Spring Boot Job Trends in the North of England

Spring Boot
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 152 274
Rank change year-on-year -64 +122 -36
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 144 176 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.82% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 11.20% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 88 27 46
10th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £56,875 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,889 -
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,031 1,571 2,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.10% 16.25% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 807 1,980
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,238 £74,258 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £78,750
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 the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the North of England

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the North of England

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -59 84 £65,000 -17.52% 23
Yorkshire +12 51 £75,000 - 7
North East -60 9 £50,000 -23.08% 15
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) JBoss
3 2 (1.39%) Apache
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.39%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.89%) AWS
2 71 (49.31%) Serverless
3 56 (38.89%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (35.42%) Amazon ECS
5 48 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (32.64%) Amazon S3
7 40 (27.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (19.44%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (19.44%) Apigee
9 19 (13.19%) GitHub
10 17 (11.81%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (11.11%) Azure
12 11 (7.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (6.25%) GCP
15 8 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.47%) AWS Fargate
16 5 (3.47%) Datadog
17 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.39%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.25%) DynamoDB
2 19 (13.19%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.47%) MySQL
6 3 (2.08%) Power BI
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.39%) Big Data
7 2 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (32.64%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.36%) GitLab
3 24 (16.67%) Git
4 23 (15.97%) Cypress.io
5 21 (14.58%) Maven
6 19 (13.19%) SonarQube
7 9 (6.25%) JIRA
8 6 (4.17%) Selenium
9 5 (3.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (3.47%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.78%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.08%) Postman
12 2 (1.39%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.39%) JUnit
12 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (15.97%) Finance
2 11 (7.64%) Banking
3 9 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 7 (4.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.78%) Advertising
7 3 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 81 (56.25%) Developer
2 62 (43.06%) Java Developer
3 44 (30.56%) Senior
4 30 (20.83%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.36%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (15.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 21 (14.58%) Java Engineer
8 20 (13.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 19 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (13.19%) Software Engineer
10 16 (11.11%) AWS Developer
11 14 (9.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (8.33%) Lead
13 10 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (6.25%) Software Developer
15 8 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
16 7 (4.86%) Angular Developer
16 7 (4.86%) Applications Engineer
16 7 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (88.89%) Spring
2 78 (54.17%) AngularJS
3 33 (22.92%) Node.js
4 31 (21.53%) React
5 24 (16.67%) REST
6 22 (15.28%) Gherkin
7 19 (13.19%) Jest
8 15 (10.42%) RESTful
9 11 (7.64%) Vue
10 9 (6.25%) Kafka
11 8 (5.56%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.47%) JPA
12 5 (3.47%) OpenAPI
12 5 (3.47%) Spring MVC
12 5 (3.47%) Swagger
13 4 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.78%) Web Services
14 3 (2.08%) .NET Core
14 3 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) CentOS
1 2 (1.39%) Debian
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 73 (50.69%) DevOps
3 60 (41.67%) Agile
4 49 (34.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 41 (28.47%) Microservices
7 34 (23.61%) Test Automation
8 30 (20.83%) Secure Coding
9 29 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (19.44%) Clean Code
10 28 (19.44%) Software Engineering
10 28 (19.44%) TDD
11 25 (17.36%) SDLC
12 24 (16.67%) Design Patterns
13 23 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (15.97%) Mentoring
13 23 (15.97%) Scrum
14 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (11.81%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (27.08%) Python
3 37 (25.69%) TypeScript
4 29 (20.14%) SQL
5 23 (15.97%) Groovy
6 21 (14.58%) JavaScript
7 20 (13.89%) Kotlin
8 19 (13.19%) Bash
9 5 (3.47%) C#
10 3 (2.08%) Scala
11 2 (1.39%) C
11 2 (1.39%) PHP
11 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 23 (15.97%) AWS Certification
4 17 (11.81%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.17%) Degree
7 5 (3.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 76 (52.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (31.94%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.39%) Terraform
3 27 (18.75%) Ansible
4 18 (12.50%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.39%) Kibana
5 2 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.56%) Splunk
2 6 (4.17%) Oracle
3 3 (2.08%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.39%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.39%) Google
4 2 (1.39%) IBM
4 2 (1.39%) Pega
4 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.39%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.39%) WSO2