Spring Boot Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 194 271
Rank change year-on-year -175 +77 +90
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 223 472 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 1.65% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 9.36% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 107 156 293
10th Percentile £47,930 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,698 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £98,987 £91,934
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -8.20% +1.67% -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,100 5,044 13,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.84% 17.63% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,997 3,413 10,272
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK excluding London

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
North of England -35 140 £72,500 -12.12% 39
Yorkshire -6 72 £75,000 -2.48% 4
North West -57 61 £65,000 -26.69% 28
South West -49 41 £61,250 -5.77% 12
South East -54 34 £77,500 +12.73% 20
Midlands -99 12 £45,000 -5.26% 9
West Midlands -42 11 £45,000 -35.71% 6
North East -37 7 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales -29 5 £51,619 +21.40% 1
Scotland -66 4 £65,000 -23.76% 3
East of England -29 1 £62,500 -24.24% 4
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (5.38%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.69%) Apache
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) JBoss
5 2 (0.90%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) Camunda
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 156 (69.96%) AWS
2 105 (47.09%) Serverless
3 76 (34.08%) Amazon ECS
4 71 (31.84%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (30.94%) Amazon S3
6 59 (26.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (24.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (21.52%) Amazon ECR
8 48 (21.52%) Apigee
9 30 (13.45%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (12.56%) Azure
11 27 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.17%) GCP
13 11 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.93%) GitHub
14 6 (2.69%) OpenShift
15 5 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (2.24%) SaaS
16 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) AMQP
2 5 (2.24%) Internet
3 3 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.22%) DynamoDB
2 38 (17.04%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (15.70%) NoSQL
4 22 (9.87%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.38%) MySQL
6 11 (4.93%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.24%) Big Data
8 5 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.24%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.35%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.90%) Power BI
11 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.45%) DB2
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 84 (37.67%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.77%) Maven
3 48 (21.52%) GitLab
4 46 (20.63%) Cypress.io
5 43 (19.28%) SonarQube
6 35 (15.70%) Git
7 17 (7.62%) JUnit
8 11 (4.93%) Mockito
9 10 (4.48%) JIRA
10 9 (4.04%) Gradle
11 6 (2.69%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.69%) Selenium
12 5 (2.24%) JMeter
13 3 (1.35%) TestNG
14 2 (0.90%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.90%) ESLint
14 2 (0.90%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.45%) Ant
15 1 (0.45%) Gatling
15 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
General
1 23 (10.31%) Finance
2 17 (7.62%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.83%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.48%) Banking
5 8 (3.59%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.14%) Advertising
7 5 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.24%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.79%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.35%) Digital Healthcare
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Welsh Language
11 1 (0.45%) Automotive
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 132 (59.19%) Developer
2 105 (47.09%) Java Developer
3 52 (23.32%) Senior
4 38 (17.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 38 (17.04%) Software Engineer
5 36 (16.14%) Java Engineer
5 36 (16.14%) Senior Developer
6 29 (13.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (11.66%) Lead
8 24 (10.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 20 (8.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 16 (7.17%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (6.28%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Senior Java Engineer
14 9 (4.04%) Software Developer
15 8 (3.59%) Lead Developer
16 7 (3.14%) Lead Java Developer
16 7 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (83.86%) Spring
2 110 (49.33%) AngularJS
3 66 (29.60%) REST
4 65 (29.15%) React
5 42 (18.83%) Gherkin
6 41 (18.39%) Jest
7 33 (14.80%) Node.js
8 22 (9.87%) Kafka
8 22 (9.87%) Web Services
9 21 (9.42%) Hibernate
9 21 (9.42%) RESTful
10 19 (8.52%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (8.07%) HTML
11 18 (8.07%) Vue
12 15 (6.73%) JPA
13 10 (4.48%) Mustache
13 10 (4.48%) OpenAPI
13 10 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.04%) OAuth
14 9 (4.04%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.59%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.24%) IoT
6 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.24%) CentOS
1 5 (2.24%) Debian
1 5 (2.24%) Linux
1 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (2.24%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (56.95%) Agile
2 119 (53.36%) CI/CD
3 107 (47.98%) DevOps
4 92 (41.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 91 (40.81%) Microservices
6 53 (23.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 52 (23.32%) TDD
8 51 (22.87%) Software Engineering
9 47 (21.08%) Containerisation
9 47 (21.08%) Scrum
9 47 (21.08%) SDLC
10 45 (20.18%) Clean Code
11 44 (19.73%) Secure Coding
12 42 (18.83%) Test Automation
13 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (15.70%) Mentoring
15 32 (14.35%) Design Patterns
16 24 (10.76%) Code Quality
16 24 (10.76%) ITIL
16 24 (10.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 221 (99.10%) Java
2 59 (26.46%) JavaScript
3 57 (25.56%) TypeScript
4 42 (18.83%) Bash
4 42 (18.83%) Groovy
5 33 (14.80%) Python
5 33 (14.80%) SQL
6 14 (6.28%) Kotlin
7 4 (1.79%) C#
7 4 (1.79%) Go
7 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.90%) C
8 2 (0.90%) Ruby
9 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.70%) AWS Certification
3 25 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.31%) ITIL Certification
5 16 (7.17%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 8 (3.59%) Degree
8 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.04%) QA
2 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (50.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (34.98%) Kubernetes
2 40 (17.94%) HP Fortify
3 27 (12.11%) Terraform
4 18 (8.07%) Ansible
5 8 (3.59%) Kibana
6 5 (2.24%) Puppet
7 4 (1.79%) Grafana
7 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.90%) Packer
8 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (7.17%) Oracle
2 8 (3.59%) Google
3 7 (3.14%) Splunk
4 6 (2.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.24%) Peregrine
5 5 (2.24%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.79%) IBM
7 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.90%) Pega
8 2 (0.90%) WSO2