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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 326 240
Rank change year-on-year -25 -86 +4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 375 433 957
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.89% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 3.99% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 236 254 668
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,289 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £99,688 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 7,671 10,850 17,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.23% 22.19% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,649 6,643 14,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 19 February 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 19 February 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 0 353 £72,500 -9.38% 130
UK excluding London -17 201 £67,500 -3.57% 97
London -18 153 £82,500 -5.77% 54
Work from Home +40 136 £70,000 -15.15% 77
North of England +22 91 £70,500 -11.88% 28
Yorkshire +2 51 £75,000 +7.14% 9
South West -9 49 £65,000 -15.03% 12
South East -34 38 £75,000 +15.38% 34
North West +12 36 £67,500 -15.63% 17
Midlands +10 16 £55,200 -18.22% 13
West Midlands +24 12 £45,000 -35.71% 12
Scotland -39 7 £78,750 -1.56% 7
East of England +14 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -6 4 £55,200 +0.36% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -10 1 £55,200 +16.68% 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 (5.60%) Apache
2 14 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.47%) OpenStack
4 10 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.07%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.80%) Liferay
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 247 (65.87%) AWS
2 96 (25.60%) Serverless
3 68 (18.13%) Amazon ECS
4 67 (17.87%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (16.80%) Amazon S3
6 55 (14.67%) Azure
7 46 (12.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (10.67%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (10.13%) GCP
10 35 (9.33%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (9.07%) Apigee
12 33 (8.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 29 (7.73%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (7.20%) OpenShift
15 25 (6.67%) SaaS
16 24 (6.40%) GitHub
17 18 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 8 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.40%) AMQP
2 5 (1.33%) Internet
3 4 (1.07%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.80%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 44 (11.73%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.33%) DynamoDB
5 34 (9.07%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.60%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.93%) MySQL
7 11 (2.93%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.60%) Big Data
9 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.80%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.53%) DB2
12 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.53%) Redis
13 1 (0.27%) DTS
13 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (24.27%) Jenkins
2 59 (15.73%) GitLab
3 56 (14.93%) Git
4 43 (11.47%) Cypress.io
5 41 (10.93%) Maven
6 32 (8.53%) JUnit
6 32 (8.53%) SonarQube
7 20 (5.33%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.27%) JIRA
8 16 (4.27%) Mockito
9 13 (3.47%) Gradle
10 12 (3.20%) Selenium
11 11 (2.93%) JMeter
12 4 (1.07%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.07%) Vite
13 3 (0.80%) Postman
13 3 (0.80%) TestNG
14 2 (0.53%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (21.87%) Finance
2 54 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.47%) Financial Institution
5 20 (5.33%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.00%) Billing
7 11 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.93%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.67%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.40%) Games
10 8 (2.13%) Banking
11 7 (1.87%) Front Office
12 6 (1.60%) Advertising
13 4 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.53%) Law
15 2 (0.53%) Marketing
15 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (49.87%) Developer
2 146 (38.93%) Java Developer
3 106 (28.27%) Senior
4 88 (23.47%) Software Engineer
5 84 (22.40%) Java Engineer
6 55 (14.67%) Senior Developer
7 45 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.73%) Lead
9 41 (10.93%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (10.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (9.33%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 28 (7.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (5.33%) Backend Developer
15 18 (4.80%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.53%) Lead Java Developer
17 16 (4.27%) Software Developer
18 15 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 13 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
20 12 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (89.60%) Spring
2 100 (26.67%) React
3 84 (22.40%) REST
4 81 (21.60%) AngularJS
5 80 (21.33%) Kafka
6 46 (12.27%) Node.js
7 45 (12.00%) RESTful
8 44 (11.73%) Hibernate
9 41 (10.93%) Jest
10 30 (8.00%) HTML
11 29 (7.73%) Gherkin
12 28 (7.47%) Web Services
13 27 (7.20%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (5.60%) ActiveMQ
16 20 (5.33%) JPA
16 20 (5.33%) JSON
17 18 (4.80%) XML
18 16 (4.27%) CSS
18 16 (4.27%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 99 (26.40%) Cloud Native
2 59 (15.73%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.93%) Distributed Architecture
5 11 (2.93%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.13%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.33%) IoT
8 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.27%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.27%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.40%) Linux
2 6 (1.60%) Android
2 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.33%) CentOS
3 5 (1.33%) Debian
3 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (54.40%) Microservices
2 198 (52.80%) CI/CD
3 192 (51.20%) Agile
4 168 (44.80%) DevOps
5 136 (36.27%) Software Engineering
6 119 (31.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (25.60%) Containerisation
8 89 (23.73%) Mentoring
9 81 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (18.93%) TDD
11 62 (16.53%) Event-Driven
12 56 (14.93%) Scrum
13 54 (14.40%) BDD
14 53 (14.13%) Test Automation
15 51 (13.60%) SDLC
16 49 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (11.73%) AI
18 44 (11.73%) Fintech
19 40 (10.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 372 (99.20%) Java
2 95 (25.33%) JavaScript
3 70 (18.67%) TypeScript
4 67 (17.87%) Python
5 51 (13.60%) SQL
6 30 (8.00%) Bash
7 28 (7.47%) Groovy
8 22 (5.87%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.67%) Go
10 9 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.13%) Delphi
12 6 (1.60%) PHP
13 4 (1.07%) C#
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) Ruby
15 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 57 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (9.07%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.40%) Degree
5 17 (4.53%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (2.93%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.33%) QA
2 7 (1.87%) NCSC
3 6 (1.60%) NIST
4 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 165 (44.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 173 (46.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.27%) Terraform
3 29 (7.73%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.60%) Ansible
5 19 (5.07%) Grafana
6 15 (4.00%) Kibana
7 9 (2.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.33%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.40%) Oracle
2 15 (4.00%) Google
3 14 (3.73%) Splunk
4 10 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.87%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.87%) Solace
6 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.07%) Pega
7 4 (1.07%) WSO2
8 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.80%) Revolut
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.27%) Okta
10 1 (0.27%) SAP