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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 352 229
Rank change year-on-year -26 -123 +2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 288 434 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.76% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.14% 3.55% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 195 229 581
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,690 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -7.71%
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 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 6,964 12,242 12,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.91% 21.55% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,226 7,400 10,495
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,383 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,787 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -0.10% -0.47%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £107,500
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 18 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 18 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 +25 275 £70,000 -9.68% 338
UK excluding London +31 171 £65,000 -3.70% 324
London -32 113 £95,000 +5.56% 63
Work from Home +54 111 £65,000 -10.34% 128
North of England +68 71 £68,750 -5.17% 91
South East +2 37 £67,500 +8.00% 84
Yorkshire +14 36 £75,000 +3.45% 33
South West +3 35 £65,000 -3.70% 42
North West +47 32 £65,000 -16.13% 50
Midlands +38 22 £57,500 -4.17% 40
West Midlands +49 15 £57,500 - 22
East Midlands -2 7 £57,500 -4.17% 17
Scotland -27 7 £77,500 +10.71% 23
North East +6 5 £65,000 +18.18% 9
East of England +30 3 £62,500 -10.71% 36
Wales -11 1 £55,200 -18.22% 11

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 17 (5.90%) Apache
2 13 (4.51%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.04%) JBoss
6 2 (0.69%) Camunda
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) Liferay
Cloud Services
1 220 (76.39%) AWS
2 83 (28.82%) Serverless
3 59 (20.49%) Amazon ECS
4 49 (17.01%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (15.97%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 45 (15.63%) Azure
7 31 (10.76%) GCP
8 24 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.64%) OpenShift
10 21 (7.29%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (6.60%) SaaS
12 18 (6.25%) Apigee
13 17 (5.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (5.90%) GitHub
14 16 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
15 14 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.74%) CloudFront
16 5 (1.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) AMQP
2 3 (1.04%) HTTP
2 3 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 41 (14.24%) MongoDB
4 32 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 20 (6.94%) RDBMS
6 19 (6.60%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.47%) MySQL
8 9 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.39%) Big Data
10 3 (1.04%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.69%) DB2
11 2 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.35%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (28.47%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.75%) Git
3 43 (14.93%) GitLab
4 37 (12.85%) JUnit
5 30 (10.42%) Cypress.io
6 26 (9.03%) Maven
7 22 (7.64%) Mockito
8 19 (6.60%) JMeter
9 17 (5.90%) SonarQube
10 14 (4.86%) Cucumber
11 12 (4.17%) JIRA
12 9 (3.13%) Selenium
13 7 (2.43%) Gradle
14 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.74%) Vite
15 4 (1.39%) Babel
15 4 (1.39%) webpack
16 3 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 73 (25.35%) Finance
2 51 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 32 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.82%) Banking
6 10 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.74%) Billing
8 4 (1.39%) Games
8 4 (1.39%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.04%) Aviation
9 3 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
9 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.04%) Legal
9 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.04%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Law
10 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (50.69%) Developer
2 111 (38.54%) Java Developer
3 79 (27.43%) Senior
4 68 (23.61%) Software Engineer
5 54 (18.75%) Java Engineer
6 39 (13.54%) Senior Developer
7 35 (12.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (11.81%) Lead
9 32 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 30 (10.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (9.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 24 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
13 21 (7.29%) Backend Developer
14 19 (6.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.21%) Kafka Engineer
16 14 (4.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 14 (4.86%) Software Developer
16 14 (4.86%) Technical Leader
17 13 (4.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 13 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (92.36%) Spring
2 85 (29.51%) React
3 69 (23.96%) Kafka
3 69 (23.96%) REST
4 53 (18.40%) AngularJS
5 46 (15.97%) RESTful
6 44 (15.28%) Hibernate
7 37 (12.85%) HTML
8 33 (11.46%) Node.js
8 33 (11.46%) Web Services
9 32 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
10 29 (10.07%) Jest
11 22 (7.64%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (7.29%) Apache Camel
12 21 (7.29%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (6.94%) JSON
13 20 (6.94%) XML
14 17 (5.90%) jQuery
14 17 (5.90%) WireMock
15 16 (5.56%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 86 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 58 (20.14%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.99%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.43%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.04%) IoT
9 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Replication
10 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.35%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.47%) Linux
2 3 (1.04%) CentOS
2 3 (1.04%) Debian
2 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (60.42%) Agile
2 171 (59.38%) Microservices
3 156 (54.17%) CI/CD
4 120 (41.67%) DevOps
5 107 (37.15%) Software Engineering
6 94 (32.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 80 (27.78%) TDD
8 69 (23.96%) Containerisation
9 58 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (19.79%) Scrum
11 56 (19.44%) BDD
12 51 (17.71%) Mentoring
13 48 (16.67%) Event-Driven
14 43 (14.93%) Fintech
15 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (14.58%) SDLC
16 39 (13.54%) Collaborative Culture
17 35 (12.15%) Code Quality
17 35 (12.15%) User Experience
18 31 (10.76%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 286 (99.31%) Java
2 95 (32.99%) JavaScript
3 64 (22.22%) Python
4 60 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.50%) SQL
6 22 (7.64%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.21%) Bash
7 15 (5.21%) Groovy
8 13 (4.51%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.13%) Go
10 8 (2.78%) Delphi
11 6 (2.08%) C#
12 2 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.69%) Ruby
12 2 (0.69%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.94%) AWS Certification
3 20 (6.94%) Degree
4 14 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.29%) QA
2 10 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.43%) NCSC
4 6 (2.08%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 142 (49.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.99%) Kibana
3 16 (5.56%) HP Fortify
3 16 (5.56%) Terraform
4 15 (5.21%) Ansible
5 13 (4.51%) Grafana
6 3 (1.04%) Puppet
7 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (7.64%) Oracle
2 21 (7.29%) Splunk
3 17 (5.90%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.13%) Google
5 7 (2.43%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.39%) Pega
6 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.39%) Solace
6 4 (1.39%) WSO2
7 3 (1.04%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.04%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.69%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) Moogsoft