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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 243 267
Rank change year-on-year -110 +24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 427 596 1,044
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.37% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 6.98% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 233 262 574
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £93,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -

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 8,831 8,536 20,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.66% 21.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6,451 6,267 15,754
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 8 May 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 -81 398 £71,500 -4.67% 125
UK excluding London -175 219 £70,000 -3.45% 89
London -1 179 £74,000 -10.30% 56
North of England -50 138 £72,500 -14.83% 37
Work from Home -130 125 £72,500 -8.01% 59
Yorkshire -1 71 £76,250 -3.25% 5
North West -58 60 £67,500 -23.87% 25
South West -57 39 £62,500 -3.85% 13
South East -75 34 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Midlands -82 13 £45,000 -5.26% 7
West Midlands -37 12 £45,000 -35.71% 5
North East -32 7 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales -27 4 £48,310 +13.62% 1
Scotland -82 4 £65,000 -18.75% 4
East of England -29 1 £62,500 -24.24% 5

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 14 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.04%) Apache
3 12 (2.81%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.17%) Confluence
5 5 (1.17%) JBoss
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.70%) Liferay
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 246 (57.61%) AWS
2 114 (26.70%) Serverless
3 79 (18.50%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (18.03%) Amazon ECS
5 76 (17.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 75 (17.56%) Amazon S3
7 64 (14.99%) Azure
8 55 (12.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 52 (12.18%) Apigee
10 49 (11.48%) Amazon ECR
11 42 (9.84%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (8.67%) GCP
13 27 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (4.92%) OpenShift
15 19 (4.45%) GitHub
16 17 (3.98%) SaaS
17 12 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 6 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 5 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.11%) AMQP
2 5 (1.17%) Internet
3 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 59 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (13.11%) DynamoDB
4 43 (10.07%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.32%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.22%) MySQL
7 17 (3.98%) RDBMS
8 9 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.11%) Redis
9 6 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.17%) Big Data
10 5 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.17%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.94%) Flink
11 4 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.70%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.47%) Power BI
14 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 100 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 71 (16.63%) GitLab
3 59 (13.82%) Maven
4 51 (11.94%) Git
5 46 (10.77%) Cypress.io
6 45 (10.54%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.62%) JUnit
8 20 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.68%) Gradle
9 17 (3.98%) JIRA
10 15 (3.51%) Mockito
11 10 (2.34%) Selenium
12 5 (1.17%) JMeter
13 4 (0.94%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.70%) Postman
14 3 (0.70%) TestNG
15 2 (0.47%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.47%) ESLint
15 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (21.78%) Finance
2 49 (11.48%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.13%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.15%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.75%) Banking
6 16 (3.75%) Billing
7 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.58%) Advertising
8 11 (2.58%) Front Office
9 9 (2.11%) Games
9 9 (2.11%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.87%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.94%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 230 (53.86%) Developer
2 184 (43.09%) Java Developer
3 115 (26.93%) Java Engineer
4 113 (26.46%) Senior
5 75 (17.56%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.69%) Senior Developer
7 57 (13.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 53 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 47 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 46 (10.77%) Lead
11 41 (9.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 38 (8.90%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (3.98%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (3.75%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.75%) Backend Developer
15 16 (3.75%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.75%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 15 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (88.76%) Spring
2 134 (31.38%) AngularJS
3 108 (25.29%) React
4 103 (24.12%) REST
5 75 (17.56%) Kafka
6 57 (13.35%) RESTful
7 46 (10.77%) Node.js
8 43 (10.07%) Gherkin
9 42 (9.84%) Jest
10 41 (9.60%) Hibernate
11 34 (7.96%) Web Services
12 31 (7.26%) HTML
13 25 (5.85%) JPA
14 23 (5.39%) Vue
15 22 (5.15%) CSS
16 20 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (3.98%) JSON
18 17 (3.98%) OAuth
19 15 (3.51%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 73 (17.10%) Cloud Native
2 56 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.04%) e-Learning
6 12 (2.81%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.17%) IoT
11 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.70%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
14 1 (0.23%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.87%) Linux
2 6 (1.41%) Android
2 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.17%) CentOS
3 5 (1.17%) Debian
3 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (48.71%) CI/CD
2 205 (48.01%) Microservices
3 194 (45.43%) Agile
4 174 (40.75%) DevOps
5 141 (33.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 105 (24.59%) Containerisation
8 95 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (21.55%) Mentoring
10 73 (17.10%) Test Automation
11 69 (16.16%) Scrum
11 69 (16.16%) TDD
12 65 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 58 (13.58%) Clean Code
14 56 (13.11%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (12.41%) AI
16 53 (12.41%) SDLC
17 51 (11.94%) Secure Coding
18 48 (11.24%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 424 (99.30%) Java
2 94 (22.01%) JavaScript
3 78 (18.27%) TypeScript
4 74 (17.33%) SQL
5 62 (14.52%) Python
6 42 (9.84%) Bash
6 42 (9.84%) Groovy
7 25 (5.85%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.64%) Go
9 6 (1.41%) PHP
10 5 (1.17%) C#
11 4 (0.94%) C++
11 4 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.70%) Ruby
13 2 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.23%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.24%) AWS Certification
3 40 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.96%) Degree
5 24 (5.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.62%) ITIL Certification
6 17 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.51%) QA
2 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.94%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 171 (40.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 148 (34.66%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.48%) Terraform
3 41 (9.60%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.56%) Ansible
5 9 (2.11%) Grafana
5 9 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.87%) Kibana
7 5 (1.17%) Packer
7 5 (1.17%) Puppet
8 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (4.45%) Oracle
2 11 (2.58%) Google
3 8 (1.87%) Splunk
4 7 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.64%) Solace
5 6 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.41%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.17%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.17%) Peregrine
6 5 (1.17%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.94%) IBM
8 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.70%) Revolut
8 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Pega
9 2 (0.47%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.23%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.23%) Workday