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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 349 256
Rank change year-on-year +5 -93 -29
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 343 487 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.74% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 3.53% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 188 259 583
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,150 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% -1.92%

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 7,260 13,795 13,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 20.82% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,363 11,212
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
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 29 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 6 months to 29 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 +27 289 £70,000 -6.67% 109
UK excluding London +36 212 £65,000 -3.70% 105
London -19 135 £100,000 +11.11% 44
Work from Home +61 108 £65,000 -3.70% 54
North of England +75 64 £66,250 -8.62% 24
Scotland +3 51 £75,000 +9.09% 11
South East +16 40 £67,500 +8.00% 37
North West +73 37 £65,000 -10.34% 17
South West 0 35 £62,500 -7.41% 19
Midlands +77 25 £58,000 -3.33% 10
Yorkshire +8 24 £70,000 -9.68% 6
West Midlands +73 18 £62,500 - 9
East Midlands +31 7 £57,500 -4.17% 1
North East +17 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England +35 3 £62,500 -7.41%
Wales -3 2 £58,850 -12.81% 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 17 (4.96%) Apache
2 11 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.33%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.04%) Camunda
5 6 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.46%) JBoss
7 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.87%) Confluence
8 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 268 (78.13%) AWS
2 81 (23.62%) Serverless
3 58 (16.91%) Azure
4 56 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
5 48 (13.99%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (12.83%) GCP
7 43 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (11.66%) Amazon S3
9 33 (9.62%) GitHub
10 32 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (5.83%) OpenShift
12 18 (5.25%) SaaS
13 17 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.62%) Apigee
18 8 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
19 7 (2.04%) Amazon ECR
19 7 (2.04%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) AMQP
2 3 (0.87%) HTTP
2 3 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (25.95%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (20.70%) Relational Database
3 50 (14.58%) MongoDB
4 42 (12.24%) NoSQL
5 29 (8.45%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.66%) MySQL
7 14 (4.08%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.50%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.75%) CockroachDB
11 6 (1.75%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.46%) Redis
13 4 (1.17%) Big Data
14 3 (0.87%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (0.87%) DB2
14 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 81 (23.62%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.33%) Git
3 53 (15.45%) JUnit
4 36 (10.50%) GitLab
5 31 (9.04%) Mockito
6 23 (6.71%) JMeter
7 22 (6.41%) Cypress.io
7 22 (6.41%) Maven
8 17 (4.96%) Cucumber
9 14 (4.08%) JIRA
10 11 (3.21%) Selenium
10 11 (3.21%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.75%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.46%) Gradle
12 5 (1.46%) Vite
13 4 (1.17%) Babel
13 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.17%) Subversion
13 4 (1.17%) webpack
General
1 144 (41.98%) Finance
2 68 (19.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 68 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 65 (18.95%) Law
4 48 (13.99%) Banking
5 45 (13.12%) Public Sector
6 37 (10.79%) Financial Institution
7 26 (7.58%) Marketing
8 19 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.92%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.62%) Legal
11 5 (1.46%) Games
11 5 (1.46%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Aviation
13 3 (0.87%) Billing
13 3 (0.87%) Private Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Retail
13 3 (0.87%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 147 (42.86%) Developer
2 129 (37.61%) Software Engineer
3 109 (31.78%) Java Developer
4 89 (25.95%) Java Engineer
5 81 (23.62%) Senior
6 61 (17.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 54 (15.74%) Lead
8 38 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (10.79%) Senior Developer
10 34 (9.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (9.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (8.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 30 (8.75%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (8.45%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (6.71%) Backend Developer
14 22 (6.41%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.83%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (5.54%) Software Developer
17 15 (4.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (93.00%) Spring
2 116 (33.82%) Kafka
3 108 (31.49%) React
4 74 (21.57%) REST
5 72 (20.99%) RESTful
6 59 (17.20%) AngularJS
7 53 (15.45%) Hibernate
8 43 (12.54%) HTML
9 39 (11.37%) Web Services
10 37 (10.79%) ActiveMQ
11 29 (8.45%) Node.js
12 27 (7.87%) Apache Camel
13 24 (7.00%) JPA
14 23 (6.71%) jQuery
15 22 (6.41%) JSON
16 21 (6.12%) Jest
16 21 (6.12%) WireMock
16 21 (6.12%) XML
17 20 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
18 18 (5.25%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 120 (34.99%) Cloud Native
2 63 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.29%) Algorithms
3 25 (7.29%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (4.66%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.79%) Distributed Applications
6 12 (3.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 11 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.62%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.46%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.87%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.87%) Replication
15 2 (0.58%) IoT
15 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.79%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) 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
1 233 (67.93%) Agile
2 202 (58.89%) CI/CD
3 190 (55.39%) Microservices
4 173 (50.44%) Software Engineering
5 114 (33.24%) DevOps
6 109 (31.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 94 (27.41%) TDD
8 85 (24.78%) SDLC
9 83 (24.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (20.99%) Containerisation
11 68 (19.83%) BDD
12 64 (18.66%) Mentoring
13 60 (17.49%) Fintech
14 59 (17.20%) Event-Driven
14 59 (17.20%) Scrum
15 51 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
16 47 (13.70%) AI
17 43 (12.54%) Test Automation
18 40 (11.66%) Machine Learning
18 40 (11.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 341 (99.42%) Java
2 100 (29.15%) JavaScript
3 69 (20.12%) Python
4 61 (17.78%) SQL
5 60 (17.49%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.87%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.41%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.62%) Go
9 8 (2.33%) Delphi
10 7 (2.04%) C#
10 7 (2.04%) Groovy
11 6 (1.75%) Bash
11 6 (1.75%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) C++
12 3 (0.87%) Ruby
12 3 (0.87%) Rust
12 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.58%) R
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.00%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.12%) Degree
5 13 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (2.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.83%) QA
2 10 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.04%) NCSC
4 6 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 146 (42.57%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 196 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.75%) Terraform
3 27 (7.87%) Kibana
4 14 (4.08%) Ansible
5 13 (3.79%) Grafana
6 8 (2.33%) Argo
7 7 (2.04%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.58%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (12.54%) Oracle
2 33 (9.62%) Splunk
3 28 (8.16%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.21%) Google
5 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.17%) Pega
7 4 (1.17%) WSO2
8 3 (0.87%) IBM
8 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.87%) Solace
9 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.58%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.29%) Databricks
10 1 (0.29%) Revolut
10 1 (0.29%) Veracode