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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 333 235
Rank change year-on-year -22 -98 +7
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 341 434 921
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.84% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.62% 3.82% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 213 235 662
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,382 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.30% -2.31%

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 7,373 11,370 16,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.56% 21.88% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,419 6,662 13,819
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,984
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,514 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.81% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -1 320 £70,000 -6.67% 145
UK excluding London -6 187 £65,000 -3.70% 116
London -26 135 £77,500 -12.73% 61
Work from Home +42 126 £67,500 -6.90% 78
North of England +38 80 £70,000 - 25
South West -3 47 £65,000 - 28
Yorkshire +13 42 £75,000 +3.45% 4
South East -16 39 £75,000 +20.00% 39
North West +36 34 £67,500 -8.47% 21
Midlands +25 14 £55,200 -18.22% 10
West Midlands +33 11 £50,100 -28.43% 8
Scotland -34 7 £78,750 -1.03% 10
East of England +26 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East +1 4 £55,200 +0.36%
East Midlands -3 3 £55,200 -15.08% 2
Wales -9 1 £55,200 -3.84% 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 21 (6.16%) Apache
2 13 (3.81%) OpenStack
3 11 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.88%) Confluence
5 3 (0.88%) Liferay
6 2 (0.59%) Camunda
6 2 (0.59%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 232 (68.04%) AWS
2 92 (26.98%) Serverless
3 62 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 61 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
5 55 (16.13%) Amazon S3
6 51 (14.96%) Azure
7 42 (12.32%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (10.85%) GCP
9 35 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
11 29 (8.50%) Apigee
12 25 (7.33%) AWS Step Functions
12 25 (7.33%) SaaS
13 24 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
14 23 (6.74%) OpenShift
15 20 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (5.87%) GitHub
16 14 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 5 (1.47%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.64%) AMQP
2 5 (1.47%) Internet
3 4 (1.17%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.87%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (12.02%) Relational Database
3 40 (11.73%) NoSQL
4 35 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 26 (7.62%) DynamoDB
6 19 (5.57%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.93%) MySQL
9 6 (1.76%) Big Data
9 6 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.47%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.88%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.88%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.59%) DB2
12 2 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.29%) Redis
13 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (25.51%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.72%) Git
3 53 (15.54%) GitLab
4 40 (11.73%) Cypress.io
5 35 (10.26%) JUnit
5 35 (10.26%) Maven
6 27 (7.92%) SonarQube
7 19 (5.57%) Mockito
8 17 (4.99%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.40%) JIRA
10 13 (3.81%) JMeter
11 12 (3.52%) Gradle
12 11 (3.23%) Selenium
13 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.47%) Vite
14 3 (0.88%) Postman
14 3 (0.88%) TestNG
15 2 (0.59%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.59%) ESLint
15 2 (0.59%) Liquibase
General
1 70 (20.53%) Finance
2 54 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.33%) Financial Institution
5 17 (4.99%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.52%) Billing
7 11 (3.23%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.93%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.35%) Games
10 7 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.05%) Banking
11 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.88%) Front Office
12 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.59%) Advertising
13 2 (0.59%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (50.15%) Developer
2 130 (38.12%) Java Developer
3 92 (26.98%) Senior
4 82 (24.05%) Software Engineer
5 73 (21.41%) Java Engineer
6 49 (14.37%) Senior Developer
7 45 (13.20%) Lead
8 40 (11.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (11.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (10.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (8.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 29 (8.50%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (7.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (6.74%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.99%) Lead Developer
15 16 (4.69%) Lead Java Developer
16 15 (4.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 14 (4.11%) Software Developer
18 13 (3.81%) Technical Leader
19 12 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (90.03%) Spring
2 96 (28.15%) React
3 79 (23.17%) REST
4 70 (20.53%) Kafka
5 66 (19.35%) AngularJS
6 47 (13.78%) Hibernate
7 46 (13.49%) RESTful
8 42 (12.32%) Node.js
9 37 (10.85%) Jest
10 31 (9.09%) HTML
11 30 (8.80%) Web Services
12 25 (7.33%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (7.04%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (7.04%) Gherkin
14 23 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (5.87%) JPA
15 20 (5.87%) JSON
16 18 (5.28%) Apache Camel
17 17 (4.99%) XML
18 16 (4.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 93 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 55 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 11 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.47%) IoT
10 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.05%) Linux
2 6 (1.76%) Android
2 6 (1.76%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.47%) CentOS
3 5 (1.47%) Debian
3 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (54.84%) Microservices
2 182 (53.37%) CI/CD
3 181 (53.08%) Agile
4 154 (45.16%) DevOps
5 127 (37.24%) Software Engineering
6 113 (33.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 85 (24.93%) Containerisation
8 76 (22.29%) Mentoring
9 74 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (20.23%) TDD
11 58 (17.01%) Scrum
12 54 (15.84%) Event-Driven
13 50 (14.66%) BDD
14 47 (13.78%) SDLC
15 43 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (12.61%) Test Automation
16 40 (11.73%) Code Quality
16 40 (11.73%) Fintech
17 38 (11.14%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 338 (99.12%) Java
2 94 (27.57%) JavaScript
3 68 (19.94%) TypeScript
4 66 (19.35%) Python
5 40 (11.73%) SQL
6 25 (7.33%) Bash
7 23 (6.74%) Groovy
8 15 (4.40%) Kotlin
9 11 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.64%) Go
11 8 (2.35%) Delphi
12 6 (1.76%) PHP
13 4 (1.17%) C#
14 2 (0.59%) R
14 2 (0.59%) Ruby
15 1 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.92%) AWS Certification
2 27 (7.92%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.57%) Degree
3 19 (5.57%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
6 10 (2.93%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.57%) QA
2 7 (2.05%) NCSC
3 6 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 153 (44.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 164 (48.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.62%) Terraform
3 24 (7.04%) HP Fortify
4 21 (6.16%) Ansible
5 17 (4.99%) Kibana
6 15 (4.40%) Grafana
7 5 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.47%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (7.33%) Oracle
2 17 (4.99%) Splunk
3 15 (4.40%) Google
4 11 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.05%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.05%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.76%) Solace
7 5 (1.47%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.17%) Pega
8 4 (1.17%) WSO2
9 1 (0.29%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.29%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.29%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.29%) Okta
9 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.29%) Revolut
9 1 (0.29%) SAP