Spring Boot Jobs in Scotland

Spring Boot
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 72 145
Rank change year-on-year +6 +73 +29
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 127 290 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.94% 4.41% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.91% 14.66% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 51
10th Percentile £63,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £46,306 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% +9.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £76,964
90th Percentile £113,979 £96,943 £97,328
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%

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 472 1,978 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.66% 30.08% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 192 633 614
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,803
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,722 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,071
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.54% +4.87%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot in Scotland.

Salary trend for Spring Boot in Scotland

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +21 64 £77,500 +16.98% 62
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 1
Edinburgh +16 15 £78,810 +19.86% 18
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 1
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - - 1
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (38.58%) Confluence
2 8 (6.30%) Camunda
2 8 (6.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.57%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 92 (72.44%) AWS
2 64 (50.39%) Azure
3 61 (48.03%) GCP
4 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (6.30%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.30%) Serverless
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.15%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.15%) GitHub
6 2 (1.57%) Apigee
6 2 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) HTTP
1 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (42.52%) SQL Server
2 19 (14.96%) Relational Database
3 16 (12.60%) NoSQL
4 12 (9.45%) MongoDB
5 10 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.87%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (5.51%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.94%) DB2
8 5 (3.94%) MySQL
9 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.15%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (46.46%) Maven
2 51 (40.16%) GitLab
2 51 (40.16%) SonarQube
2 51 (40.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (39.37%) JIRA
4 49 (38.58%) Bitbucket
4 49 (38.58%) Cucumber
4 49 (38.58%) Selenium
5 15 (11.81%) Jenkins
6 14 (11.02%) JUnit
7 9 (7.09%) Git
8 3 (2.36%) Gradle
9 2 (1.57%) Mockito
General
1 112 (88.19%) Finance
2 99 (77.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 86 (67.72%) Banking
4 50 (39.37%) Law
5 19 (14.96%) Marketing
6 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.87%) Social Skills
8 9 (7.09%) Investment Banking
9 8 (6.30%) Legal
10 5 (3.94%) Games
11 4 (3.15%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.57%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.79%) Front Office
13 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 110 (86.61%) Software Engineer
2 40 (31.50%) Java Engineer
3 39 (30.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 23 (18.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 23 (18.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Developer
5 20 (15.75%) Java Developer
6 14 (11.02%) Senior
7 9 (7.09%) Lead
7 9 (7.09%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) AWS Software Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 8 (6.30%) Java Software Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.15%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.15%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (95.28%) Spring
2 84 (66.14%) React
3 79 (62.20%) Kafka
4 61 (48.03%) Hibernate
5 56 (44.09%) JPA
6 55 (43.31%) HTML
7 52 (40.94%) CSS
8 50 (39.37%) Redux
9 26 (20.47%) AngularJS
10 19 (14.96%) RESTful
11 17 (13.39%) REST
12 8 (6.30%) JDBC
12 8 (6.30%) OpenAPI
12 8 (6.30%) Swagger
12 8 (6.30%) WSDL
13 4 (3.15%) jQuery
13 4 (3.15%) SOAP
13 4 (3.15%) Vue
13 4 (3.15%) Web Services
14 3 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (40.16%) Enterprise Software
2 49 (38.58%) Product Ownership
3 29 (22.83%) Algorithms
4 20 (15.75%) Cloud Native
5 10 (7.87%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.51%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.15%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.79%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (91.34%) Agile
2 115 (90.55%) Software Engineering
3 101 (79.53%) CI/CD
4 94 (74.02%) SDLC
5 82 (64.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 76 (59.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (57.48%) Microservices
8 66 (51.97%) DevOps
9 63 (49.61%) TDD
10 61 (48.03%) Test Automation
11 58 (45.67%) Containerisation
12 57 (44.88%) Front End Development
13 51 (40.16%) Clean Code
14 49 (38.58%) Performance Optimisation
15 42 (33.07%) Operational Stability
16 31 (24.41%) Community of Practice
17 29 (22.83%) Artificial Intelligence
18 27 (21.26%) Machine Learning
18 27 (21.26%) Visualisation
19 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (60.63%) SQL
3 61 (48.03%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.09%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.36%) Python
7 2 (1.57%) ABAP
7 2 (1.57%) Go
8 1 (0.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (40.94%) QA
System Software
1 62 (48.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) NDS
Systems Management
1 80 (62.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.02%) Terraform
3 2 (1.57%) Istio
4 1 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 49 (38.58%) Solace
2 24 (18.90%) Oracle
3 8 (6.30%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.30%) Splunk
4 3 (2.36%) Sybase
5 2 (1.57%) IBM
5 2 (1.57%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.79%) NetIQ
6 1 (0.79%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity