Spring Boot
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Spring Boot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Spring Boot over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 252 223 192
Rank change year-on-year -29 -31 +11
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 714 2,046 2,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.67% 2.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.12% 5.13% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 591 1,185 1,315
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £91,934 £100,502 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,236 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,950 39,876 49,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.46% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,888 24,229 32,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Salary trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -17 574 £75,000 -6.25% 184
UK excluding London +46 404 £65,000 - 130
Work from Home +5 395 £70,576 -0.23% 162
London -44 296 £85,000 -3.02% 96
Scotland +17 114 £70,576 +4.35% 16
North of England +60 87 £62,500 +2.04% 25
South West +88 80 £65,000 -7.14% 28
South East +65 63 £70,000 -6.67% 35
North West +77 50 £62,500 -3.85% 8
Midlands +88 44 £56,250 -9.27% 14
West Midlands +115 42 £57,500 -4.96% 11
Yorkshire +49 29 £69,447 +15.75% 12
North East +45 8 £58,750 -14.86% 5
East of England +65 7 £81,250 +12.85% 5
Northern Ireland -29 6 £81,250 +53.30% 5
Wales +6 5 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East Midlands +21 2 £46,250 -33.93% 3

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (2.66%) Tomcat
2 18 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.38%) Apache
3 17 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 15 (2.10%) Confluence
5 9 (1.26%) Camunda
5 9 (1.26%) JBoss
5 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Pig
8 3 (0.42%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.28%) Jetty
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 430 (60.22%) AWS
2 151 (21.15%) Azure
3 76 (10.64%) GCP
4 61 (8.54%) Serverless
5 36 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (4.62%) GitHub
7 30 (4.20%) SaaS
8 27 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.82%) OpenShift
11 10 (1.40%) Apigee
11 10 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.84%) PaaS
16 5 (0.70%) Amazon EventBridge
16 5 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (0.70%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.26%) AMQP
2 2 (0.28%) Internet
2 2 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.14%) ATM
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.48%) Relational Database
2 75 (10.50%) NoSQL
3 65 (9.10%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (6.72%) Big Data
5 46 (6.44%) MongoDB
6 41 (5.74%) MySQL
7 27 (3.78%) RDBMS
8 25 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.68%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.40%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.12%) Hazelcast
12 8 (1.12%) Redis
13 7 (0.98%) Flink
14 6 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.70%) Cloudera CDH
16 4 (0.56%) DB2
17 3 (0.42%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 155 (21.71%) Jenkins
2 129 (18.07%) Git
3 105 (14.71%) Maven
4 77 (10.78%) Gradle
5 55 (7.70%) JUnit
6 40 (5.60%) Cucumber
7 37 (5.18%) JIRA
8 31 (4.34%) GitLab
9 29 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 25 (3.50%) Bitbucket
11 21 (2.94%) SonarQube
12 19 (2.66%) Selenium
13 14 (1.96%) IntelliJ
14 13 (1.82%) Mockito
15 12 (1.68%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.12%) TeamCity
16 8 (1.12%) Travis CI
17 7 (0.98%) Mocha
17 7 (0.98%) Postman
17 7 (0.98%) Subversion
General
1 239 (33.47%) Finance
2 146 (20.45%) Banking
3 96 (13.45%) Social Skills
4 67 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (7.00%) Retail
6 41 (5.74%) Legal
7 39 (5.46%) Public Sector
8 33 (4.62%) Law
9 25 (3.50%) Tech for Good
10 20 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (2.80%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.68%) Back Office
12 12 (1.68%) Marketing
13 9 (1.26%) Games
14 8 (1.12%) Private Banking
15 6 (0.84%) Front Office
16 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.56%) Automotive
17 4 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 403 (56.44%) Developer
2 343 (48.04%) Java Developer
3 150 (21.01%) Senior
4 133 (18.63%) Software Engineer
5 104 (14.57%) Senior Developer
6 103 (14.43%) Java Engineer
7 91 (12.75%) Lead
8 77 (10.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 52 (7.28%) Architect
10 51 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (6.02%) Lead Developer
13 38 (5.32%) Lead Java Developer
14 28 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
14 28 (3.92%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.50%) Full Stack Developer
16 22 (3.08%) Full Stack Engineer
17 17 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
17 17 (2.38%) SQL Developer
18 15 (2.10%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (80.95%) Spring
2 233 (32.63%) Kafka
3 144 (20.17%) REST
4 138 (19.33%) AngularJS
5 136 (19.05%) React
6 101 (14.15%) RESTful
7 95 (13.31%) Hibernate
8 83 (11.62%) Node.js
9 63 (8.82%) Micronaut
10 59 (8.26%) HTML
11 54 (7.56%) JSON
12 51 (7.14%) CSS
13 45 (6.30%) Web Services
14 40 (5.60%) JPA
15 38 (5.32%) Apache Camel
15 38 (5.32%) XML
16 35 (4.90%) SOAP
17 30 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
18 29 (4.06%) HTML5
19 24 (3.36%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 30 (4.20%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (3.22%) Blockchain
6 23 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (3.08%) Robotics
8 19 (2.66%) Private Cloud
9 18 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.96%) Reference Data
11 13 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.98%) Hackathon
15 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
15 6 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.44%) Linux
2 17 (2.38%) Unix
3 9 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.70%) CentOS
5 5 (0.70%) Debian
5 5 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.42%) Android
6 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (55.18%) Microservices
2 368 (51.54%) Agile
3 227 (31.79%) Software Engineering
4 193 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 173 (24.23%) DevOps
6 164 (22.97%) TDD
7 125 (17.51%) Scrum
8 119 (16.67%) SDLC
9 110 (15.41%) Full Stack Development
10 102 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 95 (13.31%) Test Automation
12 94 (13.17%) Fintech
13 82 (11.48%) BDD
14 74 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (8.68%) Containerisation
15 62 (8.68%) Open Source
16 58 (8.12%) E-Commerce
17 54 (7.56%) API Design
17 54 (7.56%) Continuous Integration
18 53 (7.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 705 (98.74%) Java
2 173 (24.23%) SQL
3 170 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 81 (11.34%) Python
5 71 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 31 (4.34%) Kotlin
7 12 (1.68%) C++
7 12 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.54%) C
8 11 (1.54%) C#
9 9 (1.26%) Go
10 6 (0.84%) Groovy
10 6 (0.84%) Ruby
11 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.56%) Bash
13 3 (0.42%) Scala
14 2 (0.28%) ABAP
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (8.68%) Degree
2 61 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 39 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (4.48%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.40%) OCP
7 10 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
8 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.92%) SEPA
2 26 (3.64%) QA
3 18 (2.52%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 349 (48.88%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 299 (41.88%) Kubernetes
2 110 (15.41%) Terraform
3 51 (7.14%) Ansible
4 7 (0.98%) Istio
5 6 (0.84%) Grafana
6 5 (0.70%) Puppet
7 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.42%) Rancher
8 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 26 (3.64%) Google
2 25 (3.50%) Oracle
3 17 (2.38%) WSO2
4 14 (1.96%) Splunk
5 11 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.40%) Confluent
7 9 (1.26%) Microsoft
8 7 (0.98%) IBM
9 6 (0.84%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.70%) HP
10 5 (0.70%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.56%) Databricks
11 4 (0.56%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.56%) Pega
12 3 (0.42%) Okta
12 3 (0.42%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.28%) New Relic
13 2 (0.28%) SAP
13 2 (0.28%) Sybase