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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 336 234
Rank change year-on-year -7 -102 +6
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 330 432 855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.82% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.58% 3.77% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 207 226 624
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,390 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% +6.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,875 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

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 7,208 11,446 15,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.71% 21.61% 24.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,318 6,714 12,519
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,856
Median % change year-on-year - +1.79% -5.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £57,670 £56,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +2.98% -2.61%

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 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 21 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 +16 310 £70,000 -8.50% 147
UK excluding London -1 183 £65,000 -3.70% 124
London -17 131 £83,750 -6.94% 49
Work from Home +45 121 £67,500 -6.90% 76
North of England +56 81 £70,000 +3.70% 36
Yorkshire +10 44 £75,000 +1.69% 11
South West +5 43 £65,000 -3.70% 25
South East -20 36 £80,000 +28.00% 35
North West +40 34 £65,000 -3.70% 23
Midlands +39 19 £57,500 -14.81% 12
West Midlands +36 14 £56,350 -19.50% 10
Scotland -35 7 £78,750 -1.03% 11
North East +9 5 £65,000 +18.18% 2
East Midlands -3 5 £57,500 -11.54% 2
East of England +15 3 £62,500 -10.71% 1
Wales -5 1 £55,200 -3.84% 4

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 (6.36%) Apache
2 13 (3.94%) OpenStack
3 11 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.91%) Confluence
5 3 (0.91%) JBoss
5 3 (0.91%) Liferay
6 2 (0.61%) Camunda
6 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 228 (69.09%) AWS
2 87 (26.36%) Serverless
3 61 (18.48%) Amazon ECS
4 57 (17.27%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (15.76%) Azure
6 51 (15.45%) Amazon S3
7 44 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (11.21%) GCP
9 31 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (8.79%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (8.18%) Apigee
12 23 (6.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 23 (6.97%) OpenShift
13 22 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
13 22 (6.67%) SaaS
14 20 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (5.76%) GitHub
16 14 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (1.52%) Amazon MSK
17 5 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.73%) AMQP
2 5 (1.52%) Internet
3 4 (1.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (12.42%) Relational Database
3 39 (11.82%) MongoDB
4 35 (10.61%) NoSQL
5 24 (7.27%) DynamoDB
6 18 (5.45%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.73%) MySQL
9 6 (1.82%) Big Data
10 5 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.91%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.91%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.61%) DB2
12 2 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.30%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 55 (16.67%) Git
3 50 (15.15%) GitLab
4 38 (11.52%) Cypress.io
5 37 (11.21%) JUnit
6 32 (9.70%) Maven
7 25 (7.58%) SonarQube
8 21 (6.36%) Mockito
9 15 (4.55%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.55%) JIRA
9 15 (4.55%) JMeter
10 11 (3.33%) Selenium
11 10 (3.03%) Gradle
12 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.52%) Vite
13 3 (0.91%) Postman
13 3 (0.91%) TestNG
14 2 (0.61%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.61%) ESLint
14 2 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 75 (22.73%) Finance
2 54 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.18%) Financial Institution
5 15 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 10 (3.03%) Banking
6 10 (3.03%) Billing
7 8 (2.42%) Games
7 8 (2.42%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.12%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.21%) Law
9 4 (1.21%) Legal
10 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Advertising
11 2 (0.61%) Front Office
11 2 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 165 (50.00%) Developer
2 125 (37.88%) Java Developer
3 90 (27.27%) Senior
4 78 (23.64%) Software Engineer
5 65 (19.70%) Java Engineer
6 47 (14.24%) Senior Developer
7 40 (12.12%) Lead
7 40 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 38 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (9.70%) Java Software Engineer
10 29 (8.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (8.48%) Senior Java Engineer
12 25 (7.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (6.36%) Backend Developer
14 16 (4.85%) Software Developer
15 15 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 13 (3.94%) Kafka Engineer
16 13 (3.94%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (3.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (90.61%) Spring
2 97 (29.39%) React
3 75 (22.73%) REST
4 70 (21.21%) Kafka
5 63 (19.09%) AngularJS
6 48 (14.55%) Hibernate
7 47 (14.24%) RESTful
8 39 (11.82%) Node.js
9 36 (10.91%) HTML
10 35 (10.61%) Jest
11 30 (9.09%) Web Services
12 28 (8.48%) ActiveMQ
13 26 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
14 23 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (6.67%) Gherkin
16 21 (6.36%) JSON
17 20 (6.06%) Apache Camel
18 19 (5.76%) CSS
18 19 (5.76%) JPA
19 18 (5.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (26.97%) Cloud Native
2 56 (16.97%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.52%) IoT
8 5 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.30%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.30%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.42%) Linux
2 5 (1.52%) Android
2 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.52%) CentOS
2 5 (1.52%) Debian
2 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (56.36%) Microservices
2 180 (54.55%) Agile
3 174 (52.73%) CI/CD
4 149 (45.15%) DevOps
5 121 (36.67%) Software Engineering
6 111 (33.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (25.45%) Containerisation
8 75 (22.73%) TDD
9 74 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (20.61%) Mentoring
11 55 (16.67%) Scrum
12 51 (15.45%) BDD
12 51 (15.45%) Event-Driven
13 47 (14.24%) SDLC
14 43 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (12.73%) Fintech
16 40 (12.12%) Collaborative Culture
16 40 (12.12%) User Experience
17 39 (11.82%) Code Quality
17 39 (11.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 328 (99.39%) Java
2 100 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 67 (20.30%) Python
3 67 (20.30%) TypeScript
4 36 (10.91%) SQL
5 23 (6.97%) Bash
6 21 (6.36%) Groovy
7 17 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 14 (4.24%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.73%) Go
10 8 (2.42%) Delphi
11 6 (1.82%) C#
11 6 (1.82%) PHP
12 2 (0.61%) R
12 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 2 (0.61%) Scala
13 1 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.76%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.45%) Degree
6 11 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.06%) QA
2 8 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.12%) NCSC
4 6 (1.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 152 (46.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 162 (49.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.27%) Terraform
3 22 (6.67%) HP Fortify
4 20 (6.06%) Ansible
5 19 (5.76%) Kibana
6 16 (4.85%) Grafana
7 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (6.97%) Oracle
2 20 (6.06%) Splunk
3 15 (4.55%) Google
4 13 (3.94%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.12%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.52%) SaltStack
7 5 (1.52%) Solace
8 4 (1.21%) Pega
8 4 (1.21%) WSO2
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.30%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.30%) IBM
10 1 (0.30%) Moogsoft
10 1 (0.30%) Okta
10 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.30%) Revolut
10 1 (0.30%) SAP