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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 238 321
Rank change year-on-year -112 +83 -35
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 563 676 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.35% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 7.96% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 364 212 351
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,813 £56,438 £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 £86,313 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
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 10,659 8,491 16,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 17.00% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,789 5,522 11,476
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 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 13 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 -106 477 £75,000 +3.45% 494
UK excluding London -176 304 £70,000 +3.70% 256
London +9 236 £80,000 -3.03% 340
North of England -62 142 £72,000 -6.38% 74
Work from Home -162 130 £70,000 +3.70% 224
North West -49 82 £65,000 -17.52% 47
Yorkshire +18 51 £75,000 - 11
South West -40 51 £67,500 +10.20% 33
Wales -14 47 £70,000 +12.00% 15
South East -61 32 £67,500 -3.57% 36
West Midlands -48 22 £62,500 -10.71% 20
Midlands -108 22 £62,500 -1.19% 26
Scotland -72 14 £65,000 -16.13% 51
North East -54 9 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Northern Ireland -78 4 £60,000 +9.09% 20
East of England -37 2 £58,750 -30.88% 3

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 (3.73%) Confluence
2 14 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.78%) Apache
3 10 (1.78%) Camunda
4 9 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.89%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.53%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.36%) 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 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 333 (59.15%) AWS
2 162 (28.77%) Azure
3 132 (23.45%) Serverless
4 109 (19.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (17.58%) AWS Lambda
5 99 (17.58%) GitHub
6 82 (14.56%) GCP
7 80 (14.21%) Amazon ECS
8 72 (12.79%) Amazon S3
9 56 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (8.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 34 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.51%) Amazon ECR
13 31 (5.51%) Apigee
14 20 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (3.55%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (2.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (2.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.31%) DMARC
2 10 (1.78%) AMQP
3 5 (0.89%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.70%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (16.34%) NoSQL
3 57 (10.12%) Relational Database
4 56 (9.95%) DynamoDB
5 43 (7.64%) MongoDB
6 41 (7.28%) MySQL
7 19 (3.37%) Redis
8 13 (2.31%) Db2
9 12 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.95%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.95%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.78%) DTS
12 9 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.07%) Big Data
14 5 (0.89%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.71%) Flink
16 3 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 129 (22.91%) Jenkins
2 85 (15.10%) GitLab
3 75 (13.32%) Git
4 41 (7.28%) Cucumber
4 41 (7.28%) JUnit
5 38 (6.75%) Maven
6 32 (5.68%) Cypress.io
7 25 (4.44%) Mockito
8 24 (4.26%) SonarQube
9 21 (3.73%) JIRA
9 21 (3.73%) Selenium
10 11 (1.95%) Gradle
11 10 (1.78%) JMeter
12 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.24%) Postman
14 6 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.07%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (23.62%) Finance
2 102 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 93 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.35%) Banking
5 31 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.20%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.31%) Front Office
9 12 (2.13%) Advertising
9 12 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.42%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.07%) Billing
12 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.89%) Law
13 5 (0.89%) Retail
14 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.53%) Games
14 3 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 235 (41.74%) Developer
2 174 (30.91%) Java Developer
3 145 (25.75%) Senior
4 139 (24.69%) Java Engineer
5 103 (18.29%) Software Engineer
6 90 (15.99%) Lead
7 66 (11.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (11.55%) Senior Developer
9 57 (10.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.53%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.17%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
13 41 (7.28%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (5.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 33 (5.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 31 (5.51%) Architect
17 29 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (5.15%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (3.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (91.30%) Spring
2 155 (27.53%) Kafka
3 126 (22.38%) AngularJS
4 114 (20.25%) React
5 112 (19.89%) REST
6 101 (17.94%) Node.js
7 99 (17.58%) RESTful
8 61 (10.83%) Hibernate
9 54 (9.59%) JPA
10 35 (6.22%) OAuth
10 35 (6.22%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (5.68%) Jest
12 31 (5.51%) HTML
12 31 (5.51%) OAuth2
13 28 (4.97%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.80%) Vue
15 25 (4.44%) .NET
15 25 (4.44%) Gherkin
15 25 (4.44%) Web Services
16 23 (4.09%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 170 (30.20%) Cloud Native
2 113 (20.07%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.17%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (6.39%) Public Cloud
6 31 (5.51%) e-Learning
7 27 (4.80%) Mainframe
8 25 (4.44%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.78%) EPoS
9 10 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.78%) iSeries
10 7 (1.24%) Digital Wallet
10 7 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.89%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.13%) Linux
2 5 (0.89%) AIX
2 5 (0.89%) CentOS
2 5 (0.89%) Debian
2 5 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
2 5 (0.89%) Windows
3 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (62.52%) CI/CD
2 319 (56.66%) Microservices
3 280 (49.73%) Agile
4 241 (42.81%) DevOps
5 177 (31.44%) Containerisation
5 177 (31.44%) Software Engineering
6 167 (29.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 146 (25.93%) Event-Driven
8 140 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 134 (23.80%) Test Automation
10 132 (23.45%) Mentoring
11 97 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (16.34%) AI
13 88 (15.63%) TDD
14 82 (14.56%) Scrum
15 81 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (14.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (13.85%) BDD
18 70 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 558 (99.11%) Java
2 137 (24.33%) Python
3 114 (20.25%) SQL
4 87 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 85 (15.10%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.04%) Kotlin
7 28 (4.97%) Ruby
8 26 (4.62%) Groovy
9 22 (3.91%) Bash
10 19 (3.37%) C#
11 13 (2.31%) COBOL
12 11 (1.95%) C++
13 10 (1.78%) RPG
14 7 (1.24%) JCL
14 7 (1.24%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.89%) Scala
16 4 (0.71%) Go
17 3 (0.53%) C
18 2 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 116 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.43%) AWS Certification
3 67 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 44 (7.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 37 (6.57%) Degree
7 17 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.17%) QA
2 30 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.73%) WCAG
4 7 (1.24%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 223 (39.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 195 (34.64%) Kubernetes
2 108 (19.18%) Terraform
3 56 (9.95%) Ansible
4 21 (3.73%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.02%) Grafana
6 15 (2.66%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.31%) Kibana
8 7 (1.24%) Puppet
9 3 (0.53%) Argo
9 3 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (4.80%) Splunk
2 25 (4.44%) Oracle
3 23 (4.09%) Google
4 17 (3.02%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.84%) IBM
6 14 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.31%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.31%) SendGrid
8 11 (1.95%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.89%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.89%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.71%) Broadcom
10 4 (0.71%) Solace
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.53%) WSO2
12 2 (0.36%) Apple
12 2 (0.36%) Pega
12 2 (0.36%) Rackspace