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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 227 320
Rank change year-on-year -125 +93 -21
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 530 700 794
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 7.91% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 343 236 445
10th Percentile £51,540 £50,000 £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 £94,083 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,240 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -

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 10,247 8,854 18,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.01% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,659 5,843 13,687
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 22 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 22 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 -85 465 £75,000 - 185
UK excluding London -172 283 £70,000 -1.75% 117
London +16 225 £80,000 -3.03% 106
North of England -49 144 £70,000 -11.18% 32
Work from Home -157 131 £70,000 -5.08% 83
North West -58 81 £65,000 -26.69% 16
Yorkshire +7 53 £75,000 - 7
South West -68 45 £67,500 -6.90% 12
Wales -19 39 £70,000 +12.00% 4
South East -73 34 £67,500 -3.57% 34
Midlands -94 18 £57,500 -9.09% 19
West Midlands -39 17 £56,250 -21.05% 13
North East -46 10 £50,000 -31.03% 9
Scotland -72 10 £65,000 -16.13% 14
East of England -19 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 (3.96%) Confluence
2 14 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.51%) Camunda
4 7 (1.32%) Apache
4 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.75%) JBoss
5 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 309 (58.30%) AWS
2 140 (26.42%) Azure
3 135 (25.47%) Serverless
4 107 (20.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.68%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (15.28%) GitHub
7 80 (15.09%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (14.34%) Amazon S3
9 64 (12.08%) GCP
10 48 (9.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 40 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (6.79%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (6.60%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (6.60%) Apigee
14 30 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (3.02%) OpenShift
18 14 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
19 13 (2.45%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.45%) DMARC
2 8 (1.51%) AMQP
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (16.79%) NoSQL
2 88 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (10.57%) DynamoDB
4 49 (9.25%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.55%) MongoDB
6 37 (6.98%) MySQL
7 19 (3.58%) Redis
8 13 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.45%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.08%) DTS
9 11 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.89%) Db2
11 5 (0.94%) Big Data
11 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.75%) Flink
13 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 115 (21.70%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.28%) GitLab
3 68 (12.83%) Git
4 42 (7.92%) Maven
5 37 (6.98%) Cucumber
6 35 (6.60%) JUnit
7 34 (6.42%) Cypress.io
8 28 (5.28%) SonarQube
9 23 (4.34%) JIRA
10 22 (4.15%) Mockito
11 20 (3.77%) Selenium
12 14 (2.64%) Gradle
13 10 (1.89%) JMeter
14 8 (1.51%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.32%) Postman
16 6 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.75%) Zephyr
18 3 (0.57%) Spock
General
1 119 (22.45%) Finance
2 86 (16.23%) Social Skills
3 82 (15.47%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.42%) Banking
5 24 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.40%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.64%) Advertising
7 14 (2.64%) Front Office
8 12 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.51%) Billing
10 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.32%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.13%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.75%) Retail
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Games
15 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 232 (43.77%) Developer
2 176 (33.21%) Java Developer
3 141 (26.60%) Java Engineer
4 136 (25.66%) Senior
5 89 (16.79%) Software Engineer
6 80 (15.09%) Lead
7 66 (12.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (11.89%) Senior Developer
9 52 (9.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (9.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.68%) Senior Java Engineer
12 44 (8.30%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (7.36%) Principal Engineer
14 34 (6.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.85%) Architect
16 28 (5.28%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (5.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 27 (5.09%) Principal Java Engineer
18 25 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
19 21 (3.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (91.32%) Spring
2 140 (26.42%) Kafka
3 132 (24.91%) AngularJS
4 113 (21.32%) REST
5 111 (20.94%) React
6 95 (17.92%) Node.js
7 87 (16.42%) RESTful
8 54 (10.19%) Hibernate
9 46 (8.68%) JPA
10 34 (6.42%) OAuth
11 32 (6.04%) Jest
12 31 (5.85%) HTML
12 31 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
13 30 (5.66%) OAuth2
14 29 (5.47%) Gherkin
15 28 (5.28%) Vue
16 26 (4.91%) Web Services
17 24 (4.53%) Ruby on Rails
18 22 (4.15%) CSS
19 16 (3.02%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 145 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 94 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (5.47%) Public Cloud
6 28 (5.28%) e-Learning
7 21 (3.96%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.77%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.89%) EPoS
9 10 (1.89%) iSeries
10 9 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.13%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (0.94%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.75%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.89%) Linux
2 5 (0.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.75%) AIX
3 4 (0.75%) CentOS
3 4 (0.75%) Debian
3 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (61.89%) CI/CD
2 296 (55.85%) Microservices
3 265 (50.00%) Agile
4 228 (43.02%) DevOps
5 169 (31.89%) Containerisation
6 159 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 157 (29.62%) Software Engineering
8 130 (24.53%) Event-Driven
8 130 (24.53%) Test Automation
9 124 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 123 (23.21%) Mentoring
11 99 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (16.60%) TDD
13 80 (15.09%) AI
13 80 (15.09%) Scrum
14 75 (14.15%) BDD
15 70 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (12.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (12.26%) Architectural Patterns
18 62 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 524 (98.87%) Java
2 118 (22.26%) Python
3 111 (20.94%) SQL
4 83 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 76 (14.34%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.66%) Groovy
6 30 (5.66%) Kotlin
7 26 (4.91%) Bash
8 24 (4.53%) Ruby
9 13 (2.45%) C#
10 10 (1.89%) RPG
11 9 (1.70%) C++
12 7 (1.32%) COBOL
12 7 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.94%) Go
14 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.75%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) C
15 2 (0.38%) PHP
16 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 104 (19.62%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.02%) AWS Certification
3 63 (11.89%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.92%) Degree
5 39 (7.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (7.17%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 20 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.17%) QA
2 20 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.40%) WCAG
4 7 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.13%) NCSC
6 5 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 215 (40.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 187 (35.28%) Kubernetes
2 96 (18.11%) Terraform
3 44 (8.30%) Ansible
4 25 (4.72%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.64%) Grafana
6 13 (2.45%) Kibana
7 12 (2.26%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.94%) Packer
9 4 (0.75%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.72%) Oracle
2 22 (4.15%) Splunk
3 17 (3.21%) Google
4 15 (2.83%) IBM
4 15 (2.83%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.45%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.26%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.26%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.89%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.13%) Solace
9 5 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.94%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.75%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.57%) WSO2
12 2 (0.38%) Pega
12 2 (0.38%) Revolut
12 2 (0.38%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Workday