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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 242 271
Rank change year-on-year -118 +29 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 428 594 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.36% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 6.91% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 234 261 579
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,438 £97,528 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -

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 8,854 8,592 20,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.68% 19.67% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,467 6,328 15,788
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 7 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 7 May 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 -80 399 £70,000 -6.67% 136
UK excluding London -170 221 £70,000 -3.45% 100
London -3 178 £74,000 -10.30% 61
North of England -48 136 £72,500 -14.83% 35
Work from Home -132 127 £72,500 -8.01% 67
Yorkshire -5 71 £76,250 -3.25% 4
North West -55 58 £67,500 -23.87% 24
South West -56 42 £62,500 -3.85% 16
South East -62 34 £80,000 +18.52% 25
Midlands -79 14 £45,000 -5.26% 7
West Midlands -34 13 £45,000 -35.71% 5
North East -25 7 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales -24 4 £48,310 +13.62% 5
Scotland -89 4 £65,000 -18.75% 7
East of England -30 1 £62,500 -24.24% 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 14 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.04%) Apache
3 12 (2.80%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.17%) Confluence
5 5 (1.17%) JBoss
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.70%) Liferay
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (58.18%) AWS
2 114 (26.64%) Serverless
3 80 (18.69%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (17.99%) Amazon ECS
5 76 (17.76%) Amazon S3
5 76 (17.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 64 (14.95%) Azure
7 55 (12.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (12.15%) Apigee
9 49 (11.45%) Amazon ECR
10 42 (9.81%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (8.64%) GCP
12 27 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (5.37%) OpenShift
14 20 (4.67%) GitHub
15 17 (3.97%) SaaS
16 13 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 5 (1.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.10%) AMQP
2 5 (1.17%) Internet
3 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.42%) NoSQL
2 61 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (13.08%) DynamoDB
4 45 (10.51%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.31%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.44%) MySQL
7 17 (3.97%) RDBMS
8 10 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.10%) Redis
10 7 (1.64%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.17%) Big Data
12 5 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.93%) Flink
13 4 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.70%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 102 (23.83%) Jenkins
2 73 (17.06%) GitLab
3 59 (13.79%) Maven
4 53 (12.38%) Git
5 46 (10.75%) Cypress.io
6 45 (10.51%) SonarQube
7 26 (6.07%) JUnit
8 22 (5.14%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.67%) Gradle
10 17 (3.97%) JIRA
11 15 (3.50%) Mockito
12 12 (2.80%) Selenium
13 5 (1.17%) JMeter
14 3 (0.70%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.70%) Postman
14 3 (0.70%) TestNG
15 2 (0.47%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.47%) ESLint
15 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (21.50%) Finance
2 50 (11.68%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.11%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.14%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.74%) Banking
5 16 (3.74%) Billing
6 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.57%) Advertising
7 11 (2.57%) Front Office
8 9 (2.10%) Games
8 9 (2.10%) Tech for Good
9 8 (1.87%) Health Technology
9 8 (1.87%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.47%) Law
13 2 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (53.97%) Developer
2 185 (43.22%) Java Developer
3 115 (26.87%) Java Engineer
4 113 (26.40%) Senior
5 76 (17.76%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.65%) Senior Developer
7 57 (13.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 53 (12.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 47 (10.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 46 (10.75%) Lead
11 41 (9.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 38 (8.88%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (3.74%) AWS Developer
14 16 (3.74%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.74%) Lead Developer
14 16 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.50%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (3.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (88.79%) Spring
2 134 (31.31%) AngularJS
3 108 (25.23%) React
4 103 (24.07%) REST
5 74 (17.29%) Kafka
6 57 (13.32%) RESTful
7 46 (10.75%) Node.js
8 43 (10.05%) Gherkin
9 42 (9.81%) Jest
10 41 (9.58%) Hibernate
11 34 (7.94%) Web Services
12 31 (7.24%) HTML
13 25 (5.84%) JPA
14 23 (5.37%) Vue
15 22 (5.14%) CSS
16 21 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
18 17 (3.97%) JSON
18 17 (3.97%) OAuth
19 16 (3.74%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 55 (12.85%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.04%) e-Learning
5 13 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.17%) IoT
10 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.70%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.87%) Linux
2 6 (1.40%) Android
2 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.17%) CentOS
3 5 (1.17%) Debian
3 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (49.07%) CI/CD
2 203 (47.43%) Microservices
3 197 (46.03%) Agile
4 175 (40.89%) DevOps
5 140 (32.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 123 (28.74%) Software Engineering
7 107 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 97 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (21.26%) Mentoring
10 72 (16.82%) Test Automation
11 70 (16.36%) TDD
12 69 (16.12%) Scrum
13 64 (14.95%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (13.32%) Clean Code
15 55 (12.85%) Event-Driven
16 54 (12.62%) SDLC
17 53 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (12.38%) Secure Coding
18 51 (11.92%) AI
19 48 (11.21%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 425 (99.30%) Java
2 96 (22.43%) JavaScript
3 78 (18.22%) TypeScript
4 74 (17.29%) SQL
5 64 (14.95%) Python
6 42 (9.81%) Bash
6 42 (9.81%) Groovy
7 25 (5.84%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.64%) Go
9 6 (1.40%) PHP
10 5 (1.17%) C#
11 4 (0.93%) C++
11 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.70%) Ruby
13 2 (0.47%) C
13 2 (0.47%) Delphi
14 1 (0.23%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.21%) AWS Certification
3 40 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.94%) Degree
5 24 (5.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.61%) ITIL Certification
6 17 (3.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.50%) QA
2 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 173 (40.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 150 (35.05%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.21%) Terraform
3 41 (9.58%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.54%) Ansible
5 11 (2.57%) Grafana
6 9 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.87%) Kibana
8 5 (1.17%) Packer
8 5 (1.17%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (4.67%) Oracle
2 11 (2.57%) Google
3 8 (1.87%) Splunk
4 7 (1.64%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.64%) Solace
5 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.40%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.17%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.17%) Peregrine
6 5 (1.17%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.93%) IBM
8 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.70%) Revolut
8 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Pega
9 2 (0.47%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.23%) Okta
10 1 (0.23%) Workday