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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 125 186
Rank change year-on-year -20 +61 +40
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 46 49 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.74% 1.58% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.21% 7.79% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 24 34 80
10th Percentile £52,250 £43,044 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £51,698 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +30.61% -2.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £108,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £140,677 £91,934
England median annual salary £71,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.94% +10.00% -6.25%

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 560 629 1,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.01% 20.25% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 407 412 1,486
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £80,000
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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -4 15 £67,500 +58.82% 1
Bristol -20 9 £90,000 +5.57% 2
Gloucestershire +15 8 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Devon -11 1 £42,750 -
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 (4.35%) Apache
1 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Serverless
3 9 (19.57%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.87%) Azure
7 4 (8.70%) GCP
7 4 (8.70%) GitHub
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.35%) Slack
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) AMQP
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (6.52%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.52%) MySQL
4 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (2.17%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) Gradle
3 5 (10.87%) Maven
4 4 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.70%) GitLab
4 4 (8.70%) JUnit
5 3 (6.52%) Selenium
5 3 (6.52%) TestNG
6 2 (4.35%) Checkstyle
6 2 (4.35%) ESLint
6 2 (4.35%) Git
6 2 (4.35%) JIRA
6 2 (4.35%) Mockito
6 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.17%) Gatling
7 1 (2.17%) JMeter
7 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (10.87%) Finance
1 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Developer
2 16 (34.78%) Software Engineer
3 14 (30.43%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (91.30%) Spring
2 15 (32.61%) React
3 8 (17.39%) REST
4 6 (13.04%) Spring MVC
5 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
6 4 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (8.70%) OpenAPI
6 4 (8.70%) RESTful
7 3 (6.52%) HTML
7 3 (6.52%) Swagger
8 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.35%) Jest
8 2 (4.35%) JPA
8 2 (4.35%) JWT
8 2 (4.35%) Kafka
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth
8 2 (4.35%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.35%) Redux
8 2 (4.35%) Spring Security
8 2 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) CentOS
1 1 (2.17%) Debian
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) Agile
2 24 (52.17%) Software Engineering
3 21 (45.65%) DevOps
4 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 18 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (34.78%) Microservices
7 15 (32.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
9 11 (23.91%) Design Patterns
10 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
11 7 (15.22%) Front End Development
11 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (13.04%) MVC
12 6 (13.04%) Scrum
13 5 (10.87%) AI
13 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (10.87%) Migration
13 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (97.83%) Java
2 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.26%) Python
4 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) Bash
6 2 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) NCSC
2 3 (6.52%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.87%) Grafana
3 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Kibana
4 2 (4.35%) Terraform
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) Google
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) SaltStack