Spring Boot Job Trends in Scotland

Spring Boot
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 52 92
Rank change year-on-year -80 +40 +23
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 15 118 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.37% 4.70% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.28% 27.63% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 18
10th Percentile £50,100 £52,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £62,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +12.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £92,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £104,300 £78,750 £73,125
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 427 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.84% 17.01% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 163 103 452
10th Percentile - £37,350 £36,025
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £70,612
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -3.70%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Scotland

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Glasgow -27 13 £71,000 -5.33% 58
Edinburgh -2 2 £77,500 +14.81% 14
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) GitHub
2 6 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (20.00%) Datadog
5 3 (20.00%) dbt
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) JUnit
3 2 (13.33%) Mockito
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (66.67%) Kafka
3 8 (53.33%) REST
4 7 (46.67%) JPA
5 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
6 4 (26.67%) Terraform
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
8 2 (13.33%) CSS
8 2 (13.33%) HTML
8 2 (13.33%) React
8 2 (13.33%) RESTful
8 2 (13.33%) Spring Batch
8 2 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (13.33%) WireMock
9 1 (6.67%) CSS3
9 1 (6.67%) HTML5
9 1 (6.67%) JDBC
9 1 (6.67%) JSP
9 1 (6.67%) Sass
9 1 (6.67%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (53.33%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Community of Practice
7 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 3 (20.00%) GitOps
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Observability
7 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Argo
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk