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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 224 324
Rank change year-on-year -124 +100 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 523 704 840
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.43% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 7.90% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 337 238 477
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 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,625 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10,188 8,909 19,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.13% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,609 5,889 14,710
10th Percentile £41,250 £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% -11.11%
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 17 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 17 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 -104 460 £75,000 +3.45% 118
UK excluding London -175 283 £70,000 - 81
London +10 220 £80,000 -3.03% 64
North of England -48 146 £70,000 -17.65% 20
Work from Home -168 130 £70,000 -3.45% 59
North West -54 81 £65,000 -26.69% 7
Yorkshire +13 55 £75,000 -4.83% 9
South West -56 45 £67,500 -1.82% 8
Wales -14 38 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South East -71 34 £68,750 -1.79% 23
Midlands -99 17 £57,500 -9.09% 15
West Midlands -44 16 £56,250 -21.05% 11
North East -52 10 £50,000 -31.03% 4
Scotland -82 10 £65,000 -16.13% 8
East of England -25 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 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 (0.76%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) 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 (2.10%) 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 (57.74%) AWS
2 138 (26.39%) Azure
3 135 (25.81%) Serverless
4 106 (20.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.93%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (15.49%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (15.11%) GitHub
8 77 (14.72%) Amazon S3
9 64 (12.24%) GCP
10 50 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 38 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (7.07%) Amazon ECR
12 37 (7.07%) Apigee
13 36 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.25%) 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 (16.63%) NoSQL
2 85 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (11.09%) DynamoDB
4 48 (9.18%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.65%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.88%) MySQL
7 19 (3.63%) Redis
8 14 (2.68%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.10%) DTS
10 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.91%) Db2
12 5 (0.96%) Big Data
12 5 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.76%) Flink
14 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 115 (21.99%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.49%) GitLab
3 67 (12.81%) Git
4 44 (8.41%) Maven
5 36 (6.88%) Cypress.io
6 35 (6.69%) Cucumber
7 34 (6.50%) JUnit
8 30 (5.74%) SonarQube
9 23 (4.40%) JIRA
10 21 (4.02%) Mockito
11 20 (3.82%) Selenium
12 14 (2.68%) Gradle
13 10 (1.91%) JMeter
14 8 (1.53%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.34%) Postman
16 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
18 3 (0.57%) Newman
General
1 115 (21.99%) Finance
2 81 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 80 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 32 (6.12%) Banking
5 22 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.25%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.68%) Advertising
8 13 (2.49%) Front Office
9 12 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.72%) Billing
11 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.96%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.76%) Retail
15 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Games
16 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (44.93%) Developer
2 180 (34.42%) Java Developer
3 138 (26.39%) Java Engineer
4 135 (25.81%) Senior
5 87 (16.63%) Software Engineer
6 77 (14.72%) Lead
7 67 (12.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (12.43%) Senior Developer
9 50 (9.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 50 (9.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 44 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 44 (8.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 38 (7.27%) Principal Engineer
12 35 (6.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 31 (5.93%) Architect
14 27 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (4.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 26 (4.97%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
17 21 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (91.20%) Spring
2 136 (26.00%) AngularJS
3 134 (25.62%) Kafka
4 114 (21.80%) REST
5 109 (20.84%) React
6 94 (17.97%) Node.js
7 85 (16.25%) RESTful
8 53 (10.13%) Hibernate
9 43 (8.22%) JPA
10 34 (6.50%) Jest
11 32 (6.12%) OAuth
12 31 (5.93%) Gherkin
13 30 (5.74%) HTML
13 30 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (5.54%) Vue
15 28 (5.35%) OAuth2
16 26 (4.97%) Web Services
17 23 (4.40%) Ruby on Rails
18 21 (4.02%) CSS
19 16 (3.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 140 (26.77%) Cloud Native
2 92 (17.59%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (5.16%) Public Cloud
6 26 (4.97%) e-Learning
7 21 (4.02%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.44%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.91%) EPoS
9 10 (1.91%) 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 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.91%) Linux
2 5 (0.96%) Windows
3 4 (0.76%) AIX
3 4 (0.76%) CentOS
3 4 (0.76%) Debian
3 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (61.19%) CI/CD
2 292 (55.83%) Microservices
3 264 (50.48%) Agile
4 226 (43.21%) DevOps
5 167 (31.93%) Containerisation
6 158 (30.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 152 (29.06%) Software Engineering
8 126 (24.09%) Test Automation
9 125 (23.90%) Event-Driven
10 121 (23.14%) Mentoring
11 119 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 97 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (16.83%) TDD
14 80 (15.30%) Scrum
15 77 (14.72%) AI
16 73 (13.96%) BDD
17 68 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
18 64 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
18 64 (12.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 62 (11.85%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 517 (98.85%) Java
2 115 (21.99%) Python
3 107 (20.46%) SQL
4 83 (15.87%) JavaScript
5 76 (14.53%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.12%) Groovy
7 29 (5.54%) Kotlin
8 28 (5.35%) Bash
9 23 (4.40%) Ruby
10 13 (2.49%) C#
11 10 (1.91%) RPG
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.15%) COBOL
15 5 (0.96%) Go
16 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.76%) Scala
17 2 (0.38%) C
17 2 (0.38%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 103 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.19%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.85%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.84%) Degree
5 38 (7.27%) DV Cleared
6 37 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.82%) 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 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.76%) 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 (7.07%) QA
2 19 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.25%) 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
1 214 (40.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (35.18%) Kubernetes
2 93 (17.78%) Terraform
3 42 (8.03%) Ansible
4 27 (5.16%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.68%) Grafana
6 13 (2.49%) Kibana
7 12 (2.29%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.96%) Packer
9 4 (0.76%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.78%) Oracle
2 22 (4.21%) Splunk
3 16 (3.06%) Google
4 15 (2.87%) IBM
4 15 (2.87%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.49%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.91%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.15%) Solace
9 5 (0.96%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.96%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.76%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.57%) Revolut
11 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.57%) WSO2
12 2 (0.38%) Pega
12 2 (0.38%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Sitecore