Spring Boot Job Trends

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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 332 250
Rank change year-on-year -29 -82 +10
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 382 365 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.86% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.70% 3.94% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 230 240 645
10th Percentile £52,360 £46,050 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -7.22%
75th Percentile £84,688 £99,063 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +13.46% -3.70%

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 8,132 9,263 19,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 21.92% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,949 6,609 15,161
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -3 358 £70,000 -15.15% 138
UK excluding London -42 206 £67,500 -8.47% 97
London -20 153 £75,000 -14.29% 60
Work from Home +12 132 £70,000 -17.89% 115
North of England +2 104 £70,000 -17.89% 47
Yorkshire -6 56 £77,500 +3.33% 12
South West -32 46 £65,000 -10.34% 16
North West +1 43 £67,500 -23.87% 27
South East -45 36 £75,000 +20.00% 14
Midlands -11 14 £45,000 -20.00% 5
West Midlands +7 11 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Scotland -45 7 £77,500 -3.13% 6
North East -23 5 £31,850 -42.09% 8
East of England -10 2 £62,500 -21.88% 3
Wales -24 2 £50,100 +17.83% 6
East Midlands -48 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2

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 (4.19%) Apache
2 14 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) JBoss
5 3 (0.79%) Liferay
6 2 (0.52%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 238 (62.30%) AWS
2 101 (26.44%) Serverless
3 67 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
4 66 (17.28%) Amazon ECS
5 62 (16.23%) Amazon S3
5 62 (16.23%) Azure
6 52 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (10.73%) GCP
8 39 (10.21%) AWS Step Functions
9 38 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
9 38 (9.95%) Apigee
10 35 (9.16%) Amazon ECR
11 34 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (7.59%) OpenShift
13 26 (6.81%) GitHub
14 21 (5.50%) SaaS
15 17 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (2.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 5 (1.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.36%) AMQP
2 5 (1.31%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (20.68%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (14.66%) NoSQL
3 49 (12.83%) Relational Database
4 41 (10.73%) DynamoDB
5 28 (7.33%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.50%) RDBMS
7 18 (4.71%) MySQL
8 13 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.57%) Big Data
10 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.05%) Redis
13 3 (0.79%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.52%) DB2
14 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
15 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
15 1 (0.26%) DTS
15 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 97 (25.39%) Jenkins
2 64 (16.75%) GitLab
3 56 (14.66%) Git
4 46 (12.04%) Maven
5 42 (10.99%) Cypress.io
6 37 (9.69%) SonarQube
7 33 (8.64%) JUnit
8 22 (5.76%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.45%) Gradle
9 17 (4.45%) Mockito
10 14 (3.66%) Selenium
11 13 (3.40%) JIRA
12 8 (2.09%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 78 (20.42%) Finance
2 55 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.02%) Telecoms
5 19 (4.97%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.19%) Billing
7 15 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.62%) Health Technology
8 10 (2.62%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.36%) Front Office
9 9 (2.36%) Games
10 8 (2.09%) Advertising
11 5 (1.31%) Banking
11 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Law
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 207 (54.19%) Developer
2 166 (43.46%) Java Developer
3 107 (28.01%) Senior
4 79 (20.68%) Java Engineer
5 74 (19.37%) Software Engineer
6 62 (16.23%) Senior Developer
7 51 (13.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 45 (11.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (11.52%) Lead
10 34 (8.90%) Senior Java Engineer
11 33 (8.64%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (8.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (7.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (4.71%) Backend Developer
14 18 (4.71%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.45%) Lead Developer
16 16 (4.19%) Lead Java Developer
17 13 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
18 12 (3.14%) Architect
18 12 (3.14%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (89.01%) Spring
2 94 (24.61%) AngularJS
3 93 (24.35%) React
4 85 (22.25%) REST
5 67 (17.54%) Kafka
6 49 (12.83%) Node.js
6 49 (12.83%) RESTful
7 47 (12.30%) Hibernate
8 38 (9.95%) Jest
9 34 (8.90%) Gherkin
10 29 (7.59%) HTML
10 29 (7.59%) Web Services
11 26 (6.81%) JPA
12 25 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (4.97%) JSON
15 18 (4.71%) CSS
16 17 (4.45%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.19%) XML
18 15 (3.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 85 (22.25%) Cloud Native
2 51 (13.35%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.57%) Android
2 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.31%) CentOS
3 5 (1.31%) Debian
3 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (54.19%) CI/CD
2 198 (51.83%) Microservices
3 197 (51.57%) Agile
4 178 (46.60%) DevOps
5 124 (32.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (31.94%) Software Engineering
7 111 (29.06%) Containerisation
8 89 (23.30%) Mentoring
9 86 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (18.32%) TDD
11 67 (17.54%) Scrum
12 65 (17.02%) Test Automation
13 59 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 58 (15.18%) Event-Driven
15 50 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
16 49 (12.83%) SDLC
17 46 (12.04%) AI
17 46 (12.04%) BDD
18 40 (10.47%) Code Quality
19 39 (10.21%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 379 (99.21%) Java
2 95 (24.87%) JavaScript
3 71 (18.59%) TypeScript
4 70 (18.32%) Python
5 60 (15.71%) SQL
6 35 (9.16%) Bash
7 33 (8.64%) Groovy
8 24 (6.28%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.62%) Go
10 8 (2.09%) Delphi
11 6 (1.57%) PHP
11 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.31%) C#
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.16%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.81%) Degree
5 21 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 18 (4.71%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.45%) QA
2 7 (1.83%) NCSC
3 6 (1.57%) NIST
4 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (45.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 170 (44.50%) Kubernetes
2 39 (10.21%) Terraform
3 34 (8.90%) HP Fortify
4 23 (6.02%) Ansible
5 21 (5.50%) Grafana
6 11 (2.88%) Kibana
6 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (6.28%) Oracle
2 11 (2.88%) Google
2 11 (2.88%) Splunk
3 7 (1.83%) Dynatrace
3 7 (1.83%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.57%) Solace
5 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.31%) Pega
5 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.31%) WSO2
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.79%) Revolut
6 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.26%) Okta
7 1 (0.26%) SAP