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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 221 319
Rank change year-on-year -134 +98 -25
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 495 703 904
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.51% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 8.02% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 302 237 515
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -

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 9,892 8,765 21,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 18.88% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,419 5,765 16,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +10.83% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 30 June 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 -105 441 £72,500 - 111
UK excluding London -184 255 £67,750 -3.21% 84
London +7 216 £77,500 -6.06% 50
North of England -69 144 £70,000 -17.89% 27
Work from Home -156 132 £70,000 -5.08% 52
North West -53 77 £65,000 -26.69% 11
Yorkshire +15 58 £75,000 -4.83% 11
South West -72 38 £60,000 -12.73% 16
South East -71 34 £68,750 -1.79% 15
Wales -27 25 £70,000 +47.97% 7
Midlands -109 14 £60,000 -6.25% 10
West Midlands -50 13 £62,500 -10.71% 9
North East -44 9 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -78 8 £65,000 -17.52% 5
East of England -31 3 £62,500 -26.47% 4

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 17 (3.43%) Confluence
2 16 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.82%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.81%) JBoss
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.61%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Liferay
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 281 (56.77%) AWS
2 130 (26.26%) Serverless
3 121 (24.44%) Azure
4 96 (19.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (18.79%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (15.76%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (14.75%) Amazon S3
8 68 (13.74%) GitHub
9 57 (11.52%) GCP
10 51 (10.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (8.28%) Apigee
12 39 (7.88%) Amazon ECR
12 39 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (3.43%) OpenShift
16 14 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.63%) DMARC
2 8 (1.62%) AMQP
3 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.96%) NoSQL
2 78 (15.76%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (11.31%) DynamoDB
4 46 (9.29%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.86%) MySQL
7 16 (3.23%) Redis
8 14 (2.83%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.62%) DTS
11 8 (1.62%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.41%) Big Data
12 7 (1.41%) Db2
12 7 (1.41%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.81%) Flink
16 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 111 (22.42%) Jenkins
2 78 (15.76%) GitLab
3 64 (12.93%) Git
4 50 (10.10%) Maven
5 38 (7.68%) Cypress.io
6 33 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 32 (6.46%) Cucumber
7 32 (6.46%) JUnit
8 22 (4.44%) JIRA
9 20 (4.04%) Mockito
10 18 (3.64%) Gradle
11 16 (3.23%) Selenium
12 10 (2.02%) JMeter
13 8 (1.62%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.62%) Postman
14 4 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.61%) Spock
15 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (22.63%) Finance
2 76 (15.35%) Social Skills
3 68 (13.74%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.05%) Banking
5 20 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.83%) Advertising
9 11 (2.22%) Billing
9 11 (2.22%) Front Office
9 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.41%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.21%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.01%) Games
14 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 232 (46.87%) Developer
2 179 (36.16%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.46%) Java Engineer
4 130 (26.26%) Senior
5 87 (17.58%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (12.93%) Senior Developer
8 62 (12.53%) Lead
9 50 (10.10%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (9.29%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 43 (8.69%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 32 (6.46%) Architect
15 30 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
16 27 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (4.65%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.24%) Software Developer
19 20 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 19 (3.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (90.71%) Spring
2 137 (27.68%) AngularJS
3 114 (23.03%) Kafka
4 113 (22.83%) React
5 109 (22.02%) REST
6 84 (16.97%) Node.js
7 83 (16.77%) RESTful
8 47 (9.49%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.07%) Jest
9 35 (7.07%) JPA
10 33 (6.67%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.26%) OAuth
11 31 (6.26%) Vue
12 30 (6.06%) HTML
13 27 (5.45%) Web Services
14 26 (5.25%) OAuth2
14 26 (5.25%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (4.24%) CSS
16 19 (3.84%) OpenAPI
17 17 (3.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 123 (24.85%) Cloud Native
2 73 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.65%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.42%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.82%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.41%) EPoS
11 7 (1.41%) iSeries
12 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.61%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.21%) CentOS
2 6 (1.21%) Debian
2 6 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.81%) Android
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.61%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (57.37%) CI/CD
2 269 (54.34%) Microservices
3 241 (48.69%) Agile
4 208 (42.02%) DevOps
5 155 (31.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 151 (30.51%) Containerisation
7 150 (30.30%) Software Engineering
8 119 (24.04%) Mentoring
9 114 (23.03%) Test Automation
10 104 (21.01%) Event-Driven
11 101 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (16.36%) TDD
14 75 (15.15%) Scrum
15 70 (14.14%) AI
16 69 (13.94%) BDD
17 63 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
18 62 (12.53%) Clean Code
18 62 (12.53%) SDLC
19 58 (11.72%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 489 (98.79%) Java
2 95 (19.19%) SQL
3 92 (18.59%) Python
4 85 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 75 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.87%) Groovy
7 31 (6.26%) Bash
8 29 (5.86%) Kotlin
9 17 (3.43%) Ruby
10 11 (2.22%) C#
11 9 (1.82%) C++
12 7 (1.41%) RPG
12 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.01%) Go
13 5 (1.01%) PHP
14 4 (0.81%) COBOL
14 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 2 (0.40%) C
16 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 97 (19.60%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.93%) AWS Certification
3 59 (11.92%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.08%) Degree
5 32 (6.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.06%) QA
2 14 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.42%) WCAG
4 7 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 197 (39.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (33.74%) Kubernetes
2 76 (15.35%) Terraform
3 37 (7.47%) Ansible
4 29 (5.86%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.63%) Grafana
5 13 (2.63%) Kibana
6 11 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.21%) Puppet
8 5 (1.01%) Packer
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.05%) Oracle
2 20 (4.04%) Splunk
3 15 (3.03%) Google
4 14 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.63%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.22%) IBM
8 8 (1.62%) OneLogin
9 7 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.41%) Solace
10 6 (1.21%) SaltStack
11 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.01%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.61%) Revolut
12 3 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.61%) WSO2
13 2 (0.40%) Pega
13 2 (0.40%) TikTok
14 1 (0.20%) Sitecore