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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 99 97
Rank change year-on-year +44 -2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 118 56 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.44% 1.68% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.33% 7.64% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 53
10th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,542 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,125 £77,310
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% -

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 389 733 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.62% 22.01% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 85 389 521
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,927
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,300 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +25 59 £75,000 +32.74% 9
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 6
Edinburgh +2 11 £67,500 +12.50% 3
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +5 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
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 49 (41.53%) Confluence
2 8 (6.78%) Camunda
2 8 (6.78%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 90 (76.27%) AWS
2 60 (50.85%) Azure
3 56 (47.46%) GCP
4 8 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (6.78%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.78%) Serverless
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.39%) GitHub
5 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (44.07%) SQL Server
2 16 (13.56%) Relational Database
3 11 (9.32%) NoSQL
4 9 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.63%) RDBMS
5 8 (6.78%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 7 (5.93%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.39%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.54%) MySQL
9 2 (1.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 55 (46.61%) Maven
2 49 (41.53%) Bitbucket
2 49 (41.53%) Cucumber
2 49 (41.53%) GitLab
2 49 (41.53%) JIRA
2 49 (41.53%) Selenium
2 49 (41.53%) SonarQube
2 49 (41.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.63%) JUnit
5 5 (4.24%) Git
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
General
1 104 (88.14%) Finance
2 99 (83.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 78 (66.10%) Banking
4 50 (42.37%) Law
5 19 (16.10%) Marketing
6 12 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (7.63%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.78%) Legal
9 4 (3.39%) Games
9 4 (3.39%) Private Banking
9 4 (3.39%) Social Skills
9 4 (3.39%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 107 (90.68%) Software Engineer
2 41 (34.75%) Java Engineer
3 40 (33.90%) Java Software Engineer
4 24 (20.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 24 (20.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Developer
5 15 (12.71%) Java Developer
6 9 (7.63%) Lead
7 8 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Java Software Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (91.53%) Spring
2 86 (72.88%) React
3 77 (65.25%) Kafka
4 56 (47.46%) HTML
5 54 (45.76%) Hibernate
5 54 (45.76%) JPA
6 52 (44.07%) CSS
7 49 (41.53%) Redux
8 24 (20.34%) AngularJS
9 15 (12.71%) REST
9 15 (12.71%) RESTful
10 8 (6.78%) JDBC
10 8 (6.78%) OpenAPI
10 8 (6.78%) Swagger
10 8 (6.78%) WSDL
11 4 (3.39%) jQuery
11 4 (3.39%) SOAP
11 4 (3.39%) Vue
11 4 (3.39%) Web Services
12 1 (0.85%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 49 (41.53%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (41.53%) Product Ownership
2 27 (22.88%) Algorithms
3 20 (16.95%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.93%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.93%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (94.07%) Software Engineering
2 109 (92.37%) Agile
3 93 (78.81%) CI/CD
4 91 (77.12%) SDLC
5 82 (69.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (61.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (55.08%) Microservices
8 61 (51.69%) TDD
9 57 (48.31%) DevOps
9 57 (48.31%) Front End Development
10 56 (47.46%) Test Automation
11 54 (45.76%) Containerisation
12 50 (42.37%) Clean Code
13 49 (41.53%) Performance Optimisation
14 42 (35.59%) Operational Stability
15 31 (26.27%) Community of Practice
16 27 (22.88%) AI
16 27 (22.88%) Machine Learning
16 27 (22.88%) Visualisation
17 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (57.63%) SQL
3 60 (50.85%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (42.37%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) NCSC
2 3 (2.54%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (50.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (64.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (41.53%) Solace
2 24 (20.34%) Oracle
3 8 (6.78%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.78%) Splunk
4 1 (0.85%) IBM
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft