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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 228 322
Rank change year-on-year -127 +94 -31
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 547 699 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.41% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 8.02% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 357 232 393
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,261
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £94,083 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,831 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,531 8,711 16,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 17.63% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,789 5,719 12,323
10th Percentile £40,450 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,183 £105,000
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -114 472 £75,000 +3.45% 214
UK excluding London -164 296 £70,000 - 138
London +10 231 £80,000 -3.03% 121
North of England -47 147 £70,000 -11.18% 45
Work from Home -169 128 £70,000 -1.75% 113
North West -48 85 £65,000 -26.69% 29
Yorkshire +11 53 £75,000 - 7
South West -58 48 £67,750 -6.55% 19
Wales -15 44 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South East -80 32 £67,500 -3.57% 24
Midlands -114 20 £57,500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands -46 19 £56,250 -19.64% 14
Scotland -77 12 £65,000 -16.13% 19
North East -47 9 £50,000 -23.08% 9
East of England -33 2 £58,750 -30.88% 1
Northern Ireland -78 1 £60,000 +9.09% 7

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 22 (4.02%) Confluence
2 14 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.46%) Apache
4 8 (1.46%) Camunda
5 4 (0.73%) JBoss
5 4 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 319 (58.32%) AWS
2 150 (27.42%) Azure
3 133 (24.31%) Serverless
4 107 (19.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.10%) AWS Lambda
6 87 (15.90%) GitHub
7 81 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
8 74 (13.53%) Amazon S3
9 72 (13.16%) GCP
10 48 (8.78%) AWS Step Functions
11 46 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (6.22%) Amazon ECR
13 34 (6.22%) Apigee
14 30 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (2.56%) OpenShift
19 13 (2.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.38%) DMARC
2 8 (1.46%) AMQP
3 4 (0.73%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (16.82%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (16.09%) NoSQL
3 56 (10.24%) DynamoDB
4 53 (9.69%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.86%) MongoDB
6 40 (7.31%) MySQL
7 20 (3.66%) Redis
8 11 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.01%) Db2
8 11 (2.01%) DTS
8 11 (2.01%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.73%) Flink
11 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 125 (22.85%) Jenkins
2 81 (14.81%) GitLab
3 71 (12.98%) Git
4 40 (7.31%) Maven
5 39 (7.13%) JUnit
6 37 (6.76%) Cucumber
7 35 (6.40%) Cypress.io
8 27 (4.94%) SonarQube
9 24 (4.39%) Mockito
10 23 (4.20%) JIRA
11 21 (3.84%) Selenium
12 11 (2.01%) Gradle
13 10 (1.83%) JMeter
14 8 (1.46%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.28%) Postman
16 6 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.73%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 127 (23.22%) Finance
2 93 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 87 (15.90%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.13%) Banking
5 28 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.29%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.56%) Advertising
8 14 (2.56%) Front Office
9 12 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.10%) Billing
12 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.91%) Retail
14 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.55%) Games
16 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 233 (42.60%) Developer
2 174 (31.81%) Java Developer
3 141 (25.78%) Senior
4 138 (25.23%) Java Engineer
5 92 (16.82%) Software Engineer
6 84 (15.36%) Lead
7 68 (12.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (11.52%) Senior Developer
9 55 (10.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 47 (8.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.41%) Senior Java Engineer
12 41 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
13 40 (7.31%) Java Software Engineer
14 35 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (5.48%) Architect
16 30 (5.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 30 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (4.94%) Principal Java Engineer
18 22 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (91.41%) Spring
2 147 (26.87%) Kafka
3 130 (23.77%) AngularJS
4 115 (21.02%) React
5 111 (20.29%) REST
6 96 (17.55%) Node.js
7 93 (17.00%) RESTful
8 58 (10.60%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.14%) JPA
10 36 (6.58%) OAuth
11 34 (6.22%) Jest
12 33 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
13 32 (5.85%) HTML
13 32 (5.85%) OAuth2
14 28 (5.12%) Gherkin
14 28 (5.12%) Vue
15 27 (4.94%) Ruby on Rails
16 25 (4.57%) Web Services
17 23 (4.20%) CSS
18 17 (3.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 154 (28.15%) Cloud Native
2 103 (18.83%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.23%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (5.48%) Public Cloud
6 28 (5.12%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.39%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.20%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.83%) EPoS
9 10 (1.83%) iSeries
10 9 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.73%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.01%) Linux
2 5 (0.91%) AIX
2 5 (0.91%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) CentOS
3 4 (0.73%) Debian
3 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (62.71%) CI/CD
2 307 (56.12%) Microservices
3 270 (49.36%) Agile
4 237 (43.33%) DevOps
5 177 (32.36%) Containerisation
6 165 (30.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 165 (30.16%) Software Engineering
7 138 (25.23%) Event-Driven
8 135 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 135 (24.68%) Test Automation
9 128 (23.40%) Mentoring
10 101 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (16.45%) TDD
12 87 (15.90%) AI
13 79 (14.44%) Scrum
14 77 (14.08%) BDD
15 76 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
16 75 (13.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
18 64 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 542 (99.09%) Java
2 131 (23.95%) Python
3 111 (20.29%) SQL
4 85 (15.54%) JavaScript
5 82 (14.99%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.67%) Kotlin
7 29 (5.30%) Groovy
8 27 (4.94%) Ruby
9 25 (4.57%) Bash
10 17 (3.11%) C#
11 10 (1.83%) C++
11 10 (1.83%) RPG
12 9 (1.65%) COBOL
13 7 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.91%) Go
15 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.73%) Scala
16 3 (0.55%) JCL
17 2 (0.37%) C
17 2 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.61%) AWS Certification
3 64 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 44 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 41 (7.50%) Degree
6 40 (7.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.86%) QA
2 25 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.66%) WCAG
4 7 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.10%) NCSC
6 5 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 224 (40.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 193 (35.28%) Kubernetes
2 107 (19.56%) Terraform
3 52 (9.51%) Ansible
4 24 (4.39%) HP Fortify
5 17 (3.11%) Grafana
6 15 (2.74%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.38%) Kibana
8 4 (0.73%) Packer
8 4 (0.73%) Puppet
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (4.39%) Oracle
1 24 (4.39%) Splunk
2 20 (3.66%) Google
3 17 (3.11%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.93%) IBM
5 13 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.38%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.19%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.19%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.91%) AppDynamics
7 5 (0.91%) Peregrine
7 5 (0.91%) Solace
8 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.73%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) WSO2
10 2 (0.37%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.37%) Pega
10 2 (0.37%) Revolut
10 2 (0.37%) TikTok