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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 235 336
Rank change year-on-year -105 +101 -41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 601 659 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.33% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.08% 7.65% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 387 197 306
10th Percentile £47,258 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

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 11,823 8,620 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 17.38% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,520 5,518 10,914
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -95 496 £75,000 +3.45% 391
UK excluding London -178 337 £70,000 +7.69% 269
London +16 234 £80,000 -8.57% 220
North of England -58 148 £72,500 -1.69% 74
Work from Home -164 141 £70,000 +7.69% 572
North West -52 90 £65,000 -17.52% 48
South West -55 58 £68,250 +13.75% 37
Wales -16 56 £70,000 +12.00% 8
Yorkshire -7 50 £85,000 +17.24% 13
South East -78 32 £68,750 -1.79% 42
West Midlands -55 29 £62,500 -10.71% 24
Midlands -99 29 £62,500 - 29
Scotland -77 14 £88,000 +17.33% 58
North East -61 8 £50,000 -24.53% 13
Northern Ireland -78 8 £60,000 +9.09% 19
East of England -42 2 £58,750 -16.07% 6

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 24 (3.99%) Confluence
2 13 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.83%) Apache
3 11 (1.83%) Camunda
4 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.67%) CICS
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.33%) 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 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 365 (60.73%) AWS
2 173 (28.79%) Azure
3 131 (21.80%) Serverless
4 120 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 111 (18.47%) GitHub
6 99 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (14.31%) GCP
8 78 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
9 71 (11.81%) Amazon S3
10 68 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 36 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.49%) Apigee
15 25 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (3.16%) SaaS
18 18 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.66%) AMQP
2 13 (2.16%) DMARC
3 10 (1.66%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (16.97%) NoSQL
1 102 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.48%) Relational Database
3 54 (8.99%) MongoDB
4 53 (8.82%) DynamoDB
5 43 (7.15%) MySQL
6 19 (3.16%) Redis
7 14 (2.33%) Db2
8 12 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.66%) DTS
10 9 (1.50%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.16%) Big Data
12 7 (1.16%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.83%) Flink
15 4 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 136 (22.63%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.48%) GitLab
3 84 (13.98%) Git
4 48 (7.99%) Cucumber
5 40 (6.66%) JUnit
6 39 (6.49%) Maven
7 31 (5.16%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.16%) Mockito
9 23 (3.83%) JIRA
10 20 (3.33%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.16%) Selenium
12 11 (1.83%) JMeter
13 10 (1.66%) Gradle
14 9 (1.50%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.16%) Postman
16 6 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.67%) Eclipse
18 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
18 4 (0.67%) Zephyr
General
1 144 (23.96%) Finance
2 114 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 106 (17.64%) Public Sector
4 60 (9.98%) Banking
5 39 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.33%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.16%) Health Technology
10 12 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.50%) Advertising
11 9 (1.50%) Front Office
12 7 (1.16%) Publishing
13 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.83%) Law
14 5 (0.83%) Retail
15 3 (0.50%) Back Office
15 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Marketing
15 3 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 248 (41.26%) Developer
2 177 (29.45%) Java Developer
3 163 (27.12%) Senior
4 147 (24.46%) Java Engineer
5 115 (19.13%) Software Engineer
6 90 (14.98%) Lead
7 75 (12.48%) Senior Developer
8 67 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 53 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 51 (8.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.99%) Senior Java Engineer
12 47 (7.82%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
14 39 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (5.49%) Principal Java Engineer
17 32 (5.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 31 (5.16%) Architect
18 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (3.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (92.51%) Spring
2 178 (29.62%) Kafka
3 126 (20.97%) React
4 125 (20.80%) Terraform
5 117 (19.47%) REST
6 113 (18.80%) AngularJS
7 102 (16.97%) RESTful
8 100 (16.64%) Node.js
9 63 (10.48%) Hibernate
10 58 (9.65%) JPA
11 45 (7.49%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (6.32%) OAuth
13 34 (5.66%) OAuth2
14 32 (5.32%) HTML
15 31 (5.16%) Jest
15 31 (5.16%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.83%) .NET
17 24 (3.99%) Vue
18 23 (3.83%) CSS
19 21 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 190 (31.61%) Cloud Native
2 128 (21.30%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (7.15%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.32%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.49%) Mainframe
8 30 (4.99%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.66%) EPoS
11 10 (1.66%) iSeries
12 9 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.00%) AIX
2 6 (1.00%) CentOS
2 6 (1.00%) Debian
2 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (64.23%) CI/CD
2 340 (56.57%) Microservices
3 305 (50.75%) Agile
4 256 (42.60%) DevOps
5 201 (33.44%) Software Engineering
6 177 (29.45%) Containerisation
7 171 (28.45%) Event-Driven
8 165 (27.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 158 (26.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 145 (24.13%) Mentoring
10 145 (24.13%) Test Automation
11 106 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (16.47%) AI
13 98 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (15.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (15.64%) TDD
16 89 (14.81%) BDD
17 88 (14.64%) Scrum
18 84 (13.98%) Observability
19 73 (12.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 596 (99.17%) Java
2 138 (22.96%) Python
3 122 (20.30%) SQL
4 96 (15.97%) TypeScript
5 83 (13.81%) JavaScript
6 35 (5.82%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.16%) Ruby
8 22 (3.66%) Groovy
9 18 (3.00%) Bash
9 18 (3.00%) C#
9 18 (3.00%) COBOL
10 12 (2.00%) JCL
11 10 (1.66%) C++
11 10 (1.66%) RPG
12 8 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.00%) Scala
14 4 (0.67%) Go
15 3 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 128 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.98%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 49 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 33 (5.49%) Degree
6 15 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.32%) QA
2 34 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.99%) WCAG
4 7 (1.16%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.00%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 239 (39.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 207 (34.44%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.15%) Ansible
3 22 (3.66%) Grafana
4 20 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.83%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.33%) Kibana
7 8 (1.33%) Puppet
8 5 (0.83%) Packer
9 3 (0.50%) Argo
10 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (5.49%) Splunk
2 29 (4.83%) Oracle
3 25 (4.16%) Google
4 18 (3.00%) IBM
5 16 (2.66%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.66%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.16%) SendGrid
8 8 (1.33%) Broadcom
9 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.00%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.83%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.50%) Solace
11 3 (0.50%) WSO2
12 2 (0.33%) Apple
12 2 (0.33%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.33%) TikTok
13 1 (0.17%) Guidewire