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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 226 308
Rank change year-on-year -122 +82 -19
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 519 707 891
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.47% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 7.92% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 325 239 513
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £93,778 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.14% +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 10,107 8,930 20,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 18.55% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,556 5,907 15,664
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% -9.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 8 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 8 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 -104 457 £75,000 +3.45% 126
UK excluding London -169 278 £69,200 -1.14% 93
London +13 217 £80,000 -3.03% 65
North of England -59 148 £70,000 -17.77% 24
Work from Home -154 131 £70,000 -3.45% 62
North West -57 80 £65,000 -26.69% 13
Yorkshire +22 58 £75,000 -4.83% 8
South West -60 45 £67,500 -1.82% 11
Wales -21 34 £70,000 +47.97% 6
South East -76 34 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Midlands -98 15 £57,500 -10.16% 15
West Midlands -43 14 £56,250 -19.64% 11
North East -40 10 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Scotland -81 9 £65,000 -16.83% 8
East of England -36 3 £62,500 -26.47% 3

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 21 (4.05%) Confluence
2 16 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.73%) Apache
4 7 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.96%) Camunda
6 4 (0.77%) JBoss
6 4 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 297 (57.23%) AWS
2 138 (26.59%) Serverless
3 136 (26.20%) Azure
4 105 (20.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (19.46%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (15.80%) Amazon ECS
7 78 (15.03%) Amazon S3
8 73 (14.07%) GitHub
9 65 (12.52%) GCP
10 53 (10.21%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (7.90%) Apigee
12 40 (7.71%) Amazon ECR
13 39 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (7.13%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.28%) OpenShift
17 16 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
18 13 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.50%) DMARC
2 8 (1.54%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.18%) NoSQL
2 83 (15.99%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (11.56%) DynamoDB
4 46 (8.86%) Relational Database
5 33 (6.36%) MongoDB
6 32 (6.17%) MySQL
7 17 (3.28%) Redis
8 14 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.12%) DTS
11 10 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.93%) Db2
12 9 (1.73%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.35%) Big Data
13 7 (1.35%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.77%) Flink
17 3 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
17 3 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (21.97%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.61%) GitLab
3 66 (12.72%) Git
4 50 (9.63%) Maven
5 39 (7.51%) Cypress.io
6 35 (6.74%) JUnit
7 34 (6.55%) Cucumber
8 33 (6.36%) SonarQube
9 24 (4.62%) JIRA
10 21 (4.05%) Mockito
11 18 (3.47%) Selenium
12 17 (3.28%) Gradle
13 10 (1.93%) JMeter
14 8 (1.54%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.54%) Postman
15 5 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.96%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.77%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.77%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.58%) Spock
General
1 117 (22.54%) Finance
2 79 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 75 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.39%) Banking
5 21 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.70%) Advertising
8 13 (2.50%) Front Office
9 12 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.93%) Billing
10 10 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.16%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.96%) Games
12 5 (0.96%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Law
14 2 (0.39%) Retail
14 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (45.86%) Developer
2 183 (35.26%) Java Developer
3 133 (25.63%) Java Engineer
3 133 (25.63%) Senior
4 91 (17.53%) Software Engineer
5 73 (14.07%) Lead
6 67 (12.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (12.72%) Senior Developer
8 51 (9.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 48 (9.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (8.86%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (8.29%) Senior Java Engineer
12 34 (6.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 34 (6.55%) Principal Engineer
13 33 (6.36%) Architect
14 26 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (4.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 24 (4.62%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (4.24%) Software Developer
18 19 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (90.94%) Spring
2 142 (27.36%) AngularJS
3 123 (23.70%) Kafka
4 112 (21.58%) React
4 112 (21.58%) REST
5 93 (17.92%) Node.js
6 85 (16.38%) RESTful
7 53 (10.21%) Hibernate
8 41 (7.90%) JPA
9 37 (7.13%) Jest
10 34 (6.55%) Gherkin
11 31 (5.97%) OAuth
11 31 (5.97%) Vue
12 29 (5.59%) HTML
12 29 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (5.01%) OAuth2
13 26 (5.01%) Web Services
14 21 (4.05%) Ruby on Rails
15 20 (3.85%) CSS
16 18 (3.47%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 134 (25.82%) Cloud Native
2 81 (15.61%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.51%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (5.20%) Public Cloud
6 25 (4.82%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 16 (3.08%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.93%) EPoS
9 10 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.93%) iSeries
10 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.96%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.77%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.77%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.12%) Linux
2 6 (1.16%) CentOS
2 6 (1.16%) Debian
2 6 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.96%) Windows
4 4 (0.77%) AIX
5 3 (0.58%) Android
5 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (59.73%) CI/CD
2 286 (55.11%) Microservices
3 261 (50.29%) Agile
4 226 (43.55%) DevOps
5 164 (31.60%) Containerisation
6 158 (30.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 156 (30.06%) Software Engineering
8 122 (23.51%) Test Automation
9 121 (23.31%) Mentoring
10 118 (22.74%) Event-Driven
11 113 (21.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 103 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (16.96%) TDD
14 80 (15.41%) Scrum
15 72 (13.87%) AI
15 72 (13.87%) BDD
16 65 (12.52%) Architectural Patterns
16 65 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (12.33%) Clean Code
17 64 (12.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 513 (98.84%) Java
2 106 (20.42%) Python
3 101 (19.46%) SQL
4 86 (16.57%) JavaScript
5 76 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.74%) Groovy
7 31 (5.97%) Bash
8 28 (5.39%) Kotlin
9 21 (4.05%) Ruby
10 11 (2.12%) C#
11 10 (1.93%) RPG
12 9 (1.73%) C++
13 7 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.96%) COBOL
14 5 (0.96%) Go
15 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.77%) Scala
16 3 (0.58%) PHP
17 2 (0.39%) C
18 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 106 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.29%) AWS Certification
3 63 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.71%) Degree
5 37 (7.13%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.55%) QA
2 17 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.08%) WCAG
4 7 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 5 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (0.96%) NCSC
System Software
1 211 (40.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 180 (34.68%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.96%) Terraform
3 42 (8.09%) Ansible
4 30 (5.78%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.50%) Grafana
5 13 (2.50%) Kibana
6 11 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.16%) Puppet
8 5 (0.96%) Packer
9 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.82%) Oracle
2 21 (4.05%) Splunk
3 16 (3.08%) Google
4 14 (2.70%) IBM
4 14 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.50%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.93%) OneLogin
7 10 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.35%) Solace
9 6 (1.16%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.96%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.96%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.58%) Revolut
11 3 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.58%) WSO2
12 2 (0.39%) Pega
12 2 (0.39%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Sitecore