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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 319 267
Rank change year-on-year -39 -52 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 418 394 1,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.94% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.80% 4.67% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 235 266 597
10th Percentile £52,160 £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 £83,125 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 8,714 8,443 20,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 20.09% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,363 6,441 15,734
10th Percentile £39,240 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 26 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 26 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 -20 390 £70,000 -6.67% 108
UK excluding London -88 221 £67,500 -3.57% 84
London -23 167 £75,000 -9.09% 55
Work from Home -3 134 £70,000 -11.18% 130
North of England +6 127 £72,500 -14.71% 29
Yorkshire -10 70 £77,500 -1.66% 5
North West -8 48 £67,500 -23.87% 17
South West -45 45 £62,500 - 15
South East -76 36 £80,000 +18.52% 24
Midlands -35 16 £45,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands -17 14 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -39 9 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales -27 4 £50,100 +17.83% 2
Scotland -55 4 £65,000 -18.75% 4
East of England -34 1 £62,500 -24.24% 4
East Midlands -64 1 £55,200 +16.21% 1

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 15 (3.59%) Apache
2 13 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.87%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.20%) JBoss
5 4 (0.96%) Confluence
6 3 (0.72%) Liferay
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.48%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 249 (59.57%) AWS
2 108 (25.84%) Serverless
3 77 (18.42%) AWS Lambda
4 75 (17.94%) Amazon ECS
5 73 (17.46%) Amazon S3
6 68 (16.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (15.07%) Azure
8 52 (12.44%) AWS Step Functions
9 50 (11.96%) Apigee
10 47 (11.24%) Amazon ECR
11 42 (10.05%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (9.09%) GCP
13 29 (6.94%) OpenShift
14 28 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (5.74%) GitHub
16 17 (4.07%) SaaS
17 14 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
19 7 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.20%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.15%) AMQP
2 5 (1.20%) Internet
3 3 (0.72%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (15.07%) NoSQL
3 54 (12.92%) DynamoDB
4 46 (11.00%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.22%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.78%) MySQL
7 18 (4.31%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.11%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.91%) Redis
11 6 (1.44%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.20%) Big Data
12 5 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.72%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.72%) Flink
15 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 101 (24.16%) Jenkins
2 71 (16.99%) GitLab
3 60 (14.35%) Git
4 56 (13.40%) Maven
5 45 (10.77%) SonarQube
6 44 (10.53%) Cypress.io
7 32 (7.66%) JUnit
8 24 (5.74%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.78%) Gradle
10 18 (4.31%) Selenium
11 16 (3.83%) JIRA
12 15 (3.59%) Mockito
13 5 (1.20%) JMeter
14 3 (0.72%) Postman
14 3 (0.72%) TestNG
15 2 (0.48%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.48%) ESLint
15 2 (0.48%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.48%) Vagrant
16 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 88 (21.05%) Finance
2 56 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 40 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.83%) Billing
7 14 (3.35%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.87%) Banking
9 11 (2.63%) Advertising
10 10 (2.39%) Front Office
11 9 (2.15%) Games
11 9 (2.15%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.91%) Health Technology
13 6 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.96%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.72%) Digital Healthcare
17 2 (0.48%) Law
17 2 (0.48%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 232 (55.50%) Developer
2 182 (43.54%) Java Developer
3 114 (27.27%) Senior
4 102 (24.40%) Java Engineer
5 72 (17.22%) Software Engineer
6 69 (16.51%) Senior Developer
7 53 (12.68%) Senior Java Developer
8 49 (11.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 48 (11.48%) Lead
10 40 (9.57%) Java Software Engineer
11 35 (8.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (8.37%) Senior Java Engineer
12 27 (6.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (4.78%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.07%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.07%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.83%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.83%) Lead Java Developer
16 12 (2.87%) Principal Engineer
16 12 (2.87%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (88.76%) Spring
2 129 (30.86%) AngularJS
3 104 (24.88%) React
4 98 (23.44%) REST
5 70 (16.75%) Kafka
6 56 (13.40%) RESTful
7 44 (10.53%) Node.js
8 42 (10.05%) Jest
9 41 (9.81%) Gherkin
9 41 (9.81%) Hibernate
10 34 (8.13%) Web Services
11 31 (7.42%) HTML
12 28 (6.70%) JPA
13 27 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (5.26%) CSS
14 22 (5.26%) Vue
15 21 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
16 18 (4.31%) Spring MVC
17 17 (4.07%) JSON
18 15 (3.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 51 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.87%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (2.39%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.20%) IoT
11 4 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.72%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.72%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.72%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.48%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.48%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.44%) Android
2 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.20%) CentOS
3 5 (1.20%) Debian
3 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 197 (47.13%) Microservices
3 196 (46.89%) Agile
4 183 (43.78%) DevOps
5 131 (31.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 124 (29.67%) Software Engineering
7 111 (26.56%) Containerisation
8 95 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (22.73%) Mentoring
9 73 (17.46%) Test Automation
10 72 (17.22%) TDD
11 68 (16.27%) Scrum
12 62 (14.83%) Event-Driven
12 62 (14.83%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (13.64%) Secure Coding
14 55 (13.16%) Clean Code
15 54 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (12.92%) SDLC
16 50 (11.96%) BDD
17 47 (11.24%) AI
Programming Languages
1 416 (99.52%) Java
2 93 (22.25%) JavaScript
3 75 (17.94%) SQL
4 73 (17.46%) TypeScript
5 64 (15.31%) Python
6 42 (10.05%) Bash
7 40 (9.57%) Groovy
8 24 (5.74%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.91%) Delphi
10 7 (1.67%) Go
11 6 (1.44%) PHP
12 4 (0.96%) C#
12 4 (0.96%) C++
12 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.48%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) C
14 1 (0.24%) Korn
14 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (15.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 37 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.89%) Degree
5 24 (5.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
6 21 (5.02%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.07%) QA
2 5 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.96%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (41.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 158 (37.80%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.24%) Terraform
3 41 (9.81%) HP Fortify
4 26 (6.22%) Ansible
5 18 (4.31%) Grafana
6 10 (2.39%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.91%) Kibana
8 5 (1.20%) Puppet
9 4 (0.96%) Packer
10 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (5.74%) Oracle
2 11 (2.63%) Google
3 7 (1.67%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.67%) Splunk
4 6 (1.44%) Dynatrace
4 6 (1.44%) Solace
5 5 (1.20%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.20%) Peregrine
5 5 (1.20%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.96%) IBM
7 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.72%) Revolut
7 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.48%) Pega
8 2 (0.48%) WSO2
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.24%) Okta