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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 284 262
Rank change year-on-year -71 -22 +5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 423 465 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.08% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 5.52% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 234 262 581
10th Percentile £51,595 £44,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £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 £82,500 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,398 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,400 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +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 8,731 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 6,348 15,703
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 £79,500
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 4 May 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 4 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 -34 393 £70,000 -9.68% 136
UK excluding London -107 220 £68,400 -5.66% 104
London +5 173 £75,000 -9.09% 64
Work from Home -68 133 £72,500 -8.01% 77
North of England -17 131 £72,500 -14.83% 31
Yorkshire -9 70 £76,250 -3.25% 4
North West -33 53 £66,250 -25.28% 20
South West -51 43 £62,500 -3.85% 17
South East -67 33 £80,000 +18.52% 25
Midlands -60 16 £45,000 -5.26% 6
West Midlands -11 14 £45,000 -23.40% 3
North East -32 8 £50,100 -8.91% 7
Wales -27 5 £51,619 +21.40% 7
Scotland -76 4 £65,000 -18.75% 10
East of England -18 1 £62,500 -24.24% 8
East Midlands -72 1 £55,200 +16.21% 3

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 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.07%) Apache
3 12 (2.84%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.18%) JBoss
6 4 (0.95%) Confluence
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.71%) Liferay
8 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 249 (58.87%) AWS
2 110 (26.00%) Serverless
3 78 (18.44%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (17.49%) Amazon ECS
4 74 (17.49%) Amazon S3
5 73 (17.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (14.89%) Azure
7 53 (12.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (12.06%) Apigee
9 48 (11.35%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (9.46%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (8.75%) GCP
12 29 (6.86%) OpenShift
13 25 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (5.67%) GitHub
15 16 (3.78%) SaaS
16 13 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.18%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.13%) AMQP
2 5 (1.18%) Internet
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.37%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (15.13%) NoSQL
3 55 (13.00%) DynamoDB
4 44 (10.40%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.73%) MySQL
7 16 (3.78%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.13%) Redis
11 6 (1.42%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.18%) Big Data
12 5 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.95%) Flink
13 4 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.71%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 104 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 75 (17.73%) GitLab
3 59 (13.95%) Git
4 57 (13.48%) Maven
5 45 (10.64%) Cypress.io
5 45 (10.64%) SonarQube
6 31 (7.33%) JUnit
7 26 (6.15%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.73%) Gradle
9 18 (4.26%) Selenium
10 16 (3.78%) JIRA
11 14 (3.31%) Mockito
12 4 (0.95%) JMeter
13 3 (0.71%) Postman
13 3 (0.71%) TestNG
14 2 (0.47%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.47%) ESLint
14 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 89 (21.04%) Finance
2 52 (12.29%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.20%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.78%) Billing
6 15 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.31%) Banking
7 14 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.60%) Advertising
8 11 (2.60%) Front Office
9 9 (2.13%) Games
9 9 (2.13%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.89%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.47%) Law
15 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 232 (54.85%) Developer
2 183 (43.26%) Java Developer
3 118 (27.90%) Senior
4 111 (26.24%) Java Engineer
5 74 (17.49%) Software Engineer
6 73 (17.26%) Senior Developer
7 57 (13.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 49 (11.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 45 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
9 45 (10.64%) Lead
10 37 (8.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 37 (8.75%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 21 (4.96%) Software Developer
13 16 (3.78%) AWS Developer
14 15 (3.55%) Backend Developer
14 15 (3.55%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.55%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (3.31%) Lead Java Developer
16 13 (3.07%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (88.65%) Spring
2 132 (31.21%) AngularJS
3 107 (25.30%) React
4 97 (22.93%) REST
5 72 (17.02%) Kafka
6 56 (13.24%) RESTful
7 44 (10.40%) Node.js
8 42 (9.93%) Gherkin
8 42 (9.93%) Jest
9 38 (8.98%) Hibernate
10 32 (7.57%) Web Services
11 30 (7.09%) HTML
12 27 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (6.15%) JPA
14 23 (5.44%) Vue
15 22 (5.20%) CSS
16 21 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (4.02%) Spring MVC
18 16 (3.78%) JSON
19 15 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 73 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 52 (12.29%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.84%) e-Learning
6 12 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.18%) IoT
10 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.71%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.71%) 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 (1.89%) Linux
2 6 (1.42%) Android
2 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.18%) CentOS
3 5 (1.18%) Debian
3 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 200 (47.28%) Microservices
3 195 (46.10%) Agile
4 179 (42.32%) DevOps
5 133 (31.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 125 (29.55%) Software Engineering
7 109 (25.77%) Containerisation
8 94 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 75 (17.73%) TDD
9 75 (17.73%) Test Automation
10 69 (16.31%) Scrum
11 63 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (13.95%) Event-Driven
13 58 (13.71%) Secure Coding
14 56 (13.24%) Clean Code
15 55 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (12.77%) SDLC
17 53 (12.53%) BDD
18 48 (11.35%) AI
Programming Languages
1 421 (99.53%) Java
2 95 (22.46%) JavaScript
3 74 (17.49%) SQL
3 74 (17.49%) TypeScript
4 66 (15.60%) Python
5 42 (9.93%) Bash
6 41 (9.69%) Groovy
7 25 (5.91%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.89%) Delphi
9 7 (1.65%) Go
10 6 (1.42%) PHP
11 5 (1.18%) C#
12 4 (0.95%) C++
12 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.71%) Ruby
13 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.47%) C
15 1 (0.24%) Korn
15 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 39 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.80%) Degree
5 24 (5.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.67%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 16 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.78%) QA
2 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (41.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 154 (36.41%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.35%) Terraform
3 41 (9.69%) HP Fortify
4 27 (6.38%) Ansible
5 17 (4.02%) Grafana
6 9 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.65%) Kibana
8 5 (1.18%) Packer
8 5 (1.18%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (5.67%) Oracle
2 11 (2.60%) Google
3 7 (1.65%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.65%) Solace
4 6 (1.42%) Splunk
5 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.18%) Peregrine
5 5 (1.18%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.95%) IBM
7 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.71%) Revolut
7 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.47%) Pega
8 2 (0.47%) WSO2
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.24%) Okta