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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 346 241
Rank change year-on-year -28 -105 -14
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 301 471 709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.76% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.31% 3.55% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 190 248 594
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,660 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £108,375
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 6,983 13,270 13,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.38% 21.36% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,172 8,094 10,992
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £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 13 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 13 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 +14 276 £71,750 -7.42% 127
UK excluding London +22 175 £65,000 -3.70% 112
London -23 126 £95,000 +5.56% 47
Work from Home +57 109 £65,000 -3.70% 82
North of England +55 65 £67,500 -6.90% 41
South East +10 38 £67,500 +8.00% 38
North West +58 35 £65,000 -10.34% 20
South West +3 32 £62,500 - 14
Yorkshire +4 27 £72,500 -6.45% 15
Midlands +55 23 £58,000 -3.33% 5
Scotland -23 22 £67,500 -1.82% 9
West Midlands +48 16 £62,500 - 5
East Midlands +20 7 £57,500 -4.17%
North East +11 5 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East of England +26 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Wales -9 1 £55,200 -18.22% 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 17 (5.65%) Apache
2 11 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.99%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.33%) Camunda
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.00%) JBoss
6 2 (0.66%) Confluence
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 236 (78.41%) AWS
2 78 (25.91%) Serverless
3 54 (17.94%) Amazon ECS
4 53 (17.61%) Azure
5 47 (15.61%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (13.29%) Amazon S3
8 39 (12.96%) GCP
9 31 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (7.97%) GitHub
11 21 (6.98%) OpenShift
12 19 (6.31%) SaaS
13 17 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.65%) Apigee
16 10 (3.32%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
19 6 (1.99%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) AMQP
2 3 (1.00%) HTTP
2 3 (1.00%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (26.25%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (17.94%) Relational Database
3 40 (13.29%) MongoDB
4 37 (12.29%) NoSQL
5 25 (8.31%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.32%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.32%) MySQL
7 10 (3.32%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.00%) Big Data
8 3 (1.00%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.00%) Redis
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.66%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.66%) DB2
9 2 (0.66%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 75 (24.92%) Jenkins
2 50 (16.61%) Git
3 44 (14.62%) JUnit
4 38 (12.62%) GitLab
5 28 (9.30%) Mockito
6 23 (7.64%) Cypress.io
6 23 (7.64%) JMeter
7 19 (6.31%) Maven
8 17 (5.65%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.32%) JIRA
10 11 (3.65%) SonarQube
11 10 (3.32%) Selenium
12 6 (1.99%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.66%) Gradle
13 5 (1.66%) Vite
14 4 (1.33%) Babel
14 4 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.33%) webpack
15 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 98 (32.56%) Finance
2 58 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 35 (11.63%) Financial Institution
5 27 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.31%) Banking
7 24 (7.97%) Law
8 14 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.99%) Marketing
10 5 (1.66%) Games
10 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.66%) Legal
10 5 (1.66%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.33%) Billing
11 4 (1.33%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Aviation
12 3 (1.00%) Retail
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 140 (46.51%) Developer
2 105 (34.88%) Java Developer
3 90 (29.90%) Software Engineer
4 82 (27.24%) Senior
5 71 (23.59%) Java Engineer
6 42 (13.95%) Java Software Engineer
7 39 (12.96%) Lead
8 37 (12.29%) Senior Developer
9 36 (11.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (10.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (9.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 29 (9.63%) Senior Java Engineer
13 22 (7.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (6.98%) Backend Developer
15 18 (5.98%) Kafka Engineer
15 18 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (5.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 15 (4.98%) Mid-Level Java Developer
17 15 (4.98%) Software Developer
18 14 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (93.02%) Spring
2 87 (28.90%) Kafka
3 86 (28.57%) React
4 67 (22.26%) REST
5 56 (18.60%) RESTful
6 50 (16.61%) Hibernate
7 49 (16.28%) AngularJS
8 41 (13.62%) HTML
9 36 (11.96%) ActiveMQ
10 34 (11.30%) Web Services
11 28 (9.30%) Node.js
12 25 (8.31%) Apache Camel
13 23 (7.64%) Jest
14 22 (7.31%) jQuery
14 22 (7.31%) JSON
14 22 (7.31%) XML
15 21 (6.98%) WireMock
16 20 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (6.31%) JPA
18 18 (5.98%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 101 (33.55%) Cloud Native
2 61 (20.27%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.31%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.33%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.00%) IoT
11 3 (1.00%) Replication
12 2 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.33%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.65%) Linux
2 2 (0.66%) CentOS
2 2 (0.66%) Debian
2 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (63.12%) Agile
2 183 (60.80%) Microservices
3 173 (57.48%) CI/CD
4 132 (43.85%) Software Engineering
5 115 (38.21%) DevOps
6 90 (29.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 86 (28.57%) TDD
8 71 (23.59%) Containerisation
9 68 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (21.26%) BDD
11 56 (18.60%) Mentoring
12 53 (17.61%) Event-Driven
12 53 (17.61%) Scrum
12 53 (17.61%) SDLC
13 52 (17.28%) Fintech
14 45 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
15 39 (12.96%) Collaborative Culture
16 35 (11.63%) Code Quality
16 35 (11.63%) User Experience
17 33 (10.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 299 (99.34%) Java
2 94 (31.23%) JavaScript
3 68 (22.59%) Python
4 55 (18.27%) TypeScript
5 45 (14.95%) SQL
6 26 (8.64%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.98%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.66%) Bash
8 8 (2.66%) Delphi
8 8 (2.66%) Go
8 8 (2.66%) Groovy
9 7 (2.33%) C#
10 4 (1.33%) Scala
11 2 (0.66%) C++
11 2 (0.66%) R
11 2 (0.66%) Ruby
11 2 (0.66%) Rust
12 1 (0.33%) Korn
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.98%) AWS Certification
4 18 (5.98%) Degree
5 13 (4.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.64%) QA
2 10 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.33%) NCSC
4 6 (1.99%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 141 (46.84%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 173 (57.48%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.97%) Kibana
3 23 (7.64%) Terraform
4 13 (4.32%) Grafana
5 12 (3.99%) Ansible
6 9 (2.99%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.66%) Puppet
9 1 (0.33%) Istio
9 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (8.97%) Splunk
2 26 (8.64%) Oracle
3 23 (7.64%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.32%) Google
5 7 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.33%) Pega
6 4 (1.33%) WSO2
7 3 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.00%) Solace
8 2 (0.66%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.66%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.33%) IBM
9 1 (0.33%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.33%) Revolut
9 1 (0.33%) Veracode