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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 308 249
Rank change year-on-year -49 -59 +8
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 404 388 1,088
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.94% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 4.48% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 233 266 630
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 £83,750 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £71,250 £66,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +7.14% +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 8,583 8,662 20,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.17% 21.07% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 6,567 15,613
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,000
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 12 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 12 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 -34 379 £70,000 -10.43% 102
UK excluding London -91 215 £67,500 -5.26% 72
London -18 163 £75,000 -9.09% 53
Work from Home -2 134 £70,000 -11.18% 66
North of England -2 122 £72,500 -9.38% 23
Yorkshire -9 68 £77,500 -1.66% 5
North West -15 48 £67,500 -23.87% 13
South West -47 43 £62,500 -7.41% 10
South East -71 36 £80,000 +18.52% 20
Midlands -37 15 £45,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands -4 12 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -29 6 £31,850 -42.09% 5
Scotland -49 5 £65,000 -18.75% 10
Wales -25 3 £50,100 +17.83% 2
East Midlands -52 2 £47,600 +0.21% 1
East of England -27 1 £62,500 -24.24% 4

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 (3.96%) Apache
2 13 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.72%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.99%) Confluence
4 4 (0.99%) JBoss
5 3 (0.74%) Liferay
6 2 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 246 (60.89%) AWS
2 107 (26.49%) Serverless
3 77 (19.06%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (18.32%) Amazon ECS
5 72 (17.82%) Amazon S3
6 65 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (15.84%) Azure
8 50 (12.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 48 (11.88%) Apigee
10 45 (11.14%) Amazon ECR
11 41 (10.15%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (9.65%) GCP
13 31 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (7.67%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.19%) GitHub
15 18 (4.46%) SaaS
16 16 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.24%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.48%) AMQP
2 5 (1.24%) Internet
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (17.08%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (15.35%) NoSQL
3 52 (12.87%) DynamoDB
4 47 (11.63%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.69%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.20%) MySQL
7 19 (4.70%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.98%) Redis
11 7 (1.73%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.49%) Big Data
12 6 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.74%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.50%) Flink
16 2 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
17 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
17 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 99 (24.50%) Jenkins
2 67 (16.58%) GitLab
3 60 (14.85%) Git
4 53 (13.12%) Maven
5 45 (11.14%) Cypress.io
6 43 (10.64%) SonarQube
7 30 (7.43%) JUnit
8 23 (5.69%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.95%) Gradle
10 18 (4.46%) Selenium
11 16 (3.96%) JIRA
12 14 (3.47%) Mockito
13 6 (1.49%) JMeter
14 3 (0.74%) Postman
14 3 (0.74%) TestNG
15 2 (0.50%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.50%) ESLint
15 2 (0.50%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
16 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 82 (20.30%) Finance
2 57 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.96%) Billing
6 15 (3.71%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.48%) Advertising
7 10 (2.48%) Banking
7 10 (2.48%) Front Office
7 10 (2.48%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.23%) Games
9 8 (1.98%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.50%) Law
13 2 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 223 (55.20%) Developer
2 179 (44.31%) Java Developer
3 110 (27.23%) Senior
4 94 (23.27%) Java Engineer
5 78 (19.31%) Software Engineer
6 67 (16.58%) Senior Developer
7 52 (12.87%) Senior Java Developer
8 47 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 46 (11.39%) Lead
10 41 (10.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (8.17%) Senior Java Engineer
12 32 (7.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (7.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.21%) Backend Developer
15 17 (4.21%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.96%) Lead Java Developer
17 13 (3.22%) AWS Developer
18 12 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (2.97%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (88.37%) Spring
2 119 (29.46%) AngularJS
3 104 (25.74%) React
4 93 (23.02%) REST
5 69 (17.08%) Kafka
6 54 (13.37%) RESTful
7 44 (10.89%) Node.js
8 42 (10.40%) Hibernate
8 42 (10.40%) Jest
9 40 (9.90%) Gherkin
10 31 (7.67%) HTML
10 31 (7.67%) Web Services
11 29 (7.18%) JPA
12 26 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
13 23 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (5.45%) CSS
15 20 (4.95%) Vue
16 18 (4.46%) Spring MVC
17 17 (4.21%) JSON
18 15 (3.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.22%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (2.23%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.98%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.24%) IoT
12 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.74%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (0.50%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.25%) AI Agents
15 1 (0.25%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.48%) Linux
2 6 (1.49%) Android
2 6 (1.49%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.49%) CentOS
2 6 (1.49%) Debian
2 6 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (52.72%) CI/CD
2 197 (48.76%) Agile
3 193 (47.77%) Microservices
4 183 (45.30%) DevOps
5 128 (31.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 124 (30.69%) Software Engineering
7 108 (26.73%) Containerisation
8 94 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (23.27%) Mentoring
9 69 (17.08%) Test Automation
10 67 (16.58%) Scrum
10 67 (16.58%) TDD
11 61 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (14.85%) Event-Driven
13 52 (12.87%) SDLC
13 52 (12.87%) Secure Coding
14 51 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (11.88%) Clean Code
16 47 (11.63%) AI
17 45 (11.14%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 402 (99.50%) Java
2 93 (23.02%) JavaScript
3 73 (18.07%) TypeScript
4 72 (17.82%) SQL
5 61 (15.10%) Python
6 41 (10.15%) Bash
7 39 (9.65%) Groovy
8 25 (6.19%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.98%) Delphi
10 7 (1.73%) Go
11 6 (1.49%) PHP
12 4 (0.99%) C++
12 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.74%) C#
14 2 (0.50%) R
14 2 (0.50%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 62 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.15%) AWS Certification
3 37 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.17%) Degree
5 23 (5.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.69%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (4.70%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.23%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.47%) QA
2 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.74%) NCSC
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (42.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 162 (40.10%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.63%) Terraform
3 40 (9.90%) HP Fortify
4 26 (6.44%) Ansible
5 19 (4.70%) Grafana
6 11 (2.72%) Kibana
7 10 (2.48%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.49%) Puppet
9 3 (0.74%) Packer
10 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (6.19%) Oracle
2 12 (2.97%) Google
3 8 (1.98%) Red Hat
3 8 (1.98%) Splunk
4 6 (1.49%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.49%) SaltStack
4 6 (1.49%) Solace
5 5 (1.24%) AppDynamics
6 4 (0.99%) IBM
6 4 (0.99%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.74%) Revolut
7 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.50%) Pega
8 2 (0.50%) WSO2
9 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.25%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.25%) Okta
9 1 (0.25%) Peregrine