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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 220 314
Rank change year-on-year -134 +94 -28
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 481 706 962
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.57% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 8.08% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 289 240 532
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,950 £45,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £96,569 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,375 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% -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 9,649 8,733 21,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.46% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 5,728 16,566
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -109 438 £72,500 - 105
UK excluding London -177 239 £67,500 -6.90% 92
London +15 219 £77,500 -6.06% 42
North of England -48 141 £68,750 -19.36% 28
Work from Home -150 133 £71,250 -3.39% 47
North West -51 74 £65,000 -26.69% 11
Yorkshire +4 58 £75,000 -4.83% 14
South East -66 35 £70,000 - 20
South West -75 35 £60,000 -12.73% 17
Wales -30 18 £70,000 +47.97% 4
Midlands -96 14 £60,000 -7.69% 4
West Midlands -45 13 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -45 9 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Scotland -83 6 £65,000 -17.52% 7
East of England -26 2 £67,500 -20.59% 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 16 (3.33%) Confluence
2 15 (3.12%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.87%) Apache
4 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.04%) JBoss
7 3 (0.62%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.42%) Liferay
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 266 (55.30%) AWS
2 124 (25.78%) Serverless
3 107 (22.25%) Azure
4 87 (18.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 86 (17.88%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (15.59%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (14.55%) Amazon S3
8 59 (12.27%) GitHub
9 50 (10.40%) GCP
10 49 (10.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 40 (8.32%) Apigee
12 38 (7.90%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.53%) SaaS
17 16 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (3.33%) OpenShift
18 14 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
19 12 (2.49%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.49%) DMARC
2 8 (1.66%) AMQP
3 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (16.01%) NoSQL
2 73 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (11.02%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.15%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.82%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.99%) MySQL
7 16 (3.33%) Redis
8 14 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.46%) DTS
12 6 (1.25%) Big Data
12 6 (1.25%) Db2
12 6 (1.25%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.83%) Flink
15 3 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 104 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 73 (15.18%) GitLab
3 62 (12.89%) Git
4 49 (10.19%) Maven
5 36 (7.48%) Cypress.io
6 32 (6.65%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.44%) JUnit
8 30 (6.24%) Cucumber
9 23 (4.78%) JIRA
10 20 (4.16%) Mockito
11 19 (3.95%) Gradle
12 14 (2.91%) Selenium
13 10 (2.08%) JMeter
14 7 (1.46%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.46%) Postman
15 4 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.62%) IntelliJ
16 3 (0.62%) Spock
17 2 (0.42%) ESLint
General
1 110 (22.87%) Finance
2 73 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.99%) Banking
5 18 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.91%) Advertising
9 12 (2.49%) Billing
10 11 (2.29%) Front Office
11 10 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.87%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.66%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.46%) Games
15 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.42%) Law
16 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 230 (47.82%) Developer
2 178 (37.01%) Java Developer
3 132 (27.44%) Java Engineer
4 131 (27.23%) Senior
5 85 (17.67%) Software Engineer
6 65 (13.51%) Senior Developer
7 60 (12.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 57 (11.85%) Lead
9 52 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (9.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (9.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 46 (9.56%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (6.44%) Architect
13 29 (6.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (4.37%) Principal Java Engineer
17 20 (4.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 20 (4.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (4.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (91.06%) Spring
2 135 (28.07%) AngularJS
3 112 (23.28%) React
4 106 (22.04%) Kafka
5 105 (21.83%) REST
6 79 (16.42%) Node.js
7 77 (16.01%) RESTful
8 40 (8.32%) Hibernate
9 32 (6.65%) Jest
10 31 (6.44%) Gherkin
10 31 (6.44%) HTML
11 30 (6.24%) OAuth
11 30 (6.24%) Vue
11 30 (6.24%) Web Services
12 27 (5.61%) JPA
13 24 (4.99%) OAuth2
13 24 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
14 22 (4.57%) CSS
15 18 (3.74%) Spring MVC
16 17 (3.53%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 113 (23.49%) Cloud Native
2 70 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (5.20%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.78%) Public Cloud
6 21 (4.37%) e-Learning
7 16 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.49%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.46%) Mainframe
11 6 (1.25%) EPoS
11 6 (1.25%) iSeries
12 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.83%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.62%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.62%) IoT
14 3 (0.62%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.62%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.08%) Linux
2 6 (1.25%) Android
2 6 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.04%) CentOS
3 5 (1.04%) Debian
3 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (54.68%) CI/CD
2 256 (53.22%) Microservices
3 225 (46.78%) Agile
4 194 (40.33%) DevOps
5 150 (31.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 141 (29.31%) Software Engineering
7 140 (29.11%) Containerisation
8 119 (24.74%) Mentoring
9 109 (22.66%) Test Automation
10 101 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (20.17%) Event-Driven
12 88 (18.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 82 (17.05%) TDD
14 68 (14.14%) Scrum
15 67 (13.93%) BDD
16 65 (13.51%) AI
17 60 (12.47%) Clean Code
17 60 (12.47%) SDLC
18 59 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
19 53 (11.02%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 476 (98.96%) Java
2 93 (19.33%) SQL
3 87 (18.09%) JavaScript
4 82 (17.05%) Python
5 74 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.65%) Groovy
7 30 (6.24%) Bash
7 30 (6.24%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.49%) Ruby
9 11 (2.29%) C#
10 9 (1.87%) C++
11 7 (1.46%) PHP
11 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.25%) RPG
13 5 (1.04%) Go
14 4 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.62%) Scala
16 2 (0.42%) C
16 2 (0.42%) COBOL
17 1 (0.21%) Natural
Qualifications
1 89 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.06%) AWS Certification
3 56 (11.64%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.32%) Degree
5 28 (5.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (5.61%) DV Cleared
7 22 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.57%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.61%) QA
2 11 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.66%) WCAG
4 7 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 182 (37.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 155 (32.22%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.72%) Terraform
3 33 (6.86%) Ansible
4 27 (5.61%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.70%) Grafana
5 13 (2.70%) Kibana
6 11 (2.29%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.04%) Packer
7 5 (1.04%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.41%) Oracle
2 19 (3.95%) Splunk
3 14 (2.91%) Google
4 13 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.49%) SendGrid
6 11 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.08%) IBM
8 7 (1.46%) Solace
9 6 (1.25%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.04%) Peregrine
10 5 (1.04%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.62%) Revolut
11 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.42%) Pega
12 2 (0.42%) TikTok
12 2 (0.42%) WSO2