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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 232 344
Rank change year-on-year -111 +112 -55
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 597 655 600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 7.60% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 381 196 299
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +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 11,974 8,616 16,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.65% 17.38% 21.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,663 5,523 10,845
10th Percentile £42,050 £40,000 £39,732
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -103 492 £75,000 +3.45% 516
UK excluding London -166 335 £70,000 +7.69% 304
London +5 232 £80,000 -3.03% 329
North of England -70 145 £72,500 -3.33% 87
Work from Home -179 137 £70,000 +7.69% 509
North West -52 87 £65,000 -17.52% 53
South West -48 59 £68,250 +13.75% 42
Wales -15 56 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Yorkshire -4 49 £85,000 +13.33% 17
South East -74 32 £68,750 -1.79% 39
West Midlands -49 29 £62,500 -10.71% 30
Midlands -108 29 £62,500 - 38
Scotland -74 14 £88,000 +17.33% 61
North East -62 9 £50,000 -24.53% 17
Northern Ireland -81 8 £60,000 +9.09% 26
East of England -48 2 £58,750 - 8

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 23 (3.85%) Confluence
2 12 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.84%) Camunda
4 10 (1.68%) Apache
5 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.67%) CICS
6 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.50%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (60.80%) AWS
2 176 (29.48%) Azure
3 128 (21.44%) Serverless
4 118 (19.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 110 (18.43%) GitHub
6 97 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (14.91%) GCP
8 77 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (11.73%) Amazon S3
10 67 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (7.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.52%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.52%) Apigee
15 25 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.35%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (3.18%) SaaS
18 17 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.51%) AMQP
2 13 (2.18%) DMARC
3 10 (1.68%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (17.76%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (17.42%) NoSQL
3 58 (9.72%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.21%) MongoDB
5 52 (8.71%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.71%) MySQL
7 20 (3.35%) Redis
8 14 (2.35%) Db2
9 12 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.68%) DTS
11 9 (1.51%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.01%) Big Data
13 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.84%) Flink
14 5 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 136 (22.78%) Jenkins
2 88 (14.74%) GitLab
3 86 (14.41%) Git
4 48 (8.04%) Cucumber
5 43 (7.20%) JUnit
6 39 (6.53%) Maven
7 31 (5.19%) Cypress.io
8 27 (4.52%) Mockito
9 22 (3.69%) JIRA
10 21 (3.52%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.18%) Selenium
12 10 (1.68%) Gradle
12 10 (1.68%) JMeter
13 9 (1.51%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.17%) Postman
15 6 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.67%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
16 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 143 (23.95%) Finance
2 113 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 104 (17.42%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.72%) Banking
5 39 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.35%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.18%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.18%) Tech for Good
9 12 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.51%) Advertising
10 9 (1.51%) Front Office
11 6 (1.01%) Publishing
12 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.84%) Law
12 5 (0.84%) Retail
13 3 (0.50%) Back Office
13 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.50%) iGaming
13 3 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 246 (41.21%) Developer
2 178 (29.82%) Java Developer
3 160 (26.80%) Senior
4 146 (24.46%) Java Engineer
5 112 (18.76%) Software Engineer
6 89 (14.91%) Lead
7 72 (12.06%) Senior Developer
8 65 (10.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 53 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 52 (8.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (8.04%) Senior Java Engineer
12 46 (7.71%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
14 39 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (5.36%) Principal Java Engineer
17 31 (5.19%) Architect
17 31 (5.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 22 (3.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (92.46%) Spring
2 177 (29.65%) Kafka
3 123 (20.60%) React
3 123 (20.60%) Terraform
4 115 (19.26%) REST
5 113 (18.93%) AngularJS
6 107 (17.92%) RESTful
7 100 (16.75%) Node.js
8 65 (10.89%) Hibernate
9 62 (10.39%) JPA
10 47 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
11 39 (6.53%) OAuth
12 35 (5.86%) OAuth2
13 32 (5.36%) HTML
14 31 (5.19%) Jest
14 31 (5.19%) Ruby on Rails
15 30 (5.03%) .NET
16 25 (4.19%) Vue
17 24 (4.02%) CSS
18 22 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 187 (31.32%) Cloud Native
2 127 (21.27%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (7.71%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (7.20%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.37%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.53%) Mainframe
8 32 (5.36%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.68%) EPoS
11 10 (1.68%) iSeries
12 9 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.18%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) AIX
3 5 (0.84%) CentOS
3 5 (0.84%) Debian
3 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows
6 2 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (64.32%) CI/CD
2 339 (56.78%) Microservices
3 301 (50.42%) Agile
4 258 (43.22%) DevOps
5 197 (33.00%) Software Engineering
6 180 (30.15%) Containerisation
7 169 (28.31%) Event-Driven
8 166 (27.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 156 (26.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (24.46%) Test Automation
11 143 (23.95%) Mentoring
12 103 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (16.08%) AI
13 96 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (15.75%) TDD
16 89 (14.91%) BDD
17 87 (14.57%) Scrum
18 81 (13.57%) Observability
19 73 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 592 (99.16%) Java
2 138 (23.12%) Python
3 123 (20.60%) SQL
4 92 (15.41%) TypeScript
5 84 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.70%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.19%) Ruby
8 22 (3.69%) Groovy
9 19 (3.18%) C#
10 18 (3.02%) Bash
10 18 (3.02%) COBOL
11 12 (2.01%) JCL
12 10 (1.68%) C++
12 10 (1.68%) RPG
13 7 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.01%) Scala
15 4 (0.67%) Go
16 3 (0.50%) C
17 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.23%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.06%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 49 (8.21%) DV Cleared
5 33 (5.53%) Degree
6 15 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.22%) QA
2 34 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.02%) WCAG
4 7 (1.17%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 239 (40.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 209 (35.01%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.22%) Ansible
3 22 (3.69%) Grafana
4 20 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.85%) HP Fortify
6 13 (2.18%) Kibana
7 7 (1.17%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (5.36%) Splunk
2 29 (4.86%) Oracle
3 24 (4.02%) Google
4 18 (3.02%) IBM
5 16 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.68%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.35%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.18%) SendGrid
8 8 (1.34%) Broadcom
9 5 (0.84%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.84%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.84%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.67%) WSO2
11 3 (0.50%) Solace
12 2 (0.34%) Apple
12 2 (0.34%) Pega
12 2 (0.34%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.34%) TikTok