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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 327 240
Rank change year-on-year -17 -87 +5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 382 409 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.87% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.94% 3.97% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 236 244 668
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £110,000
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 7,731 10,294 18,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.03% 22.02% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,671 6,544 14,598
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +23 360 £71,750 -10.31% 159
UK excluding London -11 202 £67,500 -3.57% 144
London -17 158 £77,500 -11.54% 47
Work from Home +26 139 £70,000 -15.15% 87
North of England +39 94 £70,500 -11.88% 43
Yorkshire -1 54 £75,000 +3.45% 11
South West -18 48 £65,000 -18.75% 21
South East -50 38 £75,000 +20.00% 36
North West +23 37 £67,500 -23.87% 25
Midlands +4 15 £50,100 -25.78% 17
West Midlands +25 12 £45,000 -35.71% 14
Scotland -41 7 £78,750 -1.56% 13
East of England +8 4 £62,500 -10.71% 6
North East -9 3 £31,850 -42.09% 7
East Midlands -29 2 £47,600 -26.77% 3
Wales -11 1 £55,200 +16.68% 8

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 20 (5.24%) Apache
2 16 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.40%) OpenStack
4 12 (3.14%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.05%) Confluence
5 4 (1.05%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) Liferay
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 245 (64.14%) AWS
2 99 (25.92%) Serverless
3 69 (18.06%) Amazon ECS
4 68 (17.80%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (16.75%) Amazon S3
6 56 (14.66%) Azure
7 49 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (10.47%) GCP
9 38 (9.95%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (9.69%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (9.69%) Apigee
11 36 (9.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 32 (8.38%) Amazon ECR
13 29 (7.59%) OpenShift
14 25 (6.54%) GitHub
14 25 (6.54%) SaaS
15 18 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (2.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 5 (1.31%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.36%) AMQP
2 5 (1.31%) Internet
3 4 (1.05%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (12.57%) NoSQL
3 47 (12.30%) Relational Database
4 38 (9.95%) DynamoDB
5 32 (8.38%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.76%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.88%) MySQL
7 11 (2.88%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.57%) Big Data
8 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.31%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.79%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.52%) DB2
11 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) DTS
12 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 93 (24.35%) Jenkins
2 62 (16.23%) GitLab
3 53 (13.87%) Git
4 44 (11.52%) Cypress.io
5 43 (11.26%) Maven
6 34 (8.90%) SonarQube
7 31 (8.12%) JUnit
8 21 (5.50%) Cucumber
9 15 (3.93%) Gradle
9 15 (3.93%) Mockito
10 14 (3.66%) JIRA
11 13 (3.40%) Selenium
12 10 (2.62%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Postman
13 3 (0.79%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
14 2 (0.52%) Vite
General
1 82 (21.47%) Finance
2 56 (14.66%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 26 (6.81%) Financial Institution
5 22 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.45%) Billing
7 14 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.88%) Tech for Good
9 10 (2.62%) Games
9 10 (2.62%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.09%) Banking
10 8 (2.09%) Front Office
11 6 (1.57%) Advertising
12 4 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.79%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (50.52%) Developer
2 153 (40.05%) Java Developer
3 108 (28.27%) Senior
4 89 (23.30%) Software Engineer
5 86 (22.51%) Java Engineer
6 58 (15.18%) Senior Developer
7 48 (12.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.52%) Lead
9 41 (10.73%) Java Software Engineer
10 39 (10.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (9.69%) Senior Java Engineer
12 33 (8.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (7.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (5.24%) Backend Developer
15 18 (4.71%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 17 (4.45%) Lead Java Developer
16 17 (4.45%) Software Developer
17 13 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (89.01%) Spring
2 97 (25.39%) React
3 86 (22.51%) AngularJS
4 85 (22.25%) REST
5 78 (20.42%) Kafka
6 46 (12.04%) Node.js
6 46 (12.04%) RESTful
7 43 (11.26%) Hibernate
8 41 (10.73%) Jest
9 32 (8.38%) Gherkin
10 28 (7.33%) HTML
10 28 (7.33%) Web Services
11 24 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (5.24%) JPA
13 19 (4.97%) JSON
14 18 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (4.71%) XML
15 16 (4.19%) Spring MVC
16 15 (3.93%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 97 (25.39%) Cloud Native
2 57 (14.92%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.31%) IoT
10 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.79%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.57%) Android
2 6 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.31%) CentOS
3 5 (1.31%) Debian
3 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (53.66%) CI/CD
2 203 (53.14%) Microservices
3 199 (52.09%) Agile
4 173 (45.29%) DevOps
5 136 (35.60%) Software Engineering
6 121 (31.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 105 (27.49%) Containerisation
8 91 (23.82%) Mentoring
9 85 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (18.59%) TDD
11 63 (16.49%) Event-Driven
12 60 (15.71%) Scrum
12 60 (15.71%) Test Automation
13 56 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (13.35%) BDD
15 50 (13.09%) SDLC
16 48 (12.57%) AI
17 47 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (10.47%) Code Quality
18 40 (10.47%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 379 (99.21%) Java
2 95 (24.87%) JavaScript
3 72 (18.85%) TypeScript
4 70 (18.32%) Python
5 54 (14.14%) SQL
6 33 (8.64%) Bash
7 31 (8.12%) Groovy
8 24 (6.28%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.62%) Go
10 8 (2.09%) Delphi
10 8 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.57%) PHP
12 5 (1.31%) C#
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.16%) AWS Certification
3 30 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.28%) Degree
5 19 (4.97%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.19%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.62%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.97%) QA
2 7 (1.83%) NCSC
3 6 (1.57%) NIST
4 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 171 (44.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 177 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.69%) Terraform
3 32 (8.38%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.50%) Ansible
4 21 (5.50%) Grafana
5 14 (3.66%) Kibana
6 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.28%) Oracle
2 14 (3.66%) Google
3 13 (3.40%) Splunk
4 9 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.83%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.83%) Solace
6 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.31%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.05%) Pega
7 4 (1.05%) WSO2
8 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.79%) Revolut
9 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.26%) Okta
9 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.26%) SAP