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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 160 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +53
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 29 63 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.81% 0.96% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 6.10% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 52
10th Percentile £50,750 £47,375 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -2.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,061
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £76,527
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.00% -1.26%

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 415 1,032 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.57% 15.73% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 309 615 902
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £34,425
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £83,630
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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +20 12 £51,250 +2.50% 3
Gloucestershire +31 7 £65,000 +1.96% 2
Bristol +14 7 £80,000 +4.58% 10
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 (3.45%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (17.24%) Serverless
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) MySQL
2 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (13.79%) CockroachDB
5 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.90%) Big Data
5 2 (6.90%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (3.45%) DB2
6 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JUnit
2 3 (10.34%) Mockito
3 2 (6.90%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
1 11 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
2 10 (34.48%) Law
3 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
6 1 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Software Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Web Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (75.86%) Spring
2 16 (55.17%) React
3 13 (44.83%) Kafka
4 4 (13.79%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.90%) CSS
5 2 (6.90%) HTML
5 2 (6.90%) HTML5
5 2 (6.90%) Jest
5 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.90%) Redux
6 1 (3.45%) EJB
6 1 (3.45%) gRPC
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.45%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Data Structures
2 6 (20.69%) Public Cloud
3 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Software Engineering
2 21 (72.41%) Agile
3 16 (55.17%) Microservices
4 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
5 13 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (37.93%) DevOps
7 10 (34.48%) User Experience
8 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (27.59%) AI
9 8 (27.59%) SDLC
10 7 (24.14%) Coaching
10 7 (24.14%) Event-Driven
10 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
10 7 (24.14%) Operational Stability
11 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (20.69%) TDD
12 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (17.24%) Community of Practice
12 5 (17.24%) Scrum
12 5 (17.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) AWS Certification
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Google