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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 229 203
Rank change year-on-year -16 -26 -51
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 153 179 338
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.35% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 5.00% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 97 98 276
10th Percentile £56,500 £52,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,682 £110,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.15% +10.00% -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 2,924 3,583 5,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.08% 27.04% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 2,482 4,753
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
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 £101,250 £109,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,375 £123,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +13 21 £100,000 -6.98% 13
South London -5 10 £70,000 -15.15%
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 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.96%) Apache
2 3 (1.96%) Liferay
3 1 (0.65%) Camunda
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) JBoss
3 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 70 (45.75%) AWS
2 23 (15.03%) Azure
3 17 (11.11%) Serverless
4 15 (9.80%) OpenShift
5 13 (8.50%) GCP
6 12 (7.84%) SaaS
7 11 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.27%) dbt
11 5 (3.27%) GitHub
11 5 (3.27%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (1.96%) Anthos
13 3 (1.96%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.99%) Relational Database
2 23 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (13.07%) NoSQL
4 19 (12.42%) RDBMS
5 13 (8.50%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.96%) MySQL
8 2 (1.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.65%) Big Data
9 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.65%) Flink
9 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.11%) GitLab
1 17 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.19%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) JUnit
3 9 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.58%) Gradle
4 7 (4.58%) Mockito
5 6 (3.92%) JMeter
6 3 (1.96%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.96%) Postman
7 2 (1.31%) JIRA
7 2 (1.31%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.65%) git-flow
8 1 (0.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 45 (29.41%) Finance
2 27 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.34%) Public Sector
4 22 (14.38%) Telecoms
5 16 (10.46%) Billing
5 16 (10.46%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.88%) Front Office
6 9 (5.88%) Games
7 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Advertising
9 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 72 (47.06%) Developer
2 59 (38.56%) Java Developer
3 54 (35.29%) Java Engineer
4 51 (33.33%) Senior
5 33 (21.57%) Software Engineer
6 25 (16.34%) Senior Java Engineer
7 24 (15.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 24 (15.69%) Senior Developer
8 22 (14.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 15 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (9.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (9.15%) Lead
11 10 (6.54%) Architect
11 10 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Backend Developer
13 6 (3.92%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 5 (3.27%) Kafka Engineer
14 5 (3.27%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (98.69%) Spring
2 37 (24.18%) Kafka
3 33 (21.57%) React
3 33 (21.57%) REST
4 20 (13.07%) AngularJS
5 17 (11.11%) JSON
6 16 (10.46%) Hibernate
7 15 (9.80%) Node.js
7 15 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (9.15%) HTML
8 14 (9.15%) RESTful
9 13 (8.50%) Bootstrap
9 13 (8.50%) XML
10 12 (7.84%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (7.84%) Web Services
11 10 (6.54%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (5.88%) Apache Camel
12 9 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (5.88%) Spring Integration
13 8 (5.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.23%) e-Learning
4 8 (5.23%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.96%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.65%) Equities
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.31%) Linux
1 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (59.48%) Microservices
2 69 (45.10%) CI/CD
3 60 (39.22%) Agile
4 49 (32.03%) Software Engineering
5 46 (30.07%) DevOps
6 45 (29.41%) Mentoring
7 44 (28.76%) Containerisation
8 40 (26.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (18.30%) AI
11 27 (17.65%) Test Automation
12 25 (16.34%) Event-Driven
13 24 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (15.03%) BDD
15 22 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (12.42%) Scrum
17 18 (11.76%) TDD
18 17 (11.11%) Fintech
18 17 (11.11%) Observability
19 16 (10.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
3 31 (20.26%) SQL
4 24 (15.69%) Python
5 16 (10.46%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.84%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.92%) PHP
7 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.31%) C#
8 2 (1.31%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) C++
9 1 (0.65%) Delphi
9 1 (0.65%) Korn
9 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.42%) Degree
3 12 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.27%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 47 (30.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (45.10%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.54%) Terraform
3 9 (5.88%) Kibana
4 7 (4.58%) Grafana
5 6 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (3.92%) Dynatrace
1 6 (3.92%) Solace
1 6 (3.92%) Splunk
2 4 (2.61%) Oracle
3 3 (1.96%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.96%) Google
3 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.96%) Revolut
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat