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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 238 222
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 -63
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 160 174 335
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.83% 1.35% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 5.03% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 99 95 271
10th Percentile £57,000 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 3,112 3,462 5,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.22% 26.82% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,167 2,500 4,731
10th Percentile £51,250 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,500 £125,000
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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +15 26 £90,000 -21.74% 18
South London -31 6 £70,000 -15.15% 3
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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) Liferay
4 1 (0.63%) Camunda
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) JBoss
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.88%) AWS
2 26 (16.25%) Azure
3 16 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 13 (8.13%) GCP
5 12 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (6.88%) Serverless
7 8 (5.00%) SaaS
8 7 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.13%) dbt
10 5 (3.13%) GitHub
10 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.50%) Apigee
12 3 (1.88%) Anthos
12 3 (1.88%) Stripe
13 2 (1.25%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.63%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 24 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 15 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.38%) RDBMS
3 9 (5.63%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.13%) Redis
5 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.50%) MySQL
5 4 (2.50%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.63%) Flink
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (10.00%) GitLab
2 13 (8.13%) Git
3 11 (6.88%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.25%) Gradle
5 9 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.38%) JUnit
7 5 (3.13%) Selenium
8 3 (1.88%) JIRA
8 3 (1.88%) Mockito
8 3 (1.88%) Postman
9 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.25%) JMeter
9 2 (1.25%) Maven
10 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.63%) git-flow
10 1 (0.63%) MLflow
10 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 48 (30.00%) Finance
2 28 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.75%) Telecoms
5 16 (10.00%) Billing
6 10 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 10 (6.25%) Front Office
7 9 (5.63%) Games
8 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.50%) Advertising
10 3 (1.88%) Banking
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) iGaming
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (48.75%) Developer
2 67 (41.88%) Java Developer
3 60 (37.50%) Java Engineer
4 49 (30.63%) Senior
5 31 (19.38%) Software Engineer
6 25 (15.63%) Java Software Engineer
6 25 (15.63%) Senior Developer
7 23 (14.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 22 (13.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 15 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (8.75%) Lead
11 11 (6.88%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (6.25%) Architect
12 10 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (5.63%) Principal Java Engineer
14 7 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
14 7 (4.38%) AWS Software Engineer
15 6 (3.75%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (95.00%) Spring
2 41 (25.63%) Kafka
3 37 (23.13%) React
4 30 (18.75%) REST
5 23 (14.38%) AngularJS
6 19 (11.88%) RESTful
7 13 (8.13%) Bootstrap
7 13 (8.13%) HTML
7 13 (8.13%) JSON
8 12 (7.50%) Hibernate
8 12 (7.50%) Node.js
9 11 (6.88%) CSS
9 11 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (6.88%) Web Services
10 10 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (5.63%) Spring Integration
11 9 (5.63%) XML
12 7 (4.38%) Spring MVC
13 5 (3.13%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.00%) e-Learning
4 8 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.63%) Equities
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Linux
1 2 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (55.00%) Microservices
2 69 (43.13%) CI/CD
3 51 (31.88%) Agile
3 51 (31.88%) Software Engineering
4 50 (31.25%) DevOps
5 47 (29.38%) Mentoring
6 43 (26.88%) Containerisation
7 38 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (17.50%) AI
11 27 (16.88%) Event-Driven
12 26 (16.25%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (16.25%) Test Automation
13 18 (11.25%) BDD
13 18 (11.25%) Fintech
14 17 (10.63%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.63%) Scrum
15 16 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (21.88%) SQL
3 31 (19.38%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.63%) Python
5 15 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.88%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.75%) PHP
8 4 (2.50%) C++
9 2 (1.25%) C#
9 2 (1.25%) Go
9 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) Bash
10 1 (0.63%) Delphi
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Korn
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Degree
2 17 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) QA
2 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.75%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Grafana
4 5 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) Kibana
6 2 (1.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (3.75%) Solace
2 3 (1.88%) Dynatrace
2 3 (1.88%) Google
2 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
2 3 (1.88%) Revolut
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle
3 2 (1.25%) Splunk
4 1 (0.63%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat