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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 99 72
Rank change year-on-year -23 -27 +39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 22 49 106
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.80% 1.60% 4.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 7.29% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 71
10th Percentile £51,000 £50,855 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,843
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.59% +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £76,385
90th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +3.45% -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 324 672 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.73% 21.98% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 117 390 503
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +6.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +13 14 £67,500 +12.03% 7
Edinburgh -28 8 £72,500 -6.66% 7
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 2 (9.09%) Camunda
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (50.00%) Law
3 7 (31.82%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
4 4 (18.18%) Tech for Good
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 2 (9.09%) Legal
7 1 (4.55%) Games
7 1 (4.55%) Private Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
2 13 (59.09%) React
3 9 (40.91%) Kafka
4 6 (27.27%) AngularJS
5 5 (22.73%) RESTful
6 4 (18.18%) REST
7 3 (13.64%) HTML
8 2 (9.09%) CSS
8 2 (9.09%) JDBC
8 2 (9.09%) OpenAPI
8 2 (9.09%) Swagger
8 2 (9.09%) WSDL
9 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
9 1 (4.55%) JPA
9 1 (4.55%) jQuery
9 1 (4.55%) Next.js
9 1 (4.55%) React Native
9 1 (4.55%) SOAP
9 1 (4.55%) Vue
9 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 16 (72.73%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Operational Stability
3 9 (40.91%) SDLC
4 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 7 (31.82%) Community of Practice
5 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (27.27%) AI
6 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
6 6 (27.27%) Visualisation
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) TDD
8 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
8 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) Application Security
9 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) NCSC
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk