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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 209 305
Rank change year-on-year -142 +96 -22
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 473 707 973
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.60% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.99% 8.09% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 280 240 534
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,950 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £84,063 £95,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% -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 9,475 8,737 21,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 19.74% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,044 5,718 16,250
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,150 £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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -98 431 £72,500 - 131
UK excluding London -186 235 £67,500 -6.90% 90
London +12 214 £77,500 -6.06% 63
North of England -55 138 £70,000 -17.89% 28
Work from Home -149 130 £70,000 -3.45% 80
North West -39 72 £65,000 -26.69% 13
Yorkshire +5 58 £75,000 -4.83% 11
South East -69 35 £72,500 +3.57% 19
South West -77 34 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Wales -26 17 £60,810 +28.54% 3
Midlands -88 16 £51,250 -21.15% 3
West Midlands -48 15 £45,000 -36.84% 2
North East -36 8 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Scotland -87 5 £65,000 -18.75% 10
East of England -31 2 £67,500 -20.59% 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 15 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.54%) Confluence
3 9 (1.90%) Apache
4 7 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.06%) JBoss
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.42%) Liferay
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (54.76%) AWS
2 121 (25.58%) Serverless
3 93 (19.66%) Azure
4 86 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (16.07%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (14.80%) Amazon S3
8 50 (10.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 49 (10.36%) GitHub
10 43 (9.09%) GCP
11 42 (8.88%) Apigee
12 39 (8.25%) Amazon ECR
13 38 (8.03%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.59%) OpenShift
16 17 (3.59%) SaaS
17 13 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 11 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.90%) DMARC
2 8 (1.69%) AMQP
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.86%) NoSQL
2 70 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (11.21%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.92%) MongoDB
6 23 (4.86%) MySQL
7 15 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 15 (3.17%) Redis
8 9 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.27%) Big Data
10 6 (1.27%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.27%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.06%) DTS
11 5 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.85%) Db2
12 4 (0.85%) Flink
13 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 102 (21.56%) Jenkins
2 73 (15.43%) GitLab
3 59 (12.47%) Git
4 51 (10.78%) Maven
5 38 (8.03%) Cypress.io
6 33 (6.98%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.34%) JUnit
8 29 (6.13%) Cucumber
9 22 (4.65%) JIRA
10 20 (4.23%) Gradle
10 20 (4.23%) Mockito
11 13 (2.75%) Selenium
12 10 (2.11%) JMeter
13 7 (1.48%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.27%) Postman
15 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.63%) Spock
16 2 (0.42%) Checkstyle
16 2 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 109 (23.04%) Finance
2 69 (14.59%) Social Skills
3 57 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.86%) Banking
5 19 (4.02%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.59%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.17%) Advertising
7 15 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.75%) Billing
9 12 (2.54%) Front Office
10 9 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.90%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.69%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.48%) Games
13 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 229 (48.41%) Developer
2 180 (38.05%) Java Developer
3 131 (27.70%) Java Engineer
4 130 (27.48%) Senior
5 85 (17.97%) Software Engineer
6 65 (13.74%) Senior Developer
7 56 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (11.42%) Lead
9 52 (10.99%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (10.15%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (9.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 46 (9.73%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (5.92%) Architect
14 27 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
15 26 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 21 (4.44%) Principal Java Engineer
16 21 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 21 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 430 (90.91%) Spring
2 134 (28.33%) AngularJS
3 114 (24.10%) React
4 106 (22.41%) REST
5 100 (21.14%) Kafka
6 70 (14.80%) Node.js
7 69 (14.59%) RESTful
8 40 (8.46%) Hibernate
9 34 (7.19%) Jest
10 33 (6.98%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.55%) HTML
11 31 (6.55%) Web Services
12 27 (5.71%) OAuth
12 27 (5.71%) Vue
13 26 (5.50%) JPA
14 23 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (4.44%) CSS
15 21 (4.44%) OAuth2
16 17 (3.59%) Spring MVC
17 16 (3.38%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 106 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 68 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (4.86%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.44%) e-Learning
5 14 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.85%) EPoS
10 4 (0.85%) iSeries
11 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.63%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.63%) IoT
11 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.63%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.63%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.27%) Android
2 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.06%) CentOS
3 5 (1.06%) Debian
3 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.85%) Windows
5 2 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.85%) CI/CD
2 248 (52.43%) Microservices
3 221 (46.72%) Agile
4 184 (38.90%) DevOps
5 149 (31.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 137 (28.96%) Software Engineering
7 127 (26.85%) Containerisation
8 115 (24.31%) Mentoring
9 104 (21.99%) Test Automation
10 98 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (18.60%) Event-Driven
12 86 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (17.12%) TDD
14 69 (14.59%) Scrum
15 66 (13.95%) AI
15 66 (13.95%) BDD
16 59 (12.47%) SDLC
17 57 (12.05%) Clean Code
18 56 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (10.99%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 468 (98.94%) Java
2 91 (19.24%) SQL
3 87 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 75 (15.86%) Python
4 75 (15.86%) TypeScript
5 34 (7.19%) Groovy
6 32 (6.77%) Bash
7 29 (6.13%) Kotlin
8 12 (2.54%) Ruby
9 10 (2.11%) C#
10 9 (1.90%) C++
11 7 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.27%) PHP
13 5 (1.06%) Go
14 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.85%) RPG
15 2 (0.42%) C
15 2 (0.42%) COBOL
15 2 (0.42%) Scala
16 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 88 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.26%) AWS Certification
3 54 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 42 (8.88%) Degree
5 28 (5.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.44%) QA
2 9 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.48%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.27%) WCAG
5 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 176 (37.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 149 (31.50%) Kubernetes
2 65 (13.74%) Terraform
3 33 (6.98%) Ansible
4 29 (6.13%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.75%) Kibana
6 12 (2.54%) Grafana
7 10 (2.11%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.06%) Packer
8 5 (1.06%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.29%) Oracle
2 16 (3.38%) Splunk
3 14 (2.96%) Google
4 12 (2.54%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.90%) SendGrid
7 8 (1.69%) IBM
7 8 (1.69%) Solace
8 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.06%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.06%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.85%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.63%) Revolut
11 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.42%) Pega
12 2 (0.42%) TikTok
12 2 (0.42%) WSO2