Spring Boot Job Trends

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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 333 235
Rank change year-on-year -25 -98 +4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 328 433 896
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.83% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 3.79% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 205 229 647
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,780 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +7.37% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.00% -3.85%

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 7,310 11,410 16,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 21.77% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,375 6,685 13,451
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,720 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.49% +8.05% -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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +13 307 £70,000 -8.50% 140
UK excluding London -11 180 £66,250 -1.85% 117
London -21 131 £77,500 -13.89% 55
Work from Home +29 119 £68,400 -5.66% 83
North of England +48 77 £70,000 - 26
South West -3 45 £65,000 -3.70% 27
Yorkshire +1 41 £75,000 +3.45% 7
South East -20 38 £75,000 +20.00% 41
North West +35 33 £67,500 -8.47% 18
Midlands +19 14 £55,200 -18.22% 8
West Midlands +36 11 £50,100 -28.43% 7
Scotland -38 7 £78,750 -1.03% 11
East of England +23 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
North East -3 3 £55,200 +0.36% 1
East Midlands -7 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -7 1 £55,200 -3.84% 3

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 (6.40%) Apache
2 13 (3.96%) OpenStack
3 11 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.91%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) Liferay
6 2 (0.61%) Camunda
6 2 (0.61%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 224 (68.29%) AWS
2 88 (26.83%) Serverless
3 61 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
4 59 (17.99%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (16.16%) Amazon S3
6 50 (15.24%) Azure
7 43 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (10.98%) GCP
9 33 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (9.45%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (8.54%) Apigee
12 25 (7.62%) SaaS
13 24 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 23 (7.01%) Amazon ECR
15 22 (6.71%) OpenShift
16 20 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (5.79%) GitHub
18 14 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 5 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.52%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.44%) AMQP
2 5 (1.52%) Internet
3 4 (1.22%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 35 (10.67%) MongoDB
3 35 (10.67%) NoSQL
4 25 (7.62%) DynamoDB
5 18 (5.49%) RDBMS
6 11 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.74%) MySQL
8 6 (1.83%) Big Data
9 5 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.91%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.61%) DB2
11 2 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (26.52%) Jenkins
2 56 (17.07%) Git
3 51 (15.55%) GitLab
4 39 (11.89%) Cypress.io
5 35 (10.67%) JUnit
6 33 (10.06%) Maven
7 26 (7.93%) SonarQube
8 20 (6.10%) Mockito
9 16 (4.88%) Cucumber
10 15 (4.57%) JIRA
11 14 (4.27%) JMeter
12 11 (3.35%) Selenium
13 10 (3.05%) Gradle
14 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.52%) Vite
15 3 (0.91%) Postman
15 3 (0.91%) TestNG
16 2 (0.61%) Checkstyle
16 2 (0.61%) ESLint
16 2 (0.61%) Liquibase
General
1 68 (20.73%) Finance
2 53 (16.16%) Social Skills
3 40 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 16 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.35%) Billing
6 11 (3.35%) Tech for Good
7 10 (3.05%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.44%) Games
9 7 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.13%) Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Advertising
12 2 (0.61%) Law
12 2 (0.61%) Legal
12 2 (0.61%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 163 (49.70%) Developer
2 125 (38.11%) Java Developer
3 88 (26.83%) Senior
4 80 (24.39%) Software Engineer
5 69 (21.04%) Java Engineer
6 45 (13.72%) Senior Developer
7 43 (13.11%) Lead
8 38 (11.59%) Senior Java Developer
9 37 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (10.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (8.84%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (8.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (7.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (6.40%) Backend Developer
15 16 (4.88%) Lead Developer
16 15 (4.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 15 (4.57%) Lead Java Developer
17 13 (3.96%) Software Developer
17 13 (3.96%) Technical Leader
18 12 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (90.24%) Spring
2 94 (28.66%) React
3 75 (22.87%) REST
4 67 (20.43%) Kafka
5 64 (19.51%) AngularJS
6 48 (14.63%) Hibernate
7 45 (13.72%) RESTful
8 41 (12.50%) Node.js
9 36 (10.98%) Jest
10 32 (9.76%) HTML
11 30 (9.15%) Web Services
12 25 (7.62%) ActiveMQ
12 25 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
13 23 (7.01%) Elastic Stack
13 23 (7.01%) Gherkin
14 21 (6.40%) JSON
15 19 (5.79%) Apache Camel
15 19 (5.79%) JPA
16 18 (5.49%) XML
17 16 (4.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (27.13%) Cloud Native
2 54 (16.46%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.83%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.52%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.52%) IoT
10 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.30%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.30%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.13%) Linux
2 6 (1.83%) Android
2 6 (1.83%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.52%) CentOS
3 5 (1.52%) Debian
3 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (54.88%) Microservices
2 174 (53.05%) Agile
3 173 (52.74%) CI/CD
4 149 (45.43%) DevOps
5 122 (37.20%) Software Engineering
6 111 (33.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 82 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 71 (21.65%) Mentoring
9 70 (21.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (20.73%) TDD
11 56 (17.07%) Scrum
12 51 (15.55%) Event-Driven
13 50 (15.24%) BDD
14 47 (14.33%) SDLC
15 43 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (11.89%) Fintech
17 39 (11.89%) Test Automation
18 37 (11.28%) Collaborative Culture
19 36 (10.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 326 (99.39%) Java
2 92 (28.05%) JavaScript
3 65 (19.82%) TypeScript
4 64 (19.51%) Python
5 35 (10.67%) SQL
6 24 (7.32%) Bash
7 22 (6.71%) Groovy
8 15 (4.57%) Kotlin
9 12 (3.66%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.74%) Go
11 8 (2.44%) Delphi
12 6 (1.83%) PHP
13 4 (1.22%) C#
14 2 (0.61%) R
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 58 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.62%) AWS Certification
2 25 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.18%) Degree
5 11 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (3.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 10 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (3.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) QA
2 7 (2.13%) NCSC
3 6 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 148 (45.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 158 (48.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.62%) Terraform
3 23 (7.01%) HP Fortify
4 21 (6.40%) Ansible
5 18 (5.49%) Kibana
6 15 (4.57%) Grafana
7 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.01%) Oracle
2 18 (5.49%) Splunk
3 15 (4.57%) Google
4 12 (3.66%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.83%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.52%) Solace
8 4 (1.22%) Pega
8 4 (1.22%) WSO2
9 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.30%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.30%) IBM
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.30%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.30%) Okta
9 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.30%) Revolut
9 1 (0.30%) SAP