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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 221 323
Rank change year-on-year -123 +102 -19
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 528 703 860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.18% 7.88% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 335 237 488
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £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 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,750 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -

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 10,188 8,919 20,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 18.15% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,603 5,899 15,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 15 July 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 -92 462 £75,000 +3.45% 219
UK excluding London -164 287 £70,000 -1.75% 191
London -3 220 £80,000 -3.03% 99
North of England -47 147 £70,000 -17.77% 39
Work from Home -157 132 £70,000 -3.45% 183
North West -52 82 £65,000 -26.69% 15
Yorkshire +14 55 £75,000 -4.83% 16
South West -66 47 £67,500 -1.82% 11
Wales -16 38 £70,000 +12.00% 12
South East -70 34 £68,750 -1.79% 43
Midlands -99 17 £57,500 -9.09% 28
West Midlands -52 16 £56,250 -21.05% 14
Scotland -71 11 £65,000 -16.13% 32
North East -52 10 £50,000 -31.03% 8
East of England -33 3 £62,500 -26.47% 16

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 22 (4.17%) Confluence
2 16 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.52%) Apache
4 6 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.14%) Camunda
5 4 (0.76%) JBoss
5 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 305 (57.77%) AWS
2 138 (26.14%) Azure
3 137 (25.95%) Serverless
4 109 (20.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (19.13%) AWS Lambda
6 81 (15.34%) Amazon ECS
7 79 (14.96%) GitHub
8 77 (14.58%) Amazon S3
9 66 (12.50%) GCP
10 50 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 39 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (7.01%) Amazon ECR
12 37 (7.01%) Apigee
13 36 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.22%) OpenShift
17 14 (2.65%) SaaS
18 13 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.46%) DMARC
2 9 (1.70%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (16.48%) NoSQL
2 85 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (10.98%) DynamoDB
4 47 (8.90%) Relational Database
5 38 (7.20%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.82%) MySQL
7 18 (3.41%) Redis
8 14 (2.65%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.08%) DTS
10 11 (2.08%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.89%) Db2
12 7 (1.33%) Big Data
12 7 (1.33%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Flink
16 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.34%) GitLab
3 67 (12.69%) Git
4 46 (8.71%) Maven
5 36 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 36 (6.82%) Cypress.io
6 34 (6.44%) JUnit
7 30 (5.68%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.55%) JIRA
9 21 (3.98%) Mockito
10 19 (3.60%) Selenium
11 17 (3.22%) Gradle
12 10 (1.89%) JMeter
13 8 (1.52%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.33%) Postman
15 6 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.14%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.57%) Spock
General
1 118 (22.35%) Finance
2 82 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 79 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.87%) Banking
5 21 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.41%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.65%) Advertising
7 14 (2.65%) Front Office
8 12 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.70%) Billing
10 9 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.33%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.14%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.76%) Games
15 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.57%) Retail
16 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (45.08%) Developer
2 183 (34.66%) Java Developer
3 137 (25.95%) Java Engineer
4 136 (25.76%) Senior
5 91 (17.23%) Software Engineer
6 76 (14.39%) Lead
7 68 (12.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 66 (12.50%) Senior Developer
9 51 (9.66%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (8.52%) Java Software Engineer
12 44 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
13 38 (7.20%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.87%) Architect
16 27 (5.11%) Principal Java Engineer
16 27 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (4.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
19 22 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (91.29%) Spring
2 137 (25.95%) AngularJS
3 132 (25.00%) Kafka
4 115 (21.78%) REST
5 110 (20.83%) React
6 95 (17.99%) Node.js
7 85 (16.10%) RESTful
8 55 (10.42%) Hibernate
9 45 (8.52%) JPA
10 34 (6.44%) Jest
11 32 (6.06%) OAuth
11 32 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (5.87%) Gherkin
13 29 (5.49%) HTML
13 29 (5.49%) Vue
14 28 (5.30%) OAuth2
15 26 (4.92%) Web Services
16 23 (4.36%) Ruby on Rails
17 20 (3.79%) CSS
18 18 (3.41%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 141 (26.70%) Cloud Native
2 91 (17.23%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (5.49%) Public Cloud
6 27 (5.11%) e-Learning
7 21 (3.98%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.41%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.89%) EPoS
9 10 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.89%) iSeries
10 7 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.14%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) CentOS
2 6 (1.14%) Debian
2 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.95%) Windows
4 4 (0.76%) AIX
5 2 (0.38%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 294 (55.68%) Microservices
3 265 (50.19%) Agile
4 225 (42.61%) DevOps
5 166 (31.44%) Containerisation
6 158 (29.92%) Software Engineering
7 157 (29.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 126 (23.86%) Test Automation
9 123 (23.30%) Event-Driven
10 122 (23.11%) Mentoring
11 119 (22.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 100 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 89 (16.86%) TDD
14 81 (15.34%) Scrum
15 77 (14.58%) AI
16 74 (14.02%) BDD
17 70 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
18 66 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
19 62 (11.74%) Clean Code
19 62 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 522 (98.86%) Java
2 114 (21.59%) Python
3 106 (20.08%) SQL
4 83 (15.72%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.06%) Groovy
7 28 (5.30%) Bash
7 28 (5.30%) Kotlin
8 23 (4.36%) Ruby
9 12 (2.27%) C#
10 10 (1.89%) RPG
11 9 (1.70%) C++
12 7 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.14%) COBOL
14 5 (0.95%) Go
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Scala
16 2 (0.38%) C
16 2 (0.38%) PHP
17 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 106 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.26%) AWS Certification
3 63 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.95%) Degree
5 38 (7.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.20%) DV Cleared
6 22 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.01%) QA
2 18 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.22%) WCAG
4 7 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.14%) NCSC
6 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 211 (39.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 94 (17.80%) Terraform
3 44 (8.33%) Ansible
4 27 (5.11%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.84%) Grafana
6 13 (2.46%) Kibana
6 13 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.14%) Puppet
8 5 (0.95%) Packer
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.73%) Oracle
2 23 (4.36%) Splunk
3 17 (3.22%) Google
4 14 (2.65%) IBM
4 14 (2.65%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.46%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.89%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.33%) Solace
9 6 (1.14%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.95%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.57%) Revolut
11 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.57%) WSO2
12 2 (0.38%) Pega
12 2 (0.38%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Sitecore