Spring Boot Job Trends

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 325 251
Rank change year-on-year -40 -74 +4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 382 369 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.86% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.74% 3.93% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 229 239 650
10th Percentile £52,320 £45,794 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -7.22%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -3.70%

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 8,067 9,381 19,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 21.93% 22.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,900 6,642 15,146
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 18 March 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 March 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 +6 358 £70,000 -15.15% 124
UK excluding London -37 206 £67,500 -10.00% 98
London -19 153 £75,000 -14.29% 45
Work from Home +10 133 £70,000 -17.89% 73
North of England +9 104 £70,000 -17.89% 49
Yorkshire -6 56 £75,000 +1.69% 11
South West -26 46 £65,000 -15.03% 13
North West +3 44 £67,500 -23.87% 24
South East -33 36 £75,000 +20.00% 17
Midlands -11 14 £45,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands +8 11 £45,000 -35.71% 4
Scotland -48 7 £77,500 -3.13% 5
North East -20 4 £31,850 -42.09% 14
East of England -17 2 £62,500 -21.88% 4
Wales -18 2 £50,100 +17.83% 5
East Midlands -37 2 £47,600 +0.21% 2

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 (4.45%) Apache
2 14 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) JBoss
5 3 (0.79%) Liferay
6 2 (0.52%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 238 (62.30%) AWS
2 99 (25.92%) Serverless
3 66 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
5 62 (16.23%) Azure
6 61 (15.97%) Amazon S3
7 51 (13.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (10.99%) GCP
9 38 (9.95%) Apigee
9 38 (9.95%) AWS Step Functions
10 37 (9.69%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (8.90%) Amazon ECR
13 29 (7.59%) OpenShift
14 27 (7.07%) GitHub
15 21 (5.50%) SaaS
16 17 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (2.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.36%) AMQP
2 5 (1.31%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (20.94%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (14.14%) NoSQL
3 49 (12.83%) Relational Database
4 40 (10.47%) DynamoDB
5 29 (7.59%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.50%) RDBMS
7 18 (4.71%) MySQL
8 13 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.57%) Big Data
10 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.05%) Redis
13 3 (0.79%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.52%) DB2
14 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
15 1 (0.26%) DTS
15 1 (0.26%) Flink
15 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 97 (25.39%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.49%) GitLab
3 55 (14.40%) Git
4 45 (11.78%) Maven
5 42 (10.99%) Cypress.io
6 36 (9.42%) SonarQube
7 33 (8.64%) JUnit
8 22 (5.76%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.45%) Gradle
9 17 (4.45%) Mockito
10 14 (3.66%) Selenium
11 12 (3.14%) JIRA
12 8 (2.09%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 80 (20.94%) Finance
2 55 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.02%) Telecoms
5 21 (5.50%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.45%) Billing
7 15 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.62%) Health Technology
8 10 (2.62%) Tech for Good
9 9 (2.36%) Front Office
9 9 (2.36%) Games
10 7 (1.83%) Advertising
11 6 (1.57%) Banking
12 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Marketing
15 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 206 (53.93%) Developer
2 165 (43.19%) Java Developer
3 109 (28.53%) Senior
4 78 (20.42%) Java Engineer
5 76 (19.90%) Software Engineer
6 64 (16.75%) Senior Developer
7 53 (13.87%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (11.52%) Lead
9 34 (8.90%) Java Software Engineer
9 34 (8.90%) Senior Java Engineer
10 31 (8.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (7.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (4.71%) Backend Developer
12 18 (4.71%) Software Developer
13 17 (4.45%) Lead Developer
14 16 (4.19%) Lead Java Developer
15 13 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
16 12 (3.14%) Senior Software Developer
16 12 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (89.27%) Spring
2 92 (24.08%) AngularJS
2 92 (24.08%) React
3 84 (21.99%) REST
4 68 (17.80%) Kafka
5 50 (13.09%) Node.js
6 49 (12.83%) RESTful
7 47 (12.30%) Hibernate
8 38 (9.95%) Jest
9 33 (8.64%) Gherkin
10 29 (7.59%) Web Services
11 28 (7.33%) HTML
12 26 (6.81%) JPA
13 25 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (4.97%) JSON
16 17 (4.45%) CSS
16 17 (4.45%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.19%) XML
18 15 (3.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.51%) Cloud Native
2 52 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.31%) IoT
11 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.57%) Android
2 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.31%) CentOS
3 5 (1.31%) Debian
3 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (53.40%) CI/CD
2 196 (51.31%) Agile
2 196 (51.31%) Microservices
3 177 (46.34%) DevOps
4 125 (32.72%) Software Engineering
5 122 (31.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 111 (29.06%) Containerisation
7 91 (23.82%) Mentoring
8 85 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (18.59%) TDD
10 66 (17.28%) Scrum
11 65 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 59 (15.45%) Event-Driven
13 58 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
14 49 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (12.83%) SDLC
15 46 (12.04%) AI
15 46 (12.04%) BDD
16 39 (10.21%) Code Quality
17 38 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 379 (99.21%) Java
2 93 (24.35%) JavaScript
3 70 (18.32%) TypeScript
4 69 (18.06%) Python
5 58 (15.18%) SQL
6 34 (8.90%) Bash
7 32 (8.38%) Groovy
8 24 (6.28%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.62%) Go
10 8 (2.09%) Delphi
11 6 (1.57%) PHP
11 6 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.31%) C#
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.90%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.07%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.54%) Degree
5 21 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (4.45%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.45%) QA
2 7 (1.83%) NCSC
3 6 (1.57%) NIST
4 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (45.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 171 (44.76%) Kubernetes
2 39 (10.21%) Terraform
3 33 (8.64%) HP Fortify
4 23 (6.02%) Ansible
5 21 (5.50%) Grafana
6 11 (2.88%) Kibana
6 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (6.28%) Oracle
2 13 (3.40%) Google
3 11 (2.88%) Splunk
4 7 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.83%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.83%) Solace
5 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.31%) Pega
5 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.31%) WSO2
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.79%) Revolut
6 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.26%) Okta
7 1 (0.26%) SAP