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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 224 322
Rank change year-on-year -123 +98 -18
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 524 703 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 7.89% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 340 237 461
10th Percentile £52,380 £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 £113,092 £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 10,220 8,907 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.06% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,645 5,894 14,339
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -96 460 £75,000 +3.45% 113
UK excluding London -175 284 £70,000 - 82
London +11 220 £80,000 -3.03% 54
North of England -47 145 £70,000 -14.54% 23
Work from Home -159 130 £70,000 -3.45% 50
North West -55 81 £65,000 -26.69% 10
Yorkshire +24 54 £75,000 -2.48% 8
South West -63 46 £67,500 -1.82% 9
Wales -16 39 £70,000 +12.00% 5
South East -69 34 £68,750 -1.79% 21
Midlands -99 17 £57,500 -9.09% 15
West Midlands -43 16 £56,250 -21.05% 11
North East -40 10 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Scotland -79 10 £65,000 -16.13% 8
East of England -30 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 21 (4.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.15%) Apache
3 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.15%) Camunda
4 4 (0.76%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 303 (57.82%) AWS
2 136 (25.95%) Azure
2 136 (25.95%) Serverless
3 106 (20.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 100 (19.08%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (15.46%) Amazon ECS
6 79 (15.08%) GitHub
7 77 (14.69%) Amazon S3
8 63 (12.02%) GCP
9 49 (9.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 38 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (6.87%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (6.87%) Apigee
12 30 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (2.86%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.48%) DMARC
2 7 (1.34%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (16.60%) NoSQL
2 86 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (10.88%) DynamoDB
4 47 (8.97%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.63%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.87%) MySQL
7 19 (3.63%) Redis
8 13 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.10%) DTS
9 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.91%) Db2
11 5 (0.95%) Big Data
11 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.76%) Flink
13 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (21.76%) Jenkins
2 80 (15.27%) GitLab
3 67 (12.79%) Git
4 43 (8.21%) Maven
5 35 (6.68%) Cucumber
5 35 (6.68%) Cypress.io
6 34 (6.49%) JUnit
7 29 (5.53%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.39%) JIRA
9 21 (4.01%) Mockito
10 20 (3.82%) Selenium
11 14 (2.67%) Gradle
12 10 (1.91%) JMeter
13 8 (1.53%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.34%) Postman
15 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.57%) Newman
General
1 116 (22.14%) Finance
2 82 (15.65%) Social Skills
3 81 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.30%) Banking
5 22 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.24%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.67%) Advertising
7 14 (2.67%) Front Office
8 12 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.10%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.53%) Billing
10 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.76%) Retail
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Games
15 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 233 (44.47%) Developer
2 178 (33.97%) Java Developer
3 138 (26.34%) Java Engineer
4 133 (25.38%) Senior
5 88 (16.79%) Software Engineer
6 79 (15.08%) Lead
7 66 (12.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (12.02%) Senior Developer
9 52 (9.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (9.16%) Senior Java Developer
11 44 (8.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (8.40%) Senior Java Engineer
12 38 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
13 34 (6.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (5.92%) Architect
15 27 (5.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 27 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (4.96%) Principal Java Engineer
17 25 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
18 21 (4.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (91.22%) Spring
2 136 (25.95%) Kafka
3 134 (25.57%) AngularJS
4 114 (21.76%) REST
5 110 (20.99%) React
6 95 (18.13%) Node.js
7 85 (16.22%) RESTful
8 52 (9.92%) Hibernate
9 43 (8.21%) JPA
10 33 (6.30%) Jest
11 32 (6.11%) OAuth
12 30 (5.73%) Gherkin
12 30 (5.73%) HTML
12 30 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
13 29 (5.53%) Vue
14 28 (5.34%) OAuth2
15 26 (4.96%) Web Services
16 24 (4.58%) Ruby on Rails
17 21 (4.01%) CSS
18 16 (3.05%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 140 (26.72%) Cloud Native
2 91 (17.37%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 26 (4.96%) e-Learning
7 21 (4.01%) Product Ownership
8 19 (3.63%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.91%) EPoS
9 10 (1.91%) iSeries
10 9 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.91%) Linux
2 5 (0.95%) Windows
3 4 (0.76%) AIX
3 4 (0.76%) CentOS
3 4 (0.76%) Debian
3 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (61.45%) CI/CD
2 292 (55.73%) Microservices
3 263 (50.19%) Agile
4 225 (42.94%) DevOps
5 166 (31.68%) Containerisation
6 160 (30.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 155 (29.58%) Software Engineering
8 127 (24.24%) Test Automation
9 126 (24.05%) Event-Driven
10 121 (23.09%) Infrastructure as Code
11 120 (22.90%) Mentoring
12 97 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (16.79%) TDD
14 80 (15.27%) Scrum
15 78 (14.89%) AI
16 73 (13.93%) BDD
17 68 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
18 65 (12.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 64 (12.21%) Architectural Patterns
20 61 (11.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 518 (98.85%) Java
2 116 (22.14%) Python
3 107 (20.42%) SQL
4 82 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 75 (14.31%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.92%) Groovy
7 29 (5.53%) Kotlin
8 27 (5.15%) Bash
9 24 (4.58%) Ruby
10 13 (2.48%) C#
11 10 (1.91%) RPG
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.15%) COBOL
15 5 (0.95%) Go
16 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.76%) Scala
17 2 (0.38%) C
17 2 (0.38%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 104 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.98%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.82%) Degree
5 39 (7.44%) DV Cleared
6 37 (7.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (4.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (4.01%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.06%) QA
2 20 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.44%) WCAG
4 7 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.15%) NCSC
6 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 213 (40.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.13%) Terraform
3 43 (8.21%) Ansible
4 26 (4.96%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.67%) Grafana
6 13 (2.48%) Kibana
7 12 (2.29%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.95%) Packer
9 4 (0.76%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.77%) Oracle
2 22 (4.20%) Splunk
3 16 (3.05%) Google
4 15 (2.86%) IBM
4 15 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.48%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.91%) OneLogin
8 6 (1.15%) Solace
9 5 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.95%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.76%) SaltStack
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