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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 230 352
Rank change year-on-year -123 +122 -59
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 581 662 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 7.39% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 377 203 317
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £121,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +4.00%

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 11,887 8,957 17,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 17.92% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,624 5,825 11,655
10th Percentile £42,476 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%

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 September 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 1 September 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 -109 482 £75,000 +3.45% 524
UK excluding London -165 323 £70,000 +3.70% 337
London +20 232 £80,000 -3.03% 319
North of England -67 138 £72,500 -3.33% 100
Work from Home -163 132 £70,000 +7.69% 285
North West -65 80 £65,000 -17.52% 60
South West -51 59 £68,250 +13.75% 46
Wales -13 54 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Yorkshire +2 49 £85,000 +13.33% 18
South East -83 33 £68,750 -1.79% 43
West Midlands -41 26 £62,500 -10.71% 32
Midlands -112 26 £62,500 - 41
Scotland -85 14 £71,000 -5.33% 69
North East -59 9 £50,000 -24.53% 22
Northern Ireland -83 7 £60,000 +9.09% 25
East of England -34 2 £58,750 -30.88% 8

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 23 (3.96%) Confluence
2 12 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.89%) Camunda
4 10 (1.72%) Apache
5 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) CICS
6 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 346 (59.55%) AWS
2 170 (29.26%) Azure
3 125 (21.51%) Serverless
4 113 (19.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 108 (18.59%) GitHub
6 95 (16.35%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (14.63%) GCP
8 75 (12.91%) Amazon ECS
9 67 (11.53%) Amazon S3
10 65 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (7.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.48%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.48%) Apigee
15 23 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (2.93%) SaaS
18 14 (2.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.24%) AMQP
1 13 (2.24%) DMARC
2 8 (1.38%) SMS
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.56%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (17.04%) NoSQL
3 56 (9.64%) Relational Database
4 52 (8.95%) MongoDB
5 51 (8.78%) DynamoDB
6 44 (7.57%) MySQL
7 19 (3.27%) Redis
8 14 (2.41%) Db2
9 12 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.72%) DTS
10 10 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.03%) Big Data
14 5 (0.86%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.86%) Flink
14 5 (0.86%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.69%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 132 (22.72%) Jenkins
2 84 (14.46%) GitLab
3 82 (14.11%) Git
4 45 (7.75%) Cucumber
5 42 (7.23%) JUnit
6 35 (6.02%) Maven
7 30 (5.16%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.48%) Mockito
9 22 (3.79%) JIRA
10 19 (3.27%) Selenium
10 19 (3.27%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.72%) Gradle
11 10 (1.72%) JMeter
12 9 (1.55%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.20%) Postman
14 6 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.69%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (23.75%) Finance
2 107 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 101 (17.38%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.47%) Banking
5 32 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.27%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.89%) Health Technology
9 11 (1.89%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.55%) Advertising
10 9 (1.55%) Front Office
11 5 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.86%) Law
11 5 (0.86%) Retail
12 3 (0.52%) Billing
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (40.96%) Developer
2 169 (29.09%) Java Developer
3 150 (25.82%) Senior
4 142 (24.44%) Java Engineer
5 107 (18.42%) Software Engineer
6 89 (15.32%) Lead
7 66 (11.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (11.36%) Senior Developer
8 52 (8.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 47 (8.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (7.92%) Senior Java Engineer
11 45 (7.75%) Principal Engineer
12 42 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
13 37 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (5.34%) Architect
15 31 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 31 (5.34%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (3.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (92.25%) Spring
2 166 (28.57%) Kafka
3 118 (20.31%) React
3 118 (20.31%) Terraform
4 114 (19.62%) REST
5 113 (19.45%) AngularJS
6 104 (17.90%) RESTful
7 100 (17.21%) Node.js
8 64 (11.02%) Hibernate
9 60 (10.33%) JPA
10 42 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
11 37 (6.37%) OAuth
12 33 (5.68%) HTML
12 33 (5.68%) OAuth2
13 31 (5.34%) Ruby on Rails
14 30 (5.16%) Jest
15 28 (4.82%) .NET
16 25 (4.30%) CSS
16 25 (4.30%) Vue
17 23 (3.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (30.98%) Cloud Native
2 122 (21.00%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (7.06%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.20%) e-Learning
7 31 (5.34%) Mainframe
8 29 (4.99%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.72%) EPoS
9 10 (1.72%) iSeries
9 10 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.38%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.03%) AIX
3 5 (0.86%) CentOS
3 5 (0.86%) Debian
3 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.86%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.52%) Windows
6 2 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (63.51%) CI/CD
2 331 (56.97%) Microservices
3 288 (49.57%) Agile
4 248 (42.69%) DevOps
5 185 (31.84%) Software Engineering
6 173 (29.78%) Containerisation
7 166 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 158 (27.19%) Event-Driven
9 150 (25.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 143 (24.61%) Test Automation
11 135 (23.24%) Mentoring
12 94 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.66%) AI
13 91 (15.66%) TDD
14 90 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (15.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 85 (14.63%) BDD
17 83 (14.29%) Scrum
18 73 (12.56%) Observability
19 69 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 576 (99.14%) Java
2 139 (23.92%) Python
3 117 (20.14%) SQL
4 87 (14.97%) TypeScript
5 85 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.85%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.34%) Ruby
8 21 (3.61%) Groovy
9 19 (3.27%) C#
10 17 (2.93%) Bash
11 16 (2.75%) COBOL
12 10 (1.72%) C++
12 10 (1.72%) JCL
12 10 (1.72%) RPG
13 7 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.03%) Scala
15 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.69%) Go
17 3 (0.52%) C
18 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 123 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.05%) AWS Certification
2 70 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 34 (5.85%) Degree
6 14 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 14 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.17%) OCP
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (9.29%) QA
2 34 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.13%) WCAG
4 7 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.03%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 233 (40.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 202 (34.77%) Kubernetes
2 65 (11.19%) Ansible
3 20 (3.44%) Grafana
4 18 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.75%) HP Fortify
6 13 (2.24%) Kibana
7 7 (1.20%) Puppet
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (5.16%) Splunk
2 28 (4.82%) Oracle
3 24 (4.13%) Google
4 18 (3.10%) IBM
5 16 (2.75%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.75%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.24%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.24%) SendGrid
8 6 (1.03%) Broadcom
9 5 (0.86%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.86%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.86%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.52%) Solace
10 3 (0.52%) WSO2
11 2 (0.34%) Apple
11 2 (0.34%) Pega
11 2 (0.34%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.34%) Salesforce