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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 315 260
Rank change year-on-year -45 -55 +2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 409 391 1,072
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.94% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 4.54% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 230 265 619
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,438 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% +2.31%

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 8,678 8,613 20,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 20.70% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,324 6,523 15,742
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,250
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 £87,500 £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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -15 383 £70,000 -6.67% 112
UK excluding London -73 221 £67,500 -3.57% 74
London -4 162 £75,000 -9.09% 63
Work from Home -11 134 £70,000 -11.18% 75
North of England +5 124 £72,500 -9.38% 27
Yorkshire -22 67 £77,500 -1.66% 7
North West -4 49 £67,500 -23.87% 12
South West -48 46 £62,500 - 12
South East -77 37 £80,000 +18.52% 23
Midlands -30 15 £45,000 -5.26% 2
West Midlands -12 13 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -27 8 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Scotland -58 5 £77,500 -3.13% 7
Wales -24 4 £50,100 +17.83% 1
East of England -34 1 £62,500 -24.24% 3
East Midlands -55 1 £55,200 +16.21%

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 (3.91%) Apache
2 13 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.93%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.22%) JBoss
5 4 (0.98%) Confluence
6 3 (0.73%) Liferay
7 2 (0.49%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 245 (59.90%) AWS
2 109 (26.65%) Serverless
3 77 (18.83%) AWS Lambda
4 75 (18.34%) Amazon ECS
5 72 (17.60%) Amazon S3
6 65 (15.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (15.65%) Azure
8 50 (12.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 48 (11.74%) Apigee
10 45 (11.00%) Amazon ECR
11 41 (10.02%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (9.54%) GCP
13 31 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (7.33%) OpenShift
15 25 (6.11%) GitHub
16 18 (4.40%) SaaS
17 15 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
19 7 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.44%) AMQP
2 5 (1.22%) Internet
3 3 (0.73%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (16.63%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (15.40%) NoSQL
3 52 (12.71%) DynamoDB
4 47 (11.49%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.62%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.89%) MySQL
7 18 (4.40%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.96%) Redis
11 7 (1.71%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.47%) Big Data
12 6 (1.47%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.73%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.49%) Flink
16 2 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
16 2 (0.49%) Power BI
17 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 100 (24.45%) Jenkins
2 68 (16.63%) GitLab
3 60 (14.67%) Git
4 53 (12.96%) Maven
5 44 (10.76%) Cypress.io
5 44 (10.76%) SonarQube
6 31 (7.58%) JUnit
7 23 (5.62%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.89%) Gradle
9 18 (4.40%) Selenium
10 16 (3.91%) JIRA
11 14 (3.42%) Mockito
12 6 (1.47%) JMeter
13 3 (0.73%) Postman
13 3 (0.73%) TestNG
14 2 (0.49%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.49%) ESLint
14 2 (0.49%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 83 (20.29%) Finance
2 57 (13.94%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.38%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.91%) Billing
6 13 (3.18%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.69%) Advertising
8 10 (2.44%) Banking
8 10 (2.44%) Front Office
9 9 (2.20%) Games
9 9 (2.20%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.96%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.73%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.49%) Law
14 2 (0.49%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 227 (55.50%) Developer
2 179 (43.77%) Java Developer
3 109 (26.65%) Senior
4 97 (23.72%) Java Engineer
5 73 (17.85%) Software Engineer
6 66 (16.14%) Senior Developer
7 51 (12.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 49 (11.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 46 (11.25%) Lead
10 39 (9.54%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (8.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 33 (8.07%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (4.89%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.16%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.16%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.91%) Lead Java Developer
16 13 (3.18%) AWS Developer
17 12 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
17 12 (2.93%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (88.75%) Spring
2 125 (30.56%) AngularJS
3 102 (24.94%) React
4 95 (23.23%) REST
5 67 (16.38%) Kafka
6 55 (13.45%) RESTful
7 46 (11.25%) Node.js
8 41 (10.02%) Jest
9 40 (9.78%) Gherkin
9 40 (9.78%) Hibernate
10 32 (7.82%) Web Services
11 30 (7.33%) HTML
12 28 (6.85%) JPA
13 27 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (5.13%) CSS
16 20 (4.89%) Vue
17 18 (4.40%) Spring MVC
18 17 (4.16%) JSON
19 15 (3.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 78 (19.07%) Cloud Native
2 51 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.93%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.96%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.22%) IoT
12 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.73%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.73%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.49%) Web Conferencing
15 1 (0.24%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.20%) Linux
2 6 (1.47%) Android
2 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.47%) CentOS
2 6 (1.47%) Debian
2 6 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.47%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (52.57%) CI/CD
2 195 (47.68%) Agile
3 194 (47.43%) Microservices
4 182 (44.50%) DevOps
5 129 (31.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (29.83%) Software Engineering
7 110 (26.89%) Containerisation
8 94 (22.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (22.98%) Mentoring
9 70 (17.11%) Test Automation
10 69 (16.87%) Scrum
11 68 (16.63%) TDD
12 61 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 60 (14.67%) Event-Driven
14 54 (13.20%) Secure Coding
15 53 (12.96%) SDLC
16 52 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
17 51 (12.47%) Clean Code
18 46 (11.25%) AI
18 46 (11.25%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 407 (99.51%) Java
2 93 (22.74%) JavaScript
3 74 (18.09%) SQL
4 72 (17.60%) TypeScript
5 62 (15.16%) Python
6 41 (10.02%) Bash
7 39 (9.54%) Groovy
8 25 (6.11%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.96%) Delphi
10 7 (1.71%) Go
11 6 (1.47%) PHP
12 4 (0.98%) C#
12 4 (0.98%) C++
12 4 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.49%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (15.16%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.02%) AWS Certification
3 37 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 34 (8.31%) Degree
5 23 (5.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.16%) QA
2 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.98%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.73%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (42.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 161 (39.36%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.49%) Terraform
3 40 (9.78%) HP Fortify
4 27 (6.60%) Ansible
5 19 (4.65%) Grafana
6 10 (2.44%) Kibana
6 10 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.47%) Puppet
8 3 (0.73%) Packer
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (6.11%) Oracle
2 12 (2.93%) Google
3 8 (1.96%) Red Hat
3 8 (1.96%) Splunk
4 6 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.47%) SaltStack
4 6 (1.47%) Solace
5 5 (1.22%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.98%) IBM
6 4 (0.98%) Peregrine
7 3 (0.73%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.73%) Revolut
7 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.49%) Pega
8 2 (0.49%) WSO2
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.24%) Okta