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 3 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 284 185
Rank change year-on-year -25 -99 +50
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 172 272 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.94% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.64% 4.07% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 122 149 331
10th Percentile £52,400 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £75,780 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +7.37% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -0.20%

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 3,707 6,682 6,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.30% 22.98% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,797 4,941
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% -3.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +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 3 months to 30 November 2025.

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 3 months to 30 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 163 £72,500 -5.23% 95
UK excluding London +38 108 £65,000 -3.70% 99
Work from Home +47 73 £65,000 -18.31% 52
London -30 62 £100,000 +8.11% 39
North of England +39 43 £70,000 +3.70% 20
South West +7 25 £63,750 -1.92% 16
South East -18 22 £80,000 +28.00% 39
North West +31 21 £70,500 +0.71% 13
Yorkshire +3 20 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Midlands +51 10 £55,200 - 10
West Midlands +42 8 £57,500 - 9
Scotland -16 6 £78,750 +3.92% 10
East of England +29 3 £62,500 -7.41%
North East +1 2 £31,850 -42.09% 1
East Midlands - 2 £47,600 - 1
Wales +1 1 £55,200 +16.68% 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 16 (4.97%) Apache
2 10 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.48%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.55%) Camunda
5 4 (1.24%) JBoss
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 250 (77.64%) AWS
2 78 (24.22%) Serverless
3 55 (17.08%) Azure
4 54 (16.77%) Amazon ECS
5 47 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (13.04%) GCP
7 39 (12.11%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (9.32%) GitHub
10 20 (6.21%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.59%) SaaS
12 17 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.80%) Apigee
15 9 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (2.17%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) AMQP
2 3 (0.93%) HTTP
2 3 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (19.88%) Relational Database
3 47 (14.60%) MongoDB
4 40 (12.42%) NoSQL
5 27 (8.39%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.04%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.04%) MySQL
7 12 (3.73%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.55%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.24%) Redis
11 3 (0.93%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.93%) Big Data
11 3 (0.93%) DB2
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 77 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 53 (16.46%) Git
3 49 (15.22%) JUnit
4 36 (11.18%) GitLab
5 30 (9.32%) Mockito
6 23 (7.14%) JMeter
7 21 (6.52%) Cypress.io
7 21 (6.52%) Maven
8 17 (5.28%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.04%) JIRA
10 10 (3.11%) Selenium
10 10 (3.11%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.55%) Gradle
12 5 (1.55%) Vite
13 4 (1.24%) Babel
13 4 (1.24%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.24%) webpack
14 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 123 (38.20%) Finance
2 63 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 50 (15.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 47 (14.60%) Law
5 44 (13.66%) Public Sector
6 38 (11.80%) Banking
7 36 (11.18%) Financial Institution
8 18 (5.59%) Marketing
9 17 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.17%) Legal
12 6 (1.86%) Games
13 5 (1.55%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.24%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.93%) Aviation
15 3 (0.93%) Billing
15 3 (0.93%) Retail
15 3 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
16 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (44.10%) Developer
2 114 (35.40%) Software Engineer
3 107 (33.23%) Java Developer
4 82 (25.47%) Senior
5 81 (25.16%) Java Engineer
6 53 (16.46%) Java Software Engineer
7 47 (14.60%) Lead
8 37 (11.49%) Senior Developer
9 36 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (10.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (9.32%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 27 (8.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 22 (6.83%) Backend Developer
16 19 (5.90%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (5.28%) Software Developer
18 15 (4.66%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (93.17%) Spring
2 103 (31.99%) Kafka
3 101 (31.37%) React
4 69 (21.43%) REST
5 65 (20.19%) RESTful
6 53 (16.46%) AngularJS
7 50 (15.53%) Hibernate
8 41 (12.73%) HTML
9 37 (11.49%) ActiveMQ
10 36 (11.18%) Web Services
11 28 (8.70%) Node.js
12 26 (8.07%) Apache Camel
13 23 (7.14%) jQuery
14 22 (6.83%) JPA
14 22 (6.83%) JSON
15 21 (6.52%) Jest
15 21 (6.52%) WireMock
15 21 (6.52%) XML
16 20 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (5.59%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 110 (34.16%) Cloud Native
2 60 (18.63%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (5.28%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.42%) Distributed Applications
6 11 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 10 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.48%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.93%) IoT
10 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.93%) Replication
11 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.04%) Linux
2 2 (0.62%) CentOS
2 2 (0.62%) Debian
2 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (66.46%) Agile
2 185 (57.45%) CI/CD
3 184 (57.14%) Microservices
4 156 (48.45%) Software Engineering
5 112 (34.78%) DevOps
6 101 (31.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 90 (27.95%) TDD
8 75 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 69 (21.43%) SDLC
10 66 (20.50%) BDD
11 58 (18.01%) Mentoring
12 55 (17.08%) Fintech
12 55 (17.08%) Scrum
13 54 (16.77%) Event-Driven
14 47 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (13.35%) Test Automation
16 40 (12.42%) Collaborative Culture
17 37 (11.49%) User Experience
18 36 (11.18%) AI
Programming Languages
1 320 (99.38%) Java
2 95 (29.50%) JavaScript
3 68 (21.12%) Python
4 57 (17.70%) TypeScript
5 53 (16.46%) SQL
6 26 (8.07%) Shell Script
7 21 (6.52%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.80%) Go
9 8 (2.48%) Delphi
10 7 (2.17%) C#
11 6 (1.86%) Bash
11 6 (1.86%) Groovy
12 5 (1.55%) Scala
13 3 (0.93%) C++
13 3 (0.93%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) Rust
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.21%) Degree
5 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.90%) QA
2 10 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.17%) NCSC
4 6 (1.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 138 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (56.21%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.39%) Kibana
3 26 (8.07%) Terraform
4 13 (4.04%) Ansible
4 13 (4.04%) Grafana
5 7 (2.17%) HP Fortify
6 6 (1.86%) Argo
7 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.62%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (10.87%) Oracle
2 30 (9.32%) Splunk
3 25 (7.76%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.42%) Google
5 8 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.55%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.24%) Pega
7 4 (1.24%) WSO2
8 3 (0.93%) IBM
8 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.93%) Solace
9 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.62%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.62%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
10 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.31%) Revolut
10 1 (0.31%) Veracode