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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 236 352
Rank change year-on-year -87 +116 -74
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 657 627 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 7.55% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 415 176 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.00%

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 12,010 8,307 15,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 16.89% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,428 5,298 9,585
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -79 539 £75,000 +3.45% 517
UK excluding London -159 371 £67,500 - 322
London +16 250 £80,000 -20.00% 293
Work from Home -147 160 £67,500 +1.89% 266
North of England -60 152 £66,250 -3.64% 119
North West -59 96 £65,000 -7.14% 66
South West -23 72 £68,000 +4.62% 34
Wales -12 62 £70,000 +12.00% 9
Yorkshire -7 36 £85,000 +30.77% 28
West Midlands -49 33 £62,500 -10.71% 19
Midlands -103 33 £62,500 -3.85% 22
South East -70 29 £67,500 - 29
North East -58 20 £55,000 -16.98% 27
Scotland -73 15 £71,000 -2.07% 77
Northern Ireland -70 11 £60,000 +9.09% 23
East of England -46 2 £58,750 -6.00% 9

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 24 (3.65%) Confluence
2 15 (2.28%) Camunda
3 13 (1.98%) Apache
3 13 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.67%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.07%) CICS
6 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) JBoss
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 411 (62.56%) AWS
2 189 (28.77%) Azure
3 136 (20.70%) GitHub
4 123 (18.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 121 (18.42%) Serverless
6 98 (14.92%) GCP
7 90 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
8 84 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
9 72 (10.96%) Amazon S3
10 68 (10.35%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (4.87%) AWS Step Functions
14 31 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
16 24 (3.65%) SaaS
17 20 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
19 16 (2.44%) Apigee
19 16 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.04%) AMQP
2 15 (2.28%) DMARC
3 13 (1.98%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (16.74%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.35%) MongoDB
4 57 (8.68%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.00%) MySQL
6 41 (6.24%) DynamoDB
7 18 (2.74%) Db2
8 16 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.13%) Redis
10 10 (1.52%) DTS
10 10 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.22%) Big Data
12 7 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.61%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 135 (20.55%) Jenkins
2 96 (14.61%) GitLab
3 88 (13.39%) Git
4 59 (8.98%) Cucumber
5 49 (7.46%) JUnit
6 33 (5.02%) Maven
6 33 (5.02%) Mockito
7 26 (3.96%) Cypress.io
8 21 (3.20%) JIRA
9 15 (2.28%) SonarQube
10 14 (2.13%) Claude Code
10 14 (2.13%) Selenium
11 10 (1.52%) JMeter
12 7 (1.07%) Gradle
12 7 (1.07%) Postman
12 7 (1.07%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.76%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.76%) Gatling
General
1 165 (25.11%) Finance
2 131 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 122 (18.57%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.50%) Banking
5 47 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.74%) Tech for Good
9 16 (2.44%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.13%) Publishing
11 8 (1.22%) Front Office
11 8 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.76%) Advertising
13 5 (0.76%) Law
13 5 (0.76%) Retail
14 3 (0.46%) Back Office
14 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Marketing
14 3 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 250 (38.05%) Developer
2 181 (27.55%) Senior
3 175 (26.64%) Java Developer
4 152 (23.14%) Java Engineer
5 128 (19.48%) Software Engineer
6 103 (15.68%) Lead
7 76 (11.57%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (8.98%) Principal Engineer
10 55 (8.37%) Senior Java Engineer
11 53 (8.07%) Senior Java Developer
12 49 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 46 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
14 43 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
15 38 (5.78%) Principal Java Engineer
16 36 (5.48%) Architect
17 35 (5.33%) Java Software Engineer
18 32 (4.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 31 (4.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 24 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (94.06%) Spring
2 208 (31.66%) Kafka
3 144 (21.92%) Terraform
4 126 (19.18%) React
5 125 (19.03%) REST
6 111 (16.89%) Node.js
6 111 (16.89%) RESTful
7 91 (13.85%) AngularJS
8 69 (10.50%) Hibernate
9 61 (9.28%) JPA
10 51 (7.76%) RabbitMQ
11 43 (6.54%) OAuth
12 38 (5.78%) OAuth2
13 35 (5.33%) .NET
14 32 (4.87%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (4.72%) HTML
16 26 (3.96%) Jest
17 23 (3.50%) CSS
17 23 (3.50%) OpenAPI
17 23 (3.50%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 231 (35.16%) Cloud Native
2 141 (21.46%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (11.72%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (8.07%) Public Cloud
5 50 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (7.15%) e-Learning
7 45 (6.85%) Product Ownership
8 40 (6.09%) Mainframe
9 19 (2.89%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (2.59%) Virtual Team
11 16 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.83%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.83%) Podcast
13 10 (1.52%) EPoS
13 10 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.52%) iSeries
13 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.37%) Digital Wallet
15 8 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.28%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) AIX
2 7 (1.07%) CentOS
2 7 (1.07%) Debian
2 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.30%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (68.80%) CI/CD
2 386 (58.75%) Microservices
3 346 (52.66%) Agile
4 296 (45.05%) DevOps
5 239 (36.38%) Software Engineering
6 212 (32.27%) Containerisation
7 196 (29.83%) Event-Driven
8 183 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 168 (25.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 164 (24.96%) Mentoring
11 163 (24.81%) Test Automation
12 125 (19.03%) AI
13 123 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (16.89%) Scrum
15 109 (16.59%) TDD
16 107 (16.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 103 (15.68%) Observability
18 97 (14.76%) BDD
19 93 (14.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 649 (98.78%) Java
2 155 (23.59%) Python
3 119 (18.11%) SQL
4 105 (15.98%) TypeScript
5 82 (12.48%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.02%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.87%) Ruby
8 24 (3.65%) COBOL
9 19 (2.89%) C#
10 18 (2.74%) JCL
11 16 (2.44%) Groovy
12 12 (1.83%) Bash
13 10 (1.52%) RPG
14 7 (1.07%) C++
14 7 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.91%) Scala
16 4 (0.61%) Go
17 3 (0.46%) C
18 2 (0.30%) PHP
18 2 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 151 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 79 (12.02%) AWS Certification
4 62 (9.44%) DV Cleared
5 57 (8.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (3.81%) Degree
7 16 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.15%) OCP
16 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.57%) QA
2 37 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.81%) WCAG
4 7 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.91%) NCSC
6 2 (0.30%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 278 (42.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 259 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 77 (11.72%) Ansible
3 29 (4.41%) Grafana
4 25 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.67%) HP Fortify
6 9 (1.37%) Kibana
6 9 (1.37%) Puppet
7 6 (0.91%) Packer
8 4 (0.61%) Argo
8 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (5.78%) Splunk
2 33 (5.02%) Oracle
3 27 (4.11%) Google
4 18 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.59%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.28%) IBM
6 15 (2.28%) SendGrid
7 14 (2.13%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.67%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.07%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.61%) Adobe
12 3 (0.46%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.46%) Solace
13 2 (0.30%) Apple
13 2 (0.30%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.30%) TikTok
13 2 (0.30%) WSO2
14 1 (0.15%) Guidewire