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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 51 70
Rank change year-on-year -73 +19 +48
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 11 126 242
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.33% 5.04% 4.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 28.44% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 29
10th Percentile - £63,750 £44,544
25th Percentile - £67,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +16.54% +11.72%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £105,592 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%

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 249 443 1,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.40% 17.73% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 164 168 528
10th Percentile £41,625 £31,250 £36,964
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £84,438 £71,546
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -23 10 £65,000 -14.75% 9
Edinburgh 0 1 £105,000 +33.23% 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GitHub
2 8 (72.73%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MySQL
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) IntelliJ
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Mockito
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) Spring
2 9 (81.82%) JPA
2 9 (81.82%) REST
3 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
3 8 (72.73%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS3
4 1 (9.09%) DOM
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (9.09%) JDBC
4 1 (9.09%) JSF
4 1 (9.09%) JSP
4 1 (9.09%) Sass
4 1 (9.09%) SAX
4 1 (9.09%) Servlets
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
4 1 (9.09%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (72.73%) Analytics
3 8 (72.73%) Data Analytics
3 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
3 8 (72.73%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 1 (9.09%) Clean Code
5 1 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (9.09%) Commercialisation
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Front End Development
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) MVC
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes