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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 220 318
Rank change year-on-year -135 +98 -24
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 496 706 904
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.52% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.01% 8.01% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 304 239 515
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,796 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 9,893 8,815 21,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.26% 18.92% 20.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,422 5,809 16,108
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 1 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 1 July 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 -100 441 £72,500 - 188
UK excluding London -185 256 £68,000 -2.86% 117
London +7 216 £77,500 -6.06% 102
North of England -54 145 £70,000 -17.89% 33
Work from Home -143 132 £70,000 -3.45% 91
North West -57 78 £65,000 -26.69% 16
Yorkshire +12 58 £75,000 -4.83% 12
South West -70 37 £60,000 -12.73% 19
South East -74 34 £68,750 -1.79% 23
Wales -25 26 £70,000 +47.97% 8
Midlands -110 14 £60,000 -6.25% 15
West Midlands -57 13 £62,500 -10.71% 13
North East -48 9 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -75 8 £65,000 -17.52% 11
East of England -27 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 18 (3.63%) Confluence
2 16 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.81%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.81%) JBoss
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.60%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Liferay
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 283 (57.06%) AWS
2 132 (26.61%) Serverless
3 122 (24.60%) Azure
4 98 (19.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 95 (19.15%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (15.93%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (14.92%) Amazon S3
8 68 (13.71%) GitHub
9 57 (11.49%) GCP
10 51 (10.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (8.27%) Apigee
12 40 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (7.86%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.43%) OpenShift
17 14 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
18 13 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.62%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.62%) DMARC
2 8 (1.61%) AMQP
3 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.93%) NoSQL
1 79 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (11.49%) DynamoDB
3 46 (9.27%) Relational Database
4 30 (6.05%) MongoDB
5 29 (5.85%) MySQL
6 16 (3.23%) Redis
7 14 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.81%) DTS
10 8 (1.61%) Db2
10 8 (1.61%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.41%) Big Data
11 7 (1.41%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Flink
15 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 110 (22.18%) Jenkins
2 77 (15.52%) GitLab
3 64 (12.90%) Git
4 49 (9.88%) Maven
5 37 (7.46%) Cypress.io
6 32 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 32 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.25%) JUnit
8 22 (4.44%) JIRA
9 19 (3.83%) Mockito
10 17 (3.43%) Gradle
11 15 (3.02%) Selenium
12 10 (2.02%) JMeter
13 8 (1.61%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.61%) Postman
14 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.60%) Spock
15 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (22.78%) Finance
2 77 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 69 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.04%) Banking
5 20 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.82%) Advertising
7 14 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.22%) Front Office
8 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.02%) Billing
10 9 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.41%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.21%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.01%) Games
14 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 232 (46.77%) Developer
2 179 (36.09%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.41%) Java Engineer
4 130 (26.21%) Senior
5 87 (17.54%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (12.90%) Senior Developer
8 63 (12.70%) Lead
9 50 (10.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (9.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (8.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 43 (8.67%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (6.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 32 (6.45%) Architect
15 30 (6.05%) Principal Engineer
16 27 (5.44%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (4.64%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.23%) Software Developer
19 20 (4.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 19 (3.83%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (90.73%) Spring
2 138 (27.82%) AngularJS
3 115 (23.19%) Kafka
4 114 (22.98%) React
5 108 (21.77%) REST
6 87 (17.54%) Node.js
7 83 (16.73%) RESTful
8 47 (9.48%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.06%) Jest
9 35 (7.06%) JPA
10 33 (6.65%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.25%) Vue
12 30 (6.05%) HTML
12 30 (6.05%) OAuth
13 27 (5.44%) Web Services
14 26 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (5.04%) OAuth2
16 21 (4.23%) CSS
17 18 (3.63%) OpenAPI
17 18 (3.63%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 124 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 73 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (5.04%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.64%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.63%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.62%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.61%) EPoS
11 8 (1.61%) iSeries
12 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.21%) CentOS
2 6 (1.21%) Debian
2 6 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.81%) Android
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (57.46%) CI/CD
2 270 (54.44%) Microservices
3 242 (48.79%) Agile
4 207 (41.73%) DevOps
5 155 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 151 (30.44%) Containerisation
6 151 (30.44%) Software Engineering
7 118 (23.79%) Mentoring
8 114 (22.98%) Test Automation
9 106 (21.37%) Event-Driven
10 100 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 100 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 82 (16.53%) TDD
12 76 (15.32%) Scrum
13 70 (14.11%) AI
13 70 (14.11%) BDD
14 63 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (12.50%) Clean Code
15 62 (12.50%) SDLC
16 58 (11.69%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 490 (98.79%) Java
2 95 (19.15%) SQL
3 92 (18.55%) Python
4 85 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 75 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.85%) Groovy
7 30 (6.05%) Bash
8 29 (5.85%) Kotlin
9 18 (3.63%) Ruby
10 11 (2.22%) C#
11 9 (1.81%) C++
12 8 (1.61%) RPG
13 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.01%) Go
14 5 (1.01%) PHP
15 4 (0.81%) COBOL
15 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.81%) Scala
16 2 (0.40%) C
17 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 97 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.10%) AWS Certification
3 59 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.27%) Degree
5 32 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.05%) QA
2 15 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.62%) WCAG
4 7 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 196 (39.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (33.47%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.52%) Terraform
3 37 (7.46%) Ansible
4 29 (5.85%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.62%) Kibana
6 12 (2.42%) Grafana
7 10 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.21%) Puppet
9 5 (1.01%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (4.84%) Oracle
2 20 (4.03%) Splunk
3 14 (2.82%) Google
3 14 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.62%) SendGrid
5 12 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.42%) IBM
6 8 (1.61%) OneLogin
7 7 (1.41%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.41%) Solace
8 6 (1.21%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.01%) Peregrine
10 3 (0.60%) Revolut
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) WSO2
11 2 (0.40%) Pega
11 2 (0.40%) TikTok
12 1 (0.20%) Sitecore