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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 109 216
Rank change year-on-year -63 +107 -7
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 38 48 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.50% 1.78% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.28% 10.28% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14 35 57
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £53,349 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,200 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,875 £140,677 £76,200
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.69% -4.84% -3.13%

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 605 467 1,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.89% 17.36% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 453 360 1,514
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,628 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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
Dorset -6 19 £62,500 +31.58% 2
Gloucestershire -25 12 £67,500 -3.57% 9
Bristol -38 2 £80,000 - 1
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 2 (5.26%) Apache
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) Serverless
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.26%) Slack
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.26%) Big Data
4 2 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Gradle
1 5 (13.16%) Maven
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) JUnit
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) Mockito
3 3 (7.89%) TestNG
4 2 (5.26%) Checkstyle
4 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.26%) ESLint
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Software Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Java Engineer
4 8 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 8 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Senior
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (100.00%) Spring
2 14 (36.84%) AngularJS
3 11 (28.95%) React
3 11 (28.95%) REST
4 5 (13.16%) OpenAPI
4 5 (13.16%) Swagger
4 5 (13.16%) Vue
5 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 4 (10.53%) Spring MVC
6 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.89%) JPA
6 3 (7.89%) JWT
6 3 (7.89%) OAuth
6 3 (7.89%) OAuth2
6 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.26%) gRPC
7 2 (5.26%) Kafka
7 2 (5.26%) Material-UI
7 2 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) CentOS
1 2 (5.26%) Debian
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (47.37%) Software Engineering
4 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
5 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 13 (34.21%) Microservices
6 12 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (21.05%) Design Patterns
8 8 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (18.42%) AI
9 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (15.79%) Clean Code
10 6 (15.79%) Migration
10 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
11 5 (13.16%) Data Science
11 5 (13.16%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (13.16%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
2 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) Peregrine
3 3 (7.89%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.26%) SaltStack