 (6.99%) RxJava
13 10 (6.99%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 47 (32.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (18.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.90%) e-Learning
3 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (58.04%) Microservices
2 66 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 59 (41.26%) Agile
4 49 (34.27%) Software Engineering
5 45 (31.47%) Mentoring
6 39 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (26.57%) DevOps
8 32 (22.38%) Containerisation
9 29 (20.28%) BDD
10 28 (19.58%) Event-Driven
11 26 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (18.18%) Fintech
12 23 (16.08%) TDD
13 21 (14.69%) Test Automation
14 20 (13.99%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (13.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 18 (12.59%) SDLC
17 17 (11.89%) AI
17 17 (11.89%) Front End Development
18 16 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (24.48%) JavaScript
3 23 (16.08%) SQL
4 22 (15.38%) Python
5 19 (13.29%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 9 (6.29%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.20%) PHP
9 2 (1.40%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) C#
10 1 (0.70%) Delphi
10 1 (0.70%) Korn
10 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.19%) Degree
3 13 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 13 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.20%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.20%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (35.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (47.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.39%) Kibana
3 7 (4.90%) Terraform
4 4 (2.80%) Grafana
5 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (6.29%) Dynatrace
1 9 (6.29%) Splunk
2 6 (4.20%) Google
2 6 (4.20%) Solace
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle
4 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.10%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.10%) Revolut
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat