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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 223 318
Rank change year-on-year -127 +95 -26
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 500 710 902
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.51% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.04% 8.03% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 307 243 515
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 9,930 8,844 21,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 18.85% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,432 5,839 16,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,800
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 2 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 2 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 -110 443 £72,500 - 192
UK excluding London -173 261 £67,500 -3.57% 117
London +7 213 £77,500 -6.06% 104
North of England -58 146 £70,000 -17.77% 34
Work from Home -162 130 £70,000 -3.45% 93
North West -53 78 £65,000 -26.69% 16
Yorkshire +8 58 £75,000 -4.83% 13
South West -72 38 £60,000 -12.73% 19
South East -72 35 £68,750 -1.79% 23
Wales -19 28 £70,000 +47.97% 8
Midlands -104 14 £60,000 -6.25% 16
West Midlands -56 13 £62,500 -10.71% 14
North East -46 10 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -79 8 £65,000 -17.52% 9
East of England -30 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 18 (3.60%) Confluence
2 16 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 7 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.80%) JBoss
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.60%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Liferay
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 286 (57.20%) AWS
2 133 (26.60%) Serverless
3 124 (24.80%) Azure
4 99 (19.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 95 (19.00%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (15.80%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (14.80%) Amazon S3
8 68 (13.60%) GitHub
9 60 (12.00%) GCP
10 51 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (8.20%) Apigee
12 40 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (7.80%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.40%) OpenShift
17 15 (3.00%) GitHub Copilot
18 13 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.60%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.60%) DMARC
2 8 (1.60%) AMQP
3 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.80%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (15.60%) NoSQL
3 57 (11.40%) DynamoDB
4 47 (9.40%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 30 (6.00%) MySQL
6 16 (3.20%) Redis
7 14 (2.80%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.80%) DTS
10 8 (1.60%) Db2
10 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.40%) Big Data
11 7 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Flink
15 3 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 109 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.20%) GitLab
3 64 (12.80%) Git
4 49 (9.80%) Maven
5 37 (7.40%) Cypress.io
6 32 (6.40%) Cucumber
6 32 (6.40%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.20%) JUnit
8 22 (4.40%) JIRA
9 19 (3.80%) Mockito
10 17 (3.40%) Gradle
11 15 (3.00%) Selenium
12 10 (2.00%) JMeter
13 8 (1.60%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.60%) Postman
14 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.00%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.60%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.60%) Spock
15 3 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (22.60%) Finance
2 76 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.00%) Banking
5 20 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.20%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.80%) Advertising
7 14 (2.80%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.20%) Front Office
8 11 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.00%) Billing
10 9 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.40%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.20%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.00%) Games
14 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 235 (47.00%) Developer
2 181 (36.20%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.20%) Java Engineer
3 131 (26.20%) Senior
4 88 (17.60%) Software Engineer
5 66 (13.20%) Senior Developer
6 65 (13.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (12.80%) Lead
8 52 (10.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 46 (9.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 46 (9.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 43 (8.60%) Senior Java Engineer
11 32 (6.40%) Architect
11 32 (6.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 30 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
13 26 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (4.60%) Principal Java Engineer
15 22 (4.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 21 (4.20%) Software Developer
17 19 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (90.80%) Spring
2 139 (27.80%) AngularJS
3 116 (23.20%) Kafka
4 113 (22.60%) React
5 110 (22.00%) REST
6 87 (17.40%) Node.js
7 84 (16.80%) RESTful
8 48 (9.60%) Hibernate
9 36 (7.20%) JPA
10 35 (7.00%) Jest
11 33 (6.60%) Gherkin
12 31 (6.20%) OAuth
12 31 (6.20%) Vue
13 29 (5.80%) HTML
14 27 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (5.40%) Web Services
15 25 (5.00%) OAuth2
16 20 (4.00%) CSS
17 18 (3.60%) OpenAPI
17 18 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 126 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 74 (14.80%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.60%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.60%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.60%) EPoS
11 8 (1.60%) iSeries
12 6 (1.20%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.80%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.20%) Linux
2 6 (1.20%) CentOS
2 6 (1.20%) Debian
2 6 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.00%) Windows
4 4 (0.80%) Android
4 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (57.80%) CI/CD
2 274 (54.80%) Microservices
3 246 (49.20%) Agile
4 211 (42.20%) DevOps
5 155 (31.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 153 (30.60%) Containerisation
6 153 (30.60%) Software Engineering
7 119 (23.80%) Mentoring
8 117 (23.40%) Test Automation
9 109 (21.80%) Event-Driven
10 103 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 86 (17.20%) TDD
13 77 (15.40%) Scrum
14 70 (14.00%) AI
14 70 (14.00%) BDD
15 64 (12.80%) Clean Code
15 64 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
15 64 (12.80%) SDLC
16 61 (12.20%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 494 (98.80%) Java
2 94 (18.80%) SQL
3 93 (18.60%) Python
4 87 (17.40%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.80%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.80%) Groovy
7 30 (6.00%) Bash
8 29 (5.80%) Kotlin
9 18 (3.60%) Ruby
10 11 (2.20%) C#
11 9 (1.80%) C++
12 8 (1.60%) RPG
13 7 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.00%) Go
14 5 (1.00%) PHP
15 4 (0.80%) COBOL
15 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.80%) Scala
16 2 (0.40%) C
17 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 100 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.00%) AWS Certification
3 62 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.20%) Degree
5 32 (6.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (6.40%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.60%) QA
2 15 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.60%) WCAG
4 7 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 199 (39.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 169 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.40%) Terraform
3 37 (7.40%) Ansible
4 29 (5.80%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.60%) Kibana
6 12 (2.40%) Grafana
7 10 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.20%) Puppet
9 5 (1.00%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (4.80%) Oracle
2 20 (4.00%) Splunk
3 15 (3.00%) Google
4 14 (2.80%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.60%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.40%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.40%) IBM
7 8 (1.60%) OneLogin
7 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.40%) Solace
9 6 (1.20%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.00%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.00%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.60%) Revolut
11 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.60%) WSO2
12 2 (0.40%) Pega
12 2 (0.40%) TikTok
13 1 (0.20%) Sitecore