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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 338 258
Rank change year-on-year 0 -80 -37
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 342 493 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.73% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.73% 3.55% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 188 257 578
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,630 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,625 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,234 13,894 13,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.56% 20.67% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,249 8,399 11,287
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,799
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.21% +1.23%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,982 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 25 November 2025. 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 +13 285 £70,500 -6.00% 143
UK excluding London +45 207 £65,000 -3.70% 124
London -23 138 £100,000 +11.11% 60
Work from Home +67 108 £65,000 +4.00% 93
North of England +55 55 £65,000 -3.70% 30
Scotland +10 53 £75,000 +11.11% 13
South East +6 39 £67,500 +8.00% 39
North West +66 36 £65,000 -3.70% 21
South West +10 33 £62,500 -7.41% 21
Midlands +79 27 £62,500 +4.17% 15
West Midlands +71 20 £63,750 - 11
Yorkshire +17 16 £66,250 -14.52% 7
East Midlands +35 7 £57,500 -4.17% 4
North East +21 5 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East of England +23 3 £62,500 -7.41%
Wales +1 2 £58,850 -12.81% 3
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 3

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 17 (4.97%) Apache
2 12 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.75%) Camunda
3 6 (1.75%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.46%) Confluence
4 5 (1.46%) JBoss
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 267 (78.07%) AWS
2 78 (22.81%) Serverless
3 59 (17.25%) Azure
4 49 (14.33%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (13.45%) GCP
6 45 (13.16%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (9.94%) Amazon S3
9 33 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
9 33 (9.65%) GitHub
10 19 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.26%) SaaS
12 17 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.34%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (1.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (1.46%) CloudFront
16 5 (1.46%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) AMQP
1 4 (1.17%) HTTP
2 2 (0.58%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (26.61%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (20.18%) Relational Database
3 55 (16.08%) MongoDB
4 42 (12.28%) NoSQL
5 29 (8.48%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.68%) MySQL
7 13 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.75%) CockroachDB
11 6 (1.75%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.46%) Redis
13 4 (1.17%) Big Data
13 4 (1.17%) DB2
14 3 (0.88%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 77 (22.51%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.67%) Git
3 54 (15.79%) JUnit
4 33 (9.65%) Mockito
5 31 (9.06%) GitLab
6 22 (6.43%) JMeter
7 20 (5.85%) Maven
8 16 (4.68%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.68%) Cypress.io
8 16 (4.68%) JIRA
9 11 (3.22%) Selenium
10 8 (2.34%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.46%) Gradle
12 5 (1.46%) Vite
13 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.17%) Babel
13 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.17%) webpack
General
1 151 (44.15%) Finance
2 71 (20.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (20.47%) Social Skills
4 67 (19.59%) Law
5 53 (15.50%) Banking
6 51 (14.91%) Public Sector
7 36 (10.53%) Financial Institution
8 30 (8.77%) Marketing
9 19 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.63%) Legal
12 7 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.75%) Games
14 5 (1.46%) Electronics
14 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.46%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.17%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.88%) Private Banking
16 3 (0.88%) Retail
16 3 (0.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (42.11%) Developer
2 134 (39.18%) Software Engineer
3 108 (31.58%) Java Developer
4 95 (27.78%) Java Engineer
5 79 (23.10%) Senior
6 67 (19.59%) Java Software Engineer
7 51 (14.91%) Lead
8 36 (10.53%) Senior Developer
9 34 (9.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 34 (9.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (9.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (8.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 30 (8.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (8.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 24 (7.02%) Backend Developer
14 22 (6.43%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.85%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (5.56%) Software Developer
17 18 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (4.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (92.69%) Spring
2 122 (35.67%) Kafka
3 104 (30.41%) React
4 76 (22.22%) RESTful
5 73 (21.35%) REST
6 55 (16.08%) Hibernate
7 54 (15.79%) AngularJS
8 42 (12.28%) HTML
9 40 (11.70%) Web Services
10 39 (11.40%) ActiveMQ
11 30 (8.77%) Node.js
12 27 (7.89%) Apache Camel
12 27 (7.89%) JPA
13 25 (7.31%) jQuery
13 25 (7.31%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (6.43%) JSON
15 21 (6.14%) WireMock
15 21 (6.14%) XML
16 19 (5.56%) RxJava
17 18 (5.26%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 122 (35.67%) Cloud Native
2 60 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.60%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.31%) Algorithms
5 16 (4.68%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.39%) Distributed Architecture
7 13 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
8 11 (3.22%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.63%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.46%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.88%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.88%) Replication
15 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
15 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.39%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Unix
3 2 (0.58%) CentOS
3 2 (0.58%) Debian
3 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (67.54%) Agile
2 196 (57.31%) CI/CD
3 191 (55.85%) Microservices
4 179 (52.34%) Software Engineering
5 107 (31.29%) DevOps
6 103 (30.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (28.07%) TDD
8 84 (24.56%) SDLC
9 75 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 74 (21.64%) Containerisation
11 70 (20.47%) BDD
12 64 (18.71%) Mentoring
13 62 (18.13%) Fintech
14 59 (17.25%) Event-Driven
15 58 (16.96%) Scrum
16 49 (14.33%) AI
16 49 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (13.16%) Test Automation
18 42 (12.28%) Machine Learning
19 41 (11.99%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 341 (99.71%) Java
2 99 (28.95%) JavaScript
3 73 (21.35%) Python
4 61 (17.84%) SQL
5 59 (17.25%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.89%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.43%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.34%) Delphi
8 8 (2.34%) Go
9 7 (2.05%) C#
10 6 (1.75%) Scala
11 4 (1.17%) Ruby
12 3 (0.88%) C++
12 3 (0.88%) Groovy
12 3 (0.88%) Rust
12 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.58%) R
14 1 (0.29%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.60%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.43%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.85%) Degree
5 14 (4.09%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.97%) QA
2 10 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.75%) NCSC
3 6 (1.75%) NIST
4 2 (0.58%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 142 (41.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 192 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.77%) Terraform
3 27 (7.89%) Kibana
4 13 (3.80%) Ansible
4 13 (3.80%) Grafana
5 8 (2.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 48 (14.04%) Oracle
2 34 (9.94%) Splunk
3 28 (8.19%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.51%) Google
5 10 (2.92%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.75%) SAP
7 5 (1.46%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.17%) Pega
8 4 (1.17%) WSO2
9 3 (0.88%) IBM
9 3 (0.88%) Solace
10 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.58%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) Revolut
11 1 (0.29%) Veracode