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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 237 256
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -52
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 230 156 225
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.30% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.82% 4.52% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 144 67 158
10th Percentile £58,250 £57,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

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 3,954 3,453 5,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.40% 28.69% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,567 2,360 3,950
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 August 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 August 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 +26 33 £100,000 -9.09% 21
West London -15 10 £80,000 +33.33% 17
South London -31 8 £70,000 -15.15% 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 12 (5.22%) Confluence
2 11 (4.78%) Camunda
3 4 (1.74%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (55.22%) AWS
2 77 (33.48%) Azure
3 38 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (13.48%) GitHub
5 21 (9.13%) GCP
6 17 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.65%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.65%) Serverless
8 11 (4.78%) Lucidchart
9 9 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.91%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
9 9 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) DMARC
2 1 (0.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) LTE
2 1 (0.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (23.48%) NoSQL
2 42 (18.26%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.13%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.39%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.22%) Redis
6 10 (4.35%) Db2
6 10 (4.35%) DTS
7 9 (3.91%) MySQL
8 4 (1.74%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.74%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) Flink
10 2 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.87%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 44 (19.13%) GitLab
2 37 (16.09%) Cucumber
3 21 (9.13%) Git
3 21 (9.13%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.83%) JUnit
5 16 (6.96%) Mockito
6 13 (5.65%) Maven
7 9 (3.91%) Gradle
8 8 (3.48%) Claude Code
8 8 (3.48%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) git-flow
9 3 (1.30%) Spock
10 2 (0.87%) JIRA
10 2 (0.87%) JMeter
10 2 (0.87%) Xcode
10 2 (0.87%) XCTest
10 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 88 (38.26%) Finance
2 52 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.48%) Banking
4 23 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.83%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.91%) Front Office
7 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.17%) Retail
9 4 (1.74%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.74%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.30%) Billing
10 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Advertising
11 2 (0.87%) Back Office
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (42.61%) Java Engineer
2 70 (30.43%) Developer
3 64 (27.83%) Senior
4 55 (23.91%) Java Developer
5 38 (16.52%) Software Engineer
6 35 (15.22%) Lead
7 33 (14.35%) Senior Java Engineer
8 28 (12.17%) Principal Engineer
9 27 (11.74%) Principal Java Engineer
10 22 (9.57%) Java Software Engineer
11 20 (8.70%) Architect
12 18 (7.83%) Senior Developer
13 17 (7.39%) Technical Leader
14 16 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (6.09%) Senior Java Developer
17 13 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 13 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
18 11 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
18 11 (4.78%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (91.74%) Spring
2 104 (45.22%) Kafka
3 47 (20.43%) RESTful
4 44 (19.13%) REST
5 34 (14.78%) React
6 29 (12.61%) Node.js
7 26 (11.30%) OAuth
8 23 (10.00%) OAuth2
9 21 (9.13%) Hibernate
10 18 (7.83%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.96%) JPA
12 15 (6.52%) Terraform
13 13 (5.65%) YAML
14 11 (4.78%) JWT
14 11 (4.78%) Middleware
15 9 (3.91%) Spring Security
15 9 (3.91%) Web Services
16 8 (3.48%) HTML
16 8 (3.48%) OpenID
16 8 (3.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (40.87%) Cloud Native
2 72 (31.30%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (15.22%) Public Cloud
4 34 (14.78%) e-Learning
5 25 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (9.13%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.35%) EPoS
7 10 (4.35%) iSeries
8 9 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.30%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.87%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (73.48%) Microservices
2 124 (53.91%) CI/CD
3 101 (43.91%) Agile
4 100 (43.48%) Event-Driven
5 75 (32.61%) DevOps
6 74 (32.17%) Mentoring
7 69 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 67 (29.13%) Test Automation
9 63 (27.39%) Containerisation
10 58 (25.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 55 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (20.87%) BDD
13 42 (18.26%) AI
13 42 (18.26%) CQRS
14 41 (17.83%) Full-Stack Development
15 40 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (16.09%) Architectural Patterns
17 35 (15.22%) API Design
18 34 (14.78%) Performance Testing
19 32 (13.91%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 226 (98.26%) Java
2 56 (24.35%) SQL
3 29 (12.61%) Python
4 27 (11.74%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.35%) RPG
8 4 (1.74%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) Scala
10 2 (0.87%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) ProC
Qualifications
1 35 (15.22%) AWS Certification
2 34 (14.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 20 (8.70%) Degree
4 18 (7.83%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.09%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) OCP
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.13%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) WCAG
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (22.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (25.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.74%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Grafana
3 2 (0.87%) Kibana
3 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (6.09%) IBM
2 13 (5.65%) SendGrid
3 12 (5.22%) Google
4 10 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.91%) Oracle
6 8 (3.48%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.30%) Solace
7 3 (1.30%) Splunk
8 2 (0.87%) Apple
8 2 (0.87%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.87%) TikTok
9 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.43%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.43%) Workday