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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 129 147
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +78
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 44 54 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.82% 1.35% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.71% 6.76% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27 30 87
10th Percentile £50,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £81,250 £89,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -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 505 799 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.44% 19.99% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 367 453 1,228
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +0.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,550 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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
Gloucestershire +19 11 £63,750 -10.53% 8
Bristol -4 11 £80,000 -5.88% 5
Dorset -4 10 £67,500 +35.00% 15
Devon -2 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 30 (68.18%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) Serverless
3 10 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (20.45%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.36%) Azure
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.09%) GitHub
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.82%) GCP
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.55%) Slack
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) AMQP
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) NoSQL
2 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.82%) CockroachDB
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.55%) DB2
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (2.27%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.64%) Gradle
3 5 (11.36%) Maven
4 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 4 (9.09%) GitLab
4 4 (9.09%) JUnit
5 3 (6.82%) Selenium
5 3 (6.82%) TestNG
6 2 (4.55%) Checkstyle
6 2 (4.55%) ESLint
6 2 (4.55%) Git
6 2 (4.55%) JIRA
6 2 (4.55%) Mockito
6 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.27%) Gatling
7 1 (2.27%) JMeter
7 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.27%) Games
5 1 (2.27%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
1 17 (38.64%) Software Engineer
2 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.18%) Senior
4 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead
8 2 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (90.91%) Spring
2 16 (36.36%) React
3 8 (18.18%) REST
4 6 (13.64%) Spring MVC
5 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) OpenAPI
5 4 (9.09%) RESTful
6 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.82%) HTML
6 3 (6.82%) Kafka
6 3 (6.82%) Swagger
7 2 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.55%) Jest
7 2 (4.55%) JPA
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth
7 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.55%) Redux
7 2 (4.55%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) CentOS
1 1 (2.27%) Debian
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Agile
2 24 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 21 (47.73%) CI/CD
3 21 (47.73%) DevOps
3 21 (47.73%) Microservices
4 18 (40.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 9 (20.45%) AI
7 9 (20.45%) Design Patterns
7 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.18%) Coaching
8 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (15.91%) Scrum
10 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
10 6 (13.64%) MVC
10 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.64%) TDD
11 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (11.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (97.73%) Java
2 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (27.27%) Python
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) NCSC
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Kibana
4 2 (4.55%) Terraform
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) SaltStack