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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 237 343
Rank change year-on-year -107 +106 -50
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 596 656 606
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.33% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.08% 7.67% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 385 196 307
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £117,250
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 11,725 8,551 16,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 17.29% 21.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8,437 5,469 10,837
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,750
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 £110,556
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 14 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 14 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 -87 492 £75,000 +3.45% 577
UK excluding London -168 333 £70,000 +7.69% 360
London +6 233 £80,000 -13.51% 348
North of England -64 144 £72,500 - 106
Work from Home -161 142 £70,000 +7.69% 531
North West -52 87 £65,000 -17.52% 70
South West -50 59 £68,000 +13.33% 48
Wales -19 55 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire +11 49 £85,000 +17.24% 20
South East -81 32 £68,750 -1.79% 45
West Midlands -51 29 £62,500 -10.71% 30
Midlands -108 29 £62,500 - 38
Scotland -79 14 £88,000 +17.33% 78
North East -60 8 £50,000 -24.53% 16
Northern Ireland -84 8 £60,000 +9.09% 33
East of England -41 2 £58,750 -16.07% 8

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 (4.03%) Confluence
2 13 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.85%) Apache
3 11 (1.85%) Camunda
4 7 (1.17%) 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 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.34%) 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 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 362 (60.74%) AWS
2 172 (28.86%) Azure
3 130 (21.81%) Serverless
4 119 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 111 (18.62%) GitHub
6 98 (16.44%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (14.26%) GCP
8 77 (12.92%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (11.74%) Amazon S3
10 68 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (7.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 36 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.36%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.36%) Apigee
15 25 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (3.19%) SaaS
18 18 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.68%) AMQP
2 13 (2.18%) DMARC
3 10 (1.68%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (16.95%) NoSQL
1 101 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.56%) Relational Database
3 53 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 52 (8.72%) DynamoDB
5 42 (7.05%) MySQL
6 19 (3.19%) Redis
7 14 (2.35%) Db2
8 12 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.68%) DTS
10 9 (1.51%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.17%) Big Data
12 7 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
13 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.84%) Flink
15 4 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 135 (22.65%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.60%) GitLab
3 83 (13.93%) Git
4 47 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 40 (6.71%) JUnit
6 38 (6.38%) Maven
7 31 (5.20%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.19%) Mockito
9 23 (3.86%) JIRA
10 20 (3.36%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.19%) Selenium
12 11 (1.85%) JMeter
13 9 (1.51%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.34%) Gradle
15 7 (1.17%) Postman
16 6 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
18 4 (0.67%) Eclipse
18 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
18 4 (0.67%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (23.83%) Finance
2 114 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 107 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.07%) Banking
5 39 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.19%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.35%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.18%) Health Technology
10 12 (2.01%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.51%) Advertising
12 8 (1.34%) Front Office
13 7 (1.17%) Publishing
14 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.84%) Law
15 5 (0.84%) Retail
16 3 (0.50%) Back Office
16 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.50%) Marketing
16 3 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 244 (40.94%) Developer
2 174 (29.19%) Java Developer
3 159 (26.68%) Senior
4 146 (24.50%) Java Engineer
5 116 (19.46%) Software Engineer
6 90 (15.10%) Lead
7 73 (12.25%) Senior Developer
8 66 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 52 (8.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 51 (8.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
11 47 (7.89%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (5.54%) Principal Java Engineer
16 32 (5.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.20%) Architect
17 31 (5.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (3.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 550 (92.28%) Spring
2 178 (29.87%) Kafka
3 125 (20.97%) Terraform
4 124 (20.81%) React
5 117 (19.63%) REST
6 111 (18.62%) AngularJS
7 101 (16.95%) RESTful
8 100 (16.78%) Node.js
9 61 (10.23%) Hibernate
10 57 (9.56%) JPA
11 45 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (6.21%) OAuth
13 33 (5.54%) OAuth2
14 31 (5.20%) HTML
14 31 (5.20%) Jest
14 31 (5.20%) Ruby on Rails
15 29 (4.87%) .NET
16 23 (3.86%) Vue
17 22 (3.69%) CSS
18 21 (3.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 190 (31.88%) Cloud Native
2 127 (21.31%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.06%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (7.21%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.38%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.54%) Mainframe
8 30 (5.03%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.68%) EPoS
11 10 (1.68%) iSeries
12 8 (1.34%) Digital Wallet
12 8 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.01%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.35%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) AIX
2 6 (1.01%) CentOS
2 6 (1.01%) Debian
2 6 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.01%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 337 (56.54%) Microservices
3 302 (50.67%) Agile
4 254 (42.62%) DevOps
5 202 (33.89%) Software Engineering
6 175 (29.36%) Containerisation
7 170 (28.52%) Event-Driven
8 164 (27.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 158 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 144 (24.16%) Mentoring
11 143 (23.99%) Test Automation
12 104 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (16.44%) AI
14 96 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
15 95 (15.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 93 (15.60%) TDD
17 88 (14.77%) BDD
18 87 (14.60%) Scrum
19 84 (14.09%) Observability
20 73 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 591 (99.16%) Java
2 138 (23.15%) Python
3 121 (20.30%) SQL
4 96 (16.11%) TypeScript
5 82 (13.76%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.70%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.20%) Ruby
8 22 (3.69%) Groovy
9 18 (3.02%) Bash
9 18 (3.02%) C#
9 18 (3.02%) COBOL
10 12 (2.01%) JCL
11 10 (1.68%) C++
11 10 (1.68%) RPG
12 8 (1.34%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.01%) Scala
14 4 (0.67%) Go
15 3 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 128 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.08%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 49 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.20%) Degree
6 15 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.34%) 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 (10.40%) QA
2 34 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.03%) WCAG
4 7 (1.17%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 237 (39.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (34.40%) Kubernetes
2 67 (11.24%) Ansible
3 22 (3.69%) Grafana
4 20 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.85%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.35%) Kibana
7 8 (1.34%) Puppet
8 5 (0.84%) Packer
9 3 (0.50%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (5.54%) Splunk
2 29 (4.87%) Oracle
3 25 (4.19%) Google
4 18 (3.02%) IBM
5 16 (2.68%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.68%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.18%) SendGrid
8 8 (1.34%) Broadcom
9 6 (1.01%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.01%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.84%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.50%) WSO2
12 2 (0.34%) Apple
12 2 (0.34%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.34%) Solace
12 2 (0.34%) TikTok
13 1 (0.17%) ForgeRock