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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 317 250
Rank change year-on-year -50 -67 +5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 387 359 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.88% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.68% 4.08% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 230 243 647
10th Percentile £51,925 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £78,810 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.35% +21.25% -

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 8,272 8,797 19,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 21.49% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,059 6,587 15,468
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -5 363 £70,000 -12.50% 132
UK excluding London -58 208 £67,500 -14.35% 94
London -28 154 £75,000 -14.29% 55
Work from Home 0 136 £70,000 -11.18% 108
North of England +2 114 £70,000 -12.50% 47
Yorkshire -4 63 £77,500 -1.66% 10
North West +1 46 £67,500 -23.87% 30
South West -42 43 £65,000 -14.08% 14
South East -55 33 £75,000 +20.00% 16
Midlands -21 14 £45,000 -5.26% 5
West Midlands 0 11 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Scotland -59 6 £65,000 -18.75% 7
North East -18 5 £31,850 -42.09% 7
Wales -24 2 £50,100 +17.83% 3
East Midlands -50 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2
East of England -28 1 £62,500 -24.24% 2

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 15 (3.88%) Apache
2 14 (3.62%) OpenStack
3 13 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.10%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.03%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) JBoss
6 3 (0.78%) Liferay
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 238 (61.50%) AWS
2 105 (27.13%) Serverless
3 73 (18.86%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
5 69 (17.83%) Amazon S3
6 61 (15.76%) Azure
7 59 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (12.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 45 (11.63%) Apigee
10 42 (10.85%) Amazon ECR
11 41 (10.59%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (10.08%) GCP
13 31 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (7.49%) OpenShift
15 25 (6.46%) GitHub
16 19 (4.91%) SaaS
17 17 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
19 8 (2.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.33%) AMQP
2 5 (1.29%) Internet
3 3 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (19.64%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (15.50%) NoSQL
3 49 (12.66%) DynamoDB
4 46 (11.89%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.46%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.17%) MySQL
7 19 (4.91%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.55%) Big Data
10 6 (1.55%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.55%) Redis
11 5 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.78%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.52%) Flink
13 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
14 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 98 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.83%) GitLab
3 58 (14.99%) Git
4 52 (13.44%) Maven
5 46 (11.89%) Cypress.io
6 43 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 31 (8.01%) JUnit
8 23 (5.94%) Cucumber
9 19 (4.91%) Gradle
10 17 (4.39%) Selenium
11 15 (3.88%) JIRA
11 15 (3.88%) Mockito
12 6 (1.55%) JMeter
13 3 (0.78%) Postman
13 3 (0.78%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 77 (19.90%) Finance
2 56 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.94%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.39%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.13%) Billing
7 10 (2.58%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.58%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.33%) Advertising
8 9 (2.33%) Front Office
8 9 (2.33%) Games
9 7 (1.81%) Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 212 (54.78%) Developer
2 170 (43.93%) Java Developer
3 103 (26.61%) Senior
4 82 (21.19%) Java Engineer
5 76 (19.64%) Software Engineer
6 60 (15.50%) Senior Developer
7 48 (12.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 48 (12.40%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.37%) Lead
9 36 (9.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 33 (8.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 32 (8.27%) Senior Java Engineer
12 27 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (4.91%) Software Developer
14 16 (4.13%) Backend Developer
14 16 (4.13%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.88%) Lead Java Developer
16 12 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
16 12 (3.10%) Senior Software Developer
17 11 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (87.60%) Spring
2 106 (27.39%) AngularJS
3 97 (25.06%) React
4 85 (21.96%) REST
5 64 (16.54%) Kafka
6 50 (12.92%) Node.js
6 50 (12.92%) RESTful
7 43 (11.11%) Hibernate
7 43 (11.11%) Jest
8 40 (10.34%) Gherkin
9 29 (7.49%) HTML
9 29 (7.49%) Web Services
10 25 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (6.46%) JPA
11 20 (5.17%) CSS
12 19 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.39%) JSON
13 17 (4.39%) Spring MVC
13 17 (4.39%) Vue
14 15 (3.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 49 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.07%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.29%) IoT
10 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Android
2 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.29%) CentOS
3 5 (1.29%) Debian
3 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (54.52%) CI/CD
2 195 (50.39%) Agile
3 193 (49.87%) Microservices
4 182 (47.03%) DevOps
5 127 (32.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (31.52%) Software Engineering
7 108 (27.91%) Containerisation
8 91 (23.51%) Mentoring
9 88 (22.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (17.05%) Scrum
10 66 (17.05%) TDD
11 65 (16.80%) Test Automation
12 59 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (14.47%) Event-Driven
14 53 (13.70%) SDLC
15 52 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (12.14%) AI
16 47 (12.14%) Secure Coding
17 43 (11.11%) BDD
18 41 (10.59%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 384 (99.22%) Java
2 96 (24.81%) JavaScript
3 76 (19.64%) TypeScript
4 63 (16.28%) Python
5 62 (16.02%) SQL
6 41 (10.59%) Bash
7 39 (10.08%) Groovy
8 24 (6.20%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.33%) Go
10 8 (2.07%) Delphi
11 6 (1.55%) PHP
12 5 (1.29%) C#
13 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.78%) C++
15 2 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.52%) Ruby
16 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.59%) AWS Certification
3 32 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.24%) Degree
5 23 (5.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.94%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.13%) QA
2 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.29%) NCSC
3 4 (1.03%) NIST
4 3 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 170 (43.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 159 (41.09%) Kubernetes
2 40 (10.34%) HP Fortify
2 40 (10.34%) Terraform
3 23 (5.94%) Ansible
4 20 (5.17%) Grafana
5 11 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.07%) Kibana
7 5 (1.29%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (5.94%) Oracle
2 11 (2.84%) Google
3 8 (2.07%) Splunk
4 7 (1.81%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.55%) Solace
6 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.29%) Pega
6 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.29%) WSO2
7 4 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.78%) Revolut
8 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.26%) Okta
9 1 (0.26%) SAP