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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 237 257
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 -59
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 230 160 227
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.96% 1.32% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.74% 4.59% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 146 70 159
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -2.84%
75th Percentile £93,125 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £127,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -

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 4,004 3,487 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.73% 28.74% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,600 2,398 3,986
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,688 £64,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 34 £100,000 -9.09% 7
West London -15 10 £80,000 +33.33% 6
South London -32 8 £70,000 -15.15% 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 12 (5.22%) Confluence
2 10 (4.35%) Camunda
3 4 (1.74%) Apache
3 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) JBoss
4 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 124 (53.91%) AWS
2 77 (33.48%) Azure
3 36 (15.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (13.04%) GitHub
5 23 (10.00%) GCP
6 17 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (5.65%) Azure Storage
8 13 (5.65%) Serverless
9 11 (4.78%) Lucidchart
10 9 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.48%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) DMARC
2 1 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) LTE
2 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.17%) NoSQL
2 41 (17.83%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 20 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.22%) Redis
5 10 (4.35%) Db2
5 10 (4.35%) DTS
6 9 (3.91%) MySQL
7 5 (2.17%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (1.74%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
11 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.43%) Flink
11 1 (0.43%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 42 (18.26%) GitLab
2 34 (14.78%) Cucumber
3 20 (8.70%) Git
3 20 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.39%) JUnit
5 15 (6.52%) Mockito
6 12 (5.22%) Maven
7 10 (4.35%) Gradle
8 8 (3.48%) Selenium
9 7 (3.04%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.30%) git-flow
10 3 (1.30%) Spock
11 2 (0.87%) JIRA
11 2 (0.87%) JMeter
11 2 (0.87%) Xcode
11 2 (0.87%) XCTest
11 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
12 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (37.83%) Finance
2 53 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.61%) Banking
4 26 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.83%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Front Office
7 6 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (1.74%) Billing
9 4 (1.74%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.74%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Back Office
11 2 (0.87%) Games
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (43.48%) Java Engineer
2 72 (31.30%) Developer
3 64 (27.83%) Senior
4 58 (25.22%) Java Developer
5 37 (16.09%) Software Engineer
6 36 (15.65%) Lead
7 34 (14.78%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (11.74%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (11.30%) Principal Java Engineer
10 24 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 20 (8.70%) Architect
12 19 (8.26%) Senior Developer
13 17 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (7.39%) Technical Leader
14 16 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
18 10 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (91.74%) Spring
2 97 (42.17%) Kafka
3 48 (20.87%) RESTful
4 42 (18.26%) REST
5 36 (15.65%) React
6 30 (13.04%) Node.js
7 26 (11.30%) OAuth
8 23 (10.00%) OAuth2
9 20 (8.70%) AngularJS
9 20 (8.70%) Hibernate
10 17 (7.39%) Terraform
11 15 (6.52%) JPA
12 13 (5.65%) YAML
13 11 (4.78%) JWT
13 11 (4.78%) Middleware
14 10 (4.35%) Web Services
15 9 (3.91%) HTML
16 8 (3.48%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (3.48%) OpenID
16 8 (3.48%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 91 (39.57%) Cloud Native
2 70 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (14.35%) Public Cloud
4 32 (13.91%) e-Learning
5 24 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (9.13%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.35%) EPoS
7 10 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (4.35%) iSeries
8 4 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (73.04%) Microservices
2 124 (53.91%) CI/CD
3 100 (43.48%) Agile
4 94 (40.87%) Event-Driven
5 75 (32.61%) Mentoring
6 73 (31.74%) DevOps
7 67 (29.13%) Software Engineering
8 66 (28.70%) Containerisation
8 66 (28.70%) Test Automation
9 57 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (23.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 45 (19.57%) BDD
12 43 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (18.70%) Full-Stack Development
13 42 (18.26%) AI
14 40 (17.39%) CQRS
15 36 (15.65%) Architectural Patterns
16 35 (15.22%) API Design
17 32 (13.91%) Coaching
17 32 (13.91%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 226 (98.26%) Java
2 55 (23.91%) SQL
3 31 (13.48%) Python
4 28 (12.17%) TypeScript
5 23 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.35%) RPG
8 5 (2.17%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) ProC
Qualifications
1 33 (14.35%) AWS Certification
2 32 (13.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 21 (9.13%) Degree
4 20 (8.70%) Security Cleared
5 15 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) OCP
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.57%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (22.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.74%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Grafana
3 2 (0.87%) Kibana
3 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (5.65%) SendGrid
2 12 (5.22%) Google
2 12 (5.22%) IBM
3 10 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.04%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.04%) Oracle
5 4 (1.74%) Solace
6 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.30%) Splunk
7 2 (0.87%) Apple
7 2 (0.87%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.87%) TikTok
8 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.43%) Workday