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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 239 340
Rank change year-on-year -96 +101 -41
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 615 662 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.34% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 7.70% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 390 200 307
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,283
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -4.33% -
75th Percentile £85,938 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,625 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% -1.85% +8.00%

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 11,928 8,596 16,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.39% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,530 5,521 10,739
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -91 508 £75,000 +3.45% 605
UK excluding London -180 344 £70,000 +5.66% 373
London +9 240 £80,000 -14.67% 352
North of England -68 148 £72,500 +2.84% 120
Work from Home -158 142 £70,000 +7.69% 304
North West -46 90 £65,000 -4.41% 72
South West -57 62 £68,000 +13.33% 54
Wales -14 57 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Yorkshire -4 50 £85,000 +17.24% 24
South East -84 33 £68,750 -1.79% 40
West Midlands -58 30 £62,500 -10.71% 29
Midlands -103 30 £62,500 -1.19% 41
Scotland -79 14 £88,000 +25.71% 71
North East -67 8 £52,500 -20.75% 24
Northern Ireland -80 8 £60,000 +9.09% 30
East of England -44 2 £58,750 -16.07% 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 24 (3.90%) Confluence
2 14 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.95%) Apache
4 11 (1.79%) Camunda
5 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.65%) CICS
6 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.49%) JBoss
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 376 (61.14%) AWS
2 177 (28.78%) Azure
3 130 (21.14%) Serverless
4 125 (20.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 115 (18.70%) GitHub
6 100 (16.26%) AWS Lambda
7 89 (14.47%) GCP
8 80 (13.01%) Amazon ECS
9 73 (11.87%) Amazon S3
10 69 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (7.15%) AWS Step Functions
12 38 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.39%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.39%) Apigee
15 25 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
17 20 (3.25%) SaaS
18 18 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.76%) AMQP
2 13 (2.11%) DMARC
3 10 (1.63%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (16.91%) NoSQL
3 59 (9.59%) MongoDB
3 59 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 53 (8.62%) DynamoDB
5 46 (7.48%) MySQL
6 18 (2.93%) Redis
7 15 (2.44%) Db2
8 12 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.63%) DTS
9 10 (1.63%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.30%) Big Data
11 7 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
11 7 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.14%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.81%) Flink
14 4 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 140 (22.76%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.80%) GitLab
3 87 (14.15%) Git
4 50 (8.13%) Cucumber
5 41 (6.67%) JUnit
6 40 (6.50%) Maven
7 32 (5.20%) Cypress.io
8 25 (4.07%) Mockito
9 23 (3.74%) JIRA
10 21 (3.41%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.93%) Selenium
12 12 (1.95%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.79%) JMeter
14 9 (1.46%) Gradle
15 7 (1.14%) Postman
16 6 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.81%) Eclipse
17 5 (0.81%) REST Assured
18 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (24.23%) Finance
2 118 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 109 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 65 (10.57%) Banking
5 41 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.28%) Tech for Good
9 13 (2.11%) Health Technology
10 12 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.46%) Advertising
11 9 (1.46%) Front Office
11 9 (1.46%) Publishing
12 7 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.81%) Law
13 5 (0.81%) Retail
14 3 (0.49%) Back Office
14 3 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 252 (40.98%) Developer
2 177 (28.78%) Java Developer
3 165 (26.83%) Senior
4 148 (24.07%) Java Engineer
5 119 (19.35%) Software Engineer
6 91 (14.80%) Lead
7 75 (12.20%) Senior Developer
8 69 (11.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 53 (8.62%) Senior Java Developer
10 52 (8.46%) Principal Engineer
11 51 (8.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 47 (7.64%) Senior Java Engineer
13 43 (6.99%) Java Software Engineer
14 40 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
15 37 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (5.85%) Principal Java Engineer
17 32 (5.20%) Architect
17 32 (5.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 31 (5.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 24 (3.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (92.36%) Spring
2 188 (30.57%) Kafka
3 131 (21.30%) React
4 130 (21.14%) Terraform
5 121 (19.67%) REST
6 115 (18.70%) AngularJS
7 105 (17.07%) RESTful
8 103 (16.75%) Node.js
9 64 (10.41%) Hibernate
10 59 (9.59%) JPA
11 49 (7.97%) RabbitMQ
12 37 (6.02%) OAuth
13 33 (5.37%) HTML
13 33 (5.37%) OAuth2
14 32 (5.20%) Jest
15 31 (5.04%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.72%) .NET
17 24 (3.90%) CSS
18 23 (3.74%) Gherkin
18 23 (3.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 196 (31.87%) Cloud Native
2 133 (21.63%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.64%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (7.32%) Public Cloud
6 40 (6.50%) e-Learning
7 35 (5.69%) Product Ownership
8 33 (5.37%) Mainframe
9 13 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.11%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.63%) EPoS
12 10 (1.63%) iSeries
13 9 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
15 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.14%) Media Streaming
15 7 (1.14%) Podcast
16 6 (0.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.44%) Linux
2 7 (1.14%) CentOS
2 7 (1.14%) Debian
2 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.14%) Ubuntu
3 6 (0.98%) AIX
4 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.49%) Windows
6 2 (0.33%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (64.23%) CI/CD
2 346 (56.26%) Microservices
3 314 (51.06%) Agile
4 260 (42.28%) DevOps
5 214 (34.80%) Software Engineering
6 185 (30.08%) Containerisation
7 179 (29.11%) Event-Driven
8 167 (27.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 162 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 148 (24.07%) Mentoring
11 141 (22.93%) Test Automation
12 106 (17.24%) AI
12 106 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (16.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (15.28%) Scrum
16 93 (15.12%) TDD
17 91 (14.80%) BDD
18 88 (14.31%) Observability
19 78 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 609 (99.02%) Java
2 143 (23.25%) Python
3 123 (20.00%) SQL
4 101 (16.42%) TypeScript
5 84 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.53%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.04%) Ruby
8 23 (3.74%) Groovy
9 19 (3.09%) Bash
9 19 (3.09%) C#
10 18 (2.93%) COBOL
11 12 (1.95%) JCL
12 10 (1.63%) C++
12 10 (1.63%) RPG
13 8 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.98%) Scala
15 4 (0.65%) Go
16 3 (0.49%) C
17 2 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 136 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.20%) AWS Certification
4 54 (8.78%) DV Cleared
5 51 (8.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (5.20%) Degree
7 16 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.16%) OCP
15 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.24%) QA
2 34 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.90%) WCAG
4 8 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.98%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 246 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 215 (34.96%) Kubernetes
2 71 (11.54%) Ansible
3 24 (3.90%) Grafana
4 22 (3.58%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.93%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.28%) Kibana
7 9 (1.46%) Puppet
8 5 (0.81%) Packer
9 4 (0.65%) Argo
10 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (5.69%) Splunk
2 30 (4.88%) Oracle
3 26 (4.23%) Google
4 19 (3.09%) IBM
5 18 (2.93%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.60%) OneLogin
7 15 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.11%) SendGrid
9 8 (1.30%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.14%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.81%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.81%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.49%) Solace
12 3 (0.49%) WSO2
13 2 (0.33%) Apple
13 2 (0.33%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.33%) TikTok
14 1 (0.16%) Guidewire