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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 154 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +83
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 36 59 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.86% 0.98% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.84% 6.10% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 30 69
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,500 £100,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -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 459 967 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.96% 16.07% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 338 563 906
10th Percentile £29,125 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +6.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,818 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £87,500 £84,056
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

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +4 14 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Bristol +8 8 £80,000 -3.03% 4
Gloucestershire +30 6 £63,750 -5.56% 11
Devon +4 1 £42,750 - 2
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 1 (2.78%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (77.78%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
2 7 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (19.44%) Serverless
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (5.56%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.78%) Azure
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (25.00%) MySQL
3 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (11.11%) CockroachDB
5 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.56%) Big Data
6 2 (5.56%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.78%) DB2
7 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) Redis
7 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 4 (11.11%) JUnit
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) Mockito
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) Gradle
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 11 (30.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (27.78%) Banking
3 10 (27.78%) Law
4 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.78%) Games
7 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.78%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Software Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Senior
3 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Web Manager
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (80.56%) Spring
2 17 (47.22%) React
3 11 (30.56%) Kafka
4 4 (11.11%) RESTful
5 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.33%) Spring MVC
6 2 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.56%) CSS
6 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 2 (5.56%) HTML5
6 2 (5.56%) Jest
6 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.56%) Redux
7 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.78%) Flask
7 1 (2.78%) gRPC
7 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (2.78%) pytest
7 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
4 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 24 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
4 15 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (41.67%) Microservices
5 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (30.56%) DevOps
6 11 (30.56%) User Experience
7 9 (25.00%) AI
7 9 (25.00%) SDLC
8 8 (22.22%) Coaching
8 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
8 8 (22.22%) Scrum
9 7 (19.44%) Community of Practice
9 7 (19.44%) Event-Driven
9 7 (19.44%) Operational Stability
10 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (16.67%) TDD
11 5 (13.89%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Java
2 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 12 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Delphi
6 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) NCSC
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Google