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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 131 167
Rank change year-on-year -55 +36 +23
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 58 33 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.58% 0.95% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.45% 7.67% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 46 22 38
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £44,625
25th Percentile £59,500 £51,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,725 £85,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -

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 899 430 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.03% 12.36% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 679 323 860
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £92,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -34 26 £75,000 +17.65% 7
Devon - 16 £67,500 - 3
Dorset -14 8 £45,000 -5.26% 9
Somerset - 4 £57,500 -
Bristol -45 3 £68,500 +14.17% 5
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 3 (5.17%) Apache
1 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.90%) GitHub
3 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.90%) Serverless
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Big Data
1 3 (5.17%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
1 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) GitLab
1 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.17%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (46.55%) Software Engineer
2 16 (27.59%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) Lead
3 15 (25.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (22.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) Senior
8 7 (12.07%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (12.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Java Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
11 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (91.38%) Spring
2 19 (32.76%) Terraform
3 16 (27.59%) AngularJS
3 16 (27.59%) React
4 12 (20.69%) Node.js
5 8 (13.79%) REST
6 7 (12.07%) Vue
7 5 (8.62%) RESTful
8 4 (6.90%) .NET
9 3 (5.17%) gRPC
9 3 (5.17%) Material-UI
9 3 (5.17%) OpenAPI
9 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (5.17%) Swagger
10 2 (3.45%) Backbone.js
10 2 (3.45%) Kafka
10 2 (3.45%) Next.js
11 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (1.72%) Spring Batch
11 1 (1.72%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) CentOS
1 3 (5.17%) Debian
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
1 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (62.07%) CI/CD
1 36 (62.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 33 (56.90%) DevOps
3 30 (51.72%) Containerisation
4 28 (48.28%) Software Engineering
5 27 (46.55%) Agile
6 26 (44.83%) Microservices
7 22 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (31.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven
10 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (12.07%) User Research
11 6 (10.34%) Clean Code
12 5 (8.62%) API Development
12 5 (8.62%) Scrum
12 5 (8.62%) Sprint Planning
12 5 (8.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (62.07%) Python
3 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (53.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 18 (31.03%) Ansible
3 3 (5.17%) Puppet
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Peregrine
2 4 (6.90%) OneLogin
3 3 (5.17%) Google
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.17%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle