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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 241 340
Rank change year-on-year -101 +99 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 604 655 607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 7.59% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 386 196 304
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,267
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £116,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +1.92% +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 11,963 8,631 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 17.37% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,643 5,530 10,922
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,723
25th Percentile £51,181 £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 £86,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -101 498 £75,000 +3.45% 290
UK excluding London -161 339 £70,000 +5.66% 192
London +8 234 £80,000 -3.03% 175
North of England -46 149 £72,500 -1.69% 49
Work from Home -162 141 £70,000 +7.69% 156
North West -58 91 £65,000 -17.52% 30
South West -50 59 £68,250 +13.75% 33
Wales -13 56 £70,000 +12.00% 6
Yorkshire -5 49 £85,000 +17.24% 10
South East -86 32 £68,750 -1.79% 33
West Midlands -46 29 £62,500 -10.71% 18
Midlands -106 29 £62,500 - 21
Scotland -75 14 £88,000 +17.33% 37
North East -54 9 £50,000 -24.53% 9
Northern Ireland -79 8 £60,000 +9.09% 14
East of England -44 2 £58,750 -16.07% 2

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 (3.97%) Confluence
2 13 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.82%) Apache
3 11 (1.82%) Camunda
4 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.66%) CICS
5 4 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) JBoss
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 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 367 (60.76%) AWS
2 178 (29.47%) Azure
3 132 (21.85%) Serverless
4 119 (19.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 111 (18.38%) GitHub
6 98 (16.23%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (14.74%) GCP
8 78 (12.91%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (11.59%) Amazon S3
10 68 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (7.12%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.30%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.30%) Apigee
15 25 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (3.15%) SaaS
18 18 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.65%) AMQP
2 13 (2.15%) DMARC
3 10 (1.66%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (17.55%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (17.22%) NoSQL
3 60 (9.93%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.11%) MongoDB
5 52 (8.61%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.62%) MySQL
7 20 (3.31%) Redis
8 14 (2.32%) Db2
9 12 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.66%) DTS
11 9 (1.49%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.16%) Big Data
13 7 (1.16%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (0.99%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.83%) Flink
16 4 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.66%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 137 (22.68%) Jenkins
2 87 (14.40%) Git
2 87 (14.40%) GitLab
3 48 (7.95%) Cucumber
4 43 (7.12%) JUnit
5 38 (6.29%) Maven
6 30 (4.97%) Cypress.io
7 27 (4.47%) Mockito
8 23 (3.81%) JIRA
9 20 (3.31%) SonarQube
10 19 (3.15%) Selenium
11 11 (1.82%) JMeter
12 10 (1.66%) Gradle
13 9 (1.49%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.16%) Postman
15 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.66%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
16 4 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 144 (23.84%) Finance
2 113 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 106 (17.55%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.77%) Banking
5 40 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.15%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.15%) Tech for Good
9 12 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.49%) Advertising
10 9 (1.49%) Front Office
11 6 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.99%) Publishing
12 5 (0.83%) Law
12 5 (0.83%) Retail
13 3 (0.50%) Back Office
13 3 (0.50%) iGaming
13 3 (0.50%) Marketing
13 3 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 251 (41.56%) Developer
2 180 (29.80%) Java Developer
3 164 (27.15%) Senior
4 146 (24.17%) Java Engineer
5 114 (18.87%) Software Engineer
6 89 (14.74%) Lead
7 76 (12.58%) Senior Developer
8 67 (11.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 54 (8.94%) Senior Java Developer
10 52 (8.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.95%) Senior Java Engineer
12 46 (7.62%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (7.12%) Java Software Engineer
14 39 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (5.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 32 (5.30%) Principal Java Engineer
17 31 (5.13%) Architect
17 31 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (3.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (92.72%) Spring
2 178 (29.47%) Kafka
3 127 (21.03%) Terraform
4 126 (20.86%) React
5 118 (19.54%) REST
6 114 (18.87%) AngularJS
7 106 (17.55%) RESTful
8 102 (16.89%) Node.js
9 66 (10.93%) Hibernate
10 61 (10.10%) JPA
11 48 (7.95%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (6.62%) OAuth
13 36 (5.96%) OAuth2
14 33 (5.46%) HTML
15 31 (5.13%) Ruby on Rails
16 30 (4.97%) .NET
16 30 (4.97%) Jest
17 25 (4.14%) Vue
18 24 (3.97%) CSS
19 22 (3.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (31.95%) Cloud Native
2 128 (21.19%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.11%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (7.12%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.29%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.46%) Mainframe
8 31 (5.13%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.82%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.66%) EPoS
11 10 (1.66%) iSeries
12 9 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.99%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.32%) Linux
2 6 (0.99%) AIX
2 6 (0.99%) CentOS
2 6 (0.99%) Debian
2 6 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (0.99%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (64.24%) CI/CD
2 342 (56.62%) Microservices
3 306 (50.66%) Agile
4 260 (43.05%) DevOps
5 200 (33.11%) Software Engineering
6 181 (29.97%) Containerisation
7 170 (28.15%) Event-Driven
8 167 (27.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 159 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (24.17%) Test Automation
11 144 (23.84%) Mentoring
12 107 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (16.06%) AI
15 96 (15.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 96 (15.89%) TDD
16 90 (14.90%) BDD
16 90 (14.90%) Scrum
17 83 (13.74%) Observability
18 73 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 599 (99.17%) Java
2 140 (23.18%) Python
3 124 (20.53%) SQL
4 94 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 86 (14.24%) JavaScript
6 35 (5.79%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.13%) Ruby
8 21 (3.48%) Groovy
9 19 (3.15%) C#
10 18 (2.98%) COBOL
11 17 (2.81%) Bash
12 12 (1.99%) JCL
13 10 (1.66%) C++
13 10 (1.66%) RPG
14 8 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.99%) Scala
16 4 (0.66%) Go
17 3 (0.50%) C
18 2 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 71 (11.75%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.28%) DV Cleared
5 49 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.46%) Degree
7 14 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.66%) 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 (10.26%) QA
2 34 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.97%) WCAG
4 7 (1.16%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 242 (40.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (35.10%) Kubernetes
2 69 (11.42%) Ansible
3 22 (3.64%) Grafana
4 20 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.65%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.32%) Kibana
7 8 (1.32%) 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 (5.46%) Splunk
2 29 (4.80%) Oracle
3 25 (4.14%) Google
4 18 (2.98%) IBM
5 17 (2.81%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.65%) OneLogin
7 15 (2.48%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.15%) SendGrid
9 8 (1.32%) Broadcom
10 6 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.83%) Peregrine
12 4 (0.66%) WSO2
13 3 (0.50%) Solace
14 2 (0.33%) Apple
14 2 (0.33%) Pega
14 2 (0.33%) Rackspace
14 2 (0.33%) TikTok