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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 224 328
Rank change year-on-year -136 +104 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 522 704 853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.14% 7.89% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 335 238 487
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,400 £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 £85,000 £94,694 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,625 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -

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 10,165 8,925 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 18.16% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7,600 5,903 15,100
10th Percentile £40,975 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 16 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 16 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 -102 458 £75,000 +3.45% 126
UK excluding London -178 282 £70,000 -1.75% 98
London +1 220 £80,000 -3.03% 63
North of England -48 146 £70,000 -17.77% 21
Work from Home -157 130 £70,000 -3.45% 68
North West -51 81 £65,000 -26.69% 8
Yorkshire +14 55 £75,000 -4.83% 9
South West -62 43 £67,500 -1.82% 9
Wales -16 38 £70,000 +12.00% 7
South East -59 34 £68,750 -1.79% 28
Midlands -88 17 £57,500 -9.09% 16
West Midlands -54 16 £56,250 -21.05% 11
Scotland -73 11 £65,000 -16.13% 9
North East -49 10 £50,000 -31.03% 4
East of England -25 3 £62,500 -26.47% 2

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 (4.02%) Confluence
2 14 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.15%) Apache
3 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.15%) Camunda
4 4 (0.77%) JBoss
4 4 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 302 (57.85%) AWS
2 136 (26.05%) Azure
3 135 (25.86%) Serverless
4 107 (20.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (15.52%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (15.13%) GitHub
8 77 (14.75%) Amazon S3
9 63 (12.07%) GCP
10 50 (9.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 38 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (7.09%) Amazon ECR
12 37 (7.09%) Apigee
13 36 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (2.87%) OpenShift
18 13 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (2.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.49%) DMARC
2 7 (1.34%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 86 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 47 (9.00%) Relational Database
5 39 (7.47%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.90%) MySQL
7 18 (3.45%) Redis
8 14 (2.68%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.11%) DTS
10 11 (2.11%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.92%) Db2
12 5 (0.96%) Big Data
12 5 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.77%) Flink
14 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (21.84%) Jenkins
2 82 (15.71%) GitLab
3 67 (12.84%) Git
4 44 (8.43%) Maven
5 36 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 36 (6.90%) Cypress.io
6 34 (6.51%) JUnit
7 30 (5.75%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.41%) JIRA
9 21 (4.02%) Mockito
10 19 (3.64%) Selenium
11 14 (2.68%) Gradle
12 10 (1.92%) JMeter
13 8 (1.53%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.34%) Postman
15 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.77%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.77%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.57%) Newman
General
1 115 (22.03%) Finance
2 80 (15.33%) Public Sector
2 80 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (5.94%) Banking
4 22 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.26%) Financial Institution
6 14 (2.68%) Advertising
7 13 (2.49%) Front Office
8 12 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.11%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.72%) Billing
10 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.96%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.77%) Games
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Retail
15 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (45.21%) Developer
2 181 (34.67%) Java Developer
3 139 (26.63%) Java Engineer
4 135 (25.86%) Senior
5 87 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 75 (14.37%) Lead
7 68 (13.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (12.45%) Senior Developer
9 50 (9.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (9.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (8.62%) Java Software Engineer
12 44 (8.43%) Senior Java Engineer
13 38 (7.28%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.94%) Architect
16 27 (5.17%) Principal Java Engineer
16 27 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (4.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
19 21 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (91.19%) Spring
2 135 (25.86%) AngularJS
3 133 (25.48%) Kafka
4 114 (21.84%) REST
5 108 (20.69%) React
6 94 (18.01%) Node.js
7 84 (16.09%) RESTful
8 53 (10.15%) Hibernate
9 43 (8.24%) JPA
10 34 (6.51%) Jest
11 32 (6.13%) OAuth
12 31 (5.94%) Gherkin
13 30 (5.75%) HTML
13 30 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (5.56%) Vue
15 28 (5.36%) OAuth2
16 26 (4.98%) Web Services
17 23 (4.41%) Ruby on Rails
18 21 (4.02%) CSS
19 16 (3.07%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 140 (26.82%) Cloud Native
2 92 (17.62%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.66%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 27 (5.17%) e-Learning
7 21 (4.02%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.45%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.92%) EPoS
9 10 (1.92%) iSeries
10 9 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.96%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.77%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.77%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.92%) Linux
2 5 (0.96%) Windows
3 4 (0.77%) AIX
3 4 (0.77%) CentOS
3 4 (0.77%) Debian
3 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (60.73%) CI/CD
2 291 (55.75%) Microservices
3 262 (50.19%) Agile
4 222 (42.53%) DevOps
5 164 (31.42%) Containerisation
6 157 (30.08%) Full-Stack Development
7 152 (29.12%) Software Engineering
8 124 (23.75%) Event-Driven
8 124 (23.75%) Test Automation
9 120 (22.99%) Mentoring
10 117 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 97 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 87 (16.67%) TDD
13 79 (15.13%) Scrum
14 76 (14.56%) AI
15 74 (14.18%) BDD
16 68 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
18 63 (12.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 62 (11.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 516 (98.85%) Java
2 112 (21.46%) Python
3 108 (20.69%) SQL
4 82 (15.71%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.37%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.13%) Groovy
7 29 (5.56%) Kotlin
8 28 (5.36%) Bash
9 23 (4.41%) Ruby
10 13 (2.49%) C#
11 10 (1.92%) RPG
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.15%) COBOL
15 5 (0.96%) Go
16 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.77%) Scala
17 2 (0.38%) C
17 2 (0.38%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 102 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.41%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.85%) Degree
5 38 (7.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 37 (7.09%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.09%) QA
2 19 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.26%) WCAG
4 7 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.15%) NCSC
6 5 (0.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 212 (40.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 181 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 91 (17.43%) Terraform
3 41 (7.85%) Ansible
4 27 (5.17%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.68%) Grafana
6 13 (2.49%) Kibana
7 12 (2.30%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.96%) Packer
9 4 (0.77%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.79%) Oracle
2 22 (4.21%) Splunk
3 16 (3.07%) Google
4 15 (2.87%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.68%) IBM
6 13 (2.49%) SendGrid
7 12 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.92%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.15%) Solace
10 5 (0.96%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.96%) Peregrine
10 5 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.77%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.57%) Revolut
12 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.57%) WSO2
13 2 (0.38%) Pega
13 2 (0.38%) TikTok
14 1 (0.19%) Sitecore