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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 331 248
Rank change year-on-year -30 -83 +9
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 380 354 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.87% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.61% 4.00% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 225 241 645
10th Percentile £52,160 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,000 £120,000 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £78,810 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.35% +21.25% -3.70%

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 8,247 8,841 19,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.56% 21.66% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,044 6,598 15,386
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +3 357 £70,000 -12.50% 132
UK excluding London -52 205 £67,500 -14.35% 94
London -7 152 £75,000 -14.29% 55
Work from Home -10 130 £70,000 -12.03% 108
North of England -4 110 £70,000 -12.50% 47
Yorkshire -19 63 £77,500 -1.66% 10
South West -42 43 £65,000 -14.08% 14
North West -8 42 £67,500 -23.87% 30
South East -58 34 £75,000 +20.00% 16
Midlands -21 14 £45,000 -5.26% 5
West Midlands +1 11 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Scotland -54 6 £65,000 -18.75% 7
North East -24 5 £31,850 -42.09% 7
Wales -22 2 £50,100 +17.83% 3
East Midlands -48 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2
East of England -30 1 £62,500 -21.88% 2

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 15 (3.95%) Apache
2 14 (3.68%) OpenStack
3 13 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.05%) Confluence
5 4 (1.05%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) Liferay
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 236 (62.11%) AWS
2 105 (27.63%) Serverless
3 72 (18.95%) Amazon ECS
3 72 (18.95%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (17.89%) Amazon S3
5 60 (15.79%) Azure
6 58 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (12.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 44 (11.58%) Apigee
9 41 (10.79%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (10.26%) GCP
12 32 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (7.63%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.58%) GitHub
15 20 (5.26%) SaaS
16 17 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.32%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) AMQP
2 5 (1.32%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (20.26%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (15.53%) NoSQL
3 48 (12.63%) DynamoDB
4 47 (12.37%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.84%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.26%) MySQL
6 20 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 13 (3.42%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.58%) Big Data
9 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.32%) Redis
11 3 (0.79%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.53%) Flink
12 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 68 (17.89%) GitLab
3 58 (15.26%) Git
4 51 (13.42%) Maven
5 45 (11.84%) Cypress.io
6 42 (11.05%) SonarQube
7 32 (8.42%) JUnit
8 23 (6.05%) Cucumber
9 18 (4.74%) Gradle
10 16 (4.21%) Mockito
10 16 (4.21%) Selenium
11 15 (3.95%) JIRA
12 7 (1.84%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) TestNG
14 2 (0.53%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.53%) ESLint
14 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 78 (20.53%) Finance
2 55 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.05%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.74%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.21%) Billing
7 10 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.63%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.37%) Advertising
8 9 (2.37%) Front Office
8 9 (2.37%) Games
9 6 (1.58%) Banking
10 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Law
13 2 (0.53%) Marketing
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 210 (55.26%) Developer
2 168 (44.21%) Java Developer
3 104 (27.37%) Senior
4 78 (20.53%) Java Engineer
5 71 (18.68%) Software Engineer
6 60 (15.79%) Senior Developer
7 48 (12.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 48 (12.63%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.58%) Lead
9 33 (8.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 33 (8.68%) Senior Java Engineer
10 32 (8.42%) Java Software Engineer
11 26 (6.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 19 (5.00%) Software Developer
13 16 (4.21%) Backend Developer
13 16 (4.21%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.95%) Lead Java Developer
15 12 (3.16%) Senior Software Developer
16 11 (2.89%) Applications Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (88.16%) Spring
2 102 (26.84%) AngularJS
3 92 (24.21%) React
4 84 (22.11%) REST
5 64 (16.84%) Kafka
6 50 (13.16%) Node.js
7 49 (12.89%) RESTful
8 44 (11.58%) Hibernate
9 42 (11.05%) Jest
10 39 (10.26%) Gherkin
11 30 (7.89%) HTML
12 29 (7.63%) Web Services
13 25 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (6.58%) JPA
14 20 (5.26%) CSS
14 20 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (4.74%) JSON
16 17 (4.47%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.21%) Vue
17 16 (4.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.58%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.68%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.16%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.37%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.11%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.37%) Linux
2 6 (1.58%) Android
2 6 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.32%) CentOS
3 5 (1.32%) Debian
3 5 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 195 (51.32%) Agile
3 192 (50.53%) Microservices
4 179 (47.11%) DevOps
5 124 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 117 (30.79%) Software Engineering
7 108 (28.42%) Containerisation
8 90 (23.68%) Mentoring
9 85 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (17.63%) TDD
11 66 (17.37%) Scrum
12 63 (16.58%) Test Automation
13 58 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 56 (14.74%) Event-Driven
15 53 (13.95%) SDLC
16 50 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
17 46 (12.11%) AI
18 45 (11.84%) BDD
19 43 (11.32%) Secure Coding
20 41 (10.79%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 377 (99.21%) Java
2 96 (25.26%) JavaScript
3 74 (19.47%) TypeScript
4 64 (16.84%) Python
5 62 (16.32%) SQL
6 40 (10.53%) Bash
7 38 (10.00%) Groovy
8 25 (6.58%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.37%) Go
10 8 (2.11%) Delphi
11 6 (1.58%) PHP
12 5 (1.32%) C#
12 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.53%) C++
13 2 (0.53%) R
13 2 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 30 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.11%) Degree
5 22 (5.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 22 (5.79%) ITIL Certification
6 20 (5.26%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.21%) QA
2 5 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.32%) NCSC
3 4 (1.05%) NIST
4 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 171 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 162 (42.63%) Kubernetes
2 40 (10.53%) Terraform
3 39 (10.26%) HP Fortify
4 23 (6.05%) Ansible
5 20 (5.26%) Grafana
6 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.37%) Kibana
8 5 (1.32%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (6.05%) Oracle
2 11 (2.89%) Google
3 9 (2.37%) Splunk
4 7 (1.84%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.58%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.58%) Solace
6 5 (1.32%) Pega
6 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.32%) WSO2
7 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.79%) Revolut
8 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.26%) Okta
9 1 (0.26%) SAP