Spring Boot Job Trends

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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 352 277
Rank change year-on-year +121 -75 -64
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 621 468 662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 0.68% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 3.36% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 172 258 569
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £119,125 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.00% -3.85%

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 7,526 13,949 15,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 20.18% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,767 8,549 12,427
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +4.55%

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 20 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 20 October 2025. 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 +136 501 £72,500 -3.33% 141
UK excluding London +183 478 £66,250 -1.85% 122
Work from Home +190 335 £67,500 +12.50% 123
North of England +129 172 £67,500 - 28
North West +112 157 £70,000 +5.66% 17
London +12 152 £100,000 +17.65% 60
Scotland +40 117 £71,250 +18.75% 11
Midlands +112 91 £65,000 +8.33% 6
South East +36 57 £67,500 -3.57% 52
West Midlands +93 46 £70,000 - 5
East Midlands +60 45 £57,750 -3.75% 1
South West +10 27 £65,000 -3.70% 20
East of England +25 18 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Yorkshire +16 10 £65,000 -10.34% 6
North East - 7 £66,250 - 5
Northern Ireland +1 3 £50,000 -14.89%
Wales +2 1 £62,500 -7.41% 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
1 173 (27.86%) Confluence
2 11 (1.77%) Apache
3 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.29%) Camunda
3 8 (1.29%) JBoss
3 8 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
6 3 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 538 (86.63%) AWS
2 306 (49.28%) Azure
3 205 (33.01%) GCP
4 80 (12.88%) Serverless
5 51 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
8 43 (6.92%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 37 (5.96%) GitHub
11 23 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (2.42%) SaaS
14 14 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.77%) AWS KMS
15 11 (1.77%) Route 53
16 9 (1.45%) OpenShift
17 8 (1.29%) Amazon MSK
18 5 (0.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 5 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) HTTP
2 2 (0.32%) AMQP
2 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (41.71%) SQL Server
2 108 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (13.20%) Relational Database
4 65 (10.47%) MongoDB
5 49 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 32 (5.15%) RDBMS
7 24 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.90%) MySQL
11 8 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (1.29%) CockroachDB
11 8 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.97%) Redis
13 4 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (0.48%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 282 (45.41%) Maven
2 275 (44.28%) GitLab
2 275 (44.28%) JIRA
3 263 (42.35%) SonarQube
4 262 (42.19%) Cucumber
5 257 (41.38%) Selenium
6 255 (41.06%) Bitbucket
7 251 (40.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 91 (14.65%) Jenkins
9 69 (11.11%) JUnit
10 64 (10.31%) Git
11 50 (8.05%) Mockito
12 23 (3.70%) JMeter
13 14 (2.25%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (1.77%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.77%) jMock
15 5 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
15 5 (0.81%) Gradle
General
1 435 (70.05%) Finance
2 345 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 316 (50.89%) Banking
4 102 (16.43%) Investment Banking
5 94 (15.14%) Law
6 93 (14.98%) Retail
7 90 (14.49%) Corporate Banking
8 72 (11.59%) Social Skills
9 64 (10.31%) Public Sector
10 40 (6.44%) Marketing
11 38 (6.12%) Financial Institution
12 29 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (1.77%) Legal
14 9 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.13%) Games
16 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.81%) Electronics
17 5 (0.81%) Tech for Good
18 4 (0.64%) Retail Banking
18 4 (0.64%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (65.70%) Software Engineer
2 145 (23.35%) Developer
3 119 (19.16%) Java Engineer
4 116 (18.68%) Java Developer
5 96 (15.46%) Java Software Engineer
6 75 (12.08%) Senior
7 63 (10.14%) Lead
8 41 (6.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 36 (5.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 33 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 31 (4.99%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
13 28 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
15 24 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.54%) Backend Developer
17 20 (3.22%) Kafka Engineer
17 20 (3.22%) Lead Developer
18 19 (3.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (95.17%) Spring
2 398 (64.09%) Kafka
3 357 (57.49%) React
4 291 (46.86%) HTML
5 281 (45.25%) JPA
6 264 (42.51%) CSS
7 258 (41.55%) Redux
8 217 (34.94%) Hibernate
9 190 (30.60%) RESTful
10 180 (28.99%) REST
11 103 (16.59%) Jest
12 100 (16.10%) HTML5
13 98 (15.78%) CSS3
14 91 (14.65%) Sass
15 68 (10.95%) AngularJS
16 58 (9.34%) ActiveMQ
16 58 (9.34%) Web Services
17 32 (5.15%) Apache Camel
18 28 (4.51%) Node.js
18 28 (4.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 258 (41.55%) Product Ownership
2 256 (41.22%) Enterprise Software
3 115 (18.52%) Cloud Native
4 70 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (5.64%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
8 15 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
9 14 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.77%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.29%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.13%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.97%) Wiki
16 4 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.64%) Onboarding
17 3 (0.48%) Credit Derivative
17 3 (0.48%) Replication
18 2 (0.32%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.19%) Linux
2 3 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (82.61%) Agile
2 463 (74.56%) Microservices
3 452 (72.79%) Software Engineering
4 450 (72.46%) CI/CD
5 357 (57.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 355 (57.17%) DevOps
6 355 (57.17%) SDLC
7 322 (51.85%) Containerisation
8 298 (47.99%) Test Automation
9 277 (44.61%) Front End Development
9 277 (44.61%) TDD
10 262 (42.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 231 (37.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 190 (30.60%) Clean Code
13 150 (24.15%) Mentoring
14 132 (21.26%) User Experience
15 102 (16.43%) Strategic Thinking
16 99 (15.94%) Migration
17 90 (14.49%) Responsive Web Design
18 83 (13.37%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 620 (99.84%) Java
2 343 (55.23%) JavaScript
3 324 (52.17%) SQL
4 150 (24.15%) TypeScript
5 61 (9.82%) Python
6 29 (4.67%) Shell Script
7 23 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.45%) C++
9 8 (1.29%) C#
9 8 (1.29%) Go
10 7 (1.13%) Scala
11 5 (0.81%) Rust
12 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.48%) Groovy
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 21 (3.38%) Degree
5 15 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (42.83%) QA
2 99 (15.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.81%) SLA
4 4 (0.64%) NCSC
4 4 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 411 (66.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Postfix
2 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 455 (73.27%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.12%) Terraform
3 27 (4.35%) Kibana
4 20 (3.22%) Ansible
5 11 (1.77%) Argo
6 9 (1.45%) Grafana
7 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.16%) Packer
8 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 250 (40.26%) Solace
2 51 (8.21%) Oracle
3 39 (6.28%) Splunk
4 32 (5.15%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 12 (1.93%) Google
7 8 (1.29%) IBM
7 8 (1.29%) Microsoft
8 7 (1.13%) WSO2
9 6 (0.97%) SAP
10 5 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.64%) Moogsoft
11 4 (0.64%) Pega
12 2 (0.32%) Databricks
12 2 (0.32%) Informatica
13 1 (0.16%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.16%) Veracode