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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 130 168
Rank change year-on-year -52 +38 +14
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 60 32 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.60% 0.92% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.74% 7.42% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 47 21 38
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £44,625
25th Percentile £60,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -17.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,751 £85,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +3.23%

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 890 431 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.89% 12.40% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 668 324 852
10th Percentile £35,875 £27,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -0.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £90,875 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -35 27 £75,000 +17.65% 18
Devon - 17 £67,500 - 3
Dorset -10 8 £45,000 -5.26% 21
Somerset - 4 £57,500 - 1
Bristol -46 3 £68,500 +14.17% 13
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 4 (6.67%) Apache
1 4 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) GCP
3 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 5 (8.33%) Serverless
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Big Data
1 4 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
1 4 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) GitLab
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (48.33%) Software Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Lead
3 15 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (21.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 9 (15.00%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) Senior
8 7 (11.67%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (11.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 7 (11.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 7 (11.67%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.33%) Java Engineer
10 5 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
12 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (90.00%) Spring
2 20 (33.33%) Terraform
3 17 (28.33%) AngularJS
3 17 (28.33%) React
4 13 (21.67%) Node.js
5 9 (15.00%) REST
6 7 (11.67%) Vue
7 5 (8.33%) RESTful
8 4 (6.67%) .NET
8 4 (6.67%) gRPC
8 4 (6.67%) Material-UI
8 4 (6.67%) OpenAPI
8 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.67%) Swagger
9 2 (3.33%) Backbone.js
9 2 (3.33%) Kafka
9 2 (3.33%) Next.js
10 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.67%) Spring Batch
10 1 (1.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) CentOS
1 4 (6.67%) Debian
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
1 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (61.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (55.00%) DevOps
4 31 (51.67%) Containerisation
5 30 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 28 (46.67%) Agile
7 27 (45.00%) Microservices
8 23 (38.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven
11 7 (11.67%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.67%) User Research
12 6 (10.00%) AI
12 6 (10.00%) API Development
12 6 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 6 (10.00%) Scrum
13 5 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (61.67%) Python
3 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.00%) SQL
5 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.33%) C++
7 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (51.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (61.67%) Kubernetes
2 19 (31.67%) Ansible
3 4 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Peregrine
2 4 (6.67%) Google
2 4 (6.67%) OneLogin
2 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (6.67%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle