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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 234 323
Rank change year-on-year -114 +89 -25
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 576 668 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 7.94% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 373 206 338
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £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 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +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 10,695 8,413 15,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.96% 16.84% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 5,449 11,350
10th Percentile £40,275 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -94 484 £75,000 +3.45% 130
UK excluding London -167 319 £70,000 +3.70% 121
London +14 233 £80,000 -3.03% 56
North of England -45 144 £72,000 -4.00% 37
Work from Home -157 135 £70,000 +3.70% 94
North West -48 84 £65,000 -17.52% 20
South West -45 56 £68,000 +11.02% 19
Yorkshire +12 51 £75,000 - 6
Wales -12 51 £70,000 +12.00% 7
South East -68 34 £68,750 -1.79% 25
West Midlands -45 23 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Midlands -102 23 £62,500 -1.19% 14
Scotland -86 14 £65,000 -14.75% 10
North East -58 9 £50,000 -23.08% 11
Northern Ireland -85 5 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East of England -43 2 £58,750 -30.88% 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 23 (3.99%) Confluence
2 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.74%) Apache
3 10 (1.74%) Camunda
4 9 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.69%) CICS
5 4 (0.69%) JBoss
5 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (59.03%) AWS
2 166 (28.82%) Azure
3 135 (23.44%) Serverless
4 112 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 106 (18.40%) GitHub
6 102 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (14.76%) GCP
8 80 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
9 72 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (8.16%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (5.90%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (5.21%) Amazon ECR
14 30 (5.21%) Apigee
15 21 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (3.65%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (2.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (2.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.26%) DMARC
2 11 (1.91%) AMQP
3 6 (1.04%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.01%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (16.49%) NoSQL
3 57 (9.90%) Relational Database
4 56 (9.72%) DynamoDB
5 47 (8.16%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.64%) MySQL
7 19 (3.30%) Redis
8 14 (2.43%) Db2
9 12 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.91%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.74%) DTS
12 9 (1.56%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.04%) Big Data
14 5 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.87%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.69%) Flink
16 3 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 134 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 83 (14.41%) GitLab
3 79 (13.72%) Git
4 42 (7.29%) JUnit
5 41 (7.12%) Cucumber
6 38 (6.60%) Maven
7 34 (5.90%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.51%) Mockito
9 23 (3.99%) JIRA
9 23 (3.99%) SonarQube
10 20 (3.47%) Selenium
11 11 (1.91%) Gradle
12 10 (1.74%) JMeter
13 8 (1.39%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.22%) Postman
15 6 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.69%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (23.44%) Finance
2 105 (18.23%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.51%) Banking
5 31 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.74%) Advertising
9 10 (1.74%) Front Office
9 10 (1.74%) Tech for Good
10 9 (1.56%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.87%) Law
11 5 (0.87%) Retail
12 4 (0.69%) Billing
12 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Games
13 3 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 240 (41.67%) Developer
2 174 (30.21%) Java Developer
3 147 (25.52%) Senior
4 141 (24.48%) Java Engineer
5 105 (18.23%) Software Engineer
6 91 (15.80%) Lead
7 68 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (11.11%) Senior Developer
9 58 (10.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 47 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (8.16%) Senior Java Engineer
11 43 (7.47%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (7.47%) Principal Engineer
12 37 (6.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (5.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 33 (5.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 31 (5.38%) Architect
17 29 (5.03%) Principal Java Engineer
18 22 (3.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 528 (91.67%) Spring
2 155 (26.91%) Kafka
3 123 (21.35%) AngularJS
4 120 (20.83%) React
5 111 (19.27%) REST
6 104 (18.06%) RESTful
7 103 (17.88%) Node.js
8 63 (10.94%) Hibernate
9 57 (9.90%) JPA
10 37 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (6.08%) OAuth
12 34 (5.90%) HTML
12 34 (5.90%) Jest
13 31 (5.38%) OAuth2
13 31 (5.38%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.69%) Vue
15 26 (4.51%) .NET
15 26 (4.51%) CSS
16 25 (4.34%) Web Services
17 24 (4.17%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 173 (30.03%) Cloud Native
2 117 (20.31%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.99%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (7.64%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.42%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.56%) e-Learning
7 29 (5.03%) Mainframe
8 27 (4.69%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.74%) EPoS
9 10 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.74%) iSeries
10 8 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
10 8 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) AIX
3 5 (0.87%) CentOS
3 5 (0.87%) Debian
3 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.52%) Windows
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (63.72%) CI/CD
2 322 (55.90%) Microservices
3 284 (49.31%) Agile
4 248 (43.06%) DevOps
5 182 (31.60%) Software Engineering
6 180 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 170 (29.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 150 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (25.52%) Event-Driven
10 139 (24.13%) Test Automation
11 132 (22.92%) Mentoring
12 99 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.80%) AI
13 91 (15.80%) TDD
14 84 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (14.41%) Scrum
16 81 (14.06%) BDD
16 81 (14.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (12.15%) Clean Code
18 69 (11.98%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 571 (99.13%) Java
2 143 (24.83%) Python
3 114 (19.79%) SQL
4 90 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 90 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 33 (5.73%) Kotlin
6 31 (5.38%) Ruby
7 25 (4.34%) Groovy
8 21 (3.65%) Bash
9 19 (3.30%) C#
10 14 (2.43%) COBOL
11 11 (1.91%) C++
12 10 (1.74%) RPG
13 8 (1.39%) JCL
14 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.87%) Scala
16 4 (0.69%) Go
17 3 (0.52%) C
18 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 70 (12.15%) AWS Certification
4 51 (8.85%) DV Cleared
5 44 (7.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.08%) Degree
7 17 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (2.95%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.85%) QA
2 33 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.17%) WCAG
4 7 (1.22%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.04%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 234 (40.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 202 (35.07%) Kubernetes
2 117 (20.31%) Terraform
3 63 (10.94%) Ansible
4 20 (3.47%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.13%) Grafana
6 16 (2.78%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.26%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Puppet
9 3 (0.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (4.86%) Splunk
2 26 (4.51%) Oracle
3 24 (4.17%) Google
4 17 (2.95%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.78%) IBM
5 16 (2.78%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.43%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.26%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.08%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.87%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.69%) Broadcom
10 4 (0.69%) Solace
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.52%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Apple
12 2 (0.35%) Pega
12 2 (0.35%) Rackspace