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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 148 140
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +101
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 33 58 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.70% 1.10% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 6.28% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 75
10th Percentile £50,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,125 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £89,750 £105,500 £98,916
England median annual salary £71,750 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.67% -4.02%

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 476 923 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.06% 17.48% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 361 525 895
10th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 4 December 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 4 December 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
Bristol +11 11 £80,000 -5.88% 7
Dorset +1 7 £55,000 +10.00% 3
Gloucestershire +22 5 £62,500 -7.41% 5
Devon -1 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 27 (81.82%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 9 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (27.27%) Serverless
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.03%) Azure
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
1 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) CockroachDB
4 2 (6.06%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JUnit
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Gatling
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Gradle
3 1 (3.03%) JMeter
3 1 (3.03%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.03%) Mockito
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 6 (18.18%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Games
5 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.03%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (87.88%) Spring
2 15 (45.45%) React
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
4 3 (9.09%) HTML
4 3 (9.09%) Spring MVC
5 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.06%) Jest
5 2 (6.06%) Redux
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.03%) Django
6 1 (3.03%) EJB
6 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.03%) Flask
6 1 (3.03%) gRPC
6 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (3.03%) pytest
6 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 17 (51.52%) Software Engineering
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (45.45%) Microservices
5 12 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (33.33%) DevOps
7 8 (24.24%) Coaching
8 7 (21.21%) Design Patterns
8 7 (21.21%) Scrum
9 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.18%) User Experience
10 5 (15.15%) AI
10 5 (15.15%) Front End Development
11 4 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 3 (9.09%) OWASP
12 3 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (96.97%) Java
2 12 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 8 (24.24%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.06%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Delphi
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 3 (9.09%) NCSC
2 3 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Google