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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 232 283
Rank change year-on-year -113 +51 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 465 653 1,013
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.49% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 7.59% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 271 239 541
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,900 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £96,889 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -

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 9,324 8,600 20,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 19.66% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6,916 5,765 15,943
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 31 May 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 -83 436 £72,500 -1.69% 75
UK excluding London -174 230 £67,500 -6.90% 63
London +29 212 £75,000 -9.09% 27
North of England -58 142 £70,000 -17.89% 30
Work from Home -137 131 £71,250 -3.39% 35
North West -57 68 £65,000 -26.69% 15
Yorkshire +9 66 £75,000 -4.83% 10
South West -64 37 £64,200 -4.89% 12
South East -50 36 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Midlands -100 16 £51,250 -21.15%
West Midlands -51 15 £45,000 -36.84%
North East -43 8 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Wales -34 7 £51,619 +9.11% 4
Scotland -78 4 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East of England -34 1 £62,500 -24.24% 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 14 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.94%) Apache
3 9 (1.94%) Confluence
4 8 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.08%) JBoss
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.65%) Liferay
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (54.84%) AWS
2 120 (25.81%) Serverless
3 85 (18.28%) Azure
4 82 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (16.99%) Amazon ECS
5 79 (16.99%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (15.48%) Amazon S3
7 55 (11.83%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (10.32%) Apigee
9 45 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
10 41 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (8.60%) GCP
12 34 (7.31%) GitHub
13 30 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (4.09%) OpenShift
15 16 (3.44%) SaaS
16 14 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (2.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 10 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) AMQP
2 7 (1.51%) DMARC
3 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.22%) HTTP
4 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 69 (14.84%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (11.83%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.46%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.02%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.30%) MySQL
7 17 (3.66%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.37%) Redis
9 8 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.29%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.08%) Big Data
12 5 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.08%) DTS
12 5 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.86%) DB2
13 4 (0.86%) Flink
14 3 (0.65%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 105 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 75 (16.13%) GitLab
3 56 (12.04%) Maven
4 55 (11.83%) Git
5 42 (9.03%) Cypress.io
6 39 (8.39%) SonarQube
7 28 (6.02%) JUnit
8 26 (5.59%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.52%) Gradle
10 19 (4.09%) Mockito
11 16 (3.44%) JIRA
12 10 (2.15%) Selenium
13 9 (1.94%) JMeter
14 7 (1.51%) Claude Code
15 4 (0.86%) Postman
16 3 (0.65%) TestNG
17 2 (0.43%) Checkstyle
17 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
17 2 (0.43%) Spock
17 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (22.80%) Finance
2 61 (13.12%) Social Skills
3 47 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.52%) Banking
4 21 (4.52%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.66%) Financial Institution
6 15 (3.23%) Advertising
6 15 (3.23%) Billing
7 14 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.58%) Front Office
9 9 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.94%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.72%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.51%) Games
11 7 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.65%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.43%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 237 (50.97%) Developer
2 192 (41.29%) Java Developer
3 129 (27.74%) Senior
4 127 (27.31%) Java Engineer
5 82 (17.63%) Software Engineer
6 68 (14.62%) Senior Developer
7 57 (12.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 56 (12.04%) Senior Java Developer
9 51 (10.97%) Lead
10 47 (10.11%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (9.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 44 (9.46%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (6.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 24 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
15 23 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (4.52%) Architect
17 20 (4.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 20 (4.30%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (4.30%) Software Developer
18 19 (4.09%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (90.75%) Spring
2 138 (29.68%) AngularJS
3 109 (23.44%) React
4 105 (22.58%) REST
5 93 (20.00%) Kafka
6 64 (13.76%) RESTful
7 58 (12.47%) Node.js
8 41 (8.82%) Hibernate
9 39 (8.39%) Gherkin
10 38 (8.17%) Jest
11 36 (7.74%) Web Services
12 29 (6.24%) HTML
13 25 (5.38%) JPA
13 25 (5.38%) OAuth
13 25 (5.38%) Vue
14 21 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (4.09%) CSS
15 19 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (4.09%) OAuth2
16 18 (3.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 92 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.41%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 19 (4.09%) e-Learning
6 17 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.58%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.86%) EPoS
11 4 (0.86%) iSeries
12 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.65%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.43%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.94%) Linux
2 6 (1.29%) Android
2 6 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.08%) CentOS
3 5 (1.08%) Debian
3 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (51.40%) Microservices
2 236 (50.75%) CI/CD
3 209 (44.95%) Agile
4 185 (39.78%) DevOps
5 151 (32.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 132 (28.39%) Software Engineering
7 123 (26.45%) Containerisation
8 112 (24.09%) Mentoring
9 95 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 82 (17.63%) TDD
12 79 (16.99%) Event-Driven
13 78 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (15.05%) Scrum
15 62 (13.33%) AI
15 62 (13.33%) SDLC
16 61 (13.12%) BDD
17 58 (12.47%) Clean Code
18 55 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (11.18%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 460 (98.92%) Java
2 91 (19.57%) JavaScript
3 87 (18.71%) SQL
4 80 (17.20%) TypeScript
5 69 (14.84%) Python
6 40 (8.60%) Groovy
7 38 (8.17%) Bash
8 28 (6.02%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.72%) C#
9 8 (1.72%) Go
10 7 (1.51%) C++
10 7 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.29%) PHP
12 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.86%) RPG
13 3 (0.65%) Ruby
14 2 (0.43%) C
15 1 (0.22%) Korn
15 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.61%) AWS Certification
3 52 (11.18%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.60%) Degree
5 29 (6.24%) DV Cleared
6 24 (5.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.16%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.30%) QA
2 6 (1.29%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 182 (39.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 152 (32.69%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.47%) Terraform
3 35 (7.53%) HP Fortify
4 34 (7.31%) Ansible
5 13 (2.80%) Kibana
6 12 (2.58%) Grafana
7 10 (2.15%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.08%) Packer
8 5 (1.08%) Puppet
9 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (4.95%) Oracle
2 14 (3.01%) Splunk
3 13 (2.80%) Google
4 10 (2.15%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.15%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.72%) IBM
5 8 (1.72%) Solace
6 7 (1.51%) SendGrid
7 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.08%) Peregrine
8 5 (1.08%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.65%) Revolut
9 3 (0.65%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Pega
10 2 (0.43%) TikTok
10 2 (0.43%) WSO2
11 1 (0.22%) Workday