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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 327 241
Rank change year-on-year -13 -86 +1
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 379 427 973
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 3.96% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 236 252 673
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,729 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £99,063 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 7,651 10,770 17,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 22.24% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,622 6,644 14,355
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +16 357 £72,500 -9.38% 125
UK excluding London -23 203 £67,500 -3.57% 94
London -1 154 £80,000 -8.63% 55
Work from Home +40 136 £70,000 -13.85% 66
North of England +35 93 £70,500 -11.88% 28
Yorkshire +7 53 £75,000 +3.45% 9
South West -20 49 £65,000 -16.93% 14
South East -39 39 £75,000 +20.00% 28
North West +14 36 £67,500 -15.63% 16
Midlands +14 15 £50,100 -25.78% 11
West Midlands +26 12 £45,000 -35.71% 10
Scotland -26 7 £78,750 -1.56% 8
East of England +18 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -12 4 £55,200 +0.36% 3
East Midlands -21 2 £47,600 -26.77% 1
Wales -8 1 £55,200 +16.68% 5

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 (5.54%) Apache
2 15 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.43%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.90%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.06%) Confluence
5 4 (1.06%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) Liferay
7 2 (0.53%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 247 (65.17%) AWS
2 97 (25.59%) Serverless
3 70 (18.47%) Amazon ECS
4 68 (17.94%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (16.89%) Amazon S3
6 55 (14.51%) Azure
7 48 (12.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (10.55%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (10.29%) GCP
10 36 (9.50%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (9.50%) Apigee
11 35 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 31 (8.18%) Amazon ECR
13 28 (7.39%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.60%) SaaS
15 24 (6.33%) GitHub
16 18 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) AMQP
2 5 (1.32%) Internet
3 4 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (20.84%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.14%) NoSQL
2 46 (12.14%) Relational Database
3 37 (9.76%) DynamoDB
4 35 (9.23%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.80%) RDBMS
6 11 (2.90%) MySQL
6 11 (2.90%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.58%) Big Data
8 6 (1.58%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.79%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.79%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.53%) DB2
11 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) DTS
12 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 93 (24.54%) Jenkins
2 61 (16.09%) GitLab
3 54 (14.25%) Git
4 44 (11.61%) Cypress.io
5 43 (11.35%) Maven
6 34 (8.97%) SonarQube
7 32 (8.44%) JUnit
8 21 (5.54%) Cucumber
9 16 (4.22%) Mockito
10 15 (3.96%) JIRA
11 13 (3.43%) Gradle
11 13 (3.43%) Selenium
12 11 (2.90%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) TestNG
13 3 (0.79%) Vite
14 2 (0.53%) ESLint
14 2 (0.53%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (22.43%) Finance
2 55 (14.51%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.39%) Financial Institution
5 21 (5.54%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.22%) Billing
7 13 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.90%) Tech for Good
9 10 (2.64%) Health Technology
10 9 (2.37%) Games
11 8 (2.11%) Banking
12 7 (1.85%) Front Office
13 6 (1.58%) Advertising
14 4 (1.06%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
15 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.53%) Law
16 2 (0.53%) Retail
16 2 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (49.87%) Developer
2 148 (39.05%) Java Developer
3 107 (28.23%) Senior
4 89 (23.48%) Software Engineer
5 85 (22.43%) Java Engineer
6 56 (14.78%) Senior Developer
7 46 (12.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.61%) Lead
9 41 (10.82%) Java Software Engineer
10 40 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (9.50%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (5.28%) Backend Developer
14 18 (4.75%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.49%) Lead Java Developer
16 16 (4.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 16 (4.22%) Software Developer
17 13 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.17%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (89.18%) Spring
2 99 (26.12%) React
3 85 (22.43%) AngularJS
3 85 (22.43%) REST
4 81 (21.37%) Kafka
5 46 (12.14%) Node.js
6 45 (11.87%) RESTful
7 44 (11.61%) Hibernate
8 41 (10.82%) Jest
9 31 (8.18%) Gherkin
10 29 (7.65%) HTML
11 28 (7.39%) Web Services
12 27 (7.12%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (5.54%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (5.28%) JPA
15 20 (5.28%) JSON
16 19 (5.01%) XML
17 16 (4.22%) Apache Camel
17 16 (4.22%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 59 (15.57%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.90%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.37%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.11%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.37%) Linux
2 6 (1.58%) Android
2 6 (1.58%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.32%) CentOS
3 5 (1.32%) Debian
3 5 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (54.09%) Microservices
2 199 (52.51%) CI/CD
3 196 (51.72%) Agile
4 169 (44.59%) DevOps
5 137 (36.15%) Software Engineering
6 121 (31.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 99 (26.12%) Containerisation
8 90 (23.75%) Mentoring
9 81 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (19.00%) TDD
11 63 (16.62%) Event-Driven
12 57 (15.04%) Scrum
13 55 (14.51%) BDD
13 55 (14.51%) Test Automation
14 51 (13.46%) SDLC
15 50 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (11.87%) AI
18 43 (11.35%) Fintech
19 39 (10.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 376 (99.21%) Java
2 95 (25.07%) JavaScript
3 71 (18.73%) TypeScript
4 68 (17.94%) Python
5 52 (13.72%) SQL
6 32 (8.44%) Bash
7 30 (7.92%) Groovy
8 23 (6.07%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.64%) Go
10 9 (2.37%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.11%) Delphi
12 6 (1.58%) PHP
13 4 (1.06%) C#
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) Ruby
15 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.23%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.07%) Degree
5 19 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.01%) QA
2 7 (1.85%) NCSC
3 6 (1.58%) NIST
4 4 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 167 (44.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 175 (46.17%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.71%) Terraform
3 31 (8.18%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.54%) Ansible
5 20 (5.28%) Grafana
6 15 (3.96%) Kibana
7 10 (2.64%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.32%) Puppet
9 2 (0.53%) Packer
9 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.33%) Oracle
2 15 (3.96%) Google
3 14 (3.69%) Splunk
4 10 (2.64%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.85%) Solace
6 5 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.06%) Pega
7 4 (1.06%) WSO2
8 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.79%) Revolut
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.26%) Okta
10 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.26%) SAP