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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 340 238
Rank change year-on-year -15 -102 +4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 346 430 941
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.84% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.70% 3.82% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 217 233 679
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,780 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +7.37% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 7,369 11,244 17,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 21.87% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,418 6,555 14,355
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

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 job vacancy trend 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 3 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

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 3 February 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 +9 325 £70,000 -6.67% 152
UK excluding London -6 189 £65,000 -3.70% 122
London -23 137 £82,500 -7.10% 66
Work from Home +40 128 £67,500 -10.93% 86
North of England +33 81 £70,000 - 25
South West -2 48 £65,000 -3.70% 30
Yorkshire +4 42 £75,000 +7.14% 4
South East -22 38 £75,000 +20.00% 42
North West +37 35 £66,250 -17.19% 21
Midlands +26 15 £50,100 -25.78% 9
West Midlands +35 12 £45,000 -35.71% 8
Scotland -36 7 £78,750 -1.03% 12
East of England +20 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -2 4 £55,200 +0.36%
East Midlands +3 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -8 1 £55,200 +16.68% 2

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (6.07%) Apache
2 13 (3.76%) OpenStack
3 11 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.16%) Confluence
6 3 (0.87%) Liferay
7 2 (0.58%) Camunda
7 2 (0.58%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 234 (67.63%) AWS
2 92 (26.59%) Serverless
3 63 (18.21%) AWS Lambda
4 61 (17.63%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (16.18%) Amazon S3
6 50 (14.45%) Azure
7 41 (11.85%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (10.40%) AWS CloudFormation
8 36 (10.40%) GCP
9 32 (9.25%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (8.38%) Apigee
11 25 (7.23%) AWS Step Functions
11 25 (7.23%) SaaS
12 24 (6.94%) Amazon ECR
13 23 (6.65%) OpenShift
14 20 (5.78%) GitHub
15 19 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 5 (1.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.60%) AMQP
2 5 (1.45%) Internet
3 4 (1.16%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (11.27%) NoSQL
2 39 (11.27%) Relational Database
3 36 (10.40%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.80%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.20%) RDBMS
6 11 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.89%) MySQL
8 6 (1.73%) Big Data
8 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.87%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.58%) DB2
11 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.29%) Redis
12 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (24.57%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.18%) Git
3 52 (15.03%) GitLab
4 39 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 35 (10.12%) Maven
6 33 (9.54%) JUnit
7 27 (7.80%) SonarQube
8 17 (4.91%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.91%) Mockito
9 16 (4.62%) JIRA
10 12 (3.47%) Gradle
10 12 (3.47%) JMeter
11 11 (3.18%) Selenium
12 5 (1.45%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.45%) Vite
13 3 (0.87%) Postman
13 3 (0.87%) TestNG
14 2 (0.58%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.58%) ESLint
14 2 (0.58%) Liquibase
General
1 74 (21.39%) Finance
2 54 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 41 (11.85%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.51%) Financial Institution
5 17 (4.91%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.47%) Billing
7 11 (3.18%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.89%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.31%) Games
10 7 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.02%) Banking
11 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.87%) Advertising
12 3 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.87%) Front Office
12 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (49.71%) Developer
2 130 (37.57%) Java Developer
3 94 (27.17%) Senior
4 82 (23.70%) Software Engineer
5 74 (21.39%) Java Engineer
6 49 (14.16%) Senior Developer
7 46 (13.29%) Lead
8 40 (11.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (10.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (10.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 30 (8.67%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (8.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (7.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (6.65%) Backend Developer
15 18 (5.20%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.91%) Lead Java Developer
17 15 (4.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 14 (4.05%) Software Developer
19 13 (3.76%) Technical Leader
20 12 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (90.17%) Spring
2 96 (27.75%) React
3 79 (22.83%) REST
4 71 (20.52%) Kafka
5 66 (19.08%) AngularJS
6 46 (13.29%) Hibernate
7 45 (13.01%) RESTful
8 43 (12.43%) Node.js
9 37 (10.69%) Jest
10 30 (8.67%) HTML
11 29 (8.38%) Web Services
12 26 (7.51%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (6.94%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (6.94%) Gherkin
14 23 (6.65%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (5.78%) JPA
16 19 (5.49%) JSON
17 17 (4.91%) Apache Camel
18 16 (4.62%) Spring MVC
18 16 (4.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (26.88%) Cloud Native
2 55 (15.90%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.18%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.73%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.45%) IoT
11 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.02%) Linux
2 6 (1.73%) Android
2 6 (1.73%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.45%) CentOS
3 5 (1.45%) Debian
3 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (54.91%) Microservices
2 182 (52.60%) Agile
3 180 (52.02%) CI/CD
4 154 (44.51%) DevOps
5 128 (36.99%) Software Engineering
6 113 (32.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (24.28%) Containerisation
8 78 (22.54%) Mentoring
9 75 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (20.23%) TDD
11 58 (16.76%) Scrum
12 55 (15.90%) Event-Driven
13 51 (14.74%) BDD
14 47 (13.58%) SDLC
15 45 (13.01%) Test Automation
16 44 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (12.43%) Fintech
17 43 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
18 40 (11.56%) Collaborative Culture
19 39 (11.27%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 343 (99.13%) Java
2 92 (26.59%) JavaScript
3 68 (19.65%) TypeScript
4 65 (18.79%) Python
5 40 (11.56%) SQL
6 25 (7.23%) Bash
7 23 (6.65%) Groovy
8 16 (4.62%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.89%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.60%) Go
11 8 (2.31%) Delphi
12 6 (1.73%) PHP
13 4 (1.16%) C#
14 2 (0.58%) R
14 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.09%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.07%) Degree
5 19 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.89%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.49%) QA
2 7 (2.02%) NCSC
3 6 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 152 (43.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 163 (47.11%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.51%) Terraform
3 24 (6.94%) HP Fortify
4 21 (6.07%) Ansible
5 16 (4.62%) Kibana
6 15 (4.34%) Grafana
7 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (7.23%) Oracle
2 16 (4.62%) Splunk
3 15 (4.34%) Google
4 10 (2.89%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.02%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.73%) Solace
7 5 (1.45%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.16%) Pega
8 4 (1.16%) WSO2
9 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.87%) Revolut
10 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.29%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.29%) IBM
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.29%) Moogsoft
10 1 (0.29%) Okta
10 1 (0.29%) SAP