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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 234 218
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 -57
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 175 174 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.37% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 5.28% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 107 94 271
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £70,000
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 £111,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - -3.13%

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 3,169 3,295 5,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.74% 25.98% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,205 2,440 4,714
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £126,250 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +19 28 £90,000 -28.00% 13
South London -23 8 £70,000 -15.15%
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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.71%) Liferay
4 2 (1.14%) JBoss
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Camunda
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.71%) AWS
2 29 (16.57%) Azure
3 16 (9.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (9.14%) GCP
3 16 (9.14%) OpenShift
4 10 (5.71%) Serverless
5 7 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (4.00%) SaaS
6 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.86%) dbt
7 5 (2.86%) GitHub
7 5 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.29%) Apigee
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.71%) Anthos
9 3 (1.71%) Stripe
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.14%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) AMQP
2 1 (0.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.00%) NoSQL
2 23 (13.14%) Relational Database
3 14 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.43%) MongoDB
4 13 (7.43%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.86%) MySQL
5 5 (2.86%) Redis
6 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.29%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.57%) Flink
8 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (11.43%) GitLab
2 15 (8.57%) Git
3 13 (7.43%) Cucumber
4 11 (6.29%) Gradle
5 9 (5.14%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.00%) JUnit
7 5 (2.86%) Selenium
8 3 (1.71%) JIRA
8 3 (1.71%) Postman
9 2 (1.14%) Maven
9 2 (1.14%) Mockito
10 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) MLflow
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 60 (34.29%) Finance
2 26 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.57%) Telecoms
4 19 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.14%) Billing
6 13 (7.43%) Financial Institution
7 11 (6.29%) Front Office
8 9 (5.14%) Games
9 6 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.86%) Banking
11 4 (2.29%) Advertising
12 3 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.57%) iGaming
13 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (46.86%) Developer
2 73 (41.71%) Java Engineer
3 71 (40.57%) Java Developer
4 58 (33.14%) Senior
5 32 (18.29%) Software Engineer
6 28 (16.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 28 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 28 (16.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 26 (14.86%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 14 (8.00%) Lead
9 13 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (7.43%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (6.86%) Principal Java Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Architect
11 10 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) AWS Software Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) Consultant
14 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (93.71%) Spring
2 46 (26.29%) Kafka
3 37 (21.14%) React
4 34 (19.43%) REST
5 23 (13.14%) AngularJS
6 20 (11.43%) RESTful
7 13 (7.43%) Bootstrap
7 13 (7.43%) Hibernate
7 13 (7.43%) Node.js
7 13 (7.43%) Web Services
8 12 (6.86%) CSS
8 12 (6.86%) HTML
9 11 (6.29%) JSON
9 11 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (5.14%) Spring Integration
12 8 (4.57%) Akka
13 7 (4.00%) Spring MVC
13 7 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.86%) e-Learning
4 12 (6.86%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.57%) Equities
9 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Linux
1 2 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (56.00%) Microservices
2 71 (40.57%) CI/CD
3 56 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 54 (30.86%) Agile
5 50 (28.57%) DevOps
6 48 (27.43%) Mentoring
7 44 (25.14%) Containerisation
8 36 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (18.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (16.57%) Event-Driven
11 29 (16.57%) Test Automation
12 28 (16.00%) AI
13 25 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (13.14%) BDD
15 20 (11.43%) Fintech
16 18 (10.29%) Roadmaps
16 18 (10.29%) Scrum
17 17 (9.71%) Architectural Patterns
18 16 (9.14%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 175 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (22.29%) SQL
3 32 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.29%) Python
5 13 (7.43%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.86%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.43%) PHP
8 4 (2.29%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) C#
9 2 (1.14%) Go
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Delphi
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
10 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (14.86%) Degree
2 14 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 13 (7.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (7.43%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.29%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (27.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (36.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.00%) Terraform
3 6 (3.43%) Grafana
4 5 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.71%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (4.00%) Solace
2 3 (1.71%) Google
2 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.71%) Revolut
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.57%) Red Hat