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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 237 322
Rank change year-on-year -117 +85 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 564 682 694
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.37% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.27% 7.94% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 369 214 361
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10,695 8,594 16,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 17.31% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,832 5,611 11,555
10th Percentile £40,275 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -109 479 £75,000 +3.45% 313
UK excluding London -175 306 £70,000 - 170
London +13 235 £80,000 -3.03% 204
North of England -52 146 £72,000 -8.64% 54
Work from Home -170 132 £70,000 +3.70% 140
North West -50 84 £65,000 -20.64% 32
Yorkshire +8 53 £75,000 - 11
South West -54 51 £67,500 +10.20% 23
Wales -12 47 £70,000 +12.00% 12
South East -82 32 £67,500 -3.57% 30
Midlands -96 21 £60,000 -5.14% 16
West Midlands -47 20 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Scotland -77 14 £65,000 -16.13% 28
North East -49 9 £50,000 -23.08% 11
Northern Ireland -79 3 £60,000 +9.09% 7
East of England -39 2 £58,750 -30.88% 2

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 21 (3.72%) Confluence
2 14 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.77%) Camunda
4 9 (1.60%) Apache
5 5 (0.89%) JBoss
6 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 333 (59.04%) AWS
2 159 (28.19%) Azure
3 133 (23.58%) Serverless
4 108 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (17.55%) AWS Lambda
6 95 (16.84%) GitHub
7 82 (14.54%) Amazon ECS
8 81 (14.36%) GCP
9 73 (12.94%) Amazon S3
10 52 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (8.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (5.85%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.85%) Apigee
14 30 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.55%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.30%) DMARC
2 9 (1.60%) AMQP
3 5 (0.89%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (15.96%) NoSQL
3 57 (10.11%) DynamoDB
4 56 (9.93%) Relational Database
5 42 (7.45%) MongoDB
6 40 (7.09%) MySQL
7 20 (3.55%) Redis
8 12 (2.13%) Db2
9 11 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.95%) DTS
9 11 (1.95%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.95%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.89%) Big Data
11 5 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.71%) Flink
12 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 130 (23.05%) Jenkins
2 84 (14.89%) GitLab
3 73 (12.94%) Git
4 40 (7.09%) JUnit
4 40 (7.09%) Maven
5 38 (6.74%) Cucumber
6 34 (6.03%) Cypress.io
7 26 (4.61%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.26%) Mockito
9 21 (3.72%) JIRA
9 21 (3.72%) Selenium
10 11 (1.95%) Gradle
11 10 (1.77%) JMeter
12 8 (1.42%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.24%) Postman
14 6 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.71%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (22.87%) Finance
2 99 (17.55%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 43 (7.62%) Banking
5 30 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.19%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.48%) Front Office
9 12 (2.13%) Advertising
9 12 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.60%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.42%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.06%) Billing
12 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.89%) Retail
14 4 (0.71%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.71%) Law
15 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.53%) Games
15 3 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 237 (42.02%) Developer
2 176 (31.21%) Java Developer
3 148 (26.24%) Senior
4 141 (25.00%) Java Engineer
5 102 (18.09%) Software Engineer
6 89 (15.78%) Lead
7 67 (11.88%) Senior Developer
8 66 (11.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 58 (10.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 49 (8.69%) Senior Java Developer
11 48 (8.51%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.62%) Java Software Engineer
13 42 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
14 35 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (5.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 33 (5.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 31 (5.50%) Architect
17 30 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
18 28 (4.96%) Principal Java Engineer
19 22 (3.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 514 (91.13%) Spring
2 151 (26.77%) Kafka
3 129 (22.87%) AngularJS
4 116 (20.57%) React
5 109 (19.33%) REST
6 100 (17.73%) RESTful
7 99 (17.55%) Node.js
8 60 (10.64%) Hibernate
9 53 (9.40%) JPA
10 37 (6.56%) OAuth
11 34 (6.03%) Jest
12 33 (5.85%) OAuth2
12 33 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (5.50%) HTML
14 28 (4.96%) Ruby on Rails
14 28 (4.96%) Vue
15 27 (4.79%) Gherkin
16 25 (4.43%) Web Services
17 23 (4.08%) .NET
17 23 (4.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 166 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 108 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (5.85%) Public Cloud
6 29 (5.14%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.43%) Mainframe
7 25 (4.43%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.77%) EPoS
8 10 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.77%) iSeries
9 7 (1.24%) Digital Wallet
9 7 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.89%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.95%) Linux
2 5 (0.89%) AIX
2 5 (0.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.71%) CentOS
3 4 (0.71%) Debian
3 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 316 (56.03%) Microservices
3 277 (49.11%) Agile
4 245 (43.44%) DevOps
5 178 (31.56%) Containerisation
6 177 (31.38%) Software Engineering
7 169 (29.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (25.18%) Event-Driven
9 140 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 134 (23.76%) Mentoring
10 134 (23.76%) Test Automation
11 102 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (16.31%) AI
13 90 (15.96%) TDD
14 82 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (14.18%) Scrum
16 77 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 76 (13.48%) BDD
18 69 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
19 67 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 559 (99.11%) Java
2 136 (24.11%) Python
3 113 (20.04%) SQL
4 86 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 86 (15.25%) TypeScript
5 33 (5.85%) Kotlin
6 28 (4.96%) Groovy
6 28 (4.96%) Ruby
7 24 (4.26%) Bash
8 19 (3.37%) C#
9 11 (1.95%) COBOL
10 10 (1.77%) C++
10 10 (1.77%) RPG
11 7 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.89%) JCL
12 5 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.71%) Go
13 4 (0.71%) Scala
14 3 (0.53%) C
15 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 113 (20.04%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.41%) AWS Certification
3 65 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.80%) DV Cleared
5 42 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (6.91%) Degree
7 18 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.33%) QA
2 28 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.72%) WCAG
4 7 (1.24%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.06%) NCSC
6 3 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 229 (40.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 198 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 110 (19.50%) Terraform
3 55 (9.75%) Ansible
4 23 (4.08%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.19%) Grafana
6 16 (2.84%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.30%) Kibana
8 5 (0.89%) Puppet
9 4 (0.71%) Packer
10 3 (0.53%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (4.79%) Splunk
2 25 (4.43%) Oracle
3 22 (3.90%) Google
4 18 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.84%) IBM
6 15 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.30%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.30%) SendGrid
8 10 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.89%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.89%) Solace
10 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.71%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.53%) Broadcom
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.53%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Pega
12 2 (0.35%) TikTok
13 1 (0.18%) Workday