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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 231 202
Rank change year-on-year -23 -29 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 151 171 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.86% 1.32% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 4.88% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 96 97 273
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £56,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £94,375 £113,979 £110,000
90th Percentile £109,375 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -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 2,944 3,505 5,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.80% 27.07% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,093 2,476 4,746
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,488
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 £100,000
90th Percentile £131,025 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +14 20 £100,000 -5.88% 21
South London -10 9 £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 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.99%) Apache
2 3 (1.99%) Liferay
3 1 (0.66%) Camunda
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) JBoss
3 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.37%) AWS
2 24 (15.89%) Azure
3 16 (10.60%) Serverless
4 15 (9.93%) OpenShift
5 13 (8.61%) GCP
6 11 (7.28%) SaaS
7 9 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.31%) dbt
10 5 (3.31%) GitHub
10 5 (3.31%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.99%) Anthos
11 3 (1.99%) Apigee
11 3 (1.99%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.56%) Relational Database
2 21 (13.91%) NoSQL
2 21 (13.91%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (11.92%) RDBMS
4 12 (7.95%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.99%) MySQL
6 3 (1.99%) Redis
7 2 (1.32%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Flink
8 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) GitLab
2 15 (9.93%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.28%) Git
4 10 (6.62%) JUnit
5 9 (5.96%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.30%) Gradle
7 6 (3.97%) Mockito
8 5 (3.31%) JMeter
9 3 (1.99%) Postman
9 3 (1.99%) Selenium
10 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.32%) JIRA
11 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.66%) git-flow
11 1 (0.66%) MLflow
11 1 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 44 (29.14%) Finance
2 28 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 22 (14.57%) Telecoms
5 16 (10.60%) Billing
6 15 (9.93%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.96%) Front Office
7 9 (5.96%) Games
8 5 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.99%) Banking
9 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.66%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 72 (47.68%) Developer
2 59 (39.07%) Java Developer
3 53 (35.10%) Java Engineer
4 50 (33.11%) Senior
5 31 (20.53%) Software Engineer
6 24 (15.89%) Senior Developer
6 24 (15.89%) Senior Java Engineer
7 23 (15.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 22 (14.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (9.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (9.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (9.27%) Lead
11 10 (6.62%) Architect
11 10 (6.62%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (5.30%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (3.97%) Backend Developer
15 5 (3.31%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 5 (3.31%) Principal Java Engineer
15 5 (3.31%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (98.68%) Spring
2 36 (23.84%) Kafka
3 33 (21.85%) React
4 32 (21.19%) REST
5 20 (13.25%) AngularJS
6 16 (10.60%) JSON
7 15 (9.93%) Hibernate
7 15 (9.93%) Node.js
8 14 (9.27%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (9.27%) RESTful
9 13 (8.61%) Bootstrap
9 13 (8.61%) HTML
10 12 (7.95%) Web Services
10 12 (7.95%) XML
11 10 (6.62%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (6.62%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (5.96%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (5.96%) Spring Integration
13 8 (5.30%) Apache Camel
13 8 (5.30%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (25.83%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.91%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.30%) e-Learning
4 8 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.99%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.66%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.66%) Equities
9 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (58.28%) Microservices
2 68 (45.03%) CI/CD
3 57 (37.75%) Agile
4 47 (31.13%) Software Engineering
5 46 (30.46%) DevOps
6 45 (29.80%) Mentoring
7 44 (29.14%) Containerisation
8 38 (25.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (18.54%) AI
11 27 (17.88%) Test Automation
12 25 (16.56%) Event-Driven
12 25 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (15.23%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (13.91%) BDD
15 19 (12.58%) Scrum
16 17 (11.26%) Observability
17 16 (10.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 16 (10.60%) Fintech
17 16 (10.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (22.52%) JavaScript
3 31 (20.53%) SQL
4 23 (15.23%) Python
5 16 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.28%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.97%) PHP
8 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.32%) C#
9 2 (1.32%) C++
9 2 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) Delphi
10 1 (0.66%) Korn
10 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.25%) Degree
3 11 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.31%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (29.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (43.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.62%) Terraform
3 7 (4.64%) Grafana
3 7 (4.64%) Kibana
4 6 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (3.97%) Solace
2 5 (3.31%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.31%) Splunk
3 4 (2.65%) Oracle
4 3 (1.99%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.99%) Google
4 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.99%) Revolut
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat