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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 225 316
Rank change year-on-year -132 +91 -24
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 501 712 898
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.50% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 7.99% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 311 244 514
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £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 £95,313 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,125 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,200 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.57% +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 9,925 8,915 20,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.26% 18.72% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,427 5,899 15,962
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,183 £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 4 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 4 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 -103 441 £72,500 - 183
UK excluding London -173 264 £68,200 -2.57% 112
London +3 212 £80,000 -3.03% 100
North of England -46 144 £70,000 -17.77% 32
Work from Home -166 128 £70,000 -3.45% 91
North West -66 77 £65,000 -26.69% 13
Yorkshire +18 57 £75,000 -4.83% 13
South West -77 39 £60,000 -12.73% 17
South East -79 34 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Wales -16 32 £70,000 +47.97% 7
Midlands -102 14 £60,000 -6.25% 16
West Midlands -54 13 £62,500 -10.71% 14
North East -39 10 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Scotland -81 8 £65,000 -17.52% 10
East of England -31 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 20 (3.99%) Confluence
2 16 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 7 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.80%) JBoss
5 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.60%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 290 (57.88%) AWS
2 135 (26.95%) Serverless
3 129 (25.75%) Azure
4 102 (20.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 98 (19.56%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (15.97%) Amazon ECS
7 76 (15.17%) Amazon S3
8 70 (13.97%) GitHub
9 62 (12.38%) GCP
10 52 (10.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (8.18%) Apigee
12 40 (7.98%) Amazon ECR
13 39 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
14 35 (6.99%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.39%) OpenShift
17 15 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
18 13 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.59%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.59%) DMARC
2 8 (1.60%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (15.97%) NoSQL
1 80 (15.97%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (11.78%) DynamoDB
3 46 (9.18%) Relational Database
4 32 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 31 (6.19%) MySQL
6 17 (3.39%) Redis
7 14 (2.79%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.00%) DTS
10 9 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.80%) Db2
11 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.40%) Big Data
12 7 (1.40%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.80%) Flink
16 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 112 (22.36%) Jenkins
2 78 (15.57%) GitLab
3 64 (12.77%) Git
4 50 (9.98%) Maven
5 38 (7.58%) Cypress.io
6 33 (6.59%) SonarQube
7 32 (6.39%) Cucumber
7 32 (6.39%) JUnit
8 23 (4.59%) JIRA
9 19 (3.79%) Mockito
10 17 (3.39%) Gradle
10 17 (3.39%) Selenium
11 10 (2.00%) JMeter
12 8 (1.60%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.40%) Postman
14 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.60%) Spock
15 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (22.75%) Finance
2 76 (15.17%) Social Skills
3 75 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.39%) Banking
5 21 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.19%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.79%) Advertising
8 12 (2.40%) Front Office
8 12 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.00%) Billing
9 10 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.20%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.00%) Games
11 5 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Retail
13 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (46.91%) Developer
2 180 (35.93%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.15%) Java Engineer
4 129 (25.75%) Senior
5 88 (17.56%) Software Engineer
6 67 (13.37%) Full-Stack Developer
7 65 (12.97%) Senior Developer
8 64 (12.77%) Lead
9 50 (9.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (9.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (8.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 42 (8.38%) Senior Java Engineer
13 33 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 32 (6.39%) Architect
15 30 (5.99%) Principal Engineer
16 26 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (4.59%) Principal Java Engineer
18 22 (4.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 22 (4.39%) Software Developer
19 18 (3.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (90.62%) Spring
2 141 (28.14%) AngularJS
3 119 (23.75%) Kafka
4 112 (22.36%) React
5 109 (21.76%) REST
6 89 (17.76%) Node.js
7 86 (17.17%) RESTful
8 50 (9.98%) Hibernate
9 38 (7.58%) JPA
10 36 (7.19%) Jest
11 34 (6.79%) Gherkin
12 32 (6.39%) Vue
13 29 (5.79%) HTML
13 29 (5.79%) OAuth
13 29 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (5.19%) Web Services
15 24 (4.79%) OAuth2
16 20 (3.99%) CSS
16 20 (3.99%) Ruby on Rails
17 18 (3.59%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 130 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 77 (15.37%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.39%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (4.99%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.59%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.99%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.99%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.80%) EPoS
10 9 (1.80%) iSeries
11 7 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 6 (1.20%) CentOS
2 6 (1.20%) Debian
2 6 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.00%) Windows
4 4 (0.80%) AIX
5 3 (0.60%) Android
5 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (58.28%) CI/CD
2 274 (54.69%) Microservices
3 252 (50.30%) Agile
4 213 (42.51%) DevOps
5 156 (31.14%) Containerisation
6 155 (30.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 155 (30.94%) Software Engineering
7 117 (23.35%) Mentoring
7 117 (23.35%) Test Automation
8 112 (22.36%) Event-Driven
9 103 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 100 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (16.97%) TDD
12 79 (15.77%) Scrum
13 70 (13.97%) AI
13 70 (13.97%) BDD
14 65 (12.97%) Clean Code
14 65 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (12.57%) SDLC
16 62 (12.38%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 495 (98.80%) Java
2 96 (19.16%) SQL
3 95 (18.96%) Python
4 84 (16.77%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.97%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.99%) Groovy
7 31 (6.19%) Bash
8 27 (5.39%) Kotlin
9 20 (3.99%) Ruby
10 11 (2.20%) C#
11 9 (1.80%) C++
11 9 (1.80%) RPG
12 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.00%) COBOL
13 5 (1.00%) Go
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Scala
15 3 (0.60%) PHP
16 2 (0.40%) C
17 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 101 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.37%) AWS Certification
3 63 (12.57%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.18%) Degree
5 33 (6.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (6.39%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.99%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.79%) QA
2 16 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.99%) WCAG
4 7 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 201 (40.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 170 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 81 (16.17%) Terraform
3 36 (7.19%) Ansible
4 30 (5.99%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.59%) Grafana
5 13 (2.59%) Kibana
6 11 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.20%) Puppet
8 5 (1.00%) Packer
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.99%) Oracle
2 21 (4.19%) Splunk
3 14 (2.79%) Google
3 14 (2.79%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.59%) IBM
4 13 (2.59%) SendGrid
5 12 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.00%) OneLogin
7 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.40%) Solace
9 6 (1.20%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.00%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.60%) Revolut
11 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.60%) WSO2
12 2 (0.40%) Pega
12 2 (0.40%) TikTok
13 1 (0.20%) Sitecore