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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 228 199
Rank change year-on-year -11 -29 +139
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 36 74 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.35% 0.80% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.77% 3.57% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 36
10th Percentile £57,750 £33,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,313 £48,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -14.75%
75th Percentile £82,813 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,625
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +2.67% -6.25%

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 955 2,073 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.22% 22.42% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 757 1,191 1,349
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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
Thames Valley -10 27 £80,000 +14.29% 13
Berkshire -20 24 £80,000 +14.29% 11
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 -
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
West Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Hampshire +18 1 £57,500 +58.62% 3
Surrey -1 1 £90,000 +20.00% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £120,000 - 2
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 6 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.78%) Camunda
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) AWS
2 19 (52.78%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (52.78%) Serverless
3 18 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (8.33%) SaaS
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub
9 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (52.78%) Relational Database
3 12 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.78%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 14 (38.89%) JUnit
3 13 (36.11%) JMeter
3 13 (36.11%) Mockito
4 7 (19.44%) Git
5 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) Ant
6 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.78%) Gradle
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (80.56%) Developer
2 28 (77.78%) Java Developer
3 16 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (44.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 12 (33.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 7 (19.44%) Senior
6 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 6 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead
7 4 (11.11%) Lead Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (83.33%) Spring
2 27 (75.00%) REST
3 18 (50.00%) Web Services
4 14 (38.89%) React
5 13 (36.11%) HTML
6 12 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (33.33%) Apache Camel
6 12 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 12 (33.33%) jQuery
6 12 (33.33%) JSON
6 12 (33.33%) WireMock
6 12 (33.33%) XML
7 9 (25.00%) Kafka
8 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (16.67%) Mustache
8 6 (16.67%) Node.js
9 2 (5.56%) React Native
10 1 (2.78%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (2.78%) Vert.x
10 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) IoT
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Android
1 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) Microservices
2 26 (72.22%) Agile
3 25 (69.44%) CI/CD
4 23 (63.89%) TDD
5 21 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (50.00%) SDLC
7 13 (36.11%) BDD
7 13 (36.11%) Workflow
8 12 (33.33%) Process Management
9 8 (22.22%) DevOps
10 6 (16.67%) Scrum
11 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 3 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
13 2 (5.56%) Collaborative Culture
13 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
13 2 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 2 (5.56%) Machine Learning
13 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
13 2 (5.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Java
2 18 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (38.89%) Python
4 12 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 6 (16.67%) Go
6 5 (13.89%) SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Ruby
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) NCSC
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (69.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (36.11%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Splunk
2 12 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat