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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 222 308
Rank change year-on-year -124 +86 -17
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 476 704 965
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.57% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 8.06% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 286 239 534
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £96,889 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +15.08% -3.08%

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 9,557 8,733 21,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 19.53% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,146 5,718 16,540
10th Percentile £40,125 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,271 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -106 434 £72,500 - 154
UK excluding London -192 237 £67,500 -6.90% 121
London +13 216 £77,500 -6.06% 69
North of England -60 140 £68,750 -19.36% 45
Work from Home -141 130 £71,250 -5.00% 72
North West -40 73 £65,000 -26.69% 26
Yorkshire +8 59 £75,000 -4.83% 15
South East -57 35 £70,000 - 16
South West -74 35 £60,000 -12.73% 21
Wales -30 18 £70,000 +47.97% 7
Midlands -97 14 £60,000 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -45 13 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -44 8 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -82 5 £65,000 -18.75% 9
East of England -30 2 £67,500 -20.59% 5

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 15 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.94%) Confluence
3 9 (1.89%) Apache
4 7 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.05%) JBoss
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.42%) Liferay
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 263 (55.25%) AWS
2 122 (25.63%) Serverless
3 102 (21.43%) Azure
4 87 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 86 (18.07%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (15.76%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (14.71%) Amazon S3
8 56 (11.76%) GitHub
9 50 (10.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 48 (10.08%) GCP
11 41 (8.61%) Apigee
12 39 (8.19%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (7.98%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.57%) OpenShift
16 17 (3.57%) SaaS
17 15 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
19 12 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.31%) DMARC
2 8 (1.68%) AMQP
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 71 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (11.13%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.24%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 24 (5.04%) MySQL
7 16 (3.36%) Redis
8 15 (3.15%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.26%) Big Data
11 6 (1.26%) DTS
11 6 (1.26%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.05%) Db2
12 5 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.84%) Flink
14 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 104 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 74 (15.55%) GitLab
3 61 (12.82%) Git
4 49 (10.29%) Maven
5 37 (7.77%) Cypress.io
6 32 (6.72%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.30%) JUnit
8 29 (6.09%) Cucumber
9 22 (4.62%) JIRA
10 19 (3.99%) Gradle
10 19 (3.99%) Mockito
11 14 (2.94%) Selenium
12 10 (2.10%) JMeter
13 7 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.47%) Postman
14 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.63%) Spock
15 2 (0.42%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 107 (22.48%) Finance
2 73 (15.34%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.04%) Banking
5 19 (3.99%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.36%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.94%) Advertising
9 13 (2.73%) Billing
10 11 (2.31%) Front Office
11 10 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.89%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.89%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.68%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.47%) Games
15 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.42%) Law
16 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 232 (48.74%) Developer
2 180 (37.82%) Java Developer
3 131 (27.52%) Senior
4 130 (27.31%) Java Engineer
5 84 (17.65%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.87%) Senior Developer
7 60 (12.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (11.55%) Lead
9 53 (11.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (9.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (9.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (9.45%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (6.30%) Architect
13 29 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (4.41%) Principal Java Engineer
17 20 (4.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 20 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (4.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (90.76%) Spring
2 135 (28.36%) AngularJS
3 111 (23.32%) React
4 105 (22.06%) REST
5 104 (21.85%) Kafka
6 75 (15.76%) Node.js
7 74 (15.55%) RESTful
8 40 (8.40%) Hibernate
9 33 (6.93%) Jest
10 32 (6.72%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.51%) HTML
12 30 (6.30%) Web Services
13 29 (6.09%) OAuth
13 29 (6.09%) Vue
14 27 (5.67%) JPA
15 23 (4.83%) OAuth2
15 23 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.62%) CSS
17 18 (3.78%) Spring MVC
18 17 (3.57%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 68 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.83%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.41%) e-Learning
7 15 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.52%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.47%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.05%) EPoS
11 5 (1.05%) iSeries
12 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.63%) IoT
13 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.63%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.63%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.10%) Linux
2 6 (1.26%) Android
2 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) CentOS
3 5 (1.05%) Debian
3 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.05%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (54.20%) CI/CD
2 253 (53.15%) Microservices
3 222 (46.64%) Agile
4 190 (39.92%) DevOps
5 147 (30.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 139 (29.20%) Software Engineering
7 136 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 118 (24.79%) Mentoring
9 105 (22.06%) Test Automation
10 99 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (19.54%) Event-Driven
12 87 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (17.02%) TDD
14 69 (14.50%) Scrum
15 66 (13.87%) BDD
16 65 (13.66%) AI
17 60 (12.61%) SDLC
18 59 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
19 57 (11.97%) Clean Code
20 52 (10.92%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 471 (98.95%) Java
2 92 (19.33%) SQL
3 86 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 79 (16.60%) Python
5 74 (15.55%) TypeScript
6 33 (6.93%) Groovy
7 31 (6.51%) Bash
8 30 (6.30%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.52%) Ruby
10 10 (2.10%) C#
11 9 (1.89%) C++
12 7 (1.47%) PHP
12 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.05%) Go
13 5 (1.05%) RPG
14 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.63%) Scala
16 2 (0.42%) C
16 2 (0.42%) COBOL
17 1 (0.21%) Natural
Qualifications
1 88 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.18%) AWS Certification
3 56 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 39 (8.19%) Degree
5 28 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (5.67%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.25%) QA
2 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.68%) WCAG
4 7 (1.47%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 180 (37.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 153 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.87%) Terraform
3 33 (6.93%) Ansible
4 28 (5.88%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.73%) Grafana
5 13 (2.73%) Kibana
6 11 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.05%) Packer
7 5 (1.05%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.46%) Oracle
2 18 (3.78%) Splunk
3 14 (2.94%) Google
4 12 (2.52%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.31%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.31%) SendGrid
6 9 (1.89%) IBM
7 7 (1.47%) Solace
8 6 (1.26%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.05%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.05%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.63%) Revolut
10 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.42%) Pega
11 2 (0.42%) TikTok
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2