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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 230 318
Rank change year-on-year -126 +88 -28
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 553 689 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.39% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 7.96% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 359 222 376
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,032 £56,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10,564 8,654 16,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 17.44% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,770 5,667 11,657
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £107,500
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 4 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 4 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 -92 473 £75,000 +3.45% 256
UK excluding London -169 297 £70,000 - 145
London +10 234 £80,000 -3.03% 158
North of England -56 143 £70,000 -11.18% 42
Work from Home -171 127 £70,000 +3.70% 160
North West -57 83 £65,000 -23.53% 26
Yorkshire +9 51 £75,000 - 8
South West -45 50 £67,500 +8.00% 19
Wales -8 44 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South East -73 32 £67,500 -3.57% 33
Midlands -110 20 £60,000 -5.14% 15
West Midlands -57 19 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Scotland -77 13 £65,000 -16.13% 21
North East -50 9 £50,000 -23.08% 8
Northern Ireland -87 3 £60,000 +9.09% 9
East of England -39 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 21 (3.80%) Confluence
2 15 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.45%) Apache
4 8 (1.45%) Camunda
5 4 (0.72%) JBoss
5 4 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 324 (58.59%) AWS
2 155 (28.03%) Azure
3 130 (23.51%) Serverless
4 106 (19.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 96 (17.36%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (16.46%) GitHub
7 79 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 77 (13.92%) GCP
9 71 (12.84%) Amazon S3
10 49 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (8.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (5.97%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.97%) Apigee
14 30 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (2.53%) OpenShift
18 13 (2.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.35%) DMARC
2 8 (1.45%) AMQP
3 4 (0.72%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.27%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (15.91%) NoSQL
3 54 (9.76%) DynamoDB
3 54 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 41 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 39 (7.05%) MySQL
6 20 (3.62%) Redis
7 12 (2.17%) Db2
8 11 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.99%) DTS
8 11 (1.99%) RDBMS
8 11 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.90%) Big Data
10 5 (0.90%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.72%) Flink
11 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 126 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 84 (15.19%) GitLab
3 71 (12.84%) Git
4 40 (7.23%) JUnit
5 39 (7.05%) Cucumber
5 39 (7.05%) Maven
6 34 (6.15%) Cypress.io
7 26 (4.70%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.34%) Mockito
9 21 (3.80%) JIRA
9 21 (3.80%) Selenium
10 11 (1.99%) Gradle
11 10 (1.81%) JMeter
12 8 (1.45%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.27%) Postman
14 6 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.72%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (23.33%) Finance
2 97 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.46%) Public Sector
4 41 (7.41%) Banking
5 29 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.25%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.53%) Front Office
9 12 (2.17%) Advertising
9 12 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.45%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.08%) Billing
12 6 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.90%) Retail
14 4 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Games
15 3 (0.54%) Law
16 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (41.77%) Developer
2 172 (31.10%) Java Developer
3 144 (26.04%) Senior
4 140 (25.32%) Java Engineer
5 98 (17.72%) Software Engineer
6 87 (15.73%) Lead
7 66 (11.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (11.39%) Senior Developer
9 58 (10.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 47 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (8.50%) Senior Java Engineer
11 42 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
12 41 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
13 33 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (5.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 30 (5.42%) Architect
15 30 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (5.06%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (3.98%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (90.96%) Spring
2 151 (27.31%) Kafka
3 127 (22.97%) AngularJS
4 115 (20.80%) React
5 111 (20.07%) REST
6 96 (17.36%) Node.js
7 93 (16.82%) RESTful
8 58 (10.49%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.04%) JPA
10 35 (6.33%) OAuth
11 34 (6.15%) Jest
12 32 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (5.61%) OAuth2
14 30 (5.42%) HTML
15 28 (5.06%) Vue
16 27 (4.88%) Gherkin
16 27 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
17 25 (4.52%) Web Services
18 22 (3.98%) CSS
19 21 (3.80%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 160 (28.93%) Cloud Native
2 107 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (6.69%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (5.97%) Public Cloud
6 30 (5.42%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.34%) Mainframe
7 24 (4.34%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.81%) EPoS
8 10 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.81%) iSeries
9 9 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.27%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.99%) Linux
2 5 (0.90%) AIX
2 5 (0.90%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) CentOS
3 4 (0.72%) Debian
3 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (62.93%) CI/CD
2 312 (56.42%) Microservices
3 273 (49.37%) Agile
4 238 (43.04%) DevOps
5 178 (32.19%) Containerisation
6 172 (31.10%) Software Engineering
7 169 (30.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 141 (25.50%) Event-Driven
9 139 (25.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 137 (24.77%) Test Automation
11 131 (23.69%) Mentoring
12 103 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (16.46%) AI
14 89 (16.09%) TDD
15 80 (14.47%) Scrum
16 79 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 77 (13.92%) BDD
18 76 (13.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 67 (12.12%) Architectural Patterns
20 65 (11.75%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 548 (99.10%) Java
2 135 (24.41%) Python
3 111 (20.07%) SQL
4 86 (15.55%) JavaScript
5 82 (14.83%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.42%) Kotlin
7 28 (5.06%) Groovy
8 27 (4.88%) Ruby
9 24 (4.34%) Bash
10 18 (3.25%) C#
11 10 (1.81%) C++
11 10 (1.81%) COBOL
11 10 (1.81%) RPG
12 7 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.90%) Go
14 4 (0.72%) JCL
14 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.72%) Scala
15 2 (0.36%) C
15 2 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.66%) AWS Certification
3 64 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.96%) DV Cleared
5 42 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (7.05%) Degree
7 18 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.72%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.96%) QA
2 28 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.80%) WCAG
4 7 (1.27%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.08%) NCSC
6 5 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 224 (40.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 196 (35.44%) Kubernetes
2 108 (19.53%) Terraform
3 53 (9.58%) Ansible
4 23 (4.16%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.25%) Grafana
6 16 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.35%) Kibana
8 5 (0.90%) Puppet
9 4 (0.72%) Packer
10 2 (0.36%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.52%) Splunk
2 24 (4.34%) Oracle
3 20 (3.62%) Google
4 17 (3.07%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.89%) IBM
6 14 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.35%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.35%) SendGrid
8 10 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.90%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.90%) Solace
10 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.72%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.54%) WSO2
12 2 (0.36%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.36%) Pega
12 2 (0.36%) TikTok
13 1 (0.18%) Workday