Spring Boot Job Trends in the South East

Spring Boot
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 206 317
Rank change year-on-year -61 +111 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 35 79 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.24% 1.01% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.43% 7.06% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 18 30 50
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £81,563 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,250 £90,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -6.45% -3.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,443 1,119 3,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.84% 14.31% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 777 2,582
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the South East

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the South East

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Berkshire -11 18 £87,500 +20.69% 3
Thames Valley -30 18 £87,500 +42.86% 5
West Sussex -16 6 £67,500 -6.90% 2
Surrey -19 5 £60,000 -17.24%
Kent -26 3 - -
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
East Sussex -10 1 £85,000 -
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.86%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (45.71%) Amazon EKS
2 16 (45.71%) Serverless
3 10 (28.57%) Azure
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 5 (14.29%) SaaS
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (8.57%) GitHub
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 9 (25.71%) NoSQL
4 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (14.29%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.71%) Couchbase
5 2 (5.71%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) Pinecone
5 2 (5.71%) Redis
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (51.43%) Git
1 18 (51.43%) Jenkins
2 13 (37.14%) JUnit
3 10 (28.57%) Mockito
4 9 (25.71%) JMeter
5 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.71%) Gradle
5 2 (5.71%) Maven
6 1 (2.86%) DBeaver
6 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Advertising
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Health Technology
3 4 (11.43%) Tech for Good
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Developer
2 25 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Backend Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Lead
5 5 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Lead Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (94.29%) Spring
2 21 (60.00%) REST
3 17 (48.57%) Web Services
4 11 (31.43%) Hibernate
4 11 (31.43%) React
5 10 (28.57%) Kafka
5 10 (28.57%) WireMock
6 9 (25.71%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (25.71%) JPA
7 8 (22.86%) Apache Camel
7 8 (22.86%) HTML
8 7 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
8 7 (20.00%) jQuery
8 7 (20.00%) Mustache
8 7 (20.00%) Node.js
8 7 (20.00%) RESTful
9 6 (17.14%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (14.29%) JSON
10 5 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (17.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.71%) IoT
4 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Microservices
2 26 (74.29%) Agile
3 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 21 (60.00%) TDD
5 15 (42.86%) DevOps
6 13 (37.14%) BDD
6 13 (37.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (31.43%) Scrum
7 11 (31.43%) SDLC
8 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
9 7 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
9 7 (20.00%) Kanban
9 7 (20.00%) Workflow
10 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
11 5 (14.29%) Code Quality
11 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (14.29%) Process Management
11 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 4 (11.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
2 11 (31.43%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.43%) Go
5 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.71%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 22 (62.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 13 (37.14%) Kibana
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
3 7 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Splunk
2 7 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle
4 4 (11.43%) AppDynamics
4 4 (11.43%) IBM
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.71%) Google
6 2 (5.71%) OpenAI