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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 233 357
Rank change year-on-year -90 +124 -78
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 649 647 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.32% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.42% 7.74% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 409 192 284
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,313 £91,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £117,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

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 11,976 8,354 16,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.02% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,508 5,321 10,078
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -95 535 £75,000 +3.45% 534
UK excluding London -155 363 £67,500 - 317
London +15 251 £80,000 -15.79% 317
Work from Home -152 155 £68,000 +4.62% 288
North of England -66 154 £72,000 +2.86% 116
North West -51 97 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West -44 67 £67,750 +10.61% 40
Wales -15 59 £70,000 +12.00% 17
Yorkshire +5 44 £85,000 +25.93% 30
South East -86 34 £68,750 +1.85% 24
West Midlands -58 32 £62,500 -10.71% 20
Midlands -106 32 £62,500 -3.10% 26
Scotland -73 15 £71,000 +3.27% 69
North East -62 13 £52,500 -20.75% 24
Northern Ireland -84 10 £60,000 +9.09% 22
East of England -47 2 £58,750 -6.00% 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 24 (3.70%) Confluence
2 14 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.00%) Apache
3 13 (2.00%) Camunda
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) CICS
5 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.31%) JBoss
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 400 (61.63%) AWS
2 187 (28.81%) Azure
3 129 (19.88%) Serverless
4 122 (18.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 122 (18.80%) GitHub
5 95 (14.64%) AWS Lambda
6 94 (14.48%) GCP
7 75 (11.56%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (10.63%) Amazon S3
9 42 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (5.55%) AWS Step Functions
11 31 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
12 27 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
14 22 (3.39%) SaaS
15 20 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (3.08%) Apigee
15 20 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.93%) AMQP
2 15 (2.31%) DMARC
3 12 (1.85%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (17.10%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (15.87%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.71%) MongoDB
4 62 (9.55%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.09%) MySQL
6 45 (6.93%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.62%) Redis
8 16 (2.47%) Db2
9 13 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.54%) DTS
10 10 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
12 7 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.08%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.62%) Flink
14 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 139 (21.42%) Jenkins
2 90 (13.87%) Git
3 89 (13.71%) GitLab
4 52 (8.01%) Cucumber
5 43 (6.63%) JUnit
6 34 (5.24%) Maven
7 27 (4.16%) Cypress.io
7 27 (4.16%) Mockito
8 20 (3.08%) JIRA
9 16 (2.47%) Selenium
10 15 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.16%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.69%) JMeter
13 8 (1.23%) Gradle
14 7 (1.08%) Postman
15 6 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.92%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 156 (24.04%) Finance
2 124 (19.11%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.49%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.48%) Banking
5 43 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.62%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.31%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.16%) Publishing
11 12 (1.85%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.39%) Front Office
13 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.92%) Advertising
15 5 (0.77%) Law
15 5 (0.77%) Retail
16 3 (0.46%) Back Office
16 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.46%) Marketing
16 3 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 262 (40.37%) Developer
2 183 (28.20%) Java Developer
3 175 (26.96%) Senior
4 152 (23.42%) Java Engineer
5 130 (20.03%) Software Engineer
6 96 (14.79%) Lead
7 79 (12.17%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.47%) Principal Engineer
9 55 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
10 53 (8.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.40%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 42 (6.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 40 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (5.55%) Principal Java Engineer
16 33 (5.08%) Architect
16 33 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 33 (5.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 23 (3.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 606 (93.37%) Spring
2 200 (30.82%) Kafka
3 141 (21.73%) Terraform
4 140 (21.57%) React
5 127 (19.57%) REST
6 110 (16.95%) RESTful
7 107 (16.49%) AngularJS
8 106 (16.33%) Node.js
9 68 (10.48%) Hibernate
10 62 (9.55%) JPA
11 52 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (6.63%) OAuth
13 37 (5.70%) OAuth2
14 32 (4.93%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (4.78%) .NET
15 31 (4.78%) HTML
16 27 (4.16%) Jest
17 23 (3.54%) Web Services
18 22 (3.39%) CSS
18 22 (3.39%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 209 (32.20%) Cloud Native
2 138 (21.26%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (7.70%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (7.40%) Public Cloud
6 42 (6.47%) e-Learning
7 38 (5.86%) Product Ownership
8 36 (5.55%) Mainframe
9 15 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.85%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.85%) Media Streaming
11 12 (1.85%) Podcast
12 10 (1.54%) EPoS
12 10 (1.54%) iSeries
13 9 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.31%) Linux
2 7 (1.08%) AIX
2 7 (1.08%) CentOS
2 7 (1.08%) Debian
2 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.08%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 373 (57.47%) Microservices
3 331 (51.00%) Agile
4 281 (43.30%) DevOps
5 232 (35.75%) Software Engineering
6 201 (30.97%) Containerisation
7 190 (29.28%) Event-Driven
8 175 (26.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 172 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 159 (24.50%) Mentoring
11 153 (23.57%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (17.57%) AI
14 108 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (16.64%) TDD
15 106 (16.33%) Scrum
16 103 (15.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 98 (15.10%) BDD
18 96 (14.79%) Observability
19 84 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 641 (98.77%) Java
2 147 (22.65%) Python
3 123 (18.95%) SQL
4 105 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 83 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.08%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.93%) Ruby
8 20 (3.08%) COBOL
9 19 (2.93%) C#
10 17 (2.62%) Groovy
11 14 (2.16%) JCL
12 13 (2.00%) Bash
13 10 (1.54%) RPG
14 9 (1.39%) C++
15 8 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.92%) Scala
17 4 (0.62%) Go
18 3 (0.46%) C
19 2 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 80 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 71 (10.94%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.78%) DV Cleared
5 52 (8.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.78%) Degree
7 15 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.15%) OCP
15 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.25%) QA
2 35 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.85%) WCAG
4 8 (1.23%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 263 (40.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 240 (36.98%) Kubernetes
2 77 (11.86%) Ansible
3 26 (4.01%) Grafana
4 23 (3.54%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.16%) Kibana
6 12 (1.85%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.39%) Puppet
8 7 (1.08%) Packer
9 4 (0.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.55%) Splunk
2 32 (4.93%) Oracle
3 27 (4.16%) Google
4 19 (2.93%) IBM
4 19 (2.93%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.62%) OneLogin
6 16 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.31%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.39%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.08%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.77%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.46%) Solace
12 3 (0.46%) WSO2
13 2 (0.31%) Apple
13 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.31%) TikTok
14 1 (0.15%) Guidewire