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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 233 202
Rank change year-on-year -19 -31 -33
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 139 239 298
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.36% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.90% 5.04% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 69 123 273
10th Percentile £61,250 £49,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,375 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £111,250 £117,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £135,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -3.23%

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 2,839 4,739 5,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.11% 26.97% 29.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,948 3,040 4,800
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,264 £51,250
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 £112,500 £110,000 £101,185
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 November 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 24 November 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 +26 29 £82,500 +32.00% 2
Central London +40 14 £100,000 +11.11% 4
West London +4 3 £60,000 - 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 8 (5.76%) Apache
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.44%) JBoss
3 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 128 (92.09%) AWS
2 44 (31.65%) Serverless
3 33 (23.74%) Amazon EKS
4 26 (18.71%) GCP
5 25 (17.99%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (16.55%) Azure
7 22 (15.83%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (12.95%) GitHub
9 15 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.07%) SaaS
11 10 (7.19%) Amazon S3
12 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (3.60%) CloudFront
15 5 (3.60%) Figma
16 3 (2.16%) Amazon MSK
16 3 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 3 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (33.09%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (26.62%) Relational Database
3 31 (22.30%) MongoDB
4 18 (12.95%) RDBMS
5 17 (12.23%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.60%) MySQL
7 4 (2.88%) CockroachDB
7 4 (2.88%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.88%) Redis
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.16%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.72%) Big Data
10 1 (0.72%) Flink
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (26.62%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.14%) JUnit
3 25 (17.99%) Mockito
4 20 (14.39%) Git
4 20 (14.39%) JMeter
5 16 (11.51%) GitLab
6 9 (6.47%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.32%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.32%) JIRA
8 5 (3.60%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.60%) Vite
9 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.16%) git-flow
10 3 (2.16%) Maven
10 3 (2.16%) Subversion
11 2 (1.44%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.72%) Postman
12 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.72%) Storybook
General
1 66 (47.48%) Finance
2 43 (30.94%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.42%) Financial Institution
3 27 (19.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (18.71%) Public Sector
5 24 (17.27%) Law
6 23 (16.55%) Banking
7 14 (10.07%) Marketing
8 4 (2.88%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.16%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.44%) Aviation
10 2 (1.44%) Electronics
10 2 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 51 (36.69%) Developer
2 48 (34.53%) Software Engineer
3 46 (33.09%) Java Engineer
4 37 (26.62%) Senior
5 36 (25.90%) Java Developer
6 31 (22.30%) Lead
7 26 (18.71%) Java Software Engineer
8 22 (15.83%) Senior Java Engineer
9 20 (14.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (13.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 16 (11.51%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (10.79%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (10.07%) Kafka Engineer
14 12 (8.63%) Backend Developer
15 8 (5.76%) Senior Developer
16 7 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
16 7 (5.04%) Technical Leader
17 6 (4.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 6 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
18 5 (3.60%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (95.68%) Spring
2 65 (46.76%) Kafka
3 35 (25.18%) REST
4 31 (22.30%) React
4 31 (22.30%) RESTful
5 30 (21.58%) ActiveMQ
6 26 (18.71%) Hibernate
7 24 (17.27%) HTML
8 23 (16.55%) Web Services
9 22 (15.83%) Apache Camel
10 20 (14.39%) jQuery
10 20 (14.39%) JSON
10 20 (14.39%) WireMock
10 20 (14.39%) XML
11 15 (10.79%) Akka
11 15 (10.79%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (10.79%) RxJava
11 15 (10.79%) Spring WebFlux
12 14 (10.07%) Node.js
13 13 (9.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (47.48%) Cloud Native
2 39 (28.06%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.91%) Distributed Applications
4 9 (6.47%) Virtual Team
5 8 (5.76%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.60%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.16%) e-Learning
10 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.44%) Replication
12 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (66.19%) Microservices
2 91 (65.47%) Agile
3 84 (60.43%) CI/CD
4 64 (46.04%) Software Engineering
5 45 (32.37%) Fintech
6 44 (31.65%) BDD
6 44 (31.65%) TDD
7 41 (29.50%) SDLC
8 36 (25.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (25.18%) Event-Driven
10 31 (22.30%) DevOps
11 26 (18.71%) Containerisation
11 26 (18.71%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 23 (16.55%) Workflow
14 21 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (14.39%) Architectural Patterns
15 20 (14.39%) Multithreading
15 20 (14.39%) Scrum
15 20 (14.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (29.50%) JavaScript
3 37 (26.62%) Python
4 28 (20.14%) TypeScript
5 23 (16.55%) Shell Script
6 19 (13.67%) Kotlin
7 16 (11.51%) SQL
8 4 (2.88%) Go
9 3 (2.16%) C++
9 3 (2.16%) Rust
9 3 (2.16%) Scala
10 2 (1.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.72%) C#
11 1 (0.72%) Delphi
11 1 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.79%) AWS Certification
3 12 (8.63%) Degree
4 10 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.76%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.44%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (44.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (65.47%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.55%) Kibana
3 10 (7.19%) Terraform
4 9 (6.47%) Argo
5 4 (2.88%) Ansible
6 2 (1.44%) Grafana
7 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (15.11%) Dynatrace
1 21 (15.11%) Splunk
2 10 (7.19%) Oracle
3 8 (5.76%) Google
4 6 (4.32%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.16%) SAP
5 3 (2.16%) Solace
6 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.72%) Revolut