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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 334 246
Rank change year-on-year -26 -88 +9
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 393 365 1,090
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.89% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 4.16% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 230 248 644
10th Percentile £51,925 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,438 £98,543 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -

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 8,383 8,770 19,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 21.44% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 6,578 15,517
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -20 369 £70,000 -11.84% 132
UK excluding London -54 214 £67,500 -10.00% 94
London -22 154 £75,000 -14.29% 55
Work from Home 0 137 £70,000 -11.18% 108
North of England -4 121 £70,000 -12.50% 47
Yorkshire -13 66 £76,250 -3.25% 10
North West -5 50 £67,500 -23.87% 30
South West -41 42 £62,500 -17.39% 14
South East -67 36 £80,000 +18.52% 16
Midlands -27 15 £45,000 -5.26% 5
West Midlands -7 12 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Scotland -55 6 £65,000 -18.75% 7
North East -21 5 £31,850 -42.09% 7
Wales -23 2 £50,100 +17.83% 3
East Midlands -47 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2
East of England -26 1 £62,500 -24.24% 2

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 15 (3.82%) Apache
1 15 (3.82%) OpenStack
2 13 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) JBoss
5 3 (0.76%) Liferay
6 2 (0.51%) Camunda
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 241 (61.32%) AWS
2 107 (27.23%) Serverless
3 76 (19.34%) Amazon ECS
4 72 (18.32%) AWS Lambda
5 68 (17.30%) Amazon S3
6 66 (16.79%) Azure
7 60 (15.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (11.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 45 (11.45%) Apigee
10 42 (10.69%) Amazon ECR
11 41 (10.43%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (9.92%) GCP
13 35 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (7.38%) OpenShift
15 25 (6.36%) GitHub
16 19 (4.83%) SaaS
17 16 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
19 7 (1.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.29%) AMQP
2 5 (1.27%) Internet
3 3 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (15.52%) NoSQL
3 50 (12.72%) Relational Database
4 49 (12.47%) DynamoDB
5 23 (5.85%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.34%) MySQL
7 19 (4.83%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.53%) Redis
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.27%) Big Data
11 5 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.76%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
14 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.25%) Flink
14 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 101 (25.70%) Jenkins
2 67 (17.05%) GitLab
3 64 (16.28%) Git
4 52 (13.23%) Maven
5 45 (11.45%) Cypress.io
6 43 (10.94%) SonarQube
7 31 (7.89%) JUnit
8 23 (5.85%) Cucumber
9 19 (4.83%) Gradle
10 17 (4.33%) Selenium
11 16 (4.07%) JIRA
12 15 (3.82%) Mockito
13 6 (1.53%) JMeter
14 3 (0.76%) Postman
14 3 (0.76%) TestNG
15 2 (0.51%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.51%) ESLint
15 2 (0.51%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.51%) Vagrant
16 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 80 (20.36%) Finance
2 54 (13.74%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.85%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.33%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.07%) Billing
7 10 (2.54%) Advertising
7 10 (2.54%) Banking
7 10 (2.54%) Front Office
7 10 (2.54%) Tech for Good
8 9 (2.29%) Games
9 8 (2.04%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.76%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Marketing
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 218 (55.47%) Developer
2 177 (45.04%) Java Developer
3 105 (26.72%) Senior
4 86 (21.88%) Java Engineer
5 76 (19.34%) Software Engineer
6 62 (15.78%) Senior Developer
7 50 (12.72%) Senior Java Developer
8 48 (12.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 43 (10.94%) Lead
10 38 (9.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (8.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 32 (8.14%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (7.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (4.83%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.33%) Backend Developer
15 16 (4.07%) Lead Developer
16 15 (3.82%) Lead Java Developer
17 12 (3.05%) AWS Developer
17 12 (3.05%) Senior Software Developer
18 11 (2.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (88.04%) Spring
2 115 (29.26%) AngularJS
3 100 (25.45%) React
4 93 (23.66%) REST
5 63 (16.03%) Kafka
6 52 (13.23%) RESTful
7 49 (12.47%) Node.js
8 43 (10.94%) Hibernate
9 42 (10.69%) Jest
10 40 (10.18%) Gherkin
11 34 (8.65%) Web Services
12 30 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (7.38%) HTML
13 29 (7.38%) JPA
14 23 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (5.09%) CSS
16 18 (4.58%) Vue
17 17 (4.33%) JSON
17 17 (4.33%) Spring MVC
18 15 (3.82%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 78 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 53 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.33%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 10 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.04%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.27%) IoT
11 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.76%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.76%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.51%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.25%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.25%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.29%) Linux
2 6 (1.53%) Android
2 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.27%) CentOS
3 5 (1.27%) Debian
3 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (53.69%) CI/CD
2 199 (50.64%) Agile
3 193 (49.11%) Microservices
4 183 (46.56%) DevOps
5 128 (32.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (31.04%) Software Engineering
7 106 (26.97%) Containerisation
8 91 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 90 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (17.81%) Scrum
10 70 (17.81%) TDD
11 66 (16.79%) Test Automation
12 59 (15.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (14.50%) Event-Driven
14 51 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 51 (12.98%) SDLC
15 50 (12.72%) Secure Coding
16 48 (12.21%) BDD
17 46 (11.70%) AI
18 45 (11.45%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 390 (99.24%) Java
2 95 (24.17%) JavaScript
3 72 (18.32%) TypeScript
4 68 (17.30%) SQL
5 61 (15.52%) Python
6 41 (10.43%) Bash
7 39 (9.92%) Groovy
8 26 (6.62%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.04%) Delphi
10 7 (1.78%) Go
11 6 (1.53%) PHP
12 5 (1.27%) C#
13 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.76%) C++
15 2 (0.51%) R
15 2 (0.51%) Ruby
16 1 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.43%) AWS Certification
3 34 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.38%) Degree
5 23 (5.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (5.85%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (4.83%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.56%) QA
2 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.27%) NCSC
3 4 (1.02%) NIST
4 3 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 174 (44.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 163 (41.48%) Kubernetes
2 46 (11.70%) Terraform
3 40 (10.18%) HP Fortify
4 28 (7.12%) Ansible
5 19 (4.83%) Grafana
6 11 (2.80%) Kibana
7 10 (2.54%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.27%) Puppet
9 2 (0.51%) Packer
9 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (6.36%) Oracle
2 11 (2.80%) Google
3 8 (2.04%) Splunk
4 7 (1.78%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.53%) Pega
5 6 (1.53%) Solace
5 6 (1.53%) WSO2
6 5 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.27%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.02%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.02%) IBM
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.76%) Revolut
8 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.51%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.25%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.25%) Okta
10 1 (0.25%) SAP