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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 220 318
Rank change year-on-year -129 +98 -27
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 495 710 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.50% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 8.00% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 306 243 514
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £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 £83,750 £95,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 9,921 8,871 21,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.26% 18.77% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,422 5,861 16,161
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 3 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 3 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 -92 439 £72,500 - 183
UK excluding London -181 258 £67,500 -3.57% 112
London +7 212 £80,000 -3.03% 100
North of England -54 144 £70,000 -17.77% 32
Work from Home -151 129 £70,000 -3.45% 91
North West -60 77 £65,000 -26.69% 13
Yorkshire +12 57 £75,000 -4.83% 13
South West -76 38 £60,000 -12.73% 17
South East -74 33 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Wales -16 28 £70,000 +47.97% 7
Midlands -98 14 £60,000 -6.25% 16
West Midlands -51 13 £62,500 -10.71% 14
North East -43 10 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Scotland -81 8 £65,000 -17.52% 10
East of England -24 3 £62,500 -26.47% 5

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 19 (3.84%) Confluence
2 16 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.82%) Apache
4 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.81%) JBoss
5 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.61%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 284 (57.37%) AWS
2 132 (26.67%) Serverless
3 126 (25.45%) Azure
4 99 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 95 (19.19%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (15.76%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (14.75%) Amazon S3
8 68 (13.74%) GitHub
9 59 (11.92%) GCP
10 51 (10.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 40 (8.08%) Apigee
12 39 (7.88%) Amazon ECR
12 39 (7.88%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (3.43%) OpenShift
16 15 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
17 13 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (2.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.63%) DMARC
2 8 (1.62%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (15.96%) NoSQL
1 79 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (11.52%) DynamoDB
3 46 (9.29%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.26%) MongoDB
5 30 (6.06%) MySQL
6 17 (3.43%) Redis
7 14 (2.83%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.02%) DTS
10 9 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.82%) Db2
11 8 (1.62%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.41%) Big Data
12 7 (1.41%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.21%) 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
1 109 (22.02%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.35%) GitLab
3 62 (12.53%) Git
4 49 (9.90%) Maven
5 37 (7.47%) Cypress.io
6 32 (6.46%) Cucumber
6 32 (6.46%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.26%) JUnit
8 22 (4.44%) JIRA
9 19 (3.84%) Mockito
10 17 (3.43%) Gradle
11 16 (3.23%) Selenium
12 10 (2.02%) JMeter
13 8 (1.62%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.41%) Postman
15 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
16 3 (0.61%) IntelliJ
16 3 (0.61%) Spock
16 3 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (22.83%) Finance
2 75 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.05%) Banking
5 20 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.83%) Advertising
8 12 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.22%) Front Office
9 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.02%) Billing
11 9 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.21%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.01%) Games
13 5 (1.01%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.40%) Law
14 2 (0.40%) Retail
14 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (46.67%) Developer
2 178 (35.96%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.46%) Java Engineer
4 128 (25.86%) Senior
5 88 (17.78%) Software Engineer
6 64 (12.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 64 (12.93%) Senior Developer
7 63 (12.73%) Lead
8 50 (10.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 46 (9.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 46 (9.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 42 (8.48%) Senior Java Engineer
11 32 (6.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 31 (6.26%) Architect
13 30 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
14 26 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (4.65%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 21 (4.24%) Software Developer
18 19 (3.84%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (90.91%) Spring
2 139 (28.08%) AngularJS
3 117 (23.64%) Kafka
4 111 (22.42%) React
5 107 (21.62%) REST
6 87 (17.58%) Node.js
7 84 (16.97%) RESTful
8 48 (9.70%) Hibernate
9 36 (7.27%) JPA
10 35 (7.07%) Jest
11 33 (6.67%) Gherkin
12 31 (6.26%) Vue
13 29 (5.86%) OAuth
14 28 (5.66%) HTML
15 27 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (5.25%) Web Services
17 24 (4.85%) OAuth2
18 19 (3.84%) CSS
19 18 (3.64%) OpenAPI
19 18 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 126 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 74 (14.95%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 23 (4.65%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.63%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.82%) EPoS
10 9 (1.82%) iSeries
11 7 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.61%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.21%) CentOS
2 6 (1.21%) Debian
2 6 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 3 (0.61%) AIX
4 3 (0.61%) Android
4 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (57.78%) CI/CD
2 269 (54.34%) Microservices
3 246 (49.70%) Agile
4 208 (42.02%) DevOps
5 153 (30.91%) Containerisation
5 153 (30.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 153 (30.91%) Software Engineering
6 117 (23.64%) Test Automation
7 116 (23.43%) Mentoring
8 110 (22.22%) Event-Driven
9 100 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
10 84 (16.97%) TDD
11 76 (15.35%) Scrum
12 69 (13.94%) AI
12 69 (13.94%) BDD
13 64 (12.93%) Clean Code
14 62 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (12.53%) SDLC
15 61 (12.32%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 489 (98.79%) Java
2 94 (18.99%) SQL
3 93 (18.79%) Python
4 84 (16.97%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.95%) TypeScript
6 34 (6.87%) Groovy
7 30 (6.06%) Bash
8 28 (5.66%) Kotlin
9 18 (3.64%) Ruby
10 11 (2.22%) C#
11 9 (1.82%) C++
11 9 (1.82%) RPG
12 7 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.01%) Go
14 4 (0.81%) COBOL
14 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 3 (0.61%) PHP
16 2 (0.40%) C
17 1 (0.20%) Natural
Qualifications
1 100 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.13%) AWS Certification
3 62 (12.53%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.28%) Degree
5 32 (6.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 32 (6.46%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.67%) QA
2 15 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.63%) 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
1 196 (39.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 166 (33.54%) Kubernetes
2 77 (15.56%) Terraform
3 36 (7.27%) Ansible
4 29 (5.86%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.63%) Kibana
6 12 (2.42%) Grafana
7 10 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.21%) Puppet
9 5 (1.01%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (4.85%) Oracle
2 20 (4.04%) Splunk
3 14 (2.83%) Google
3 14 (2.83%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.63%) IBM
4 13 (2.63%) SendGrid
5 12 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.62%) OneLogin
6 8 (1.62%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.41%) Solace
8 6 (1.21%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.01%) Peregrine
10 3 (0.61%) Revolut
10 3 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.61%) WSO2
11 2 (0.40%) Pega
11 2 (0.40%) TikTok
12 1 (0.20%) Sitecore