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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 235 322
Rank change year-on-year -116 +87 -37
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 567 681 691
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.37% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.31% 7.99% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 370 215 356
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £87,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
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 10,672 8,518 16,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 17.11% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,816 5,541 11,478
10th Percentile £40,125 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -97 481 £75,000 +3.45% 531
UK excluding London -177 307 £70,000 - 269
London +8 237 £80,000 -3.03% 363
North of England -62 145 £72,000 -6.38% 83
Work from Home -172 131 £70,000 +3.70% 245
North West -61 84 £65,000 -17.52% 55
Yorkshire +16 52 £75,000 - 12
South West -48 50 £67,500 +8.00% 32
Wales -9 47 £70,000 +12.00% 15
South East -76 32 £67,500 -3.57% 37
Midlands -88 23 £60,000 -5.14% 27
West Midlands -43 22 £62,500 -10.71% 21
Scotland -74 14 £65,000 -16.13% 53
North East -53 9 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Northern Ireland -76 4 £60,000 +9.09% 21
East of England -45 2 £58,750 -30.88% 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 21 (3.70%) Confluence
2 14 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.76%) Camunda
4 9 (1.59%) Apache
5 5 (0.88%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.53%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 336 (59.26%) AWS
2 161 (28.40%) Azure
3 132 (23.28%) Serverless
4 108 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (17.46%) GitHub
6 98 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (14.11%) Amazon ECS
7 80 (14.11%) GCP
8 72 (12.70%) Amazon S3
9 56 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (8.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 34 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (5.47%) Amazon ECR
12 31 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (5.47%) Apigee
13 20 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (2.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 13 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.29%) DMARC
2 9 (1.59%) AMQP
3 5 (0.88%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.58%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (16.23%) NoSQL
3 58 (10.23%) Relational Database
4 56 (9.88%) DynamoDB
5 43 (7.58%) MongoDB
6 41 (7.23%) MySQL
7 20 (3.53%) Redis
8 13 (2.29%) Db2
9 12 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.94%) DTS
10 11 (1.94%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.94%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.88%) Big Data
12 5 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.71%) Flink
13 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 130 (22.93%) Jenkins
2 85 (14.99%) GitLab
3 75 (13.23%) Git
4 41 (7.23%) Cucumber
4 41 (7.23%) JUnit
5 39 (6.88%) Maven
6 32 (5.64%) Cypress.io
7 25 (4.41%) Mockito
8 24 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 21 (3.70%) JIRA
9 21 (3.70%) Selenium
10 11 (1.94%) Gradle
11 10 (1.76%) JMeter
12 8 (1.41%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.23%) Postman
14 6 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (23.46%) Finance
2 101 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.58%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.11%) Banking
5 32 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.29%) Front Office
9 12 (2.12%) Advertising
9 12 (2.12%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.59%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.41%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.06%) Billing
12 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.88%) Law
13 5 (0.88%) Retail
14 4 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 235 (41.45%) Developer
2 173 (30.51%) Java Developer
3 148 (26.10%) Senior
4 143 (25.22%) Java Engineer
5 104 (18.34%) Software Engineer
6 90 (15.87%) Lead
7 66 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (11.64%) Senior Developer
8 58 (10.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 49 (8.64%) Senior Java Engineer
10 48 (8.47%) Senior Java Developer
11 43 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (7.58%) Principal Engineer
12 35 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (5.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (5.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 31 (5.47%) Architect
15 29 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (5.11%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (3.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (91.36%) Spring
2 155 (27.34%) Kafka
3 126 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 115 (20.28%) React
5 111 (19.58%) REST
6 100 (17.64%) Node.js
6 100 (17.64%) RESTful
7 61 (10.76%) Hibernate
8 54 (9.52%) JPA
9 37 (6.53%) OAuth
10 34 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
11 33 (5.82%) OAuth2
12 32 (5.64%) Jest
13 31 (5.47%) HTML
14 28 (4.94%) Ruby on Rails
14 28 (4.94%) Vue
15 25 (4.41%) .NET
15 25 (4.41%) Gherkin
15 25 (4.41%) Web Services
16 23 (4.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 170 (29.98%) Cloud Native
2 112 (19.75%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (6.17%) Public Cloud
6 31 (5.47%) e-Learning
7 27 (4.76%) Mainframe
8 25 (4.41%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.76%) EPoS
9 10 (1.76%) iSeries
10 9 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.23%) Digital Wallet
11 7 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.88%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.94%) Linux
2 5 (0.88%) AIX
2 5 (0.88%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) CentOS
3 4 (0.71%) Debian
3 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 321 (56.61%) Microservices
3 280 (49.38%) Agile
4 244 (43.03%) DevOps
5 178 (31.39%) Containerisation
5 178 (31.39%) Software Engineering
6 169 (29.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 146 (25.75%) Event-Driven
8 142 (25.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 137 (24.16%) Test Automation
10 135 (23.81%) Mentoring
11 102 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (16.40%) AI
13 91 (16.05%) TDD
14 83 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
15 81 (14.29%) Scrum
16 80 (14.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 79 (13.93%) BDD
18 70 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (12.17%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 562 (99.12%) Java
2 137 (24.16%) Python
3 115 (20.28%) SQL
4 87 (15.34%) JavaScript
5 86 (15.17%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.17%) Kotlin
7 28 (4.94%) Ruby
8 26 (4.59%) Groovy
9 22 (3.88%) Bash
10 19 (3.35%) C#
11 13 (2.29%) COBOL
12 11 (1.94%) C++
13 10 (1.76%) RPG
14 7 (1.23%) JCL
14 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.88%) Scala
16 4 (0.71%) Go
17 3 (0.53%) C
18 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 115 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.35%) AWS Certification
3 66 (11.64%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 44 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 37 (6.53%) Degree
6 17 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.47%) QA
2 30 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.70%) WCAG
4 7 (1.23%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.06%) NCSC
6 3 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 227 (40.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 198 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 110 (19.40%) Terraform
3 55 (9.70%) Ansible
4 21 (3.70%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.17%) Grafana
6 16 (2.82%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.29%) Kibana
8 5 (0.88%) Puppet
9 4 (0.71%) Packer
10 3 (0.53%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (4.76%) Splunk
2 25 (4.41%) Oracle
3 22 (3.88%) Google
4 18 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.82%) IBM
6 15 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.29%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.29%) SendGrid
8 11 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.88%) Peregrine
10 4 (0.71%) Broadcom
10 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.71%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.71%) Solace
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.53%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Apple
12 2 (0.35%) Pega
12 2 (0.35%) TikTok