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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 232 202
Rank change year-on-year -17 -30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 130 216 295
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.91% 1.39% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 5.25% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 83 100 257
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £128,500 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.54% +4.33% -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 2,664 4,115 5,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.66% 26.56% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 2,542 4,485
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,100
25th Percentile £63,625 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £81,725 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +2.16% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.34%

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 17 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 17 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
South London +13 15 £62,600 -7.26% 1
Central London +29 12 £100,000 -5.88% 11
West London +4 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 (5.38%) Apache
2 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.31%) Liferay
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) Camunda
3 1 (0.77%) JBoss
3 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 83 (63.85%) AWS
2 28 (21.54%) Serverless
3 21 (16.15%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (12.31%) Azure
5 15 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (11.54%) GCP
5 15 (11.54%) SaaS
6 14 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.38%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.85%) Apigee
9 5 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.85%) CloudFront
9 5 (3.85%) Figma
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.08%) GitHub
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
11 3 (2.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.31%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (17.69%) MongoDB
3 19 (14.62%) Relational Database
4 16 (12.31%) NoSQL
5 15 (11.54%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.31%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.54%) MySQL
8 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.77%) Big Data
8 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.77%) Flink
Development Applications
1 26 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.31%) JUnit
3 14 (10.77%) Git
3 14 (10.77%) Mockito
4 13 (10.00%) GitLab
4 13 (10.00%) JMeter
5 9 (6.92%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.62%) JIRA
7 5 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.85%) Vite
8 3 (2.31%) Postman
9 2 (1.54%) Gradle
10 1 (0.77%) MLflow
10 1 (0.77%) Selenium
10 1 (0.77%) Storybook
10 1 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 37 (28.46%) Finance
2 30 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 20 (15.38%) Financial Institution
5 13 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.92%) Banking
7 7 (5.38%) Billing
8 6 (4.62%) Games
9 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Front Office
10 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 55 (42.31%) Developer
2 42 (32.31%) Java Developer
2 42 (32.31%) Java Engineer
3 41 (31.54%) Senior
4 28 (21.54%) Software Engineer
5 21 (16.15%) Java Software Engineer
6 20 (15.38%) Senior Java Engineer
7 18 (13.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (13.08%) Lead
9 14 (10.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (10.00%) Senior Developer
11 12 (9.23%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (8.46%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 10 (7.69%) Kafka Engineer
14 9 (6.92%) Architect
15 8 (6.15%) Backend Developer
15 8 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (5.38%) Technical Leader
17 5 (3.85%) Senior Manager
17 5 (3.85%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (99.23%) Spring
2 33 (25.38%) Kafka
3 32 (24.62%) React
4 27 (20.77%) REST
5 23 (17.69%) ActiveMQ
6 21 (16.15%) Hibernate
6 21 (16.15%) HTML
7 20 (15.38%) JSON
8 18 (13.85%) RESTful
9 17 (13.08%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (13.08%) XML
10 16 (12.31%) Apache Camel
11 15 (11.54%) Web Services
12 14 (10.77%) jQuery
13 13 (10.00%) Node.js
13 13 (10.00%) WireMock
14 10 (7.69%) Akka
14 10 (7.69%) AngularJS
14 10 (7.69%) RxJava
14 10 (7.69%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 42 (32.31%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.69%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.08%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.77%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.77%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (60.00%) Microservices
2 65 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 55 (42.31%) Agile
4 42 (32.31%) Software Engineering
5 39 (30.00%) DevOps
5 39 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 36 (27.69%) Mentoring
7 30 (23.08%) BDD
7 30 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 28 (21.54%) TDD
9 25 (19.23%) Event-Driven
10 24 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (18.46%) Fintech
11 23 (17.69%) SDLC
12 19 (14.62%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (13.85%) User Experience
14 17 (13.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (12.31%) Test Automation
16 15 (11.54%) Front End Development
16 15 (11.54%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 130 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 24 (18.46%) Python
4 21 (16.15%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.31%) SQL
6 13 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 13 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.62%) PHP
8 1 (0.77%) C#
8 1 (0.77%) Delphi
8 1 (0.77%) Go
8 1 (0.77%) Korn
8 1 (0.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.54%) Degree
3 11 (8.46%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) QA
2 6 (4.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (48.46%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.31%) Kibana
3 5 (3.85%) Terraform
4 2 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) Ansible
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (10.00%) Dynatrace
1 13 (10.00%) Splunk
2 6 (4.62%) Google
2 6 (4.62%) Oracle
3 5 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.85%) Solace
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft