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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 346 226
Rank change year-on-year -23 -120 +1
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 293 434 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.77% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.15% 3.58% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 196 229 579
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 7,065 12,114 12,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 21.59% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,276 7,284 10,386
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.99%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +20 280 £70,000 -6.67% 218
UK excluding London +10 173 £65,000 -3.70% 154
London -28 115 £93,750 +4.17% 93
Work from Home +61 110 £65,000 -7.14% 115
North of England +57 73 £68,750 +1.85% 70
Yorkshire +14 37 £75,000 +11.11% 22
South East -1 36 £80,000 +23.08% 42
South West -2 36 £65,000 -3.70% 23
North West +39 33 £65,000 -10.34% 40
Midlands +43 22 £57,500 -8.00% 8
West Midlands +44 15 £57,500 - 6
East Midlands -4 7 £57,500 -8.00% 2
Scotland -31 7 £77,500 +10.71% 5
North East +15 5 £65,000 +18.18% 9
East of England +32 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Wales -3 1 £55,200 -18.22% 6

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 17 (5.80%) Apache
2 13 (4.44%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.02%) JBoss
6 2 (0.68%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) Liferay
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 219 (74.74%) AWS
2 83 (28.33%) Serverless
3 59 (20.14%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (17.06%) AWS Lambda
5 45 (15.36%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (15.36%) Amazon S3
5 45 (15.36%) Azure
6 31 (10.58%) GCP
7 23 (7.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (7.85%) OpenShift
8 22 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (7.51%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (6.48%) Apigee
10 18 (6.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 18 (6.14%) GitHub
11 17 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (5.80%) SaaS
12 14 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (1.71%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) AMQP
2 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (26.28%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (15.36%) Relational Database
3 43 (14.68%) MongoDB
4 33 (11.26%) NoSQL
5 20 (6.83%) RDBMS
6 19 (6.48%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.07%) MySQL
7 9 (3.07%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.37%) Big Data
10 3 (1.02%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.02%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.68%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.68%) DB2
11 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 84 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 55 (18.77%) Git
3 46 (15.70%) GitLab
4 38 (12.97%) JUnit
5 32 (10.92%) Cypress.io
6 27 (9.22%) Maven
7 22 (7.51%) Mockito
8 19 (6.48%) SonarQube
9 18 (6.14%) JMeter
10 14 (4.78%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.78%) JIRA
11 10 (3.41%) Selenium
12 7 (2.39%) Gradle
13 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.71%) Vite
14 4 (1.37%) Babel
14 4 (1.37%) webpack
15 3 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 74 (25.26%) Finance
2 50 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.58%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.75%) Banking
6 10 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.39%) Billing
8 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Games
9 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.02%) Aviation
10 3 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Legal
10 3 (1.02%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (50.85%) Developer
2 112 (38.23%) Java Developer
3 80 (27.30%) Senior
4 68 (23.21%) Software Engineer
5 54 (18.43%) Java Engineer
6 40 (13.65%) Senior Developer
7 35 (11.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (11.60%) Lead
9 33 (11.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 29 (9.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (8.87%) Java Software Engineer
12 24 (8.19%) Senior Java Engineer
13 22 (7.51%) Backend Developer
14 20 (6.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.12%) Kafka Engineer
16 14 (4.78%) Software Developer
16 14 (4.78%) Technical Leader
17 13 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 13 (4.44%) Mid-Level Java Developer
17 13 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (91.81%) Spring
2 85 (29.01%) React
3 71 (24.23%) Kafka
3 71 (24.23%) REST
4 56 (19.11%) AngularJS
5 46 (15.70%) RESTful
6 43 (14.68%) Hibernate
7 38 (12.97%) HTML
8 34 (11.60%) Node.js
9 31 (10.58%) ActiveMQ
9 31 (10.58%) Web Services
10 30 (10.24%) Jest
11 22 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (7.51%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (6.83%) Apache Camel
13 19 (6.48%) JSON
13 19 (6.48%) XML
14 18 (6.14%) CSS
15 17 (5.80%) Gherkin
16 16 (5.46%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 86 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 58 (19.80%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.51%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) IoT
9 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.02%) Replication
10 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.02%) CentOS
2 3 (1.02%) Debian
2 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (60.07%) Agile
2 172 (58.70%) Microservices
3 156 (53.24%) CI/CD
4 121 (41.30%) DevOps
5 107 (36.52%) Software Engineering
6 96 (32.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 79 (26.96%) TDD
8 72 (24.57%) Containerisation
9 60 (20.48%) Scrum
10 58 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (18.77%) BDD
12 52 (17.75%) Mentoring
13 48 (16.38%) Event-Driven
14 44 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (14.33%) Fintech
15 42 (14.33%) SDLC
16 39 (13.31%) Collaborative Culture
17 37 (12.63%) Code Quality
17 37 (12.63%) User Experience
18 32 (10.92%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 291 (99.32%) Java
2 98 (33.45%) JavaScript
3 65 (22.18%) Python
4 62 (21.16%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.29%) SQL
6 21 (7.17%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.80%) Bash
8 16 (5.46%) Groovy
9 13 (4.44%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.07%) Go
11 8 (2.73%) Delphi
12 6 (2.05%) C#
13 2 (0.68%) PHP
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Scala
14 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 52 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.17%) Degree
4 15 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) QA
2 10 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.39%) NCSC
4 6 (2.05%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 141 (48.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (52.22%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.51%) Kibana
3 17 (5.80%) HP Fortify
4 15 (5.12%) Ansible
5 14 (4.78%) Grafana
5 14 (4.78%) Terraform
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (8.19%) Oracle
2 21 (7.17%) Splunk
3 16 (5.46%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.41%) Google
5 8 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.37%) Pega
6 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.37%) Solace
6 4 (1.37%) WSO2
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.02%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Moogsoft