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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 239 357
Rank change year-on-year -89 +118 -77
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 648 649 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.31% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.40% 7.71% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 407 194 285
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -1.03% -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,188 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £117,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

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 12,006 8,418 16,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.01% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 5,380 10,048
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,911 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,167
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -82 535 £75,000 +3.45% 586
UK excluding London -164 362 £67,500 - 390
London +15 252 £80,000 -15.79% 327
Work from Home -149 154 £68,000 +4.62% 309
North of England -68 151 £72,000 +2.86% 131
North West -60 94 £65,000 -7.14% 77
South West -37 69 £67,750 +10.61% 53
Wales -17 59 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire +4 44 £85,000 +25.93% 26
South East -97 34 £68,750 +1.85% 40
West Midlands -60 32 £62,500 -10.71% 24
Midlands -99 32 £62,500 -3.10% 33
Scotland -69 15 £71,000 +3.27% 83
North East -60 13 £52,500 -20.75% 28
Northern Ireland -83 10 £60,000 +9.09% 27
East of England -44 2 £58,750 -6.00% 5

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 24 (3.70%) Confluence
2 14 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.01%) Apache
3 13 (2.01%) Camunda
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) CICS
5 5 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.77%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.31%) JBoss
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 403 (62.19%) AWS
2 186 (28.70%) Azure
3 130 (20.06%) Serverless
4 124 (19.14%) GitHub
5 123 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 96 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
7 94 (14.51%) GCP
8 75 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (11.42%) Amazon ECS
10 72 (11.11%) Amazon S3
11 42 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (5.40%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
15 22 (3.40%) SaaS
16 20 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (2.93%) Amazon ECR
17 19 (2.93%) Apigee
18 17 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.93%) AMQP
2 15 (2.31%) DMARC
3 12 (1.85%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.44%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (16.36%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 62 (9.57%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.10%) MySQL
6 44 (6.79%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.47%) Db2
7 16 (2.47%) Redis
8 15 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.54%) DTS
9 10 (1.54%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.23%) Big Data
11 7 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
11 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.08%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.62%) Flink
13 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 138 (21.30%) Jenkins
2 90 (13.89%) Git
2 90 (13.89%) GitLab
3 54 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 43 (6.64%) JUnit
5 33 (5.09%) Maven
6 27 (4.17%) Mockito
7 26 (4.01%) Cypress.io
8 20 (3.09%) JIRA
9 15 (2.31%) Selenium
10 14 (2.16%) Claude Code
10 14 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.70%) JMeter
12 7 (1.08%) Gradle
12 7 (1.08%) Postman
13 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 160 (24.69%) Finance
2 123 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 122 (18.83%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.49%) Banking
5 43 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.55%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.62%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.31%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.16%) Publishing
11 11 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.39%) Front Office
13 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.93%) Advertising
15 5 (0.77%) Law
15 5 (0.77%) Retail
16 3 (0.46%) Back Office
16 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.46%) Marketing
16 3 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 262 (40.43%) Developer
2 183 (28.24%) Java Developer
3 176 (27.16%) Senior
4 149 (22.99%) Java Engineer
5 127 (19.60%) Software Engineer
6 96 (14.81%) Lead
7 79 (12.19%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.49%) Principal Engineer
9 55 (8.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 52 (8.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 49 (7.56%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
14 38 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
15 36 (5.56%) Principal Java Engineer
16 33 (5.09%) Architect
16 33 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 32 (4.94%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (3.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 607 (93.67%) Spring
2 201 (31.02%) Kafka
3 141 (21.76%) Terraform
4 135 (20.83%) React
5 125 (19.29%) REST
6 109 (16.82%) RESTful
7 108 (16.67%) Node.js
8 106 (16.36%) AngularJS
9 68 (10.49%) Hibernate
10 62 (9.57%) JPA
11 52 (8.02%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (6.64%) OAuth
13 37 (5.71%) OAuth2
14 32 (4.94%) Ruby on Rails
15 31 (4.78%) .NET
15 31 (4.78%) HTML
16 26 (4.01%) Jest
17 22 (3.40%) CSS
17 22 (3.40%) OpenAPI
17 22 (3.40%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 213 (32.87%) Cloud Native
2 140 (21.60%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (10.03%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (7.72%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (7.72%) Public Cloud
5 44 (6.79%) e-Learning
6 39 (6.02%) Product Ownership
7 36 (5.56%) Mainframe
8 15 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
8 15 (2.31%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.85%) Media Streaming
10 12 (1.85%) Podcast
11 10 (1.54%) EPoS
11 10 (1.54%) iSeries
12 9 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
12 9 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.31%) Linux
2 7 (1.08%) AIX
2 7 (1.08%) CentOS
2 7 (1.08%) Debian
2 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.08%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 373 (57.56%) Microservices
3 334 (51.54%) Agile
4 279 (43.06%) DevOps
5 230 (35.49%) Software Engineering
6 203 (31.33%) Containerisation
7 191 (29.48%) Event-Driven
8 173 (26.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 173 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 158 (24.38%) Mentoring
10 155 (23.92%) Test Automation
11 120 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (17.90%) AI
13 107 (16.51%) TDD
14 106 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (16.36%) Scrum
15 103 (15.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 100 (15.43%) BDD
17 96 (14.81%) Observability
18 83 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 640 (98.77%) Java
2 150 (23.15%) Python
3 125 (19.29%) SQL
4 103 (15.90%) TypeScript
5 85 (13.12%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.09%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.94%) Ruby
8 20 (3.09%) COBOL
9 19 (2.93%) C#
10 16 (2.47%) Groovy
11 14 (2.16%) JCL
12 12 (1.85%) Bash
13 10 (1.54%) RPG
14 8 (1.23%) C++
14 8 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.93%) Scala
16 4 (0.62%) Go
17 3 (0.46%) C
18 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 140 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.42%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.80%) DV Cleared
5 54 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (4.63%) Degree
7 15 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.15%) OCP
15 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.27%) QA
2 35 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.86%) WCAG
4 7 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 264 (40.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 243 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 77 (11.88%) Ansible
3 26 (4.01%) Grafana
4 23 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.16%) Kibana
6 11 (1.70%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.39%) Puppet
8 7 (1.08%) Packer
9 4 (0.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.56%) Splunk
2 32 (4.94%) Oracle
3 27 (4.17%) Google
4 19 (2.93%) IBM
4 19 (2.93%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.62%) OneLogin
6 16 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.31%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.39%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.08%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.77%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.46%) Solace
12 3 (0.46%) WSO2
13 2 (0.31%) Adobe
13 2 (0.31%) Apple
13 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.31%) TikTok