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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 233 368
Rank change year-on-year -88 +135 -88
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 648 640 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.29% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 7.65% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 405 190 276
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £72,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +1.75% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £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 11,887 8,363 15,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 16.84% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,421 5,323 9,837
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 £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -3.79%

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 7 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 7 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 -90 532 £75,000 +3.45% 649
UK excluding London -158 359 £67,500 +1.89% 391
London +7 254 £80,000 -20.00% 395
Work from Home -159 153 £67,500 +3.85% 311
North of England -63 147 £72,000 +2.86% 128
North West -56 91 £65,000 -7.14% 75
South West -36 68 £68,000 +4.62% 39
Wales -9 60 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire +2 40 £85,000 +25.93% 22
West Midlands -60 32 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Midlands -92 32 £62,500 -3.10% 28
South East -77 30 £67,500 - 52
North East -60 16 £53,750 -18.87% 32
Scotland -70 15 £71,000 +3.27% 92
Northern Ireland -76 11 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -51 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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 14 (2.16%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.16%) Camunda
3 13 (2.01%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.93%) CICS
6 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 403 (62.19%) AWS
2 184 (28.40%) Azure
3 129 (19.91%) GitHub
4 125 (19.29%) Serverless
5 123 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 96 (14.81%) GCP
7 94 (14.51%) AWS Lambda
8 78 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (11.42%) Amazon S3
10 70 (10.80%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (5.40%) AWS Step Functions
13 31 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
16 23 (3.55%) SaaS
17 20 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
18 19 (2.93%) Amazon ECR
18 19 (2.93%) Apigee
19 18 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.09%) AMQP
2 15 (2.31%) DMARC
3 13 (2.01%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (17.59%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 65 (10.03%) MongoDB
4 58 (8.95%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.10%) MySQL
6 44 (6.79%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.62%) Db2
8 16 (2.47%) Redis
9 15 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.54%) DTS
10 10 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
12 7 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.08%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.62%) Flink
15 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 134 (20.68%) Jenkins
2 93 (14.35%) GitLab
3 85 (13.12%) Git
4 57 (8.80%) Cucumber
5 46 (7.10%) JUnit
6 33 (5.09%) Maven
7 30 (4.63%) Mockito
8 26 (4.01%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.93%) JIRA
10 15 (2.31%) Selenium
10 15 (2.31%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.16%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.70%) JMeter
13 8 (1.23%) Gradle
14 7 (1.08%) Postman
14 7 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
General
1 163 (25.15%) Finance
2 127 (19.60%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.34%) Banking
5 45 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.78%) Tech for Good
9 16 (2.47%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.16%) Publishing
11 9 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.23%) Front Office
13 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.77%) Advertising
14 5 (0.77%) Law
14 5 (0.77%) Retail
15 3 (0.46%) Back Office
15 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Marketing
15 3 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 258 (39.81%) Developer
2 179 (27.62%) Java Developer
3 178 (27.47%) Senior
4 149 (22.99%) Java Engineer
5 126 (19.44%) Software Engineer
6 98 (15.12%) Lead
7 78 (12.04%) Senior Developer
8 72 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 57 (8.80%) Principal Engineer
10 53 (8.18%) Senior Java Developer
11 52 (8.02%) Senior Java Engineer
12 48 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (6.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 38 (5.86%) Principal Java Engineer
16 36 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
17 34 (5.25%) Architect
17 34 (5.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 31 (4.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (3.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 609 (93.98%) Spring
2 205 (31.64%) Kafka
3 136 (20.99%) Terraform
4 128 (19.75%) React
5 121 (18.67%) REST
6 108 (16.67%) Node.js
6 108 (16.67%) RESTful
7 99 (15.28%) AngularJS
8 69 (10.65%) Hibernate
9 60 (9.26%) JPA
10 50 (7.72%) RabbitMQ
11 44 (6.79%) OAuth
12 38 (5.86%) OAuth2
13 33 (5.09%) .NET
14 32 (4.94%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (4.78%) HTML
16 26 (4.01%) Jest
17 23 (3.55%) Spring Security
18 22 (3.40%) CSS
18 22 (3.40%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 220 (33.95%) Cloud Native
2 139 (21.45%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (8.02%) Public Cloud
5 50 (7.72%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (7.10%) e-Learning
7 42 (6.48%) Product Ownership
8 38 (5.86%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.62%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (2.47%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.85%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.85%) Podcast
13 11 (1.70%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.54%) EPoS
14 10 (1.54%) iSeries
15 9 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
15 9 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.31%) Linux
2 7 (1.08%) AIX
2 7 (1.08%) CentOS
2 7 (1.08%) Debian
2 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.08%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (66.82%) CI/CD
2 378 (58.33%) Microservices
3 334 (51.54%) Agile
4 280 (43.21%) DevOps
5 232 (35.80%) Software Engineering
6 204 (31.48%) Containerisation
7 193 (29.78%) Event-Driven
8 175 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 171 (26.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 159 (24.54%) Mentoring
10 159 (24.54%) Test Automation
11 121 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (18.36%) AI
13 108 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (16.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 105 (16.20%) Scrum
15 104 (16.05%) TDD
16 98 (15.12%) BDD
16 98 (15.12%) Observability
17 86 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 640 (98.77%) Java
2 150 (23.15%) Python
3 121 (18.67%) SQL
4 104 (16.05%) TypeScript
5 83 (12.81%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.94%) Ruby
7 31 (4.78%) Kotlin
8 22 (3.40%) COBOL
9 19 (2.93%) C#
10 16 (2.47%) Groovy
10 16 (2.47%) JCL
11 12 (1.85%) Bash
12 10 (1.54%) RPG
13 8 (1.23%) C++
13 8 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.93%) Scala
15 4 (0.62%) Go
16 3 (0.46%) C
17 2 (0.31%) PHP
17 2 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 138 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.88%) AWS Certification
2 77 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 56 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 29 (4.48%) Degree
5 15 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.15%) OCP
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.57%) QA
2 35 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.86%) WCAG
4 7 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 266 (41.05%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 244 (37.65%) Kubernetes
2 73 (11.27%) Ansible
3 27 (4.17%) Grafana
4 24 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.70%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.54%) Kibana
7 9 (1.39%) Puppet
8 7 (1.08%) Packer
9 4 (0.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (5.71%) Splunk
2 29 (4.48%) Oracle
3 27 (4.17%) Google
4 18 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.62%) OneLogin
6 16 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.31%) IBM
7 15 (2.31%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.54%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.08%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.77%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.46%) Adobe
12 3 (0.46%) Solace
13 2 (0.31%) Apple
13 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.31%) TikTok
13 2 (0.31%) WSO2
14 1 (0.15%) Okta