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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 225 318
Rank change year-on-year -134 +93 -23
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 544 706 746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.43% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 8.07% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 351 239 410
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,300
25th Percentile £61,407 £57,000 £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 £112,796 £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 10,435 8,750 17,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 17.75% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 5,757 12,636
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,250 £36,767
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £113,750 £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 28 July 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 28 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 -97 474 £75,000 +3.45% 185
UK excluding London -167 292 £70,000 - 127
London +5 232 £80,000 -3.03% 99
North of England -48 148 £70,000 -11.18% 38
Work from Home -176 129 £70,000 - 98
North West -46 85 £65,000 -26.69% 20
Yorkshire +6 53 £75,000 - 8
South West -56 46 £67,500 -1.82% 16
Wales -18 43 £70,000 +12.00% 5
South East -57 32 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Midlands -107 19 £57,500 -9.09% 20
West Midlands -41 18 £56,250 -19.64% 16
Scotland -76 11 £65,000 -16.13% 17
North East -43 10 £50,000 -23.08% 10
East of England -28 3 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 14 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.47%) Camunda
4 7 (1.29%) Apache
4 7 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.74%) JBoss
5 4 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.37%) 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 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 320 (58.82%) AWS
2 146 (26.84%) Azure
3 138 (25.37%) Serverless
4 109 (20.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 85 (15.63%) GitHub
7 81 (14.89%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (13.97%) Amazon S3
9 69 (12.68%) GCP
10 49 (9.01%) AWS Step Functions
11 43 (7.90%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (6.43%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (6.43%) Apigee
13 30 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.76%) OpenShift
17 13 (2.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) DMARC
2 8 (1.47%) AMQP
3 3 (0.55%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (16.91%) NoSQL
2 90 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (10.48%) DynamoDB
4 51 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.90%) MongoDB
6 40 (7.35%) MySQL
7 20 (3.68%) Redis
8 12 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.21%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.02%) Db2
9 11 (2.02%) DTS
9 11 (2.02%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.92%) Big Data
11 5 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.74%) Flink
13 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (22.24%) Jenkins
2 82 (15.07%) GitLab
3 69 (12.68%) Git
4 41 (7.54%) Maven
5 38 (6.99%) Cucumber
6 37 (6.80%) JUnit
7 36 (6.62%) Cypress.io
8 28 (5.15%) SonarQube
9 23 (4.23%) JIRA
10 22 (4.04%) Mockito
11 21 (3.86%) Selenium
12 13 (2.39%) Gradle
13 10 (1.84%) JMeter
14 8 (1.47%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.29%) Postman
16 6 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
18 3 (0.55%) Spock
General
1 125 (22.98%) Finance
2 89 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 86 (15.81%) Public Sector
4 39 (7.17%) Banking
5 26 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.49%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.76%) Front Office
7 15 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.57%) Advertising
9 12 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.29%) Billing
10 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.10%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.92%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.92%) Retail
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.55%) Games
15 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 234 (43.01%) Developer
2 175 (32.17%) Java Developer
3 142 (26.10%) Senior
4 140 (25.74%) Java Engineer
5 90 (16.54%) Software Engineer
6 81 (14.89%) Lead
7 68 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (11.76%) Senior Developer
9 53 (9.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.46%) Senior Java Engineer
12 41 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
12 41 (7.54%) Principal Engineer
13 36 (6.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (5.70%) Architect
15 30 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
16 28 (5.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 28 (5.15%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (4.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 497 (91.36%) Spring
2 147 (27.02%) Kafka
3 132 (24.26%) AngularJS
4 115 (21.14%) React
5 113 (20.77%) REST
6 96 (17.65%) Node.js
7 91 (16.73%) RESTful
8 56 (10.29%) Hibernate
9 49 (9.01%) JPA
10 35 (6.43%) Jest
10 35 (6.43%) OAuth
11 32 (5.88%) HTML
11 32 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
12 31 (5.70%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.33%) Gherkin
14 28 (5.15%) Vue
15 27 (4.96%) Ruby on Rails
16 25 (4.60%) Web Services
17 23 (4.23%) CSS
18 17 (3.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 153 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 101 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.09%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (5.70%) Public Cloud
6 29 (5.33%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.41%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.04%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.84%) EPoS
9 10 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.84%) iSeries
10 7 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.29%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.74%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.74%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.84%) Linux
2 5 (0.92%) AIX
2 5 (0.92%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) CentOS
3 4 (0.74%) Debian
3 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (63.24%) CI/CD
2 307 (56.43%) Microservices
3 274 (50.37%) Agile
4 238 (43.75%) DevOps
5 177 (32.54%) Containerisation
6 163 (29.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 163 (29.96%) Software Engineering
7 138 (25.37%) Event-Driven
7 138 (25.37%) Test Automation
8 134 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 128 (23.53%) Mentoring
10 104 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (16.54%) TDD
12 85 (15.63%) AI
13 81 (14.89%) Scrum
14 77 (14.15%) BDD
15 74 (13.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 74 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (12.32%) Architectural Patterns
17 65 (11.95%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 538 (98.90%) Java
2 129 (23.71%) Python
3 113 (20.77%) SQL
4 87 (15.99%) JavaScript
5 82 (15.07%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.51%) Groovy
7 29 (5.33%) Kotlin
8 27 (4.96%) Ruby
9 26 (4.78%) Bash
10 16 (2.94%) C#
11 10 (1.84%) C++
11 10 (1.84%) RPG
12 8 (1.47%) COBOL
13 7 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.92%) Go
15 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.74%) Scala
16 2 (0.37%) C
16 2 (0.37%) JCL
16 2 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 112 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.87%) AWS Certification
3 65 (11.95%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.90%) DV Cleared
5 42 (7.72%) Degree
6 40 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (3.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 20 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.74%) 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 43 (7.90%) QA
2 24 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.68%) WCAG
4 7 (1.29%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.10%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.10%) NCSC
6 5 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 224 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 195 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 103 (18.93%) Terraform
3 49 (9.01%) Ansible
4 25 (4.60%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.76%) Grafana
6 13 (2.39%) Kibana
6 13 (2.39%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.92%) Packer
8 4 (0.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.60%) Oracle
2 23 (4.23%) Splunk
3 19 (3.49%) Google
4 16 (2.94%) IBM
4 16 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.39%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.21%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.10%) Solace
8 5 (0.92%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.92%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.74%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.55%) WSO2
11 2 (0.37%) Pega
11 2 (0.37%) Revolut
11 2 (0.37%) TikTok
12 1 (0.18%) Workday