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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 229 187
Rank change year-on-year -7 -42 -35
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 157 215 352
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 1.47% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.57% 5.44% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 100 108 294
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £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 £104,688
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +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 2,817 3,950 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.61% 26.96% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,020 2,541 4,750
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £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 £110,000 £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 26 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 26 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 +32 23 £100,000 -11.11% 8
South London 0 11 £70,000 -15.15% 1
West London -8 1 £82,500 - 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 7 (4.46%) Apache
1 7 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) Liferay
4 1 (0.64%) Camunda
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) JBoss
4 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 82 (52.23%) AWS
2 22 (14.01%) Serverless
3 20 (12.74%) Azure
4 16 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (9.55%) GCP
6 14 (8.92%) SaaS
7 13 (8.28%) OpenShift
8 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.10%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.82%) GitHub
13 5 (3.18%) Apigee
14 4 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.55%) dbt
14 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
15 3 (1.91%) Amazon MSK
15 3 (1.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (15.29%) Relational Database
3 20 (12.74%) NoSQL
4 19 (12.10%) MongoDB
4 19 (12.10%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.91%) Apache Ignite
7 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.64%) Big Data
8 1 (0.64%) Flink
8 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Jenkins
2 17 (10.83%) GitLab
3 13 (8.28%) Git
4 11 (7.01%) JUnit
5 9 (5.73%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.10%) JMeter
6 8 (5.10%) Mockito
7 6 (3.82%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.82%) Gradle
8 5 (3.18%) JIRA
9 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.91%) Postman
9 3 (1.91%) Vite
10 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.64%) MLflow
10 1 (0.64%) Selenium
10 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 49 (31.21%) Finance
2 31 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.38%) Financial Institution
5 20 (12.74%) Telecoms
6 14 (8.92%) Billing
7 8 (5.10%) Front Office
8 7 (4.46%) Games
9 5 (3.18%) Banking
10 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Advertising
12 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 68 (43.31%) Developer
2 56 (35.67%) Java Engineer
3 54 (34.39%) Java Developer
3 54 (34.39%) Senior
4 35 (22.29%) Software Engineer
5 26 (16.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 26 (16.56%) Senior Java Engineer
6 22 (14.01%) Senior Developer
7 20 (12.74%) Senior Java Developer
8 19 (12.10%) Lead
9 16 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (8.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (7.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (6.37%) Architect
13 9 (5.73%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (5.73%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Kafka Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 7 (4.46%) Backend Developer
16 5 (3.18%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (98.73%) Spring
2 42 (26.75%) Kafka
3 34 (21.66%) React
3 34 (21.66%) REST
4 19 (12.10%) RabbitMQ
5 18 (11.46%) JSON
6 17 (10.83%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (10.83%) AngularJS
6 17 (10.83%) Hibernate
7 16 (10.19%) Node.js
8 15 (9.55%) HTML
8 15 (9.55%) RESTful
8 15 (9.55%) XML
9 14 (8.92%) Web Services
10 11 (7.01%) Apache Camel
10 11 (7.01%) Bootstrap
11 9 (5.73%) Akka
11 9 (5.73%) JMS
11 9 (5.73%) RxJava
11 9 (5.73%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 48 (30.57%) Cloud Native
2 28 (17.83%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.10%) e-Learning
3 8 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.10%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.91%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.64%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.64%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (59.24%) Microservices
2 75 (47.77%) CI/CD
3 64 (40.76%) Agile
4 53 (33.76%) Software Engineering
5 49 (31.21%) Mentoring
6 45 (28.66%) DevOps
7 41 (26.11%) Containerisation
7 41 (26.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 32 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (19.75%) Event-Driven
10 28 (17.83%) BDD
11 26 (16.56%) AI
11 26 (16.56%) Test Automation
12 24 (15.29%) Fintech
13 22 (14.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (14.01%) TDD
14 20 (12.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 20 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
16 17 (10.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (22.93%) JavaScript
3 30 (19.11%) SQL
4 25 (15.92%) Python
5 17 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 14 (8.92%) Kotlin
7 8 (5.10%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.82%) PHP
9 2 (1.27%) C#
9 2 (1.27%) Go
10 1 (0.64%) C++
10 1 (0.64%) Delphi
10 1 (0.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.10%) Degree
3 12 (7.64%) AWS Certification
3 12 (7.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 53 (33.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (47.77%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.01%) Kibana
3 10 (6.37%) Terraform
4 6 (3.82%) Grafana
5 5 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (5.10%) Dynatrace
1 8 (5.10%) Solace
1 8 (5.10%) Splunk
2 6 (3.82%) Google
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle
4 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.91%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.91%) Revolut
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat