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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 348 230
Rank change year-on-year -35 -118 -2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 287 441 727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.77% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 3.56% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 196 236 581
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,600 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £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 6,997 12,391 12,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.95% 21.61% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,268 7,551 10,529
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 +16 272 £70,500 -9.03% 319
UK excluding London +2 169 £65,000 -3.70% 321
London -42 114 £95,000 +5.56% 48
Work from Home +55 112 £65,000 -7.14% 278
North of England +53 68 £67,500 -12.90% 92
South East -2 38 £67,500 +8.00% 77
Yorkshire +8 34 £72,500 -6.45% 31
South West 0 34 £65,000 +4.00% 41
North West +37 31 £65,000 -16.13% 50
Midlands +44 21 £57,500 -4.17% 44
West Midlands +36 14 £60,000 - 22
Scotland -27 9 £67,500 -3.57% 20
East Midlands +6 7 £57,500 -4.17% 19
North East +5 5 £65,000 +18.18% 12
East of England +22 3 £62,500 -10.71% 36
Wales -12 1 £55,200 -18.22% 9

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 16 (5.57%) Apache
2 13 (4.53%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) JBoss
5 2 (0.70%) Camunda
5 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Liferay
Cloud Services
1 221 (77.00%) AWS
2 81 (28.22%) Serverless
3 58 (20.21%) Amazon ECS
4 46 (16.03%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (16.03%) Azure
5 43 (14.98%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.15%) GCP
7 25 (8.71%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (7.67%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
10 20 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.62%) SaaS
12 17 (5.92%) GitHub
13 16 (5.57%) Apigee
14 15 (5.23%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
16 5 (1.74%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (1.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) AMQP
2 3 (1.05%) HTTP
2 3 (1.05%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (27.87%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (16.03%) Relational Database
3 40 (13.94%) MongoDB
4 33 (11.50%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.32%) RDBMS
6 17 (5.92%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.14%) MySQL
7 9 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.70%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.70%) DB2
9 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (28.22%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.82%) Git
3 42 (14.63%) GitLab
4 38 (13.24%) JUnit
5 28 (9.76%) Cypress.io
6 24 (8.36%) Maven
7 23 (8.01%) Mockito
8 20 (6.97%) JMeter
9 15 (5.23%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.23%) SonarQube
10 12 (4.18%) JIRA
11 9 (3.14%) Selenium
12 6 (2.09%) Gradle
13 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.74%) Vite
14 4 (1.39%) Babel
14 4 (1.39%) webpack
15 3 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 74 (25.78%) Finance
2 51 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.80%) Financial Institution
5 12 (4.18%) Banking
6 10 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Billing
7 5 (1.74%) Games
7 5 (1.74%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.05%) Aviation
9 3 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.05%) Legal
9 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.70%) Law
10 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (50.52%) Developer
2 110 (38.33%) Java Developer
3 81 (28.22%) Senior
4 68 (23.69%) Software Engineer
5 55 (19.16%) Java Engineer
6 39 (13.59%) Senior Developer
7 35 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (11.50%) Lead
9 32 (11.15%) Senior Java Developer
10 30 (10.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (9.06%) Java Software Engineer
12 25 (8.71%) Senior Java Engineer
13 21 (7.32%) Backend Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.23%) Kafka Engineer
16 14 (4.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 14 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (4.88%) Software Developer
16 14 (4.88%) Technical Leader
17 12 (4.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (92.33%) Spring
2 83 (28.92%) React
3 72 (25.09%) Kafka
4 68 (23.69%) REST
5 49 (17.07%) AngularJS
6 46 (16.03%) RESTful
7 45 (15.68%) Hibernate
8 37 (12.89%) HTML
9 34 (11.85%) Web Services
10 33 (11.50%) ActiveMQ
11 32 (11.15%) Node.js
12 27 (9.41%) Jest
13 22 (7.67%) Apache Camel
14 21 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (7.32%) JSON
14 21 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (7.32%) XML
15 18 (6.27%) jQuery
15 18 (6.27%) WireMock
16 16 (5.57%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 86 (29.97%) Cloud Native
2 61 (21.25%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (8.01%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.05%) IoT
9 3 (1.05%) Replication
10 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.14%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) CentOS
2 2 (0.70%) Debian
2 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (60.98%) Agile
2 173 (60.28%) Microservices
3 157 (54.70%) CI/CD
4 120 (41.81%) DevOps
5 108 (37.63%) Software Engineering
6 91 (31.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 83 (28.92%) TDD
8 68 (23.69%) Containerisation
9 59 (20.56%) BDD
9 59 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (19.51%) Scrum
11 52 (18.12%) Mentoring
12 49 (17.07%) Event-Driven
13 44 (15.33%) Fintech
14 42 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.63%) SDLC
15 39 (13.59%) Collaborative Culture
16 35 (12.20%) User Experience
17 34 (11.85%) Code Quality
18 31 (10.80%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 285 (99.30%) Java
2 95 (33.10%) JavaScript
3 64 (22.30%) Python
4 58 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.89%) SQL
6 23 (8.01%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.53%) Bash
7 13 (4.53%) Groovy
7 13 (4.53%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.14%) Go
9 8 (2.79%) Delphi
10 6 (2.09%) C#
11 2 (0.70%) R
11 2 (0.70%) Ruby
11 2 (0.70%) Scala
12 1 (0.35%) Korn
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.97%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.27%) Degree
5 12 (4.18%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.83%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.32%) QA
2 10 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.44%) NCSC
4 6 (2.09%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 143 (49.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 155 (54.01%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.36%) Kibana
3 15 (5.23%) Terraform
4 14 (4.88%) Ansible
4 14 (4.88%) HP Fortify
5 13 (4.53%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (7.67%) Oracle
1 22 (7.67%) Splunk
2 18 (6.27%) Dynatrace
3 8 (2.79%) Google
4 7 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.39%) Pega
5 4 (1.39%) WSO2
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.05%) Solace
7 2 (0.70%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.70%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.35%) Revolut