Spring Boot Jobs

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 308 311
Rank change year-on-year +52 +3 -131
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 713 958 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 0.89% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 4.40% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 246 515 760
10th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £97,208 £93,750 £97,290
90th Percentile £113,240 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +4.00%

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 9,842 21,782 25,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.17% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 5,968 16,169 17,160
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,579
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.54% +4.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,600 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Salary trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 2 July 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 +77 568 £73,750 -7.81% 775
UK excluding London +86 562 £72,500 +11.54% 423
Work from Home +161 377 £72,500 -3.33% 429
North of England +121 185 £85,253 +10.00% 129
London -14 170 £82,500 -2.94% 471
North West +95 168 £88,662 +10.83% 97
Scotland +6 127 £78,810 +19.86% 89
Midlands +132 90 £64,000 +16.36% 39
South East +92 82 £70,000 -6.67% 90
South West +84 51 £72,500 +20.83% 44
East Midlands +85 48 £47,500 -20.83% 16
West Midlands +89 42 £70,000 +27.27% 23
East of England +39 16 £85,000 +70.00% 5
Northern Ireland +43 14 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Yorkshire +45 12 £78,810 +5.08% 21
North East +48 5 £72,500 +80.12% 11
Wales +27 3 £47,307 +8.75% 13

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 176 (24.68%) Confluence
2 14 (1.96%) JBoss
3 12 (1.68%) Red Hat Fuse
4 10 (1.40%) Apache
4 10 (1.40%) Camunda
5 9 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.12%) nginx
6 8 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.98%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.28%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 577 (80.93%) AWS
2 354 (49.65%) Azure
3 263 (36.89%) GCP
4 82 (11.50%) Serverless
5 56 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (6.73%) Amazon S3
8 46 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (4.77%) GitHub
10 32 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (1.54%) Apigee
13 11 (1.54%) AWS KMS
13 11 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 11 (1.54%) npm
13 11 (1.54%) Route 53
14 10 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) HTTP
2 3 (0.42%) Internet
3 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) AMQP
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (38.15%) SQL Server
2 120 (16.83%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (12.76%) Relational Database
4 68 (9.54%) NoSQL
5 57 (7.99%) MongoDB
6 39 (5.47%) MySQL
7 32 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 31 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 25 (3.51%) DynamoDB
10 17 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (1.68%) Big Data
12 10 (1.40%) Cloud Spanner
12 10 (1.40%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.12%) CockroachDB
14 8 (1.12%) DB2
14 8 (1.12%) Redis
15 5 (0.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 313 (43.90%) Maven
2 287 (40.25%) Cucumber
3 286 (40.11%) GitLab
4 283 (39.69%) SonarQube
5 282 (39.55%) JIRA
6 271 (38.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 266 (37.31%) Selenium
8 259 (36.33%) Bitbucket
9 123 (17.25%) Jenkins
10 109 (15.29%) Git
10 109 (15.29%) JUnit
11 65 (9.12%) Mockito
12 19 (2.66%) JMeter
13 13 (1.82%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.82%) webpack
14 11 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.54%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.54%) IntelliJ
14 11 (1.54%) jMock
14 11 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 514 (72.09%) Finance
2 373 (52.31%) Banking
3 350 (49.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 103 (14.45%) Investment Banking
5 100 (14.03%) Law
6 98 (13.74%) Social Skills
7 95 (13.32%) Retail
8 90 (12.62%) Corporate Banking
9 73 (10.24%) Public Sector
10 58 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
11 41 (5.75%) Marketing
12 35 (4.91%) Financial Institution
13 18 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.12%) Games
15 8 (1.12%) Legal
16 6 (0.84%) Electronics
17 5 (0.70%) Advertising
17 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 444 (62.27%) Software Engineer
2 170 (23.84%) Developer
3 144 (20.20%) Java Developer
4 140 (19.64%) Java Engineer
5 104 (14.59%) Senior
6 103 (14.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 73 (10.24%) Lead
8 54 (7.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 42 (5.89%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (4.91%) Senior Java Developer
12 34 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 33 (4.63%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
15 27 (3.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 24 (3.37%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 23 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 22 (3.09%) Lead Developer
19 18 (2.52%) Lead Java Engineer
19 18 (2.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (89.48%) Spring
2 435 (61.01%) Kafka
3 370 (51.89%) React
4 288 (40.39%) HTML
5 285 (39.97%) JPA
6 265 (37.17%) CSS
7 252 (35.34%) Redux
8 239 (33.52%) Hibernate
9 236 (33.10%) RESTful
10 206 (28.89%) REST
11 102 (14.31%) AngularJS
11 102 (14.31%) Jest
12 97 (13.60%) HTML5
13 95 (13.32%) CSS3
14 90 (12.62%) Sass
15 79 (11.08%) Web Services
16 48 (6.73%) ActiveMQ
17 41 (5.75%) Node.js
18 36 (5.05%) SOAP
19 32 (4.49%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 268 (37.59%) Product Ownership
2 265 (37.17%) Enterprise Software
3 88 (12.34%) Cloud Native
4 75 (10.52%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (6.87%) Algorithms
6 38 (5.33%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
8 16 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.96%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
13 9 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.26%) Wiki
14 8 (1.12%) Life Science
14 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.84%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.84%) Private Cloud
15 6 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.01%) Linux
2 17 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (78.68%) Agile
2 523 (73.35%) Microservices
3 515 (72.23%) Software Engineering
4 501 (70.27%) CI/CD
5 401 (56.24%) DevOps
6 368 (51.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 357 (50.07%) Test Automation
8 354 (49.65%) SDLC
9 347 (48.67%) Containerisation
10 309 (43.34%) TDD
11 270 (37.87%) Front End Development
12 262 (36.75%) Performance Optimisation
13 227 (31.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 192 (26.93%) Clean Code
15 158 (22.16%) Mentoring
16 114 (15.99%) User Experience
17 102 (14.31%) BDD
18 98 (13.74%) Scrum
19 96 (13.46%) Strategic Thinking
20 95 (13.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 707 (99.16%) Java
2 363 (50.91%) SQL
3 362 (50.77%) JavaScript
4 156 (21.88%) TypeScript
5 69 (9.68%) Python
6 28 (3.93%) Shell Script
7 22 (3.09%) Go
8 16 (2.24%) C++
9 15 (2.10%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.84%) C#
10 6 (0.84%) Groovy
10 6 (0.84%) Rust
11 5 (0.70%) Scala
12 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.42%) Ruby
14 2 (0.28%) ABAP
14 2 (0.28%) Bash
15 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.01%) SC Cleared
3 16 (2.24%) AWS Certification
3 16 (2.24%) Degree
4 13 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 11 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.14%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (36.47%) QA
2 93 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.68%) SLA
4 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.14%) NCSC
5 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 483 (67.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) NDS
Systems Management
1 509 (71.39%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.96%) Terraform
3 40 (5.61%) Ansible
4 21 (2.95%) Kibana
5 16 (2.24%) Grafana
6 13 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.68%) Istio
8 11 (1.54%) Argo
9 8 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.12%) Packer
10 3 (0.42%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 248 (34.78%) Solace
2 52 (7.29%) Oracle
3 40 (5.61%) Splunk
4 32 (4.49%) Dynatrace
5 26 (3.65%) Google
6 18 (2.52%) IBM
7 11 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.26%) Bloomberg
8 9 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.12%) SAP
9 8 (1.12%) Sybase
10 6 (0.84%) Microsoft
11 5 (0.70%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.70%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.56%) WSO2
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Moogsoft
14 2 (0.28%) Databricks
14 2 (0.28%) YouTube