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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 346 222
Rank change year-on-year -25 -124 +7
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 296 438 773
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.79% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.20% 3.66% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 197 231 582
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,047 11,971 13,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 21.55% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,264 7,150 10,689
10th Percentile £35,150 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 +7 283 £71,000 -7.19% 597
UK excluding London -3 171 £65,000 -3.70% 464
London -24 120 £85,000 -5.56% 179
Work from Home +48 111 £65,000 -10.34% 348
North of England +55 73 £70,000 +3.70% 140
Yorkshire +13 38 £75,000 +11.11% 51
South East -4 37 £77,500 +19.23% 122
South West -5 36 £65,000 -3.70% 59
North West +37 32 £65,000 -3.70% 73
Midlands +40 20 £57,500 -11.54% 67
West Midlands +46 15 £57,500 - 38
Scotland -33 7 £77,500 +10.71% 19
North East +17 5 £65,000 +18.18% 17
East Midlands +2 5 £57,500 -11.54% 28
East of England +26 3 £62,500 -10.71% 44
Wales -9 1 £55,200 -18.22% 14

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 18 (6.08%) Apache
2 13 (4.39%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.01%) JBoss
6 2 (0.68%) Camunda
6 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) Liferay
6 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 219 (73.99%) AWS
2 82 (27.70%) Serverless
3 58 (19.59%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (16.89%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (15.54%) Azure
6 45 (15.20%) Amazon S3
7 44 (14.86%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (10.47%) GCP
9 23 (7.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (7.43%) OpenShift
11 21 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (6.76%) Apigee
12 20 (6.76%) SaaS
13 18 (6.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (5.74%) Amazon ECR
14 17 (5.74%) GitHub
15 14 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (1.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) AMQP
2 4 (1.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.34%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (14.53%) Relational Database
3 42 (14.19%) MongoDB
4 33 (11.15%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.42%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.04%) MySQL
6 9 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.35%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.68%) DB2
10 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 81 (27.36%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.24%) Git
3 46 (15.54%) GitLab
4 36 (12.16%) JUnit
5 32 (10.81%) Cypress.io
6 26 (8.78%) Maven
7 21 (7.09%) Mockito
8 19 (6.42%) SonarQube
9 17 (5.74%) JMeter
10 14 (4.73%) Cucumber
11 13 (4.39%) JIRA
12 10 (3.38%) Selenium
13 6 (2.03%) Gradle
14 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.69%) Vite
15 4 (1.35%) Subversion
16 3 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 2 (0.68%) Babel
17 2 (0.68%) TestNG
17 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 70 (23.65%) Finance
2 51 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.47%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.72%) Banking
6 9 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.36%) Billing
9 6 (2.03%) Games
9 6 (2.03%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.35%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.01%) Aviation
11 3 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
11 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 147 (49.66%) Developer
2 110 (37.16%) Java Developer
3 83 (28.04%) Senior
4 69 (23.31%) Software Engineer
5 58 (19.59%) Java Engineer
6 41 (13.85%) Senior Developer
7 36 (12.16%) Lead
8 34 (11.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (11.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (9.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 28 (9.46%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (9.12%) Senior Java Engineer
11 21 (7.09%) Backend Developer
11 21 (7.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.07%) Kafka Engineer
13 14 (4.73%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.73%) Technical Leader
14 13 (4.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 13 (4.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 13 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (91.89%) Spring
2 85 (28.72%) React
3 70 (23.65%) Kafka
4 69 (23.31%) REST
5 57 (19.26%) AngularJS
6 44 (14.86%) Hibernate
7 43 (14.53%) RESTful
8 36 (12.16%) HTML
9 35 (11.82%) Node.js
10 31 (10.47%) Web Services
11 30 (10.14%) ActiveMQ
11 30 (10.14%) Jest
12 23 (7.77%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (6.76%) Apache Camel
14 20 (6.76%) JSON
15 19 (6.42%) XML
16 17 (5.74%) CSS
16 17 (5.74%) Gherkin
17 16 (5.41%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 85 (28.72%) Cloud Native
2 57 (19.26%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.35%) IoT
8 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Replication
10 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.34%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.04%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) CentOS
2 3 (1.01%) Debian
2 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.68%) Android
3 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (58.11%) Agile
2 171 (57.77%) Microservices
3 157 (53.04%) CI/CD
4 124 (41.89%) DevOps
5 108 (36.49%) Software Engineering
6 95 (32.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 77 (26.01%) TDD
8 73 (24.66%) Containerisation
9 60 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (19.59%) Scrum
11 55 (18.58%) BDD
11 55 (18.58%) Mentoring
12 48 (16.22%) Event-Driven
13 43 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (14.53%) SDLC
14 42 (14.19%) Fintech
15 39 (13.18%) Collaborative Culture
16 37 (12.50%) Code Quality
17 36 (12.16%) User Experience
18 31 (10.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 294 (99.32%) Java
2 96 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 64 (21.62%) Python
4 62 (20.95%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.16%) SQL
6 19 (6.42%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.74%) Bash
8 16 (5.41%) Groovy
9 14 (4.73%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.04%) Go
11 8 (2.70%) Delphi
12 6 (2.03%) C#
13 3 (1.01%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) R
14 2 (0.68%) Ruby
14 2 (0.68%) Scala
15 1 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 52 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.09%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.09%) Degree
4 15 (5.07%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.09%) QA
2 8 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.36%) NCSC
4 6 (2.03%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 141 (47.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (51.69%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.09%) Kibana
3 17 (5.74%) Ansible
3 17 (5.74%) HP Fortify
4 16 (5.41%) Terraform
5 14 (4.73%) Grafana
6 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Puppet
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (7.43%) Oracle
2 20 (6.76%) Splunk
3 15 (5.07%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.72%) Google
5 8 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.35%) Pega
6 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.35%) Solace
6 4 (1.35%) WSO2
7 3 (1.01%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.01%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Moogsoft