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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 332 243
Rank change year-on-year -22 -89 +6
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 387 408 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.89% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 4.03% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 240 249 661
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.03% +13.79% -6.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 7,923 10,124 18,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.97% 22.09% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,816 6,558 14,581
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,967 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -12 364 £72,500 -12.12% 129
UK excluding London -28 205 £67,500 -3.57% 99
London -20 159 £77,500 -13.89% 48
Work from Home +29 142 £70,000 -17.89% 110
North of England +24 98 £70,500 -17.30% 46
Yorkshire -3 55 £75,000 +3.45% 15
South West -21 47 £65,000 -18.75% 8
North West +11 40 £67,500 -23.87% 22
South East -54 37 £75,000 +20.00% 20
Midlands +1 15 £50,100 -25.78% 14
West Midlands +11 12 £45,000 -35.71% 13
Scotland -36 8 £67,500 -15.63% 6
East of England +3 4 £62,500 -10.71% 2
North East -11 3 £31,850 -42.09% 9
East Midlands -28 2 £47,600 -26.77% 1
Wales -13 1 £55,200 +16.68% 4

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 20 (5.17%) Apache
2 16 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.36%) OpenStack
4 12 (3.10%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.03%) Confluence
5 4 (1.03%) JBoss
6 3 (0.78%) Liferay
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 246 (63.57%) AWS
2 100 (25.84%) Serverless
3 70 (18.09%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (17.57%) Amazon ECS
5 64 (16.54%) Amazon S3
6 57 (14.73%) Azure
7 50 (12.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (10.34%) GCP
9 37 (9.56%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (9.56%) Apigee
9 37 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 32 (8.27%) Amazon ECR
11 29 (7.49%) OpenShift
12 27 (6.98%) GitHub
13 25 (6.46%) SaaS
14 18 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 5 (1.29%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.33%) AMQP
2 5 (1.29%) Internet
3 4 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.16%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (12.92%) NoSQL
3 46 (11.89%) Relational Database
4 39 (10.08%) DynamoDB
5 32 (8.27%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.43%) RDBMS
7 13 (3.36%) MySQL
8 12 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.55%) Big Data
10 6 (1.55%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.78%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
14 2 (0.52%) DB2
14 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.52%) Redis
15 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.26%) DTS
Development Applications
1 94 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 62 (16.02%) GitLab
3 54 (13.95%) Git
4 44 (11.37%) Cypress.io
5 43 (11.11%) Maven
6 34 (8.79%) SonarQube
7 30 (7.75%) JUnit
8 21 (5.43%) Cucumber
9 15 (3.88%) Gradle
9 15 (3.88%) JIRA
10 14 (3.62%) Mockito
11 13 (3.36%) Selenium
12 9 (2.33%) JMeter
13 3 (0.78%) Postman
13 3 (0.78%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 84 (21.71%) Finance
2 58 (14.99%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.72%) Financial Institution
5 22 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.39%) Billing
7 14 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.84%) Tech for Good
9 10 (2.58%) Games
9 10 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.07%) Banking
10 8 (2.07%) Front Office
11 7 (1.81%) Advertising
12 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 198 (51.16%) Developer
2 157 (40.57%) Java Developer
3 111 (28.68%) Senior
4 88 (22.74%) Software Engineer
5 86 (22.22%) Java Engineer
6 61 (15.76%) Senior Developer
7 51 (13.18%) Senior Java Developer
8 45 (11.63%) Lead
9 41 (10.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (10.59%) Java Software Engineer
10 37 (9.56%) Senior Java Engineer
11 32 (8.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (5.17%) Backend Developer
14 18 (4.65%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.39%) Lead Java Developer
15 17 (4.39%) Software Developer
16 16 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 13 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.10%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (89.15%) Spring
2 97 (25.06%) React
3 89 (23.00%) AngularJS
4 85 (21.96%) REST
5 79 (20.41%) Kafka
6 49 (12.66%) Node.js
7 47 (12.14%) RESTful
8 43 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 41 (10.59%) Jest
10 32 (8.27%) Gherkin
11 28 (7.24%) HTML
12 27 (6.98%) Web Services
13 24 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
13 24 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (5.43%) JPA
15 18 (4.65%) JSON
16 17 (4.39%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (4.39%) XML
17 16 (4.13%) CSS
17 16 (4.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 97 (25.06%) Cloud Native
2 57 (14.73%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.07%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.29%) IoT
10 3 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Android
2 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.29%) CentOS
3 5 (1.29%) Debian
3 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (53.75%) CI/CD
2 205 (52.97%) Microservices
3 200 (51.68%) Agile
4 177 (45.74%) DevOps
5 138 (35.66%) Software Engineering
6 123 (31.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 106 (27.39%) Containerisation
8 92 (23.77%) Mentoring
9 85 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (18.60%) TDD
11 63 (16.28%) Event-Driven
12 61 (15.76%) Scrum
13 60 (15.50%) Test Automation
14 56 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 51 (13.18%) SDLC
16 50 (12.92%) BDD
17 49 (12.66%) AI
18 48 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
19 41 (10.59%) Code Quality
20 40 (10.34%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 384 (99.22%) Java
2 95 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 74 (19.12%) TypeScript
4 70 (18.09%) Python
5 56 (14.47%) SQL
6 33 (8.53%) Bash
7 31 (8.01%) Groovy
8 25 (6.46%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.58%) Go
10 8 (2.07%) Delphi
11 7 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.55%) PHP
13 5 (1.29%) C#
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) Ruby
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.04%) AWS Certification
3 29 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.20%) Degree
5 20 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.13%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.91%) QA
2 7 (1.81%) NCSC
3 6 (1.55%) NIST
4 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 176 (45.48%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.56%) Terraform
3 32 (8.27%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.43%) Ansible
4 21 (5.43%) Grafana
5 13 (3.36%) Kibana
6 11 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.29%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.20%) Oracle
2 14 (3.62%) Google
3 12 (3.10%) Splunk
4 8 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.81%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.81%) Solace
6 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.03%) Pega
7 4 (1.03%) WSO2
8 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.78%) Revolut
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.26%) Okta
10 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.26%) SAP