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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 248 214
Rank change year-on-year +5 -34 -55
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 160 232 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.34% 1.20% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 4.74% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 67 148 315
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,625 £62,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -2.86%
75th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,250 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +3.33%

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 3,058 4,898 6,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.59% 25.40% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,065 3,340 5,833
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
South London +41 49 £82,500 - 2
Central London +25 13 £100,000 +11.11% 29
West London - 3 £60,000 -
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.38%) JBoss
1 7 (4.38%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (3.75%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
3 3 (1.88%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.63%) Camunda
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 146 (91.25%) AWS
2 59 (36.88%) Serverless
3 43 (26.88%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (22.50%) GCP
5 34 (21.25%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (17.50%) Azure
8 19 (11.88%) GitHub
9 16 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (8.75%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (5.00%) SaaS
13 5 (3.13%) CloudFront
13 5 (3.13%) Datadog
13 5 (3.13%) Figma
13 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (1.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 3 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (36.25%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (30.63%) Relational Database
3 26 (16.25%) MongoDB
4 23 (14.38%) RDBMS
5 19 (11.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.75%) MySQL
7 6 (3.75%) Redis
8 5 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.13%) Power BI
9 4 (2.50%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.25%) Big Data
11 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (33.13%) Jenkins
2 48 (30.00%) JUnit
3 39 (24.38%) Mockito
4 32 (20.00%) Git
5 25 (15.63%) JMeter
6 14 (8.75%) Maven
7 13 (8.13%) GitLab
8 10 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 10 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 10 (6.25%) JIRA
9 7 (4.38%) SonarQube
10 6 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (3.75%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.13%) CircleCI
11 5 (3.13%) IntelliJ
11 5 (3.13%) Postman
11 5 (3.13%) Vite
12 4 (2.50%) git-flow
12 4 (2.50%) Subversion
13 3 (1.88%) TestNG
General
1 90 (56.25%) Finance
2 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 35 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 34 (21.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (20.00%) Law
6 29 (18.13%) Banking
6 29 (18.13%) Financial Institution
7 18 (11.25%) Marketing
8 8 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.88%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.88%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (1.25%) Aviation
12 2 (1.25%) Electronics
12 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (38.75%) Developer
2 58 (36.25%) Software Engineer
3 51 (31.88%) Java Developer
4 46 (28.75%) Java Engineer
5 41 (25.63%) Senior
6 35 (21.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 35 (21.88%) Lead
7 19 (11.88%) Lead Software Engineer
8 18 (11.25%) Senior Java Engineer
9 17 (10.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 14 (8.75%) Senior Developer
11 14 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (7.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 9 (5.63%) Kafka Engineer
14 9 (5.63%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 7 (4.38%) Backend Developer
16 6 (3.75%) AWS Developer
16 6 (3.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (92.50%) Spring
2 77 (48.13%) Kafka
3 57 (35.63%) REST
4 39 (24.38%) RESTful
5 37 (23.13%) ActiveMQ
6 34 (21.25%) Web Services
7 33 (20.63%) Hibernate
8 32 (20.00%) Apache Camel
9 30 (18.75%) HTML
10 28 (17.50%) WireMock
11 27 (16.88%) React
12 25 (15.63%) jQuery
13 24 (15.00%) AngularJS
14 21 (13.13%) Akka
14 21 (13.13%) RxJava
14 21 (13.13%) Spring WebFlux
15 18 (11.25%) JSON
15 18 (11.25%) XML
16 14 (8.75%) Micronaut
16 14 (8.75%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 53 (33.13%) Cloud Native
2 46 (28.75%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.13%) Distributed Applications
4 11 (6.88%) Virtual Team
5 10 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.75%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.13%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (2.50%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.88%) Life Science
10 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.25%) Replication
10 2 (1.25%) Social Media
11 1 (0.63%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.13%) Linux
2 4 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (68.13%) Microservices
2 107 (66.88%) Agile
3 84 (52.50%) CI/CD
4 81 (50.63%) Software Engineering
5 62 (38.75%) TDD
6 59 (36.88%) BDD
7 52 (32.50%) Fintech
8 45 (28.13%) SDLC
9 40 (25.00%) DevOps
10 33 (20.63%) Multithreading
10 33 (20.63%) Scrum
11 29 (18.13%) Event-Driven
11 29 (18.13%) Workflow
12 28 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (15.00%) Concurrent Programming
14 23 (14.38%) Process Management
15 22 (13.75%) Architectural Patterns
16 21 (13.13%) Containerisation
16 21 (13.13%) Kanban
16 21 (13.13%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (26.88%) Python
4 29 (18.13%) Shell Script
5 23 (14.38%) TypeScript
6 21 (13.13%) SQL
7 16 (10.00%) Kotlin
8 9 (5.63%) C++
9 6 (3.75%) Go
10 4 (2.50%) Rust
10 4 (2.50%) Scala
11 2 (1.25%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) C#
12 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.88%) Degree
5 7 (4.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (4.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) QA
1 7 (4.38%) SLA
2 5 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 91 (56.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 114 (71.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.63%) Kibana
3 20 (12.50%) Terraform
4 19 (11.88%) Ansible
5 11 (6.88%) Argo
6 3 (1.88%) Istio
6 3 (1.88%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.88%) Packer
7 1 (0.63%) Grafana
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (16.88%) Dynatrace
1 27 (16.88%) Splunk
2 8 (5.00%) Google
2 8 (5.00%) Oracle
3 5 (3.13%) IBM
3 5 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.88%) Informatica
4 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.88%) SAP
5 2 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.25%) Solace
5 2 (1.25%) WSO2
5 2 (1.25%) YouTube
6 1 (0.63%) Revolut