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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 230 191
Rank change year-on-year -35 -39 -34
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 114 219 289
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.36% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.29% 5.02% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 76 106 262
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £53,750
25th Percentile £66,875 £63,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -3.02%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £126,250 £140,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -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 2,658 4,361 5,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.69% 27.04% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 2,761 4,434
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,825
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 £111,250 £108,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%

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 19 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 19 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 +23 23 £76,250 +22.00% 1
Central London +37 13 £100,000 -5.88% 7
West London 0 3 £60,000 - 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 6 (5.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Camunda
3 1 (0.88%) Liferay
Cloud Services
1 91 (79.82%) AWS
2 35 (30.70%) Serverless
3 27 (23.68%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (18.42%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (13.16%) SaaS
7 14 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.53%) Azure
9 11 (9.65%) GCP
10 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 7 (6.14%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (4.39%) CloudFront
13 5 (4.39%) Figma
14 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.51%) GitHub
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon MSK
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 3 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.70%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (21.93%) MongoDB
2 25 (21.93%) Relational Database
3 19 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 12 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 32 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 19 (16.67%) JUnit
3 18 (15.79%) Mockito
4 17 (14.91%) JMeter
5 16 (14.04%) Git
6 14 (12.28%) GitLab
7 9 (7.89%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.39%) JIRA
8 5 (4.39%) Vite
9 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.75%) Maven
10 2 (1.75%) Subversion
11 1 (0.88%) Gradle
11 1 (0.88%) MLflow
11 1 (0.88%) Selenium
11 1 (0.88%) Storybook
General
1 37 (32.46%) Finance
2 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 24 (21.05%) Financial Institution
4 23 (20.18%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.89%) Banking
6 4 (3.51%) Billing
6 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Aviation
8 2 (1.75%) Games
8 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Front Office
9 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (45.61%) Developer
2 41 (35.96%) Java Developer
3 37 (32.46%) Java Engineer
3 37 (32.46%) Senior
4 25 (21.93%) Software Engineer
5 18 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (15.79%) Java Software Engineer
5 18 (15.79%) Senior Java Engineer
6 17 (14.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (13.16%) Lead
8 14 (12.28%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 12 (10.53%) Kafka Engineer
9 12 (10.53%) Senior Developer
10 11 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (7.89%) Backend Developer
12 7 (6.14%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Technical Manager
13 5 (4.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (100.00%) Spring
2 34 (29.82%) Kafka
3 31 (27.19%) REST
4 27 (23.68%) ActiveMQ
5 26 (22.81%) React
6 22 (19.30%) Hibernate
7 21 (18.42%) HTML
8 19 (16.67%) JSON
8 19 (16.67%) Web Services
8 19 (16.67%) XML
9 17 (14.91%) Apache Camel
9 17 (14.91%) jQuery
9 17 (14.91%) WireMock
10 15 (13.16%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (13.16%) RESTful
11 14 (12.28%) AngularJS
12 13 (11.40%) Akka
12 13 (11.40%) RxJava
12 13 (11.40%) Spring WebFlux
13 12 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (35.96%) Cloud Native
2 28 (24.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.14%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.63%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) Microservices
2 66 (57.89%) Agile
3 63 (55.26%) CI/CD
4 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 35 (30.70%) BDD
5 35 (30.70%) TDD
6 34 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (24.56%) DevOps
7 28 (24.56%) SDLC
8 27 (23.68%) Mentoring
9 26 (22.81%) Fintech
10 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
11 24 (21.05%) Event-Driven
12 21 (18.42%) Scrum
13 18 (15.79%) Workflow
14 17 (14.91%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (14.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (14.91%) High Availability
15 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (35.96%) JavaScript
3 29 (25.44%) Python
4 21 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 19 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 11 (9.65%) SQL
7 10 (8.77%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.88%) Delphi
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) Korn
8 1 (0.88%) PHP
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) Degree
3 10 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (46.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.54%) Kibana
3 5 (4.39%) Terraform
4 3 (2.63%) Ansible
5 2 (1.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (14.91%) Dynatrace
1 17 (14.91%) Splunk
2 7 (6.14%) Oracle
3 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.51%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) Solace
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.88%) SAP