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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 235 353
Rank change year-on-year -110 +118 -61
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 579 664 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.33% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.85% 7.39% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 377 206 328
10th Percentile £47,258 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £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 11,930 8,982 17,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 17.97% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,683 5,842 12,107
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,843 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -108 481 £75,000 +3.45% 528
UK excluding London -157 325 £70,000 +3.70% 318
London +17 230 £80,000 -3.03% 319
North of England -65 142 £72,500 -5.73% 107
Work from Home -159 134 £70,000 +7.69% 280
North West -67 83 £65,000 -17.52% 64
South West -50 58 £68,000 +13.33% 51
Wales -20 53 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Yorkshire 0 50 £85,000 +13.33% 19
South East -87 33 £68,750 -1.79% 38
West Midlands -48 25 £62,500 -10.71% 33
Midlands -97 25 £62,500 - 40
Scotland -77 15 £68,000 -9.33% 55
North East -51 9 £50,000 -23.08% 24
Northern Ireland -85 7 £60,000 +9.09% 19
East of England -38 2 £58,750 -30.88% 5

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 23 (3.97%) Confluence
2 12 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.90%) Camunda
4 10 (1.73%) Apache
5 7 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) CICS
6 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 344 (59.41%) AWS
2 170 (29.36%) Azure
3 128 (22.11%) Serverless
4 112 (19.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 109 (18.83%) GitHub
6 98 (16.93%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (14.68%) GCP
8 76 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (11.74%) Amazon S3
10 65 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.49%) Apigee
15 23 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (2.76%) SaaS
19 15 (2.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.25%) DMARC
2 12 (2.07%) AMQP
3 7 (1.21%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (16.75%) NoSQL
3 56 (9.67%) Relational Database
4 52 (8.98%) DynamoDB
5 50 (8.64%) MongoDB
6 46 (7.94%) MySQL
7 19 (3.28%) Redis
8 14 (2.42%) Db2
9 12 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.90%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.73%) DTS
12 9 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.04%) Big Data
15 5 (0.86%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.86%) Flink
15 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.69%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 132 (22.80%) Jenkins
2 82 (14.16%) Git
3 81 (13.99%) GitLab
4 43 (7.43%) Cucumber
5 42 (7.25%) JUnit
6 35 (6.04%) Maven
7 30 (5.18%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.49%) Mockito
9 23 (3.97%) JIRA
10 19 (3.28%) Selenium
10 19 (3.28%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.73%) Gradle
11 10 (1.73%) JMeter
12 9 (1.55%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.21%) Postman
14 6 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.69%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 137 (23.66%) Finance
2 107 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 101 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.33%) Banking
5 32 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.11%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.73%) Advertising
9 10 (1.73%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.73%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.55%) Front Office
11 5 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.86%) Law
11 5 (0.86%) Retail
12 3 (0.52%) Billing
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) iGaming
13 2 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 242 (41.80%) Developer
2 172 (29.71%) Java Developer
3 150 (25.91%) Senior
4 137 (23.66%) Java Engineer
5 105 (18.13%) Software Engineer
6 88 (15.20%) Lead
7 69 (11.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (11.57%) Senior Developer
9 51 (8.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.29%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (7.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 44 (7.60%) Principal Engineer
13 40 (6.91%) Java Software Engineer
14 37 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (5.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.35%) Architect
17 31 (5.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 30 (5.18%) Principal Java Engineer
19 22 (3.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 534 (92.23%) Spring
2 164 (28.32%) Kafka
3 117 (20.21%) React
4 116 (20.03%) AngularJS
4 116 (20.03%) Terraform
5 115 (19.86%) REST
6 104 (17.96%) RESTful
7 102 (17.62%) Node.js
8 65 (11.23%) Hibernate
9 60 (10.36%) JPA
10 41 (7.08%) RabbitMQ
11 36 (6.22%) OAuth
12 33 (5.70%) HTML
13 32 (5.53%) OAuth2
14 31 (5.35%) Ruby on Rails
15 30 (5.18%) Jest
16 28 (4.84%) .NET
17 26 (4.49%) Vue
18 25 (4.32%) CSS
19 23 (3.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 178 (30.74%) Cloud Native
2 121 (20.90%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (8.46%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (6.74%) Public Cloud
6 34 (5.87%) e-Learning
7 31 (5.35%) Mainframe
8 28 (4.84%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.73%) EPoS
9 10 (1.73%) iSeries
9 10 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.38%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) AIX
3 5 (0.86%) CentOS
3 5 (0.86%) Debian
3 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.52%) Windows
6 2 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (63.56%) CI/CD
2 331 (57.17%) Microservices
3 283 (48.88%) Agile
4 250 (43.18%) DevOps
5 184 (31.78%) Software Engineering
6 174 (30.05%) Containerisation
7 169 (29.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 155 (26.77%) Event-Driven
9 147 (25.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 139 (24.01%) Test Automation
11 132 (22.80%) Mentoring
12 93 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.72%) TDD
14 90 (15.54%) AI
15 89 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
16 87 (15.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 83 (14.34%) BDD
18 82 (14.16%) Scrum
19 71 (12.26%) Observability
20 69 (11.92%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 574 (99.14%) Java
2 140 (24.18%) Python
3 115 (19.86%) SQL
4 87 (15.03%) TypeScript
5 85 (14.68%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.87%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.35%) Ruby
8 21 (3.63%) Groovy
9 18 (3.11%) C#
10 17 (2.94%) Bash
11 16 (2.76%) COBOL
12 10 (1.73%) C++
12 10 (1.73%) JCL
12 10 (1.73%) RPG
13 7 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.04%) Scala
15 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.69%) Go
17 3 (0.52%) C
18 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 122 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.74%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 45 (7.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 34 (5.87%) Degree
7 14 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.15%) QA
2 33 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.15%) WCAG
4 7 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 231 (39.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (35.06%) Kubernetes
2 64 (11.05%) Ansible
3 19 (3.28%) Grafana
4 17 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.76%) HP Fortify
6 13 (2.25%) Kibana
7 7 (1.21%) Puppet
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (5.18%) Splunk
2 28 (4.84%) Oracle
3 24 (4.15%) Google
4 18 (3.11%) IBM
5 17 (2.94%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.76%) OneLogin
7 14 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.25%) SendGrid
9 6 (1.04%) Broadcom
10 5 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.86%) Peregrine
10 5 (0.86%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.86%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.52%) Solace
11 3 (0.52%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Apple
12 2 (0.35%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.35%) TikTok