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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 224 321
Rank change year-on-year -129 +97 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 540 709 748
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 8.05% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 349 241 409
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,294
25th Percentile £61,565 £56,500 £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 £112,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,402 8,812 17,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 17.83% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,708 5,809 12,650
10th Percentile £40,175 £38,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,796 £105,000
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 27 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 27 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 -104 471 £75,000 +3.45% 176
UK excluding London -164 290 £70,000 - 119
London +23 230 £80,000 -3.03% 95
North of England -46 148 £70,000 -11.18% 35
Work from Home -175 128 £70,000 - 88
North West -56 85 £65,000 -26.69% 18
Yorkshire +10 53 £75,000 +1.69% 7
South West -59 45 £67,500 -1.82% 15
Wales -14 42 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -70 32 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Midlands -103 19 £57,500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands -51 18 £56,250 -19.64% 15
Scotland -78 11 £65,000 -16.13% 17
North East -47 10 £50,000 -23.08% 10
East of England -27 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 22 (4.07%) Confluence
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.48%) Camunda
4 7 (1.30%) Apache
4 7 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.74%) JBoss
5 4 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) CICS
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 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 317 (58.70%) AWS
2 146 (27.04%) Azure
3 137 (25.37%) Serverless
4 107 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (18.70%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (15.74%) GitHub
7 81 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (14.07%) Amazon S3
9 68 (12.59%) GCP
10 48 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 43 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (6.48%) Apigee
13 30 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.78%) OpenShift
17 13 (2.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.41%) DMARC
2 8 (1.48%) AMQP
3 3 (0.56%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 89 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (10.37%) DynamoDB
4 50 (9.26%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.96%) MongoDB
6 40 (7.41%) MySQL
7 20 (3.70%) Redis
8 12 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.22%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.04%) Db2
9 11 (2.04%) DTS
9 11 (2.04%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.93%) Big Data
11 5 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.74%) Flink
13 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 80 (14.81%) GitLab
3 69 (12.78%) Git
4 41 (7.59%) Maven
5 37 (6.85%) JUnit
6 36 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 36 (6.67%) Cypress.io
7 28 (5.19%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.26%) JIRA
9 22 (4.07%) Mockito
10 21 (3.89%) Selenium
11 13 (2.41%) Gradle
12 10 (1.85%) JMeter
13 8 (1.48%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.30%) Postman
15 6 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.11%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.56%) Newman
General
1 122 (22.59%) Finance
2 88 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 86 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.85%) Banking
5 26 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.78%) Front Office
8 14 (2.59%) Advertising
8 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.30%) Billing
10 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.11%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.93%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.93%) Retail
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 234 (43.33%) Developer
2 175 (32.41%) Java Developer
3 139 (25.74%) Java Engineer
3 139 (25.74%) Senior
4 89 (16.48%) Software Engineer
5 81 (15.00%) Lead
6 68 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (11.85%) Senior Developer
8 53 (9.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 48 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 45 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
11 42 (7.78%) Java Software Engineer
12 40 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
13 36 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (5.74%) Architect
15 29 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 28 (5.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 27 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
18 22 (4.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (91.30%) Spring
2 144 (26.67%) Kafka
3 132 (24.44%) AngularJS
4 114 (21.11%) React
5 113 (20.93%) REST
6 95 (17.59%) Node.js
7 91 (16.85%) RESTful
8 56 (10.37%) Hibernate
9 49 (9.07%) JPA
10 35 (6.48%) Jest
10 35 (6.48%) OAuth
11 32 (5.93%) HTML
11 32 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (5.74%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.37%) Gherkin
14 28 (5.19%) Vue
15 26 (4.81%) Ruby on Rails
16 25 (4.63%) Web Services
17 23 (4.26%) CSS
18 16 (2.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 152 (28.15%) Cloud Native
2 98 (18.15%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.15%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (5.19%) Public Cloud
6 27 (5.00%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.44%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.07%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.85%) EPoS
9 10 (1.85%) iSeries
10 9 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.93%) AIX
2 5 (0.93%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) CentOS
3 4 (0.74%) Debian
3 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 304 (56.30%) Microservices
3 271 (50.19%) Agile
4 237 (43.89%) DevOps
5 176 (32.59%) Containerisation
6 163 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 162 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 136 (25.19%) Test Automation
9 134 (24.81%) Event-Driven
10 131 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 124 (22.96%) Mentoring
12 103 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (16.67%) TDD
14 84 (15.56%) AI
15 81 (15.00%) Scrum
16 75 (13.89%) BDD
17 73 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
18 71 (13.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
20 64 (11.85%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 534 (98.89%) Java
2 127 (23.52%) Python
3 111 (20.56%) SQL
4 87 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 81 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.56%) Groovy
7 29 (5.37%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.81%) Bash
8 26 (4.81%) Ruby
9 15 (2.78%) C#
10 10 (1.85%) C++
10 10 (1.85%) RPG
11 8 (1.48%) COBOL
12 7 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.93%) Go
14 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.74%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) C
15 2 (0.37%) JCL
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 110 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.59%) AWS Certification
3 64 (11.85%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.78%) Degree
4 42 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 38 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 20 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.19%) OCP
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.96%) QA
2 24 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.70%) WCAG
4 7 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.11%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 223 (41.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 194 (35.93%) Kubernetes
2 102 (18.89%) Terraform
3 48 (8.89%) Ansible
4 25 (4.63%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.78%) Grafana
6 13 (2.41%) Kibana
6 13 (2.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.93%) Packer
8 4 (0.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.63%) Oracle
2 23 (4.26%) Splunk
3 18 (3.33%) Google
4 16 (2.96%) IBM
4 16 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.41%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.22%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.11%) Solace
8 5 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.93%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.74%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.56%) WSO2
11 2 (0.37%) Pega
11 2 (0.37%) Revolut
11 2 (0.37%) TikTok
12 1 (0.19%) Workday