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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 228 203
Rank change year-on-year -21 -25 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 131 215 314
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.39% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.80% 5.25% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 85 100 275
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,188 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £118,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% +2.00% -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 2,727 4,099 5,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.46% 26.48% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,939 2,534 4,791
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,875 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +2.81% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £108,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 28 January 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 28 January 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 12 £100,000 -5.88% 9
South London +10 12 £62,600 -7.26% 1
West London -1 1 £82,500 - 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 7 (5.34%) Apache
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.29%) Liferay
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) JBoss
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 78 (59.54%) AWS
2 28 (21.37%) Serverless
3 20 (15.27%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (11.45%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.69%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (10.69%) Azure
5 14 (10.69%) SaaS
6 12 (9.16%) GCP
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.34%) OpenShift
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.82%) Apigee
10 5 (3.82%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.82%) Figma
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.05%) GitHub
12 3 (2.29%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.03%) MongoDB
3 20 (15.27%) Relational Database
4 17 (12.98%) NoSQL
5 16 (12.21%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (1.53%) MySQL
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.76%) Big Data
9 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 25 (19.08%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.45%) JUnit
3 14 (10.69%) Git
3 14 (10.69%) GitLab
4 13 (9.92%) Mockito
5 12 (9.16%) JMeter
6 9 (6.87%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.58%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.58%) JIRA
8 5 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.82%) Vite
9 3 (2.29%) Postman
10 2 (1.53%) Gradle
11 1 (0.76%) MLflow
11 1 (0.76%) Selenium
11 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 33 (25.19%) Finance
2 26 (19.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.98%) Financial Institution
5 15 (11.45%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.87%) Billing
7 6 (4.58%) Games
8 5 (3.82%) Banking
9 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Front Office
10 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 56 (42.75%) Developer
2 45 (34.35%) Java Engineer
3 43 (32.82%) Java Developer
4 42 (32.06%) Senior
5 30 (22.90%) Software Engineer
6 23 (17.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 21 (16.03%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (12.98%) Lead
9 14 (10.69%) Senior Developer
10 13 (9.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (9.92%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (7.63%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (6.87%) Architect
12 9 (6.87%) Kafka Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Backend Developer
13 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (5.34%) Technical Leader
15 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Consultant
15 5 (3.82%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (99.24%) Spring
2 33 (25.19%) React
3 30 (22.90%) Kafka
4 29 (22.14%) REST
5 21 (16.03%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (16.03%) Hibernate
6 20 (15.27%) JSON
7 19 (14.50%) HTML
8 17 (12.98%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (12.98%) RESTful
8 17 (12.98%) XML
9 15 (11.45%) Apache Camel
9 15 (11.45%) Node.js
9 15 (11.45%) Web Services
10 13 (9.92%) jQuery
11 12 (9.16%) WireMock
12 11 (8.40%) AngularJS
13 9 (6.87%) Akka
13 9 (6.87%) RxJava
13 9 (6.87%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.59%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.82%) e-Learning
3 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (58.02%) Microservices
2 62 (47.33%) CI/CD
3 53 (40.46%) Agile
4 44 (33.59%) Software Engineering
5 39 (29.77%) DevOps
5 39 (29.77%) Mentoring
6 38 (29.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (22.14%) BDD
7 29 (22.14%) Containerisation
8 25 (19.08%) TDD
9 24 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (18.32%) Event-Driven
10 22 (16.79%) Fintech
11 20 (15.27%) SDLC
12 18 (13.74%) User Experience
13 17 (12.98%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (12.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (12.98%) Front End Development
13 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
14 15 (11.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (29.01%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.56%) Python
4 20 (15.27%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.74%) SQL
6 13 (9.92%) Kotlin
7 12 (9.16%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) C#
9 1 (0.76%) Delphi
9 1 (0.76%) Go
9 1 (0.76%) Korn
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.92%) Degree
3 10 (7.63%) AWS Certification
3 10 (7.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.58%) QA
System Software
1 50 (38.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (48.85%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.45%) Kibana
3 5 (3.82%) Terraform
4 2 (1.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (9.16%) Dynatrace
1 12 (9.16%) Splunk
2 6 (4.58%) Google
2 6 (4.58%) Oracle
3 5 (3.82%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.82%) Solace
4 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.76%) Revolut