Spring Boot Job Trends
Spring Boot
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 332 | 222 | 361 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -110 | +139 | -87 |
| Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot | 663 | 622 | 471 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.55% | 1.27% | 0.68% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category | 5.48% | 7.60% | 3.08% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 423 | 173 | 261 |
| 10th Percentile | £46,250 | £52,500 | £46,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £60,000 | £61,250 | £52,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £70,000 | £72,500 | £72,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -3.45% | - | -3.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £85,000 | £105,000 | £93,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £115,000 | £120,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £67,500 | £67,500 | £66,250 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +1.89% | +6.00% |
All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK
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.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills | 12,100 | 8,188 | 15,280 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 10.11% | 16.76% | 22.00% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 8,426 | 5,233 | 9,444 |
| 10th Percentile | £42,500 | £38,500 | £40,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £51,250 | £51,250 | £50,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £67,500 | £68,525 | £65,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -1.50% | +5.42% | -3.70% |
| 75th Percentile | £87,500 | £87,500 | £85,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £115,000 | £110,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £60,000 | £58,750 | £57,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +2.13% | +2.17% | -3.40% |
Spring Boot Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.
Spring Boot Salary Trend
Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot.
Spring Boot Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.
Spring Boot Top 16 Job Locations
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 over the 6 months to 19 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -97 | 543 | £75,000 | +3.45% | 490 |
| UK excluding London | -160 | 374 | £67,500 | - | 313 |
| London | 0 | 250 | £80,000 | -20.00% | 269 |
| Work from Home | -166 | 164 | £67,500 | - | 256 |
| North of England | -71 | 154 | £69,750 | +3.33% | 117 |
| North West | -67 | 101 | £65,000 | -7.14% | 61 |
| South West | -41 | 71 | £68,000 | +4.62% | 30 |
| Wales | -11 | 63 | £70,000 | +12.00% | 8 |
| Yorkshire | -4 | 35 | £85,000 | +30.77% | 29 |
| West Midlands | -50 | 35 | £62,500 | -10.71% | 19 |
| Midlands | -105 | 35 | £62,500 | -3.85% | 23 |
| South East | -84 | 27 | £67,500 | - | 30 |
| North East | -53 | 18 | £55,000 | -16.98% | 29 |
| Scotland | -74 | 14 | £60,500 | -13.57% | 75 |
| Northern Ireland | -69 | 12 | £60,000 | +20.00% | 24 |
| East of England | -59 | 2 | £58,750 | -6.00% | 7 |
Spring Boot Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spring | 94.0% | 623 |
| 2 | Kafka | 31.7% | 210 |
| 3 | Terraform | 22.8% | 151 |
| 4 | React | 19.6% | 130 |
| 5 | REST | 19.2% | 127 |
| 6 | RESTful | 17.3% | 115 |
| 7 | Node.js | 16.9% | 112 |
| 8 | AngularJS | 13.1% | 87 |
| 9 | Hibernate | 10.6% | 70 |
| 10 | JPA | 9.5% | 63 |
| 11 | RabbitMQ | 8.0% | 53 |
| 12 | OAuth | 6.8% | 45 |
| 13 | OAuth2 | 5.9% | 39 |
| 14 | .NET | 5.4% | 36 |
| 15 | HTML | 4.8% | 32 |
| 15 | Ruby on Rails | 4.8% | 32 |
| 17 | Jest | 4.1% | 27 |
| 18 | CSS | 3.8% | 25 |
| 19 | Spring Security | 3.6% | 24 |
| 20 | OpenAPI | 3.5% | 23 |