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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 253 225
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 -68
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 208 144 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 1.22% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.29% 4.74% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 129 74 264
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.94% -1.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £121,750 £125,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% -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 3,306 3,035 5,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.83% 25.64% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 2,177 4,680
10th Percentile £51,700 £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 £104,063
90th Percentile £120,000 £131,750 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 27 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 27 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 +11 32 £90,000 -12.20% 6
South London -25 10 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 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 6 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.40%) Confluence
3 3 (1.44%) Liferay
4 2 (0.96%) JBoss
4 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Camunda
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.38%) AWS
2 46 (22.12%) Azure
3 22 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (9.13%) GCP
5 16 (7.69%) GitHub
6 15 (7.21%) OpenShift
7 13 (6.25%) Serverless
8 8 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.37%) Azure Storage
9 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.88%) SaaS
11 5 (2.40%) dbt
11 5 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.37%) DMARC
2 3 (1.44%) AMQP
3 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.35%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 22 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.17%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.25%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.37%) MySQL
6 7 (3.37%) Redis
7 5 (2.40%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.44%) DB2
9 3 (1.44%) DTS
9 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.48%) Flink
11 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (12.50%) GitLab
2 18 (8.65%) Cucumber
3 15 (7.21%) Git
4 13 (6.25%) Gradle
5 12 (5.77%) Jenkins
6 9 (4.33%) JUnit
7 6 (2.88%) Claude Code
7 6 (2.88%) Maven
8 5 (2.40%) Mockito
9 4 (1.92%) JIRA
9 4 (1.92%) Selenium
10 3 (1.44%) Postman
11 2 (0.96%) JMeter
12 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.48%) git-flow
12 1 (0.48%) MLflow
12 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.48%) Spock
12 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 72 (34.62%) Finance
2 36 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.58%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.69%) Billing
5 16 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 12 (5.77%) Front Office
7 8 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Banking
7 8 (3.85%) Games
8 4 (1.92%) Advertising
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.48%) iGaming
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (44.23%) Developer
2 81 (38.94%) Java Engineer
3 78 (37.50%) Java Developer
4 67 (32.21%) Senior
5 37 (17.79%) Software Engineer
6 31 (14.90%) Senior Java Engineer
7 30 (14.42%) Senior Developer
8 28 (13.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (12.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 23 (11.06%) Lead
11 20 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (8.65%) Principal Engineer
13 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 16 (7.69%) Principal Java Engineer
15 14 (6.73%) Architect
16 12 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 11 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
18 8 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
19 7 (3.37%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (94.71%) Spring
2 56 (26.92%) Kafka
3 43 (20.67%) React
4 41 (19.71%) REST
5 31 (14.90%) RESTful
6 27 (12.98%) AngularJS
7 24 (11.54%) Node.js
8 16 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 15 (7.21%) OAuth
9 15 (7.21%) Web Services
10 13 (6.25%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.25%) HTML
11 11 (5.29%) CSS
11 11 (5.29%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (5.29%) JSON
11 11 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.81%) Spring Cloud
13 9 (4.33%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.33%) Spring Integration
14 8 (3.85%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 55 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (8.17%) e-Learning
3 17 (8.17%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.44%) EPoS
7 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.44%) iSeries
8 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.48%) Equities
9 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (62.50%) Microservices
2 87 (41.83%) CI/CD
3 69 (33.17%) Agile
4 65 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 64 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 59 (28.37%) Containerisation
6 59 (28.37%) DevOps
7 48 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (21.63%) Event-Driven
9 42 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (19.23%) Test Automation
11 36 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (16.83%) AI
13 30 (14.42%) BDD
14 28 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (11.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 23 (11.06%) Scrum
16 21 (10.10%) CQRS
17 20 (9.62%) Architectural Patterns
18 19 (9.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 205 (98.56%) Java
2 43 (20.67%) SQL
3 36 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.62%) Python
5 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.29%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.88%) PHP
8 5 (2.40%) C++
9 3 (1.44%) RPG
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Bash
11 1 (0.48%) C#
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 29 (13.94%) Degree
2 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.13%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.73%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.40%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 55 (26.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (33.17%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.73%) Terraform
3 5 (2.40%) Grafana
3 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.92%) Ansible
5 2 (0.96%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (3.85%) Solace
2 7 (3.37%) SendGrid
3 5 (2.40%) Google
3 5 (2.40%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.44%) IBM
4 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.44%) Revolut
4 3 (1.44%) Splunk
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle
5 2 (0.96%) TikTok
6 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.48%) Workday