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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 335 242
Rank change year-on-year -31 -93 +15
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 376 358 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.87% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 4.02% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 223 243 644
10th Percentile £52,080 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +8.47% -4.84%
75th Percentile £83,125 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £77,295 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.67% +18.92% -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 8,140 8,911 19,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.58% 21.65% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,959 6,575 15,343
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -11 353 £70,000 -12.50% 134
UK excluding London -56 202 £67,500 -12.67% 97
London -23 151 £75,000 -14.29% 55
Work from Home 0 130 £70,000 -12.03% 106
North of England 0 105 £70,000 -12.50% 51
Yorkshire -5 58 £77,500 -1.66% 13
South West -43 45 £65,000 -14.08% 15
North West -9 42 £67,500 -23.87% 31
South East -53 34 £75,000 +20.00% 13
Midlands -27 14 £45,000 -5.26% 4
West Midlands +8 11 £45,000 -35.71% 2
Scotland -51 6 £65,000 -18.75% 7
North East -24 5 £31,850 -42.09% 7
Wales -19 2 £50,100 +17.83% 4
East Midlands -45 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2
East of England -18 1 £62,500 -21.88% 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 15 (3.99%) Apache
2 14 (3.72%) OpenStack
3 13 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (3.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.06%) Confluence
5 4 (1.06%) JBoss
6 3 (0.80%) Liferay
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 233 (61.97%) AWS
2 102 (27.13%) Serverless
3 69 (18.35%) AWS Lambda
4 67 (17.82%) Amazon ECS
5 64 (17.02%) Amazon S3
6 60 (15.96%) Azure
7 54 (14.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (10.90%) AWS Step Functions
9 40 (10.64%) Apigee
10 39 (10.37%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (10.37%) GCP
11 37 (9.84%) Amazon ECR
12 32 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (7.71%) OpenShift
14 24 (6.38%) GitHub
15 20 (5.32%) SaaS
16 16 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
18 7 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) AMQP
2 5 (1.33%) Internet
3 3 (0.80%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (15.16%) NoSQL
3 48 (12.77%) Relational Database
4 43 (11.44%) DynamoDB
5 27 (7.18%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.32%) RDBMS
7 19 (5.05%) MySQL
8 13 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.60%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.33%) Redis
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.80%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.53%) DB2
14 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
15 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.27%) DTS
Development Applications
1 95 (25.27%) Jenkins
2 66 (17.55%) GitLab
3 57 (15.16%) Git
4 48 (12.77%) Maven
5 42 (11.17%) Cypress.io
6 39 (10.37%) SonarQube
7 32 (8.51%) JUnit
8 22 (5.85%) Cucumber
9 18 (4.79%) Gradle
10 16 (4.26%) Mockito
11 15 (3.99%) Selenium
12 14 (3.72%) JIRA
13 7 (1.86%) JMeter
14 3 (0.80%) Postman
14 3 (0.80%) TestNG
15 2 (0.53%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.53%) ESLint
15 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
16 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 78 (20.74%) Finance
2 56 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 18 (4.79%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.26%) Billing
7 15 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.66%) Health Technology
8 10 (2.66%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.39%) Front Office
9 9 (2.39%) Games
10 8 (2.13%) Advertising
11 5 (1.33%) Banking
11 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Marketing
14 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 207 (55.05%) Developer
2 167 (44.41%) Java Developer
3 104 (27.66%) Senior
4 77 (20.48%) Java Engineer
5 71 (18.88%) Software Engineer
6 60 (15.96%) Senior Developer
7 49 (13.03%) Senior Java Developer
8 46 (12.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (11.70%) Lead
10 33 (8.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 33 (8.78%) Senior Java Engineer
11 32 (8.51%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (6.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 18 (4.79%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.52%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.52%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.26%) Lead Java Developer
16 12 (3.19%) Architect
16 12 (3.19%) Senior Software Developer
17 11 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (88.83%) Spring
2 96 (25.53%) AngularJS
3 91 (24.20%) React
4 84 (22.34%) REST
5 63 (16.76%) Kafka
6 49 (13.03%) Node.js
7 48 (12.77%) RESTful
8 44 (11.70%) Hibernate
9 39 (10.37%) Jest
10 36 (9.57%) Gherkin
11 29 (7.71%) HTML
11 29 (7.71%) Web Services
12 25 (6.65%) Elastic Stack
12 25 (6.65%) JPA
13 20 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (5.05%) CSS
15 18 (4.79%) JSON
16 17 (4.52%) Spring MVC
17 15 (3.99%) OAuth
17 15 (3.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.07%) Cloud Native
2 50 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.19%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (2.13%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.33%) IoT
11 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.80%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.80%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.53%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.27%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.27%) Sports Betting
14 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.39%) Linux
2 6 (1.60%) Android
2 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.33%) CentOS
3 5 (1.33%) Debian
3 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (54.79%) CI/CD
2 193 (51.33%) Agile
3 192 (51.06%) Microservices
4 177 (47.07%) DevOps
5 123 (32.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 117 (31.12%) Software Engineering
7 108 (28.72%) Containerisation
8 89 (23.67%) Mentoring
9 86 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (17.82%) Scrum
10 67 (17.82%) TDD
11 64 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 59 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (14.89%) Event-Driven
14 50 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (13.03%) SDLC
16 46 (12.23%) AI
17 44 (11.70%) BDD
18 41 (10.90%) Secure Coding
19 39 (10.37%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 373 (99.20%) Java
2 95 (25.27%) JavaScript
3 72 (19.15%) TypeScript
4 67 (17.82%) Python
5 60 (15.96%) SQL
6 37 (9.84%) Bash
7 35 (9.31%) Groovy
8 23 (6.12%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.39%) Go
10 8 (2.13%) Delphi
11 6 (1.60%) PHP
12 5 (1.33%) C#
12 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.53%) C++
13 2 (0.53%) R
13 2 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 58 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.84%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.18%) Degree
5 21 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 20 (5.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.52%) QA
2 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.33%) NCSC
3 4 (1.06%) NIST
4 2 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 168 (44.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 163 (43.35%) Kubernetes
2 39 (10.37%) Terraform
3 36 (9.57%) HP Fortify
4 23 (6.12%) Ansible
5 20 (5.32%) Grafana
6 11 (2.93%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.39%) Kibana
8 5 (1.33%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (6.38%) Oracle
2 11 (2.93%) Google
3 9 (2.39%) Splunk
4 7 (1.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.60%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.60%) Solace
6 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.33%) Pega
6 5 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.33%) WSO2
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.80%) Revolut
7 3 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.27%) Okta
8 1 (0.27%) SAP