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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 231 375
Rank change year-on-year -93 +144 -92
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 642 643 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.29% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 7.68% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 404 193 276
10th Percentile £45,550 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,625 £72,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.75% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% +1.92% +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 11,800 8,375 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 5,333 9,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -86 527 £75,000 +3.45% 621
UK excluding London -149 357 £67,500 +1.89% 369
London +10 251 £80,000 -20.00% 380
Work from Home -155 153 £67,500 +3.85% 305
North of England -69 146 £65,000 -5.45% 122
North West -55 90 £65,000 -3.70% 76
South West -35 68 £68,000 +4.62% 40
Wales -16 60 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire -2 38 £85,000 +25.93% 20
West Midlands -55 31 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Midlands -99 31 £62,500 -3.10% 27
South East -86 29 £67,500 - 34
North East -49 18 £53,750 -18.87% 27
Scotland -77 15 £71,000 +1.43% 95
Northern Ireland -73 11 £60,000 +9.09% 27
East of England -47 2 £58,750 -6.00% 6

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 24 (3.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.18%) Camunda
3 13 (2.02%) Apache
3 13 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.40%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.93%) CICS
7 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.31%) JBoss
9 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 400 (62.31%) AWS
2 183 (28.50%) Azure
3 129 (20.09%) GitHub
4 122 (19.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 122 (19.00%) Serverless
5 96 (14.95%) GCP
6 92 (14.33%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (11.21%) Amazon S3
9 68 (10.59%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.30%) AWS Step Functions
12 31 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
15 23 (3.58%) SaaS
16 20 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (2.80%) Amazon ECR
17 18 (2.80%) Apigee
18 17 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.12%) AMQP
2 15 (2.34%) DMARC
3 13 (2.02%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (17.45%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.81%) MongoDB
4 56 (8.72%) Relational Database
5 45 (7.01%) MySQL
6 43 (6.70%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.65%) Db2
8 15 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.18%) Redis
10 10 (1.56%) DTS
10 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.25%) Big Data
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 131 (20.40%) Jenkins
2 93 (14.49%) GitLab
3 85 (13.24%) Git
4 57 (8.88%) Cucumber
5 47 (7.32%) JUnit
6 33 (5.14%) Maven
7 31 (4.83%) Mockito
8 26 (4.05%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.12%) JIRA
10 15 (2.34%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.18%) Claude Code
11 14 (2.18%) Selenium
12 10 (1.56%) JMeter
13 8 (1.25%) Gradle
14 7 (1.09%) Postman
14 7 (1.09%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.78%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
General
1 160 (24.92%) Finance
2 127 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 118 (18.38%) Public Sector
4 66 (10.28%) Banking
5 45 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.74%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.80%) Tech for Good
9 16 (2.49%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.18%) Publishing
11 8 (1.25%) Front Office
11 8 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.78%) Advertising
13 5 (0.78%) Law
13 5 (0.78%) Retail
14 3 (0.47%) Back Office
14 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 254 (39.56%) Developer
2 176 (27.41%) Java Developer
3 174 (27.10%) Senior
4 147 (22.90%) Java Engineer
5 126 (19.63%) Software Engineer
6 99 (15.42%) Lead
7 76 (11.84%) Senior Developer
8 71 (11.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 57 (8.88%) Principal Engineer
10 52 (8.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 50 (7.79%) Senior Java Engineer
12 48 (7.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 43 (6.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 38 (5.92%) Principal Java Engineer
16 36 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
17 34 (5.30%) Architect
17 34 (5.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 32 (4.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (3.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (93.77%) Spring
2 203 (31.62%) Kafka
3 135 (21.03%) Terraform
4 126 (19.63%) React
5 121 (18.85%) REST
6 108 (16.82%) Node.js
6 108 (16.82%) RESTful
7 96 (14.95%) AngularJS
8 68 (10.59%) Hibernate
9 60 (9.35%) JPA
10 50 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
11 44 (6.85%) OAuth
12 38 (5.92%) OAuth2
13 33 (5.14%) .NET
14 32 (4.98%) Ruby on Rails
15 30 (4.67%) HTML
16 26 (4.05%) Jest
17 23 (3.58%) Spring Security
18 22 (3.43%) CSS
18 22 (3.43%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 222 (34.58%) Cloud Native
2 138 (21.50%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (11.37%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (8.10%) Public Cloud
5 50 (7.79%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (7.17%) e-Learning
7 42 (6.54%) Product Ownership
8 38 (5.92%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.65%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.87%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.87%) Podcast
13 11 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.56%) EPoS
14 10 (1.56%) iSeries
15 9 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
15 9 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) AIX
2 7 (1.09%) CentOS
2 7 (1.09%) Debian
2 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (67.45%) CI/CD
2 378 (58.88%) Microservices
3 334 (52.02%) Agile
4 281 (43.77%) DevOps
5 231 (35.98%) Software Engineering
6 204 (31.78%) Containerisation
7 191 (29.75%) Event-Driven
8 174 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
9 170 (26.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 158 (24.61%) Mentoring
10 158 (24.61%) Test Automation
11 120 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (18.54%) AI
13 107 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (16.51%) Scrum
15 103 (16.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 102 (15.89%) TDD
17 96 (14.95%) Observability
18 94 (14.64%) BDD
19 86 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 634 (98.75%) Java
2 148 (23.05%) Python
3 120 (18.69%) SQL
4 103 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 81 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.98%) Ruby
7 31 (4.83%) Kotlin
8 22 (3.43%) COBOL
9 19 (2.96%) C#
10 16 (2.49%) Groovy
10 16 (2.49%) JCL
11 12 (1.87%) Bash
12 10 (1.56%) RPG
13 8 (1.25%) C++
14 7 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.93%) Scala
16 4 (0.62%) Go
17 3 (0.47%) C
18 2 (0.31%) PHP
18 2 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 139 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.99%) AWS Certification
4 56 (8.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 56 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.36%) Degree
6 15 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.16%) OCP
15 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.68%) QA
2 35 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.89%) WCAG
4 7 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 265 (41.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 244 (38.01%) Kubernetes
2 72 (11.21%) Ansible
3 27 (4.21%) Grafana
4 24 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.71%) HP Fortify
6 9 (1.40%) Kibana
6 9 (1.40%) Puppet
7 6 (0.93%) Packer
8 4 (0.62%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.61%) Splunk
2 31 (4.83%) Oracle
3 27 (4.21%) Google
4 18 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.65%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.34%) IBM
6 15 (2.34%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.56%) Broadcom
9 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.09%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.78%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.47%) Adobe
11 3 (0.47%) Solace
12 2 (0.31%) Apple
12 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.31%) TikTok
12 2 (0.31%) WSO2
13 1 (0.16%) Okta