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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 237 342
Rank change year-on-year -112 +105 -51
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 571 665 647
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.33% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 7.36% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 374 206 330
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,313 £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 11,928 9,041 17,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 18.06% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,678 5,900 12,128
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year - +7.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,000 £107,875
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 24 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 24 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 -107 478 £75,000 +3.45% 158
UK excluding London -160 320 £70,000 +3.70% 139
London +14 227 £80,000 -3.03% 69
North of England -55 143 £72,250 -6.05% 44
Work from Home -171 133 £70,000 +5.66% 110
North West -57 84 £65,000 -17.52% 24
South West -45 58 £68,000 +11.02% 31
Wales -8 51 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire +15 50 £82,500 +10.00% 7
South East -75 33 £68,750 -1.79% 27
West Midlands -38 24 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Midlands -107 24 £62,500 - 17
Scotland -76 14 £65,000 -13.33% 11
North East -53 9 £50,000 -23.08% 13
Northern Ireland -86 5 £60,000 +9.09% 3
East of England -41 2 £58,750 -30.88% 1

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 (4.03%) Confluence
2 13 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.93%) Camunda
4 10 (1.75%) Apache
5 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.70%) CICS
6 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (59.37%) AWS
2 165 (28.90%) Azure
3 132 (23.12%) Serverless
4 109 (19.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 107 (18.74%) GitHub
6 100 (17.51%) AWS Lambda
7 82 (14.36%) GCP
8 77 (13.49%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (12.26%) Amazon S3
10 64 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (7.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.73%) Apigee
15 22 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 15 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.28%) DMARC
2 12 (2.10%) AMQP
3 7 (1.23%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (16.29%) NoSQL
3 57 (9.98%) Relational Database
4 53 (9.28%) DynamoDB
5 47 (8.23%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.71%) MySQL
7 19 (3.33%) Redis
8 14 (2.45%) Db2
9 13 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.93%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.75%) DTS
12 9 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.40%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.05%) Big Data
15 5 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.70%) Flink
16 4 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.70%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 131 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 80 (14.01%) GitLab
3 79 (13.84%) Git
4 42 (7.36%) JUnit
5 41 (7.18%) Cucumber
6 36 (6.30%) Maven
7 31 (5.43%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.55%) Mockito
9 23 (4.03%) JIRA
10 20 (3.50%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.33%) Selenium
12 11 (1.93%) Gradle
13 10 (1.75%) JMeter
14 8 (1.40%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.23%) Postman
16 6 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 134 (23.47%) Finance
2 102 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.16%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.76%) Banking
5 29 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.15%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.75%) Advertising
9 10 (1.75%) Front Office
9 10 (1.75%) Health Technology
9 10 (1.75%) Tech for Good
10 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.88%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Retail
11 3 (0.53%) Billing
11 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.53%) Marketing
11 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 240 (42.03%) Developer
2 172 (30.12%) Java Developer
3 145 (25.39%) Senior
4 136 (23.82%) Java Engineer
5 104 (18.21%) Software Engineer
6 88 (15.41%) Lead
7 69 (12.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (11.38%) Senior Developer
9 52 (9.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.41%) Senior Java Developer
11 44 (7.71%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.53%) Principal Engineer
13 41 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
14 36 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (5.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 30 (5.25%) Architect
19 29 (5.08%) Principal Java Engineer
20 23 (4.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (91.94%) Spring
2 157 (27.50%) Kafka
3 118 (20.67%) AngularJS
3 118 (20.67%) React
4 115 (20.14%) Terraform
5 111 (19.44%) REST
6 102 (17.86%) Node.js
6 102 (17.86%) RESTful
7 63 (11.03%) Hibernate
8 58 (10.16%) JPA
9 39 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
10 36 (6.30%) OAuth
11 33 (5.78%) HTML
12 32 (5.60%) OAuth2
13 31 (5.43%) Jest
13 31 (5.43%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.73%) .NET
15 26 (4.55%) Vue
16 25 (4.38%) CSS
17 23 (4.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (29.95%) Cloud Native
2 117 (20.49%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.06%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (7.88%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.48%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.60%) e-Learning
7 30 (5.25%) Mainframe
8 25 (4.38%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.75%) EPoS
9 10 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.75%) iSeries
10 9 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
11 8 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.05%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.93%) Linux
2 6 (1.05%) AIX
3 5 (0.88%) CentOS
3 5 (0.88%) Debian
3 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (63.57%) CI/CD
2 320 (56.04%) Microservices
3 279 (48.86%) Agile
4 245 (42.91%) DevOps
5 179 (31.35%) Software Engineering
6 175 (30.65%) Containerisation
7 167 (29.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 147 (25.74%) Event-Driven
9 146 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 137 (23.99%) Test Automation
11 129 (22.59%) Mentoring
12 95 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.94%) TDD
14 90 (15.76%) AI
15 83 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (14.54%) Scrum
16 82 (14.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 81 (14.19%) BDD
18 69 (12.08%) Clean Code
18 69 (12.08%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 566 (99.12%) Java
2 142 (24.87%) Python
3 113 (19.79%) SQL
4 88 (15.41%) TypeScript
5 87 (15.24%) JavaScript
6 32 (5.60%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.43%) Ruby
8 22 (3.85%) Groovy
9 18 (3.15%) Bash
9 18 (3.15%) C#
10 15 (2.63%) COBOL
11 10 (1.75%) C++
11 10 (1.75%) RPG
12 9 (1.58%) JCL
13 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.05%) Scala
15 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.70%) Go
17 3 (0.53%) C
18 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 122 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.73%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.58%) DV Cleared
5 43 (7.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.13%) Degree
7 15 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.18%) OCP
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.93%) QA
2 33 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.20%) WCAG
4 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (1.05%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 229 (40.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 201 (35.20%) Kubernetes
2 64 (11.21%) Ansible
3 18 (3.15%) Grafana
4 17 (2.98%) HP Fortify
5 16 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.28%) Kibana
7 7 (1.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (4.90%) Splunk
2 27 (4.73%) Oracle
3 24 (4.20%) Google
4 17 (2.98%) IBM
4 17 (2.98%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.80%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.28%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.28%) SendGrid
8 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.88%) Broadcom
8 5 (0.88%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.88%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.70%) Solace
10 3 (0.53%) WSO2
11 2 (0.35%) Apple
11 2 (0.35%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.35%) TikTok