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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 225 182
Rank change year-on-year -14 -43 -23
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 160 209 358
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.00% 1.44% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 5.36% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 102 105 297
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,313 £63,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £87,610 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +3.07% -2.86%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £71,750 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +6.67% -6.25%

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 2,834 3,900 5,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.63% 26.85% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 2,524 4,811
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,951 £49,898
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 £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +27 23 £100,000 -11.11% 8
South London +4 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -13 1 £82,500 - 2
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 8 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.38%) Apache
2 7 (4.38%) Apache Spark
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 82 (51.25%) AWS
2 22 (13.75%) Serverless
3 20 (12.50%) Azure
4 16 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (9.38%) GCP
6 14 (8.75%) OpenShift
6 14 (8.75%) SaaS
7 12 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.75%) GitHub
12 5 (3.13%) Apigee
12 5 (3.13%) dbt
12 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 3 (1.88%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.25%) Relational Database
2 25 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 20 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 19 (11.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.88%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) Flink
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.63%) GitLab
3 13 (8.13%) Git
4 11 (6.88%) JUnit
5 9 (5.63%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.00%) JMeter
6 8 (5.00%) Mockito
7 6 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.75%) Gradle
8 5 (3.13%) JIRA
9 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.88%) Postman
9 3 (1.88%) Vite
10 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.63%) MLflow
10 1 (0.63%) Selenium
10 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 50 (31.25%) Finance
2 32 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.13%) Financial Institution
4 21 (13.13%) Telecoms
5 15 (9.38%) Billing
6 8 (5.00%) Front Office
6 8 (5.00%) Games
7 5 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Advertising
9 2 (1.25%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 69 (43.13%) Developer
2 58 (36.25%) Java Engineer
3 56 (35.00%) Senior
4 55 (34.38%) Java Developer
5 36 (22.50%) Software Engineer
6 27 (16.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 27 (16.88%) Senior Java Engineer
7 23 (14.38%) Senior Developer
8 21 (13.13%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (11.88%) Lead
10 16 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (6.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (6.25%) Architect
13 10 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (5.00%) Kafka Engineer
15 8 (5.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 7 (4.38%) Backend Developer
17 5 (3.13%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (98.75%) Spring
2 43 (26.88%) Kafka
3 35 (21.88%) REST
4 34 (21.25%) React
5 19 (11.88%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (11.25%) AngularJS
6 18 (11.25%) JSON
7 17 (10.63%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (10.63%) Hibernate
8 16 (10.00%) Node.js
9 15 (9.38%) HTML
9 15 (9.38%) RESTful
9 15 (9.38%) XML
10 14 (8.75%) Web Services
11 12 (7.50%) Bootstrap
12 11 (6.88%) Apache Camel
13 9 (5.63%) Akka
13 9 (5.63%) JMS
13 9 (5.63%) RxJava
13 9 (5.63%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 48 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.00%) e-Learning
3 8 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.63%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Linux
1 2 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (58.75%) Microservices
2 76 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 66 (41.25%) Agile
4 55 (34.38%) Software Engineering
5 50 (31.25%) Mentoring
6 45 (28.13%) DevOps
7 43 (26.88%) Containerisation
8 42 (26.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (19.38%) Event-Driven
11 28 (17.50%) BDD
12 27 (16.88%) AI
12 27 (16.88%) Test Automation
13 24 (15.00%) Fintech
14 23 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (13.75%) TDD
16 21 (13.13%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 18 (11.25%) Observability
18 18 (11.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 160 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (23.13%) JavaScript
3 31 (19.38%) SQL
4 26 (16.25%) Python
5 17 (10.63%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.75%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.75%) PHP
9 2 (1.25%) C#
9 2 (1.25%) Go
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) Delphi
10 1 (0.63%) Korn
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.88%) Degree
3 12 (7.50%) AWS Certification
3 12 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) QA
2 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 54 (33.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (48.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Kibana
2 11 (6.88%) Terraform
3 7 (4.38%) Grafana
4 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (5.00%) Dynatrace
1 8 (5.00%) Solace
1 8 (5.00%) Splunk
2 6 (3.75%) Google
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (1.88%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.88%) Revolut
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat