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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 237 367
Rank change year-on-year -102 +130 -87
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 643 646 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.30% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.37% 7.69% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 405 191 288
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £91,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £119,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

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 11,970 8,403 16,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 16.94% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,491 5,355 10,127
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,957 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -91 530 £75,000 +3.45% 654
UK excluding London -163 360 £67,500 - 405
London +10 249 £80,000 -15.79% 387
Work from Home -152 153 £67,750 +4.23% 319
North of England -61 148 £72,000 +2.86% 137
North West -61 91 £65,000 -7.14% 81
South West -30 69 £67,750 +4.23% 52
Wales -18 59 £70,000 +12.00% 17
Yorkshire +4 42 £85,000 +25.93% 26
West Midlands -56 32 £62,500 -10.71% 22
Midlands -104 32 £62,500 -3.10% 31
South East -89 31 £67,500 - 43
North East -54 15 £52,500 -20.75% 30
Scotland -71 15 £71,000 +3.27% 91
Northern Ireland -84 10 £60,000 +9.09% 29
East of England -56 2 £58,750 -6.00% 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 24 (3.73%) Confluence
2 14 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.02%) Apache
3 13 (2.02%) Camunda
4 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.09%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.93%) CICS
6 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 400 (62.21%) AWS
2 184 (28.62%) Azure
3 126 (19.60%) GitHub
3 126 (19.60%) Serverless
4 123 (19.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 94 (14.62%) AWS Lambda
5 94 (14.62%) GCP
6 77 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (11.20%) Amazon S3
8 70 (10.89%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (5.44%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 22 (3.42%) SaaS
15 20 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (2.95%) Amazon ECR
16 19 (2.95%) Apigee
17 17 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.95%) AMQP
2 15 (2.33%) DMARC
3 12 (1.87%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (17.26%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (16.33%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.80%) MongoDB
4 59 (9.18%) Relational Database
5 45 (7.00%) MySQL
6 44 (6.84%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.64%) Db2
8 16 (2.49%) Redis
9 15 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.56%) DTS
10 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.24%) Big Data
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.09%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.62%) Flink
14 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 136 (21.15%) Jenkins
2 90 (14.00%) GitLab
3 85 (13.22%) Git
4 54 (8.40%) Cucumber
5 45 (7.00%) JUnit
6 33 (5.13%) Maven
7 29 (4.51%) Mockito
8 26 (4.04%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.95%) JIRA
10 15 (2.33%) Selenium
11 14 (2.18%) Claude Code
11 14 (2.18%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.71%) JMeter
13 7 (1.09%) Gradle
13 7 (1.09%) Postman
14 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.78%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.62%) Vagrant
General
1 160 (24.88%) Finance
2 125 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 119 (18.51%) Public Sector
4 65 (10.11%) Banking
5 44 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (3.58%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.64%) Tech for Good
9 15 (2.33%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.18%) Publishing
11 9 (1.40%) Front Office
11 9 (1.40%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.78%) Advertising
13 5 (0.78%) Law
13 5 (0.78%) Retail
14 3 (0.47%) Back Office
14 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 254 (39.50%) Developer
2 177 (27.53%) Senior
3 176 (27.37%) Java Developer
4 150 (23.33%) Java Engineer
5 128 (19.91%) Software Engineer
6 97 (15.09%) Lead
7 78 (12.13%) Senior Developer
8 69 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.55%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (8.40%) Senior Java Developer
11 51 (7.93%) Senior Java Engineer
12 50 (7.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 44 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 39 (6.07%) Java Software Engineer
16 36 (5.60%) Principal Java Engineer
17 33 (5.13%) Architect
18 32 (4.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 32 (4.98%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (3.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (93.78%) Spring
2 202 (31.42%) Kafka
3 136 (21.15%) Terraform
4 130 (20.22%) React
5 121 (18.82%) REST
6 107 (16.64%) Node.js
7 106 (16.49%) RESTful
8 99 (15.40%) AngularJS
9 68 (10.58%) Hibernate
10 59 (9.18%) JPA
11 49 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (6.69%) OAuth
13 37 (5.75%) OAuth2
14 33 (5.13%) .NET
15 32 (4.98%) Ruby on Rails
16 31 (4.82%) HTML
17 26 (4.04%) Jest
18 22 (3.42%) CSS
18 22 (3.42%) OpenAPI
18 22 (3.42%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 215 (33.44%) Cloud Native
2 136 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (10.58%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (7.78%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (7.78%) Public Cloud
5 44 (6.84%) e-Learning
6 39 (6.07%) Product Ownership
7 38 (5.91%) Mainframe
8 17 (2.64%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 14 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.87%) Media Streaming
11 12 (1.87%) Podcast
12 10 (1.56%) EPoS
12 10 (1.56%) iSeries
13 9 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
13 9 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.33%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) AIX
2 7 (1.09%) CentOS
2 7 (1.09%) Debian
2 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 371 (57.70%) Microservices
3 331 (51.48%) Agile
4 279 (43.39%) DevOps
5 230 (35.77%) Software Engineering
6 203 (31.57%) Containerisation
7 190 (29.55%) Event-Driven
8 173 (26.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 170 (26.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 157 (24.42%) Mentoring
11 155 (24.11%) Test Automation
12 118 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (18.04%) AI
14 106 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (16.17%) TDD
16 103 (16.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 103 (16.02%) Scrum
17 96 (14.93%) BDD
18 95 (14.77%) Observability
19 85 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 635 (98.76%) Java
2 150 (23.33%) Python
3 121 (18.82%) SQL
4 103 (16.02%) TypeScript
5 84 (13.06%) JavaScript
6 32 (4.98%) Ruby
7 31 (4.82%) Kotlin
8 22 (3.42%) COBOL
9 19 (2.95%) C#
10 16 (2.49%) Groovy
10 16 (2.49%) JCL
11 12 (1.87%) Bash
12 10 (1.56%) RPG
13 8 (1.24%) C++
13 8 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.93%) Scala
15 4 (0.62%) Go
16 3 (0.47%) C
16 3 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 139 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.51%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 54 (8.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (4.67%) Degree
7 15 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.16%) OCP
15 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.35%) QA
2 35 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.89%) WCAG
4 7 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 262 (40.75%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 241 (37.48%) Kubernetes
2 73 (11.35%) Ansible
3 26 (4.04%) Grafana
4 23 (3.58%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.71%) HP Fortify
5 11 (1.71%) Kibana
6 9 (1.40%) Puppet
7 7 (1.09%) Packer
8 4 (0.62%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.60%) Splunk
2 31 (4.82%) Oracle
3 27 (4.20%) Google
4 19 (2.95%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.64%) OneLogin
6 16 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.49%) IBM
7 15 (2.33%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.56%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.09%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.78%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.47%) Solace
13 2 (0.31%) Adobe
13 2 (0.31%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.31%) Apple
13 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.31%) TikTok
13 2 (0.31%) WSO2