Spring Boot Job Trends

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 338 290
Rank change year-on-year +103 -48 -91
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 655 600 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 0.77% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.28% 3.92% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 307 580
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £116,250 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,908 15,324 16,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 19.68% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,026 9,795 13,526
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Trend

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

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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 17 September 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
England +137 523 £72,500 -9.38% 187
UK excluding London +126 510 £65,000 -3.70% 138
Work from Home +216 344 £65,000 +8.33% 74
North of England +123 169 £70,000 -12.50% 32
London +11 159 £87,500 +2.94% 107
North West +100 156 £65,000 -18.75% 26
Scotland +26 119 £72,500 +20.83% 13
Midlands +131 93 £63,250 -20.94% 7
South East +66 75 £70,000 - 72
East Midlands +77 48 £57,500 -4.17% 2
West Midlands +88 45 £70,000 -12.50% 5
South West +34 33 £60,000 -2.04% 6
East of England +14 17 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Northern Ireland +17 11 £55,000 -6.38% 4
Yorkshire +7 8 £72,500 -7.94% 5
North East - 7 £66,250 - 1
Wales -1 1 £62,500 +6.38% 1

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 174 (26.56%) Confluence
2 14 (2.14%) Apache
3 10 (1.53%) JBoss
3 10 (1.53%) Tomcat
4 9 (1.37%) Camunda
5 8 (1.22%) nginx
5 8 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Fuse
7 6 (0.92%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 552 (84.27%) AWS
2 316 (48.24%) Azure
3 225 (34.35%) GCP
4 86 (13.13%) Serverless
5 55 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
7 47 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (6.87%) Amazon S3
9 37 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (5.34%) GitHub
11 29 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.68%) AWS KMS
14 11 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (1.68%) Route 53
15 10 (1.53%) Apigee
15 10 (1.53%) SaaS
16 9 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.07%) HTTP
2 3 (0.46%) Internet
3 2 (0.31%) AMQP
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (40.46%) SQL Server
2 116 (17.71%) PostgreSQL
3 87 (13.28%) Relational Database
4 67 (10.23%) MongoDB
5 64 (9.77%) NoSQL
6 37 (5.65%) RDBMS
7 33 (5.04%) MySQL
8 31 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (3.21%) DynamoDB
11 16 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.53%) Big Data
13 9 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.37%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.22%) CockroachDB
15 7 (1.07%) Redis
16 5 (0.76%) Power BI
17 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 303 (46.26%) Maven
2 282 (43.05%) JIRA
3 280 (42.75%) SonarQube
4 278 (42.44%) GitLab
5 269 (41.07%) Cucumber
6 266 (40.61%) Selenium
7 263 (40.15%) Bitbucket
8 260 (39.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 111 (16.95%) Jenkins
10 104 (15.88%) JUnit
11 81 (12.37%) Git
12 68 (10.38%) Mockito
13 27 (4.12%) JMeter
14 11 (1.68%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.68%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.68%) jMock
15 10 (1.53%) Postman
16 9 (1.37%) Cypress.io
17 8 (1.22%) TestNG
18 7 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 458 (69.92%) Finance
2 347 (52.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 325 (49.62%) Banking
4 102 (15.57%) Investment Banking
5 98 (14.96%) Law
6 92 (14.05%) Retail
7 90 (13.74%) Corporate Banking
8 86 (13.13%) Social Skills
9 76 (11.60%) Public Sector
10 41 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (5.95%) Marketing
12 36 (5.50%) Financial Institution
13 14 (2.14%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.68%) Legal
16 8 (1.22%) Games
17 4 (0.61%) Electronics
17 4 (0.61%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.61%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.61%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 414 (63.21%) Software Engineer
2 165 (25.19%) Developer
3 138 (21.07%) Java Developer
4 125 (19.08%) Java Engineer
5 100 (15.27%) Java Software Engineer
6 88 (13.44%) Senior
7 63 (9.62%) Lead
8 41 (6.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 39 (5.95%) Senior Developer
10 35 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 32 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 32 (4.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 28 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 28 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
14 27 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 20 (3.05%) Lead Developer
15 20 (3.05%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 18 (2.75%) Software Developer
17 17 (2.60%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (94.35%) Spring
2 424 (64.73%) Kafka
3 356 (54.35%) React
4 299 (45.65%) HTML
5 284 (43.36%) JPA
6 267 (40.76%) CSS
7 255 (38.93%) Redux
8 241 (36.79%) Hibernate
9 214 (32.67%) RESTful
10 201 (30.69%) REST
11 101 (15.42%) HTML5
12 99 (15.11%) CSS3
12 99 (15.11%) Jest
13 91 (13.89%) Sass
14 80 (12.21%) AngularJS
15 65 (9.92%) Web Services
16 61 (9.31%) ActiveMQ
17 35 (5.34%) WireMock
18 34 (5.19%) Apache Camel
19 33 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 263 (40.15%) Product Ownership
2 258 (39.39%) Enterprise Software
3 101 (15.42%) Cloud Native
4 76 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (5.34%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
8 14 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
9 12 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.22%) Life Science
13 7 (1.07%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.92%) Wiki
15 5 (0.76%) Credit Derivative
16 4 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.61%) Onboarding
16 4 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.72%) Linux
2 15 (2.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (80.31%) Agile
2 490 (74.81%) Microservices
3 471 (71.91%) CI/CD
4 468 (71.45%) Software Engineering
5 369 (56.34%) DevOps
6 356 (54.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 355 (54.20%) SDLC
8 327 (49.92%) Containerisation
9 311 (47.48%) Test Automation
10 290 (44.27%) TDD
11 282 (43.05%) Front End Development
12 263 (40.15%) Performance Optimisation
13 234 (35.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 191 (29.16%) Clean Code
15 144 (21.98%) Mentoring
16 130 (19.85%) User Experience
17 102 (15.57%) Strategic Thinking
18 97 (14.81%) Migration
19 95 (14.50%) BDD
20 90 (13.74%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 655 (100.00%) Java
2 353 (53.89%) JavaScript
3 346 (52.82%) SQL
4 146 (22.29%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.69%) Python
6 34 (5.19%) Shell Script
7 18 (2.75%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.60%) Go
9 11 (1.68%) C++
10 7 (1.07%) Scala
11 6 (0.92%) C#
11 6 (0.92%) Rust
12 4 (0.61%) Groovy
12 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.31%) Ruby
14 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 48 (7.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.36%) AWS Certification
3 22 (3.36%) Degree
4 15 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (40.46%) QA
2 99 (15.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.07%) SLA
4 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 447 (68.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) Postfix
2 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 481 (73.44%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.55%) Terraform
3 28 (4.27%) Ansible
3 28 (4.27%) Kibana
4 11 (1.68%) Argo
4 11 (1.68%) Istio
5 8 (1.22%) Grafana
5 8 (1.22%) Kustomize
5 8 (1.22%) Packer
6 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Kiali
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 249 (38.02%) Solace
2 49 (7.48%) Oracle
3 45 (6.87%) Splunk
4 37 (5.65%) Dynatrace
5 14 (2.14%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.98%) IBM
7 10 (1.53%) Google
8 9 (1.37%) Microsoft
8 9 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.92%) Sybase
11 5 (0.76%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (0.76%) SAP
12 4 (0.61%) Moogsoft
12 4 (0.61%) WSO2
13 3 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.46%) Informatica
14 2 (0.31%) Databricks
14 2 (0.31%) YouTube