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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 225 306
Rank change year-on-year -127 +81 -21
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 495 703 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.55% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.07% 8.04% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 301 236 526
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,688 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,240 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% -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 9,764 8,745 21,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 19.29% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,303 5,754 16,441
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -98 442 £72,500 -3.33% 108
UK excluding London -187 251 £67,500 -6.90% 88
London -2 220 £77,500 -6.06% 46
North of England -59 142 £68,750 -22.46% 30
Work from Home -152 135 £70,000 -6.67% 48
North West -58 74 £65,000 -26.69% 12
Yorkshire +15 59 £75,000 -4.83% 13
South East -73 37 £70,000 - 15
South West -71 35 £60,000 -12.73% 19
Wales -24 25 £70,000 +47.97% 5
Midlands -93 14 £60,000 -7.69% 6
West Midlands -45 13 £62,500 -10.71% 5
North East -42 9 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -83 7 £65,000 -18.14% 9
East of England -26 3 £62,500 -26.47% 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 17 (3.43%) Confluence
2 15 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.82%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.21%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.01%) JBoss
7 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Liferay
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 282 (56.97%) AWS
2 131 (26.46%) Serverless
3 119 (24.04%) Azure
4 94 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (18.79%) AWS Lambda
6 79 (15.96%) Amazon ECS
7 75 (15.15%) Amazon S3
8 67 (13.54%) GitHub
9 57 (11.52%) GCP
10 51 (10.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 42 (8.48%) Apigee
12 41 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (7.88%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (3.43%) SaaS
17 16 (3.23%) OpenShift
18 14 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.63%) DMARC
2 8 (1.62%) AMQP
3 2 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.96%) NoSQL
2 77 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (11.31%) DynamoDB
4 47 (9.49%) Relational Database
5 29 (5.86%) MongoDB
6 28 (5.66%) MySQL
7 16 (3.23%) Redis
8 14 (2.83%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.62%) DTS
11 8 (1.62%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.41%) Db2
13 6 (1.21%) Big Data
13 6 (1.21%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.81%) Flink
16 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 111 (22.42%) Jenkins
2 77 (15.56%) GitLab
3 65 (13.13%) Git
4 50 (10.10%) Maven
5 38 (7.68%) Cypress.io
6 33 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.26%) Cucumber
7 31 (6.26%) JUnit
8 23 (4.65%) JIRA
9 19 (3.84%) Mockito
10 18 (3.64%) Gradle
11 16 (3.23%) Selenium
12 10 (2.02%) JMeter
13 9 (1.82%) Postman
14 8 (1.62%) Claude Code
15 4 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
16 3 (0.61%) Spock
16 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (22.22%) Finance
2 78 (15.76%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.05%) Banking
5 20 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.43%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.83%) Advertising
9 11 (2.22%) Billing
9 11 (2.22%) Front Office
9 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.82%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.62%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.41%) Games
13 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Law
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (47.68%) Developer
2 183 (36.97%) Java Developer
3 134 (27.07%) Java Engineer
4 133 (26.87%) Senior
5 87 (17.58%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 65 (13.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 61 (12.32%) Lead
9 52 (10.51%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (9.70%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (9.29%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 34 (6.87%) Architect
14 32 (6.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 28 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
17 22 (4.44%) Principal Java Engineer
18 21 (4.24%) Software Developer
19 20 (4.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 20 (4.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (90.91%) Spring
2 137 (27.68%) AngularJS
3 116 (23.43%) React
4 112 (22.63%) Kafka
5 107 (21.62%) REST
6 86 (17.37%) Node.js
7 84 (16.97%) RESTful
8 47 (9.49%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.07%) Jest
10 33 (6.67%) Gherkin
11 32 (6.46%) JPA
12 31 (6.26%) HTML
12 31 (6.26%) OAuth
12 31 (6.26%) Vue
13 30 (6.06%) Web Services
14 27 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (5.05%) OAuth2
16 22 (4.44%) CSS
17 18 (3.64%) OpenAPI
18 17 (3.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 122 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 72 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.44%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.42%) Mainframe
8 12 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.41%) EPoS
10 7 (1.41%) iSeries
11 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.61%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.02%) Linux
2 6 (1.21%) Android
2 6 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.01%) CentOS
3 5 (1.01%) Debian
3 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 3 (0.61%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (56.36%) CI/CD
2 268 (54.14%) Microservices
3 237 (47.88%) Agile
4 204 (41.21%) DevOps
5 156 (31.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 150 (30.30%) Software Engineering
7 147 (29.70%) Containerisation
8 121 (24.44%) Mentoring
9 113 (22.83%) Test Automation
10 104 (21.01%) Event-Driven
11 102 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 83 (16.77%) TDD
14 75 (15.15%) Scrum
15 69 (13.94%) BDD
16 68 (13.74%) AI
17 63 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
17 63 (12.73%) SDLC
18 62 (12.53%) Clean Code
19 56 (11.31%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 489 (98.79%) Java
2 95 (19.19%) SQL
3 85 (17.17%) JavaScript
4 82 (16.57%) Python
5 75 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.87%) Groovy
7 31 (6.26%) Bash
7 31 (6.26%) Kotlin
8 17 (3.43%) Ruby
9 11 (2.22%) C#
10 9 (1.82%) C++
11 7 (1.41%) RPG
11 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.21%) PHP
13 5 (1.01%) Go
14 4 (0.81%) COBOL
14 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 2 (0.40%) C
16 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 91 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.73%) AWS Certification
3 58 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.08%) Degree
5 31 (6.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.25%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.06%) QA
2 14 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.42%) WCAG
4 7 (1.41%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 195 (39.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 163 (32.93%) Kubernetes
2 72 (14.55%) Terraform
3 33 (6.67%) Ansible
4 29 (5.86%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.63%) Grafana
5 13 (2.63%) Kibana
6 11 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.01%) Packer
7 5 (1.01%) Puppet
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.05%) Oracle
2 20 (4.04%) Splunk
3 14 (2.83%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.63%) Google
4 13 (2.63%) SendGrid
5 12 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.22%) IBM
7 8 (1.62%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.41%) Solace
9 6 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.01%) Peregrine
10 5 (1.01%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.61%) Revolut
11 3 (0.61%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.61%) WSO2
12 2 (0.40%) Pega
12 2 (0.40%) TikTok
13 1 (0.20%) Okta