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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 245 256
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 -51
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 237 159 230
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.33% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.09% 4.75% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 148 66 147
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £96,563 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £143,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

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 3,891 3,345 5,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.64% 28.03% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 2,264 3,729
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,459
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £65,000
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 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +20 34 £100,000 -4.76% 31
West London -7 11 £80,000 +33.33% 16
South London -34 7 £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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 11 (4.64%) Camunda
3 4 (1.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.84%) JBoss
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.64%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (57.38%) AWS
2 77 (32.49%) Azure
3 45 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (13.08%) GitHub
5 22 (9.28%) GCP
6 18 (7.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (5.91%) Serverless
9 13 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (5.49%) Azure Storage
10 11 (4.64%) Lucidchart
11 10 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.22%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.95%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.49%) DMARC
2 1 (0.42%) AMQP
2 1 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.42%) LTE
2 1 (0.42%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (24.89%) NoSQL
2 41 (17.30%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.86%) MongoDB
4 15 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.22%) Db2
5 10 (4.22%) DTS
5 10 (4.22%) Redis
6 8 (3.38%) MySQL
7 5 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.84%) Flink
10 2 (0.84%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.84%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.84%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.42%) Big Data
11 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (21.52%) GitLab
2 43 (18.14%) Cucumber
3 22 (9.28%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.86%) Git
5 17 (7.17%) JUnit
6 16 (6.75%) Mockito
7 15 (6.33%) Maven
8 9 (3.80%) Gradle
9 8 (3.38%) Claude Code
10 7 (2.95%) Selenium
11 3 (1.27%) Spock
12 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.84%) git-flow
12 2 (0.84%) JIRA
12 2 (0.84%) JMeter
12 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.84%) Xcode
12 2 (0.84%) XCTest
12 2 (0.84%) XCUITest
13 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 97 (40.93%) Finance
2 50 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.77%) Banking
4 21 (8.86%) Financial Institution
4 21 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.80%) Front Office
7 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.11%) Retail
8 5 (2.11%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.69%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.27%) Back Office
10 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.27%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.84%) Advertising
11 2 (0.84%) Billing
11 2 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
11 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (44.73%) Java Engineer
2 68 (28.69%) Developer
3 66 (27.85%) Senior
4 51 (21.52%) Java Developer
5 40 (16.88%) Software Engineer
6 36 (15.19%) Lead
6 36 (15.19%) Senior Java Engineer
7 33 (13.92%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (13.50%) Principal Java Engineer
9 23 (9.70%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (8.44%) Architect
11 18 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (7.17%) Senior Developer
12 17 (7.17%) Technical Leader
13 15 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (4.64%) Java Architect
15 11 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (91.98%) Spring
2 109 (45.99%) Kafka
3 47 (19.83%) RESTful
4 46 (19.41%) REST
5 35 (14.77%) React
6 29 (12.24%) Node.js
7 26 (10.97%) OAuth
8 23 (9.70%) OAuth2
9 19 (8.02%) Hibernate
10 18 (7.59%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.75%) Terraform
12 14 (5.91%) JPA
13 13 (5.49%) YAML
14 11 (4.64%) Middleware
15 10 (4.22%) JWT
16 9 (3.80%) Spring Security
16 9 (3.80%) Web Services
17 8 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
17 8 (3.38%) OpenID
18 7 (2.95%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 100 (42.19%) Cloud Native
2 80 (33.76%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (17.30%) Public Cloud
4 40 (16.88%) e-Learning
5 28 (11.81%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (8.86%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.22%) EPoS
7 10 (4.22%) iSeries
8 9 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.27%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.84%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (74.26%) Microservices
2 134 (56.54%) CI/CD
3 108 (45.57%) Agile
3 108 (45.57%) Event-Driven
4 78 (32.91%) Software Engineering
5 76 (32.07%) Mentoring
6 75 (31.65%) Test Automation
7 73 (30.80%) DevOps
8 62 (26.16%) Containerisation
9 61 (25.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 60 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (23.21%) BDD
12 47 (19.83%) AI
12 47 (19.83%) CQRS
13 42 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (16.88%) Performance Testing
16 39 (16.46%) Architectural Patterns
17 34 (14.35%) API Design
17 34 (14.35%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 233 (98.31%) Java
2 61 (25.74%) SQL
3 29 (12.24%) Python
4 27 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 17 (7.17%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.06%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.22%) RPG
8 4 (1.69%) C++
9 3 (1.27%) Scala
10 2 (0.84%) Bash
10 2 (0.84%) C#
10 2 (0.84%) Groovy
10 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.84%) Swift
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.42%) ProC
Qualifications
1 41 (17.30%) AWS Certification
2 40 (16.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 19 (8.02%) Degree
4 17 (7.17%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.42%) OCP
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.70%) QA
2 7 (2.95%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) WCAG
5 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (23.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (24.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.84%) Grafana
3 2 (0.84%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.84%) Kibana
3 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (5.91%) IBM
2 13 (5.49%) SendGrid
3 12 (5.06%) Google
4 9 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.80%) Oracle
5 8 (3.38%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.27%) Solace
6 3 (1.27%) Splunk
7 2 (0.84%) Apple
7 2 (0.84%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.84%) TikTok
8 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.42%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.42%) Workday