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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 318 255
Rank change year-on-year -54 -63 +3
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 405 382 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.92% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 4.42% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 229 259 625
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% +2.31%

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 8,633 8,640 20,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.07% 20.83% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,292 6,529 15,739
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,454 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 April 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 16 April 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 -30 381 £70,000 -6.67% 98
UK excluding London -79 216 £67,500 -3.57% 70
London -4 162 £75,000 -9.09% 52
Work from Home -18 133 £70,000 -11.18% 69
North of England +7 124 £72,500 -9.38% 22
Yorkshire -8 67 £77,500 -1.66% 4
North West -9 49 £67,500 -23.87% 12
South West -57 45 £62,500 - 12
South East -80 35 £80,000 +18.52% 19
Midlands -36 15 £45,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands -2 13 £45,000 -23.40% 2
North East -29 8 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Scotland -57 4 £65,000 -18.75% 11
Wales -27 3 £50,100 +17.83% 1
East of England -30 1 £62,500 -24.24% 3
East Midlands -58 1 £55,200 +16.21% 1

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 16 (3.95%) Apache
2 13 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.72%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.99%) Confluence
4 4 (0.99%) JBoss
5 3 (0.74%) Liferay
6 2 (0.49%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 244 (60.25%) AWS
2 107 (26.42%) Serverless
3 77 (19.01%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (18.02%) Amazon ECS
5 72 (17.78%) Amazon S3
6 66 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (15.56%) Azure
8 50 (12.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 48 (11.85%) Apigee
10 45 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
11 41 (10.12%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (9.38%) GCP
13 30 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (7.41%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.17%) GitHub
15 17 (4.20%) SaaS
16 16 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.47%) AMQP
2 5 (1.23%) Internet
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (15.80%) NoSQL
3 52 (12.84%) DynamoDB
4 45 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.68%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.94%) MySQL
7 17 (4.20%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.98%) Redis
11 7 (1.73%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.48%) Big Data
12 6 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
15 3 (0.74%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.49%) Flink
16 2 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
16 2 (0.49%) Power BI
17 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 99 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 69 (17.04%) GitLab
3 59 (14.57%) Git
4 53 (13.09%) Maven
5 45 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 44 (10.86%) SonarQube
7 29 (7.16%) JUnit
8 24 (5.93%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.94%) Gradle
10 18 (4.44%) Selenium
11 16 (3.95%) JIRA
12 13 (3.21%) Mockito
13 5 (1.23%) JMeter
14 3 (0.74%) Postman
14 3 (0.74%) TestNG
15 2 (0.49%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.49%) ESLint
15 2 (0.49%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.49%) Vagrant
16 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 84 (20.74%) Finance
2 56 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.95%) Billing
6 14 (3.46%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.72%) Banking
8 10 (2.47%) Advertising
8 10 (2.47%) Front Office
9 9 (2.22%) Games
9 9 (2.22%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.98%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.23%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.49%) Law
15 1 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 224 (55.31%) Developer
2 178 (43.95%) Java Developer
3 109 (26.91%) Senior
4 94 (23.21%) Java Engineer
5 75 (18.52%) Software Engineer
6 66 (16.30%) Senior Developer
7 51 (12.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 48 (11.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 46 (11.36%) Lead
10 39 (9.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (8.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (8.15%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (6.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (4.69%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.20%) Backend Developer
15 17 (4.20%) Lead Developer
16 16 (3.95%) Lead Java Developer
17 13 (3.21%) AWS Developer
17 13 (3.21%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (2.96%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (88.64%) Spring
2 123 (30.37%) AngularJS
3 104 (25.68%) React
4 93 (22.96%) REST
5 69 (17.04%) Kafka
6 55 (13.58%) RESTful
7 45 (11.11%) Node.js
8 42 (10.37%) Jest
9 40 (9.88%) Gherkin
10 39 (9.63%) Hibernate
11 30 (7.41%) Web Services
12 29 (7.16%) HTML
13 28 (6.91%) JPA
14 26 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
16 21 (5.19%) CSS
17 20 (4.94%) Vue
18 18 (4.44%) Spring MVC
19 16 (3.95%) JSON
20 15 (3.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.75%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 10 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.22%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.23%) IoT
11 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.74%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.74%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.74%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
14 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.48%) Android
2 6 (1.48%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.48%) CentOS
2 6 (1.48%) Debian
2 6 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.48%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (52.59%) CI/CD
2 195 (48.15%) Agile
3 193 (47.65%) Microservices
4 182 (44.94%) DevOps
5 130 (32.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 123 (30.37%) Software Engineering
7 110 (27.16%) Containerisation
8 94 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (23.21%) Mentoring
9 71 (17.53%) Test Automation
10 68 (16.79%) Scrum
11 66 (16.30%) TDD
12 62 (15.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (15.06%) Event-Driven
14 54 (13.33%) Secure Coding
15 52 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (12.59%) SDLC
17 49 (12.10%) Clean Code
18 46 (11.36%) AI
18 46 (11.36%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 403 (99.51%) Java
2 90 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 74 (18.27%) SQL
4 72 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 60 (14.81%) Python
6 41 (10.12%) Bash
7 39 (9.63%) Groovy
8 24 (5.93%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.98%) Delphi
10 7 (1.73%) Go
11 6 (1.48%) PHP
12 4 (0.99%) C#
12 4 (0.99%) C++
12 4 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.49%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.37%) AWS Certification
3 37 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.15%) Degree
5 23 (5.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.68%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (4.69%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.74%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 170 (41.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 159 (39.26%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.60%) Terraform
3 40 (9.88%) HP Fortify
4 26 (6.42%) Ansible
5 19 (4.69%) Grafana
6 10 (2.47%) Kibana
6 10 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.48%) Puppet
8 3 (0.74%) Packer
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (6.17%) Oracle
2 12 (2.96%) Google
3 8 (1.98%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.73%) Splunk
5 6 (1.48%) SaltStack
5 6 (1.48%) Solace
6 5 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.23%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.23%) Microsoft
7 4 (0.99%) IBM
8 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.74%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.74%) Revolut
8 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.49%) Pega
9 2 (0.49%) WSO2
10 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.25%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.25%) Okta