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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 168 182
Rank change year-on-year +38 +14 +47
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 32 70 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.92% 0.93% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.02% 6.03% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 21 38 42
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £85,750 £97,290
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +3.33%

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 399 1,160 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.48% 15.46% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 300 759 930
10th Percentile £27,475 £40,000 £35,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £83,781
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 2025.

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 2025. 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
Dorset +36 16 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Bristol +21 9 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Gloucestershire +22 6 £63,750 +27.50% 3
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (84.38%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.25%) Apigee
5 2 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) MySQL
2 10 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (15.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (12.50%) CockroachDB
6 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (6.25%) Big Data
7 2 (6.25%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JUnit
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.38%) Mockito
3 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Banking
3 11 (34.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (31.25%) Law
5 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
6 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
7 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (3.13%) Games
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 1 (3.13%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Software Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Java Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Developer
4 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
6 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior
8 3 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering Manager
8 3 (9.38%) Web Manager
9 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (3.13%) Angular Developer
10 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared Java Developer
10 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
10 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) Spring
2 16 (50.00%) React
3 15 (46.88%) Kafka
4 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
5 5 (15.63%) Vue
6 4 (12.50%) RESTful
7 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (6.25%) CSS
7 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.25%) HTML
7 2 (6.25%) HTML5
7 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (3.13%) gRPC
8 1 (3.13%) OAuth
8 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 1 (3.13%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 6 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 25 (78.13%) Agile
3 18 (56.25%) Microservices
4 15 (46.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
6 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 9 (28.13%) User Experience
7 8 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 8 (25.00%) Scrum
7 8 (25.00%) SDLC
7 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
8 7 (21.88%) Operational Stability
8 7 (21.88%) TDD
9 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (18.75%) OO
10 5 (15.63%) Community of Practice
10 5 (15.63%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) SQL
3 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (9.38%) Go
6 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.13%) C++
7 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Google