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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 230 228
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 234 169 259
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 1.38% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.66% 5.19% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 151 75 186
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -2.84%
75th Percentile £90,625 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £133,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -

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 3,516 3,259 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 26.64% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 2,254 3,669
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +23 38 £100,000 -9.09% 9
West London -21 10 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South London -36 8 £70,000 -15.15% 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 12 (5.13%) Confluence
2 8 (3.42%) Camunda
3 7 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.28%) Apache
6 2 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.28%) AWS
2 77 (32.91%) Azure
3 34 (14.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (11.97%) GitHub
5 23 (9.83%) GCP
6 17 (7.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (5.56%) Azure Storage
9 12 (5.13%) Serverless
10 11 (4.70%) Lucidchart
11 9 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.56%) DMARC
2 1 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) LTE
2 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.09%) NoSQL
2 38 (16.24%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (10.26%) Relational Database
4 19 (8.12%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.13%) Redis
6 10 (4.27%) Db2
6 10 (4.27%) DTS
7 8 (3.42%) MySQL
8 6 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.14%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.28%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.85%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) Big Data
12 1 (0.43%) Flink
Development Applications
1 41 (17.52%) GitLab
2 31 (13.25%) Cucumber
3 18 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.26%) Git
5 15 (6.41%) JUnit
6 13 (5.56%) Mockito
7 10 (4.27%) Gradle
8 9 (3.85%) Maven
9 8 (3.42%) Selenium
10 7 (2.99%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.28%) Spock
12 2 (0.85%) git-flow
12 2 (0.85%) JIRA
12 2 (0.85%) JMeter
13 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.43%) Xcode
13 1 (0.43%) XCTest
13 1 (0.43%) XCUITest
General
1 89 (38.03%) Finance
2 52 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.68%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.98%) Front Office
7 12 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.56%) Billing
8 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.14%) Retail
10 4 (1.71%) Advertising
10 4 (1.71%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.71%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.28%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Back Office
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (42.74%) Java Engineer
2 78 (33.33%) Developer
3 67 (28.63%) Senior
4 65 (27.78%) Java Developer
5 36 (15.38%) Lead
6 35 (14.96%) Software Engineer
7 34 (14.53%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (11.54%) Principal Engineer
9 25 (10.68%) Principal Java Engineer
10 24 (10.26%) Java Software Engineer
11 23 (9.83%) Senior Developer
12 20 (8.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (8.12%) Architect
13 19 (8.12%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (6.41%) Technical Leader
16 12 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
17 11 (4.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (92.31%) Spring
2 98 (41.88%) Kafka
3 44 (18.80%) REST
4 43 (18.38%) RESTful
5 37 (15.81%) React
6 31 (13.25%) Node.js
7 25 (10.68%) OAuth
8 23 (9.83%) AngularJS
9 22 (9.40%) OAuth2
10 18 (7.69%) Hibernate
11 13 (5.56%) JPA
11 13 (5.56%) YAML
12 11 (4.70%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (4.70%) Middleware
13 10 (4.27%) JWT
13 10 (4.27%) Web Services
14 8 (3.42%) HTML
14 8 (3.42%) Playwright
15 7 (2.99%) OpenID
15 7 (2.99%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 88 (37.61%) Cloud Native
2 64 (27.35%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (13.25%) Public Cloud
4 30 (12.82%) e-Learning
5 23 (9.83%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.27%) EPoS
7 10 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (4.27%) iSeries
8 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.28%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.85%) Equities
10 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.85%) Linux
1 2 (0.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (72.22%) Microservices
2 127 (54.27%) CI/CD
3 101 (43.16%) Agile
4 90 (38.46%) Event-Driven
5 77 (32.91%) Mentoring
6 75 (32.05%) DevOps
7 74 (31.62%) Containerisation
8 69 (29.49%) Software Engineering
9 68 (29.06%) Test Automation
10 57 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (21.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 47 (20.09%) AI
12 47 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (20.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 41 (17.52%) BDD
14 38 (16.24%) CQRS
15 34 (14.53%) API Design
15 34 (14.53%) Architectural Patterns
16 31 (13.25%) Coaching
17 30 (12.82%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 230 (98.29%) Java
2 58 (24.79%) SQL
3 36 (15.38%) Python
4 28 (11.97%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.27%) Kotlin
6 10 (4.27%) RPG
7 5 (2.14%) C++
8 3 (1.28%) C#
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Groovy
10 1 (0.43%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (13.25%) AWS Certification
2 30 (12.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 24 (10.26%) Degree
4 19 (8.12%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.98%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.43%) OCP
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.97%) QA
2 7 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (23.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.55%) Terraform
3 5 (2.14%) Grafana
3 5 (2.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (5.56%) SendGrid
2 12 (5.13%) IBM
3 11 (4.70%) Google
4 9 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.14%) Oracle
6 5 (2.14%) Solace
7 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (0.85%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.85%) TikTok
9 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.43%) Apple
9 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.43%) Workday