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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 352 256
Rank change year-on-year +7 -96 -35
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 340 495 669
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.72% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.70% 3.51% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 186 258 577
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,660 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,875 £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 7,241 14,109 13,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 20.53% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,243 8,586 11,375
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 23 November 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 +20 283 £70,500 -6.00% 120
UK excluding London +47 204 £65,000 -3.70% 107
London -25 139 £100,000 +12.61% 46
Work from Home +57 106 £65,000 +4.00% 79
North of England +48 54 £65,000 -3.70% 24
Scotland +21 53 £75,000 +15.38% 13
South East +12 38 £67,500 +8.00% 35
North West +64 37 £65,000 -3.70% 17
South West +3 32 £62,500 -7.41% 15
Midlands +83 27 £62,500 +4.17% 14
West Midlands +74 20 £63,750 - 12
Yorkshire +10 14 £66,250 -14.52% 6
East Midlands +35 7 £57,500 -4.17% 2
North East +18 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England +33 3 £62,500 -7.41%
Wales 0 2 £58,850 -12.81% 3
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 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 17 (5.00%) Apache
2 12 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.06%) Confluence
4 6 (1.76%) Camunda
4 6 (1.76%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.76%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.47%) JBoss
6 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 268 (78.82%) AWS
2 76 (22.35%) Serverless
3 60 (17.65%) Azure
4 47 (13.82%) Amazon ECS
4 47 (13.82%) GCP
5 45 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (10.59%) GitHub
8 33 (9.71%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (9.41%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (5.29%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.29%) SaaS
12 17 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.35%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.47%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) AMQP
2 3 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (27.06%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (20.59%) Relational Database
3 56 (16.47%) MongoDB
4 44 (12.94%) NoSQL
5 29 (8.53%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.71%) MySQL
7 13 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.65%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.06%) CockroachDB
11 6 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.76%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.76%) Redis
12 4 (1.18%) Big Data
13 3 (0.88%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (0.88%) DB2
13 3 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 75 (22.06%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.47%) Git
3 54 (15.88%) JUnit
4 34 (10.00%) Mockito
5 31 (9.12%) GitLab
6 22 (6.47%) JMeter
7 18 (5.29%) Maven
8 17 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 17 (5.00%) JIRA
9 14 (4.12%) Cypress.io
10 12 (3.53%) Selenium
11 6 (1.76%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.76%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.47%) Gradle
12 5 (1.47%) Vite
13 4 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.18%) Babel
13 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.18%) Subversion
13 4 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 154 (45.29%) Finance
2 73 (21.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 69 (20.29%) Law
4 54 (15.88%) Banking
5 51 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 36 (10.59%) Financial Institution
7 31 (9.12%) Marketing
8 19 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.94%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.65%) Legal
11 7 (2.06%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.47%) Electronics
12 5 (1.47%) Games
12 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.47%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.18%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.18%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 139 (40.88%) Developer
2 137 (40.29%) Software Engineer
3 105 (30.88%) Java Developer
4 98 (28.82%) Java Engineer
5 79 (23.24%) Senior
6 69 (20.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 50 (14.71%) Lead
8 35 (10.29%) Senior Developer
9 33 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (9.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (9.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 31 (9.12%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (8.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 27 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
13 24 (7.06%) Backend Developer
14 23 (6.76%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (5.59%) Software Developer
17 15 (4.41%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (92.94%) Spring
2 125 (36.76%) Kafka
3 103 (30.29%) React
4 76 (22.35%) RESTful
5 71 (20.88%) REST
6 55 (16.18%) Hibernate
7 51 (15.00%) AngularJS
8 40 (11.76%) HTML
8 40 (11.76%) Web Services
9 39 (11.47%) ActiveMQ
10 29 (8.53%) Node.js
11 27 (7.94%) Apache Camel
11 27 (7.94%) JPA
12 25 (7.35%) jQuery
12 25 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (6.47%) JSON
14 21 (6.18%) WireMock
14 21 (6.18%) XML
15 19 (5.59%) RxJava
16 18 (5.29%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 123 (36.18%) Cloud Native
2 59 (17.35%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.35%) Algorithms
5 17 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (4.12%) Distributed Applications
8 11 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.65%) Virtual Team
10 7 (2.06%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.47%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.88%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.88%) Replication
14 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (0.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Unix
3 2 (0.59%) CentOS
3 2 (0.59%) Debian
3 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (67.65%) Agile
2 197 (57.94%) CI/CD
3 191 (56.18%) Microservices
4 182 (53.53%) Software Engineering
5 108 (31.76%) DevOps
6 102 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 98 (28.82%) TDD
8 85 (25.00%) SDLC
9 75 (22.06%) Containerisation
9 75 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (20.29%) BDD
11 64 (18.82%) Mentoring
12 63 (18.53%) Fintech
13 62 (18.24%) Event-Driven
14 56 (16.47%) Scrum
15 48 (14.12%) AI
15 48 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (14.12%) Test Automation
16 42 (12.35%) Machine Learning
16 42 (12.35%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 339 (99.71%) Java
2 97 (28.53%) JavaScript
3 73 (21.47%) Python
4 62 (18.24%) SQL
5 56 (16.47%) TypeScript
6 27 (7.94%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.47%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.65%) Go
9 8 (2.35%) Delphi
10 7 (2.06%) C#
11 6 (1.76%) Scala
12 4 (1.18%) C++
12 4 (1.18%) Ruby
12 4 (1.18%) Rust
13 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.59%) Groovy
14 2 (0.59%) R
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.88%) Degree
5 14 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.00%) QA
2 10 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.76%) NCSC
3 6 (1.76%) NIST
4 2 (0.59%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 142 (41.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 195 (57.35%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.12%) Terraform
3 27 (7.94%) Kibana
4 13 (3.82%) Ansible
4 13 (3.82%) Grafana
5 9 (2.65%) Argo
6 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.59%) Puppet
7 1 (0.29%) Istio
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 48 (14.12%) Oracle
2 34 (10.00%) Splunk
3 28 (8.24%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.82%) Google
5 10 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.76%) SAP
7 5 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.18%) Pega
8 4 (1.18%) WSO2
9 3 (0.88%) IBM
9 3 (0.88%) Solace
10 2 (0.59%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.59%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) Revolut
11 1 (0.29%) Veracode