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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 238 367
Rank change year-on-year -92 +129 -79
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 644 633 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.27% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 7.56% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 403 183 278
10th Percentile £45,450 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £119,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +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 11,798 8,373 15,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 16.82% 21.76%
Number of salaries quoted 8,342 5,331 9,807
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 9 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 9 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 -88 528 £75,000 +3.45% 638
UK excluding London -160 361 £67,500 - 364
London +16 249 £80,000 -20.00% 402
Work from Home -149 153 £67,500 +3.85% 306
North of England -72 146 £65,000 -7.14% 122
North West -53 90 £65,000 -7.80% 72
South West -37 69 £68,000 +4.62% 36
Wales -15 61 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire -3 38 £85,000 +25.93% 20
West Midlands -54 33 £62,500 -7.41% 21
Midlands -100 33 £62,500 -3.10% 27
South East -84 29 £67,500 - 36
North East -54 18 £53,750 -18.87% 31
Scotland -69 15 £71,000 -2.07% 92
Northern Ireland -74 11 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -56 2 £58,750 -6.00% 5

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 (3.73%) Confluence
2 14 (2.17%) Apache
2 14 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.17%) Camunda
3 9 (1.40%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.09%) CICS
5 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.31%) JBoss
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 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
1 401 (62.27%) AWS
2 186 (28.88%) Azure
3 132 (20.50%) GitHub
4 123 (19.10%) Serverless
5 122 (18.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 97 (15.06%) GCP
7 93 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
9 72 (11.18%) Amazon S3
10 69 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (5.28%) AWS Step Functions
13 32 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
16 23 (3.57%) SaaS
17 20 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (2.80%) Amazon ECR
18 18 (2.80%) Apigee
19 17 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.26%) AMQP
2 15 (2.33%) DMARC
3 13 (2.02%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.55%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (16.46%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.78%) MongoDB
4 57 (8.85%) Relational Database
5 45 (6.99%) MySQL
6 43 (6.68%) DynamoDB
7 18 (2.80%) Db2
8 16 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.17%) Redis
10 10 (1.55%) DTS
10 10 (1.55%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.40%) Big Data
12 8 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
12 8 (1.24%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
17 3 (0.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 133 (20.65%) Jenkins
2 92 (14.29%) GitLab
3 85 (13.20%) Git
4 56 (8.70%) Cucumber
5 47 (7.30%) JUnit
6 33 (5.12%) Maven
7 31 (4.81%) Mockito
8 26 (4.04%) Cypress.io
9 20 (3.11%) JIRA
10 15 (2.33%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.17%) Claude Code
11 14 (2.17%) Selenium
12 10 (1.55%) JMeter
13 7 (1.09%) Gradle
13 7 (1.09%) Postman
13 7 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.78%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
General
1 163 (25.31%) Finance
2 127 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.63%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.40%) Banking
5 46 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.73%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.80%) Tech for Good
9 16 (2.48%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.17%) Publishing
11 8 (1.24%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.24%) Front Office
11 8 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.78%) Advertising
12 5 (0.78%) Law
12 5 (0.78%) Retail
13 3 (0.47%) Back Office
13 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
13 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 254 (39.44%) Developer
2 175 (27.17%) Java Developer
3 174 (27.02%) Senior
4 145 (22.52%) Java Engineer
5 126 (19.57%) Software Engineer
6 100 (15.53%) Lead
7 76 (11.80%) Senior Developer
8 71 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
10 52 (8.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 50 (7.76%) Senior Java Engineer
12 48 (7.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 43 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (5.75%) Principal Java Engineer
16 35 (5.43%) Architect
16 35 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
17 34 (5.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 32 (4.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 24 (3.73%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (93.94%) Spring
2 203 (31.52%) Kafka
3 138 (21.43%) Terraform
4 128 (19.88%) React
5 123 (19.10%) REST
6 109 (16.93%) Node.js
7 107 (16.61%) RESTful
8 97 (15.06%) AngularJS
9 68 (10.56%) Hibernate
10 60 (9.32%) JPA
11 51 (7.92%) RabbitMQ
12 44 (6.83%) OAuth
13 38 (5.90%) OAuth2
14 35 (5.43%) .NET
15 32 (4.97%) Ruby on Rails
16 30 (4.66%) HTML
17 26 (4.04%) Jest
18 24 (3.73%) OpenAPI
19 23 (3.57%) Spring Security
20 22 (3.42%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 224 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 137 (21.27%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (11.49%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (7.92%) Public Cloud
5 50 (7.76%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (6.99%) e-Learning
7 42 (6.52%) Product Ownership
8 40 (6.21%) Mainframe
9 19 (2.95%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (2.48%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.86%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.86%) Podcast
13 11 (1.71%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.55%) EPoS
14 10 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.55%) iSeries
15 9 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
15 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 8 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.48%) Linux
2 8 (1.24%) CentOS
2 8 (1.24%) Debian
2 8 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (1.24%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.09%) AIX
4 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.47%) Windows
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 379 (58.85%) Microservices
3 335 (52.02%) Agile
4 283 (43.94%) DevOps
5 231 (35.87%) Software Engineering
6 205 (31.83%) Containerisation
7 191 (29.66%) Event-Driven
8 174 (27.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 170 (26.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 158 (24.53%) Mentoring
11 157 (24.38%) Test Automation
12 121 (18.79%) AI
12 121 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (16.77%) Scrum
15 104 (16.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 103 (15.99%) TDD
17 97 (15.06%) Observability
18 93 (14.44%) BDD
19 88 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 636 (98.76%) Java
2 149 (23.14%) Python
3 119 (18.48%) SQL
4 104 (16.15%) TypeScript
5 82 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.97%) Ruby
7 31 (4.81%) Kotlin
8 24 (3.73%) COBOL
9 19 (2.95%) C#
10 18 (2.80%) JCL
11 16 (2.48%) Groovy
12 12 (1.86%) Bash
13 10 (1.55%) RPG
14 7 (1.09%) 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
1 141 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 80 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.85%) DV Cleared
5 55 (8.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (4.19%) Degree
7 15 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.16%) OCP
16 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.65%) QA
2 36 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.88%) 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 (41.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 245 (38.04%) Kubernetes
2 73 (11.34%) Ansible
3 28 (4.35%) Grafana
4 24 (3.73%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.71%) HP Fortify
6 10 (1.55%) Puppet
7 9 (1.40%) Kibana
8 6 (0.93%) Packer
9 4 (0.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (5.75%) Splunk
2 31 (4.81%) Oracle
3 28 (4.35%) Google
4 18 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.64%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.33%) IBM
6 15 (2.33%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.71%) Broadcom
9 8 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.24%) 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