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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 229 323
Rank change year-on-year -130 +94 -31
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 549 702 730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.42% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 8.05% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 357 235 397
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,283
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,388 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10,498 8,722 16,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.26% 17.68% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,773 5,725 12,373
10th Percentile £40,800 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,888 £105,000
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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -115 476 £75,000 +3.45% 198
UK excluding London -170 296 £70,000 - 128
London +15 233 £80,000 -3.03% 110
North of England -53 148 £70,000 -11.18% 40
Work from Home -177 129 £70,000 -1.75% 103
North West -47 86 £65,000 -26.69% 22
Yorkshire +15 53 £75,000 - 9
South West -60 47 £67,750 -6.55% 15
Wales -18 43 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South East -76 33 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Midlands -105 20 £57,500 -9.09% 20
West Midlands -49 19 £56,250 -19.64% 17
Scotland -78 12 £65,000 -16.13% 17
North East -49 9 £50,000 -23.08% 9
East of England -42 2 £58,750 -30.88% 1
Northern Ireland -80 1 £60,000 +9.09% 6

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 22 (4.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.46%) Apache
4 8 (1.46%) Camunda
5 4 (0.73%) JBoss
5 4 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) CICS
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 321 (58.47%) AWS
2 151 (27.50%) Azure
3 135 (24.59%) Serverless
4 108 (19.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (15.66%) GitHub
7 81 (14.75%) Amazon ECS
8 74 (13.48%) Amazon S3
9 73 (13.30%) GCP
10 48 (8.74%) AWS Step Functions
11 45 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (6.38%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (6.19%) Amazon ECR
13 34 (6.19%) Apigee
14 30 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.73%) OpenShift
19 13 (2.37%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.37%) DMARC
2 8 (1.46%) AMQP
3 4 (0.73%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (16.21%) NoSQL
3 56 (10.20%) DynamoDB
4 53 (9.65%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.83%) MongoDB
6 40 (7.29%) MySQL
7 20 (3.64%) Redis
8 12 (2.19%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.00%) Db2
9 11 (2.00%) DTS
9 11 (2.00%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.91%) Big Data
11 5 (0.91%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.73%) Flink
12 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 123 (22.40%) Jenkins
2 82 (14.94%) GitLab
3 71 (12.93%) Git
4 41 (7.47%) Maven
5 38 (6.92%) Cucumber
5 38 (6.92%) JUnit
6 35 (6.38%) Cypress.io
7 27 (4.92%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.19%) JIRA
8 23 (4.19%) Mockito
9 21 (3.83%) Selenium
10 12 (2.19%) Gradle
11 10 (1.82%) JMeter
12 8 (1.46%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.28%) Postman
14 6 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.09%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.73%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.73%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 127 (23.13%) Finance
2 92 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 86 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.10%) Banking
5 28 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.55%) Advertising
8 14 (2.55%) Front Office
9 12 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.46%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.28%) Billing
11 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.91%) Retail
13 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Games
15 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (42.81%) Developer
2 175 (31.88%) Java Developer
3 143 (26.05%) Senior
4 141 (25.68%) Java Engineer
5 92 (16.76%) Software Engineer
6 82 (14.94%) Lead
7 68 (12.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (11.84%) Senior Developer
9 54 (9.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.74%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (7.65%) Java Software Engineer
12 42 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
13 35 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (5.46%) Architect
15 30 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (5.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 28 (5.10%) Principal Java Engineer
18 23 (4.19%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 503 (91.62%) Spring
2 148 (26.96%) Kafka
3 131 (23.86%) AngularJS
4 115 (20.95%) React
5 112 (20.40%) REST
6 96 (17.49%) Node.js
7 92 (16.76%) RESTful
8 58 (10.56%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.11%) JPA
10 36 (6.56%) OAuth
11 34 (6.19%) Jest
12 33 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
13 32 (5.83%) HTML
13 32 (5.83%) OAuth2
14 28 (5.10%) Gherkin
14 28 (5.10%) Vue
15 27 (4.92%) Ruby on Rails
16 25 (4.55%) Web Services
17 23 (4.19%) CSS
18 17 (3.10%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 155 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 103 (18.76%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (5.65%) Public Cloud
6 29 (5.28%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.37%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.19%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.82%) EPoS
9 10 (1.82%) iSeries
10 9 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.73%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.00%) Linux
2 5 (0.91%) AIX
2 5 (0.91%) Windows
3 4 (0.73%) CentOS
3 4 (0.73%) Debian
3 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (62.66%) CI/CD
2 308 (56.10%) Microservices
3 272 (49.54%) Agile
4 238 (43.35%) DevOps
5 179 (32.60%) Containerisation
6 165 (30.05%) Software Engineering
7 164 (29.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 139 (25.32%) Event-Driven
9 138 (25.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 136 (24.77%) Test Automation
11 131 (23.86%) Mentoring
12 102 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (16.39%) TDD
14 86 (15.66%) AI
15 80 (14.57%) Scrum
16 78 (14.21%) BDD
17 76 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
18 75 (13.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 67 (12.20%) Architectural Patterns
20 65 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 544 (99.09%) Java
2 131 (23.86%) Python
3 111 (20.22%) SQL
4 87 (15.85%) JavaScript
5 82 (14.94%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.65%) Kotlin
7 29 (5.28%) Groovy
8 27 (4.92%) Ruby
9 25 (4.55%) Bash
10 17 (3.10%) C#
11 10 (1.82%) C++
11 10 (1.82%) RPG
12 9 (1.64%) COBOL
13 7 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.91%) Go
15 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.73%) Scala
16 3 (0.55%) JCL
17 2 (0.36%) C
17 2 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 111 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.75%) AWS Certification
3 63 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 44 (8.01%) DV Cleared
5 41 (7.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 41 (7.47%) Degree
6 19 (3.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 19 (3.46%) ITIL Certification
7 18 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
12 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.01%) QA
2 24 (4.37%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.64%) WCAG
4 7 (1.28%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.09%) NCSC
6 5 (0.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 226 (41.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 196 (35.70%) Kubernetes
2 108 (19.67%) Terraform
3 52 (9.47%) Ansible
4 24 (4.37%) HP Fortify
5 16 (2.91%) Grafana
6 14 (2.55%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.37%) Kibana
8 5 (0.91%) Packer
9 4 (0.73%) Puppet
10 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.18%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (4.37%) Oracle
1 24 (4.37%) Splunk
2 20 (3.64%) Google
3 17 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.91%) IBM
5 13 (2.37%) Dynatrace
5 13 (2.37%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.19%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.19%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.91%) AppDynamics
7 5 (0.91%) Peregrine
7 5 (0.91%) Solace
8 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.73%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.55%) WSO2
10 2 (0.36%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.36%) Pega
10 2 (0.36%) Revolut
10 2 (0.36%) TikTok