Spring Boot Job Trends in the South West

Spring Boot
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 139 161
Rank change year-on-year -35 +22 +10
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 69 30 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.66% 0.84% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.60% 6.88% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56 18 37
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,875 £45,750
25th Percentile £61,975 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +4.00% -10.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £79,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £86,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -0.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 908 436 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.64% 12.19% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 669 330 728
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the South West

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the South West over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the South West

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Gloucestershire -40 30 £85,000 +30.77% 13
Devon - 21 £67,500 - 1
Dorset -6 7 £45,000 -12.20% 12
Bristol -45 4 £69,250 -13.44% 8
Somerset - 4 £57,500 - 3
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.25%) Apache
1 5 (7.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) AWS
2 15 (21.74%) GCP
3 14 (20.29%) Azure
4 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (10.14%) Serverless
5 6 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.80%) GitHub
7 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) Big Data
1 5 (7.25%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (7.25%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.45%) Db2
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) GitLab
1 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 18 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (44.93%) Software Engineer
2 19 (27.54%) Developer
3 18 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (26.09%) Lead
4 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (15.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Lead DevOps
7 8 (11.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Senior
8 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (10.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (86.96%) Spring
2 24 (34.78%) Terraform
3 17 (24.64%) AngularJS
3 17 (24.64%) React
4 14 (20.29%) Node.js
5 10 (14.49%) REST
6 6 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (8.70%) Vue
7 5 (7.25%) gRPC
7 5 (7.25%) Material-UI
7 5 (7.25%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.25%) RESTful
7 5 (7.25%) Swagger
8 4 (5.80%) .NET
9 3 (4.35%) Next.js
10 2 (2.90%) Backbone.js
10 2 (2.90%) Kafka
11 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.45%) Flask
11 1 (1.45%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) CentOS
1 5 (7.25%) Debian
1 5 (7.25%) Linux
1 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (7.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 39 (56.52%) Full-Stack Development
3 37 (53.62%) DevOps
4 36 (52.17%) Containerisation
5 34 (49.28%) Software Engineering
6 30 (43.48%) Agile
7 28 (40.58%) Microservices
8 27 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (28.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (15.94%) Test Automation
11 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (10.14%) API Development
13 7 (10.14%) Event-Driven
13 7 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (8.70%) AI
14 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (8.70%) Scrum
14 6 (8.70%) TDD
14 6 (8.70%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (63.77%) Python
3 19 (27.54%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.25%) SQL
4 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.90%) C++
6 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.23%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (50.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (63.77%) Kubernetes
2 23 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (7.25%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (7.25%) Google
1 5 (7.25%) Peregrine
1 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
1 5 (7.25%) SaltStack
2 4 (5.80%) OneLogin
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle