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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 229 313
Rank change year-on-year -123 +84 -15
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 540 707 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 8.01% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 348 241 415
10th Percentile £50,875 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,486 £56,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,399 8,823 17,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.90% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,707 5,822 12,836
10th Percentile £40,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £103,750
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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -102 471 £75,000 +3.45% 177
UK excluding London -171 289 £70,000 - 120
London +10 229 £80,000 -3.03% 95
North of England -53 147 £70,000 -11.18% 35
Work from Home -172 127 £70,000 - 89
North West -53 84 £65,000 -26.69% 17
Yorkshire +6 53 £75,000 +1.69% 7
South West -64 45 £67,500 -1.82% 13
Wales -15 42 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -78 32 £67,500 -3.57% 27
Midlands -106 19 £57,500 -9.09% 20
West Midlands -46 18 £56,250 -19.64% 16
Scotland -73 11 £65,000 -16.13% 16
North East -46 10 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -30 3 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 22 (4.07%) Confluence
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.48%) Apache
3 8 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.48%) Camunda
4 4 (0.74%) JBoss
4 4 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) CICS
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 317 (58.70%) AWS
2 146 (27.04%) Azure
3 137 (25.37%) Serverless
4 107 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (18.70%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (15.74%) GitHub
7 81 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (14.07%) Amazon S3
9 68 (12.59%) GCP
10 48 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 43 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (6.48%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (6.48%) Apigee
14 30 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (2.78%) OpenShift
18 13 (2.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.41%) DMARC
2 8 (1.48%) AMQP
3 3 (0.56%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 90 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (10.37%) DynamoDB
3 50 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 43 (7.96%) MongoDB
5 40 (7.41%) MySQL
6 20 (3.70%) Redis
7 12 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.22%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.04%) Db2
8 11 (2.04%) DTS
8 11 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.74%) Flink
12 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 80 (14.81%) GitLab
3 70 (12.96%) Git
4 41 (7.59%) Maven
5 37 (6.85%) JUnit
6 36 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 36 (6.67%) Cypress.io
7 28 (5.19%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.44%) JIRA
9 22 (4.07%) Mockito
10 21 (3.89%) Selenium
11 13 (2.41%) Gradle
12 10 (1.85%) JMeter
13 8 (1.48%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.30%) Postman
15 6 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.11%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.56%) Newman
General
1 122 (22.59%) Finance
2 88 (16.30%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.85%) Banking
5 26 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.78%) Front Office
8 14 (2.59%) Advertising
8 14 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.30%) Billing
10 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.11%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.93%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.93%) Retail
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 235 (43.52%) Developer
2 175 (32.41%) Java Developer
3 140 (25.93%) Java Engineer
4 139 (25.74%) Senior
5 90 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 81 (15.00%) Lead
7 68 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (11.85%) Senior Developer
9 53 (9.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.96%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (7.22%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.74%) Architect
16 29 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
17 28 (5.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 27 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
19 26 (4.81%) Principal Java Engineer
20 22 (4.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 493 (91.30%) Spring
2 145 (26.85%) Kafka
3 132 (24.44%) AngularJS
4 114 (21.11%) React
5 113 (20.93%) REST
6 95 (17.59%) Node.js
7 92 (17.04%) RESTful
8 57 (10.56%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.26%) JPA
10 35 (6.48%) Jest
10 35 (6.48%) OAuth
11 32 (5.93%) HTML
11 32 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (5.74%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.37%) Gherkin
14 28 (5.19%) Vue
15 26 (4.81%) Ruby on Rails
16 25 (4.63%) Web Services
17 23 (4.26%) CSS
18 16 (2.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 153 (28.33%) Cloud Native
2 98 (18.15%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (5.19%) Public Cloud
6 27 (5.00%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.44%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.07%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.85%) EPoS
9 10 (1.85%) iSeries
10 9 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.85%) Linux
2 5 (0.93%) AIX
2 5 (0.93%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) CentOS
3 4 (0.74%) Debian
3 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 305 (56.48%) Microservices
3 272 (50.37%) Agile
4 236 (43.70%) DevOps
5 175 (32.41%) Containerisation
6 163 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 163 (30.19%) Software Engineering
7 136 (25.19%) Test Automation
8 135 (25.00%) Event-Driven
9 130 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (22.96%) Mentoring
11 103 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (16.85%) TDD
13 84 (15.56%) AI
14 82 (15.19%) Scrum
15 76 (14.07%) BDD
16 73 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
17 71 (13.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
19 64 (11.85%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 534 (98.89%) Java
2 126 (23.33%) Python
3 111 (20.56%) SQL
4 87 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 81 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.56%) Groovy
7 29 (5.37%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.81%) Bash
8 26 (4.81%) Ruby
9 15 (2.78%) C#
10 10 (1.85%) C++
10 10 (1.85%) RPG
11 8 (1.48%) COBOL
12 7 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.93%) Go
14 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.74%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) C
15 2 (0.37%) JCL
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.59%) AWS Certification
3 65 (12.04%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.78%) Degree
5 40 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 38 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 20 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.96%) QA
2 24 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.70%) WCAG
4 7 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.11%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 222 (41.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 193 (35.74%) Kubernetes
2 100 (18.52%) Terraform
3 46 (8.52%) Ansible
4 25 (4.63%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.78%) Grafana
6 13 (2.41%) Kibana
6 13 (2.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.93%) Packer
8 4 (0.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (4.81%) Oracle
2 23 (4.26%) Splunk
3 18 (3.33%) Google
4 16 (2.96%) IBM
4 16 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.41%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.22%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.11%) Solace
8 5 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.93%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.74%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.56%) WSO2
11 2 (0.37%) Pega
11 2 (0.37%) Revolut
11 2 (0.37%) TikTok
12 1 (0.19%) Workday