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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 343 224
Rank change year-on-year -34 -119 +9
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 293 438 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.79% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.18% 3.70% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 194 230 581
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +6.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,011 11,847 12,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 21.45% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,218 7,037 10,585
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 1 January 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 January 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 +8 281 £71,000 -7.79% 699
UK excluding London +4 167 £65,000 -3.70% 586
London -59 121 £85,000 -5.56% 165
Work from Home +53 112 £65,000 -10.34% 421
North of England +58 71 £70,000 +3.70% 171
Yorkshire +16 38 £75,000 +11.11% 66
South West -5 37 £65,000 -3.70% 67
South East -11 36 £77,500 +19.23% 145
North West +40 30 £67,500 - 87
Midlands +36 18 £57,500 -11.54% 92
West Midlands +29 13 £57,500 - 50
Scotland -27 7 £77,500 +10.71% 22
North East +11 5 £65,000 +18.18% 18
East Midlands -3 5 £57,500 -11.54% 38
East of England +23 3 £62,500 -10.71% 70
Wales -6 1 £55,200 -18.22% 17

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 (6.14%) Apache
2 13 (4.44%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.02%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) JBoss
6 2 (0.68%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Liferay
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 215 (73.38%) AWS
2 82 (27.99%) Serverless
3 57 (19.45%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (17.41%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (15.70%) Amazon S3
5 46 (15.70%) Azure
6 43 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (10.92%) GCP
8 23 (7.85%) Amazon SQS
8 23 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.51%) OpenShift
10 21 (7.17%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (6.83%) Apigee
11 20 (6.83%) SaaS
12 19 (6.48%) GitHub
13 18 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
15 14 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.71%) CloudFront
16 5 (1.71%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.39%) AMQP
2 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.60%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (13.99%) MongoDB
2 41 (13.99%) Relational Database
3 32 (10.92%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.48%) DynamoDB
5 18 (6.14%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.07%) MySQL
8 4 (1.37%) Big Data
9 3 (1.02%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.02%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) DB2
10 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 82 (27.99%) Jenkins
2 53 (18.09%) Git
3 46 (15.70%) GitLab
4 36 (12.29%) JUnit
5 33 (11.26%) Cypress.io
6 25 (8.53%) Maven
7 21 (7.17%) Mockito
8 20 (6.83%) SonarQube
9 16 (5.46%) JMeter
10 14 (4.78%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.78%) JIRA
11 11 (3.75%) Selenium
12 7 (2.39%) Gradle
13 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.71%) Vite
14 3 (1.02%) TestNG
15 2 (0.68%) Babel
15 2 (0.68%) Gatling
15 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 67 (22.87%) Finance
2 53 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.90%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.75%) Banking
6 9 (3.07%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.73%) Billing
8 7 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Games
9 6 (2.05%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.02%) Legal
11 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 145 (49.49%) Developer
2 108 (36.86%) Java Developer
3 82 (27.99%) Senior
4 70 (23.89%) Software Engineer
5 58 (19.80%) Java Engineer
6 40 (13.65%) Senior Developer
7 37 (12.63%) Lead
8 34 (11.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (11.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 29 (9.90%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (9.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (8.87%) Senior Java Engineer
13 21 (7.17%) Backend Developer
13 21 (7.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (5.12%) Kafka Engineer
15 14 (4.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (4.78%) Software Developer
15 14 (4.78%) Technical Leader
16 13 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 12 (4.10%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (91.81%) Spring
2 86 (29.35%) React
3 70 (23.89%) Kafka
4 68 (23.21%) REST
5 54 (18.43%) AngularJS
6 43 (14.68%) Hibernate
7 40 (13.65%) RESTful
8 36 (12.29%) HTML
8 36 (12.29%) Node.js
9 31 (10.58%) Web Services
10 30 (10.24%) Jest
11 29 (9.90%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (8.19%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (6.83%) JSON
15 19 (6.48%) Apache Camel
15 19 (6.48%) XML
16 18 (6.14%) CSS
17 17 (5.80%) Gherkin
18 15 (5.12%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 55 (18.77%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.48%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.37%) IoT
8 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) CentOS
2 3 (1.02%) Debian
2 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.68%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (57.34%) Microservices
2 167 (57.00%) Agile
3 155 (52.90%) CI/CD
4 125 (42.66%) DevOps
5 107 (36.52%) Software Engineering
6 98 (33.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 77 (26.28%) Containerisation
8 74 (25.26%) TDD
9 60 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (19.11%) Mentoring
11 55 (18.77%) Scrum
12 51 (17.41%) BDD
13 48 (16.38%) Event-Driven
14 42 (14.33%) SDLC
15 41 (13.99%) Fintech
16 40 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
17 39 (13.31%) Collaborative Culture
18 38 (12.97%) Code Quality
18 38 (12.97%) User Experience
19 34 (11.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 291 (99.32%) Java
2 95 (32.42%) JavaScript
3 65 (22.18%) Python
4 62 (21.16%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.29%) SQL
6 18 (6.14%) Bash
7 16 (5.46%) Groovy
7 16 (5.46%) Shell Script
8 14 (4.78%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.07%) Go
10 8 (2.73%) Delphi
11 6 (2.05%) C#
12 3 (1.02%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Scala
14 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 50 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.48%) AWS Certification
3 19 (6.48%) Degree
4 15 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) QA
2 8 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.39%) NCSC
4 6 (2.05%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 140 (47.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (51.88%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.83%) Kibana
3 17 (5.80%) HP Fortify
4 16 (5.46%) Terraform
5 15 (5.12%) Ansible
5 15 (5.12%) Grafana
6 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.02%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.85%) Oracle
2 20 (6.83%) Splunk
3 14 (4.78%) Dynatrace
4 12 (4.10%) Google
5 8 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.37%) Pega
6 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.37%) Solace
6 4 (1.37%) WSO2
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.02%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Moogsoft