Spring Boot Job Trends

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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 345 258
Rank change year-on-year +13 -87 -32
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 345 494 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.74% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 3.55% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 190 260 580
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,720 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £107,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 7,310 13,922 13,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.54% 20.83% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,310 8,421 11,170
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 28 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 28 November 2025. 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 +23 289 £71,000 -5.33% 118
UK excluding London +54 212 £65,000 -3.70% 115
London -26 136 £100,000 +11.11% 45
Work from Home +62 108 £65,000 - 69
North of England +48 60 £67,500 -6.90% 28
Scotland +11 52 £75,000 +11.11% 15
South East +8 40 £67,500 +8.00% 37
North West +65 35 £65,000 -10.34% 21
South West -7 35 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Midlands +84 25 £58,000 -3.33% 10
Yorkshire +20 22 £70,000 -9.68% 6
West Midlands +74 18 £62,500 - 9
East Midlands +27 7 £57,500 -4.17% 1
North East +15 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England +34 3 £62,500 -7.41%
Wales -1 2 £58,850 -12.81% 1
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 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 18 (5.22%) Apache
2 12 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.03%) Camunda
4 6 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.45%) JBoss
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.87%) Confluence
7 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 269 (77.97%) AWS
2 80 (23.19%) Serverless
3 59 (17.10%) Azure
4 55 (15.94%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (13.33%) GCP
6 42 (12.17%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (10.72%) Amazon S3
8 33 (9.57%) GitHub
9 31 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (5.51%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.22%) SaaS
12 17 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (2.61%) Apigee
17 8 (2.32%) Amazon MSK
17 8 (2.32%) AWS Step Functions
18 7 (2.03%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.16%) AMQP
1 4 (1.16%) HTTP
2 3 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (25.22%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (19.71%) Relational Database
3 50 (14.49%) MongoDB
4 40 (11.59%) NoSQL
5 28 (8.12%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.64%) MySQL
7 14 (4.06%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.48%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.74%) CockroachDB
11 6 (1.74%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.45%) Redis
13 4 (1.16%) Big Data
14 3 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (0.87%) DB2
14 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 81 (23.48%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.23%) Git
3 53 (15.36%) JUnit
4 36 (10.43%) GitLab
5 32 (9.28%) Mockito
6 24 (6.96%) Maven
7 23 (6.67%) JMeter
8 22 (6.38%) Cypress.io
9 17 (4.93%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.06%) JIRA
11 11 (3.19%) Selenium
11 11 (3.19%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.74%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.74%) Gradle
13 5 (1.45%) Vite
14 4 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.16%) Babel
14 4 (1.16%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 148 (42.90%) Finance
2 71 (20.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (20.29%) Social Skills
4 67 (19.42%) Law
5 52 (15.07%) Banking
6 44 (12.75%) Public Sector
7 37 (10.72%) Financial Institution
8 26 (7.54%) Marketing
9 19 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.90%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.61%) Legal
12 5 (1.45%) Games
12 5 (1.45%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.16%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Aviation
14 3 (0.87%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Retail
14 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 146 (42.32%) Developer
2 131 (37.97%) Software Engineer
3 107 (31.01%) Java Developer
4 91 (26.38%) Java Engineer
5 81 (23.48%) Senior
6 63 (18.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 54 (15.65%) Lead
8 37 (10.72%) Senior Developer
9 36 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (9.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 32 (9.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 30 (8.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 30 (8.70%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (8.41%) Senior Java Developer
14 24 (6.96%) Backend Developer
15 22 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 20 (5.80%) Kafka Engineer
16 20 (5.80%) Software Developer
17 19 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (92.17%) Spring
2 121 (35.07%) Kafka
3 107 (31.01%) React
4 75 (21.74%) REST
5 74 (21.45%) RESTful
6 59 (17.10%) AngularJS
7 53 (15.36%) Hibernate
8 44 (12.75%) HTML
9 38 (11.01%) Web Services
10 37 (10.72%) ActiveMQ
11 27 (7.83%) Apache Camel
11 27 (7.83%) Node.js
12 25 (7.25%) JPA
12 25 (7.25%) jQuery
12 25 (7.25%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (6.38%) JSON
14 21 (6.09%) Jest
14 21 (6.09%) WireMock
14 21 (6.09%) XML
15 19 (5.51%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 120 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 62 (17.97%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.54%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.25%) Algorithms
5 16 (4.64%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
6 13 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
7 11 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.74%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.45%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.87%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.87%) Replication
15 2 (0.58%) IoT
15 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.77%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Unix
3 2 (0.58%) CentOS
3 2 (0.58%) Debian
3 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (66.96%) Agile
2 201 (58.26%) CI/CD
3 193 (55.94%) Microservices
4 176 (51.01%) Software Engineering
5 116 (33.62%) DevOps
6 107 (31.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 94 (27.25%) TDD
8 84 (24.35%) SDLC
9 79 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 68 (19.71%) BDD
12 64 (18.55%) Mentoring
13 63 (18.26%) Fintech
14 60 (17.39%) Event-Driven
15 58 (16.81%) Scrum
16 52 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (13.91%) AI
18 45 (13.04%) Test Automation
19 41 (11.88%) Machine Learning
19 41 (11.88%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 343 (99.42%) Java
2 97 (28.12%) JavaScript
3 69 (20.00%) Python
4 62 (17.97%) SQL
5 60 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.83%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.38%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.61%) Go
9 8 (2.32%) Delphi
9 8 (2.32%) Groovy
10 7 (2.03%) C#
11 6 (1.74%) Bash
11 6 (1.74%) Scala
12 4 (1.16%) Ruby
13 3 (0.87%) C++
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
13 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.58%) R
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.25%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 22 (6.38%) Degree
5 14 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
8 10 (2.90%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.80%) QA
2 10 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.03%) NCSC
4 6 (1.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 146 (42.32%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 194 (56.23%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.70%) Terraform
3 27 (7.83%) Kibana
4 14 (4.06%) Ansible
5 13 (3.77%) Grafana
6 8 (2.32%) Argo
7 7 (2.03%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (13.04%) Oracle
2 33 (9.57%) Splunk
3 28 (8.12%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.48%) Google
5 8 (2.32%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.45%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.16%) Pega
7 4 (1.16%) WSO2
8 3 (0.87%) IBM
8 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.87%) Solace
9 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.58%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.29%) Databricks
10 1 (0.29%) Revolut
10 1 (0.29%) Veracode