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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 227 216
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 -54
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 166 175 332
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.36% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.29% 5.20% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 102 96 267
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,125 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £122,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 3,140 3,365 5,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.01% 26.21% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,192 2,480 4,716
10th Percentile £51,325 £50,454 £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 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £127,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +16 26 £90,000 -25.00% 16
South London -28 8 £70,000 -15.15% 3
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 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.81%) Apache
3 3 (1.81%) Liferay
4 2 (1.20%) JBoss
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.57%) AWS
2 27 (16.27%) Azure
3 16 (9.64%) OpenShift
4 14 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (8.43%) GCP
5 10 (6.02%) Serverless
6 7 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (4.22%) SaaS
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.01%) dbt
7 5 (3.01%) GitHub
7 5 (3.01%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.41%) Apigee
9 3 (1.81%) Anthos
9 3 (1.81%) Stripe
10 2 (1.20%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) AMQP
2 1 (0.60%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 24 (14.46%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.43%) RDBMS
4 11 (6.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.01%) Redis
6 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.41%) MySQL
6 4 (2.41%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.60%) Flink
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.84%) GitLab
2 14 (8.43%) Git
3 11 (6.63%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.02%) Gradle
4 10 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.22%) JUnit
6 5 (3.01%) Selenium
7 3 (1.81%) JIRA
7 3 (1.81%) Postman
8 2 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (1.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.60%) git-flow
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) MLflow
9 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 53 (31.93%) Finance
2 27 (16.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.25%) Telecoms
4 20 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.64%) Billing
6 11 (6.63%) Financial Institution
7 10 (6.02%) Front Office
8 9 (5.42%) Games
9 5 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.41%) Advertising
10 4 (2.41%) Banking
11 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) iGaming
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (49.40%) Developer
2 71 (42.77%) Java Developer
3 65 (39.16%) Java Engineer
4 54 (32.53%) Senior
5 29 (17.47%) Software Engineer
6 27 (16.27%) Senior Developer
7 25 (15.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 25 (15.06%) Senior Java Developer
7 25 (15.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (8.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) Lead
9 11 (6.63%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Architect
10 10 (6.02%) Principal Java Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) AWS Software Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (93.98%) Spring
2 44 (26.51%) Kafka
3 35 (21.08%) React
4 33 (19.88%) REST
5 23 (13.86%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.84%) RESTful
7 13 (7.83%) Bootstrap
7 13 (7.83%) Hibernate
7 13 (7.83%) Node.js
7 13 (7.83%) Web Services
8 12 (7.23%) HTML
8 12 (7.23%) JSON
9 11 (6.63%) CSS
9 11 (6.63%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (6.02%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (5.42%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (5.42%) Spring Integration
12 8 (4.82%) XML
13 7 (4.22%) Akka
13 7 (4.22%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (6.02%) e-Learning
4 10 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.81%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.60%) Equities
9 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (56.02%) Microservices
2 69 (41.57%) CI/CD
3 52 (31.33%) Agile
3 52 (31.33%) Software Engineering
4 50 (30.12%) DevOps
5 47 (28.31%) Mentoring
6 43 (25.90%) Containerisation
7 35 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (21.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (16.87%) Event-Driven
10 27 (16.27%) AI
10 27 (16.27%) Test Automation
11 26 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (12.65%) BDD
13 20 (12.05%) Fintech
14 18 (10.84%) Scrum
15 17 (10.24%) Roadmaps
16 16 (9.64%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (9.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (22.29%) SQL
3 31 (18.67%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.24%) Python
5 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.02%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.61%) PHP
8 4 (2.41%) C++
9 2 (1.20%) C#
9 2 (1.20%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Delphi
10 1 (0.60%) Groovy
10 1 (0.60%) Korn
10 1 (0.60%) Ruby
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (15.06%) Degree
2 14 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) QA
2 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.41%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (28.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (38.55%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.43%) Terraform
3 6 (3.61%) Grafana
4 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.81%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (3.61%) Solace
2 3 (1.81%) Google
2 3 (1.81%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.81%) Revolut
3 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.60%) Splunk