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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 76 119
Rank change year-on-year +26 +43 +19
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 119 147 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.70% 3.36% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.82% 12.83% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 43
10th Percentile £53,625 £37,500 £42,775
25th Percentile £63,750 £46,306 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +6.54% -13.36%
75th Percentile £79,375 £70,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £82,600 £80,500 £76,385
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 374 1,146 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.78% 26.23% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 98 440 566
10th Percentile £39,200 £35,900 £39,125
25th Percentile £49,063 £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 £80,938 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +22 61 £75,000 +7.14% 9
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 3
Edinburgh +4 10 £67,500 +41.93% 4
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +12 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 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 (41.18%) Confluence
2 8 (6.72%) Camunda
2 8 (6.72%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 93 (78.15%) AWS
2 63 (52.94%) Azure
3 60 (50.42%) GCP
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (6.72%) Serverless
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.36%) GitHub
6 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.68%) Apigee
7 2 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (43.70%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 16 (13.45%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.40%) MongoDB
4 10 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.40%) RDBMS
5 8 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (5.88%) Oracle Database
7 5 (4.20%) MySQL
8 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.36%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (2.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 59 (49.58%) Maven
2 51 (42.86%) GitLab
2 51 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 51 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
3 49 (41.18%) Bitbucket
3 49 (41.18%) Cucumber
3 49 (41.18%) JIRA
3 49 (41.18%) Selenium
4 14 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 14 (11.76%) JUnit
5 9 (7.56%) Git
6 3 (2.52%) Gradle
7 2 (1.68%) Mockito
General
1 105 (88.24%) Finance
2 99 (83.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 79 (66.39%) Banking
4 50 (42.02%) Law
5 19 (15.97%) Marketing
6 13 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (7.56%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.72%) Legal
9 7 (5.88%) Social Skills
10 5 (4.20%) Games
11 4 (3.36%) Private Banking
12 3 (2.52%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.84%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 108 (90.76%) Software Engineer
2 40 (33.61%) Java Engineer
3 39 (32.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 23 (19.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 23 (19.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 18 (15.13%) Developer
5 18 (15.13%) Java Developer
6 12 (10.08%) Senior
7 9 (7.56%) Lead
7 9 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) AWS Software Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Java Software Developer
8 8 (6.72%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (6.72%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (94.96%) Spring
2 84 (70.59%) React
3 80 (67.23%) Kafka
4 58 (48.74%) Hibernate
5 56 (47.06%) JPA
6 55 (46.22%) HTML
7 51 (42.86%) CSS
8 49 (41.18%) Redux
9 25 (21.01%) AngularJS
10 19 (15.97%) RESTful
11 15 (12.61%) REST
12 8 (6.72%) JDBC
12 8 (6.72%) OpenAPI
12 8 (6.72%) Swagger
12 8 (6.72%) WSDL
13 4 (3.36%) jQuery
13 4 (3.36%) SOAP
13 4 (3.36%) Vue
13 4 (3.36%) Web Services
14 3 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (41.18%) Enterprise Software
1 49 (41.18%) Product Ownership
2 27 (22.69%) Algorithms
3 20 (16.81%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.88%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.84%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (93.28%) Agile
2 109 (91.60%) Software Engineering
3 97 (81.51%) CI/CD
4 92 (77.31%) SDLC
5 82 (68.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (63.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (57.98%) Microservices
8 62 (52.10%) TDD
9 61 (51.26%) DevOps
10 58 (48.74%) Front End Development
10 58 (48.74%) Test Automation
11 56 (47.06%) Containerisation
12 51 (42.86%) Clean Code
13 49 (41.18%) Performance Optimisation
14 42 (35.29%) Operational Stability
15 31 (26.05%) Community of Practice
16 27 (22.69%) Artificial Intelligence
16 27 (22.69%) Machine Learning
16 27 (22.69%) Visualisation
17 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 119 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (61.34%) SQL
3 61 (51.26%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.56%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.36%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.52%) Python
7 2 (1.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (3.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (43.70%) QA
System Software
1 64 (53.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (67.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.76%) Terraform
3 2 (1.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (41.18%) Solace
2 24 (20.17%) Oracle
3 8 (6.72%) Dynatrace
3 8 (6.72%) Splunk
4 2 (1.68%) IBM
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.84%) Sybase