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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 237 269
Rank change year-on-year -120 +32 +2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 433 595 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.37% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.85% 6.93% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 239 265 572
10th Percentile £52,500 £44,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,125 £97,528 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,592 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -

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 8,937 8,584 20,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 19.73% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,550 6,277 15,757
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -62 404 £70,250 -6.33% 133
UK excluding London -171 221 £70,000 -1.75% 90
London -4 183 £75,000 -9.09% 62
North of England -55 139 £71,250 -16.30% 40
Work from Home -133 128 £72,500 -8.01% 59
Yorkshire -5 71 £76,250 -3.25% 6
North West -57 61 £65,000 -26.69% 26
South West -52 40 £61,250 -5.77% 12
South East -62 34 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Midlands -94 13 £45,000 -5.26% 6
West Midlands -47 12 £45,000 -32.84% 4
North East -43 7 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Wales -28 4 £48,310 +13.62% 1
Scotland -83 4 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East of England -22 1 £62,500 -24.24% 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 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.77%) Apache
2 12 (2.77%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.39%) Confluence
5 5 (1.15%) JBoss
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.69%) Liferay
7 2 (0.46%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (57.74%) AWS
2 116 (26.79%) Serverless
3 80 (18.48%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (17.78%) Amazon ECS
4 77 (17.78%) Amazon S3
5 76 (17.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (15.24%) Azure
7 55 (12.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (12.01%) Apigee
9 49 (11.32%) Amazon ECR
10 42 (9.70%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (8.55%) GCP
12 26 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.62%) GitHub
13 20 (4.62%) OpenShift
14 17 (3.93%) SaaS
15 14 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 6 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 5 (1.15%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.85%) AMQP
2 5 (1.15%) Internet
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) DMARC
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (12.93%) DynamoDB
4 43 (9.93%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.24%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.16%) MySQL
7 17 (3.93%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.08%) Redis
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.15%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.92%) Big Data
11 4 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.92%) Flink
11 4 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
12 3 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.46%) DB2
13 2 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 100 (23.09%) Jenkins
2 72 (16.63%) GitLab
3 59 (13.63%) Maven
4 51 (11.78%) Git
5 46 (10.62%) Cypress.io
6 45 (10.39%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.54%) JUnit
8 21 (4.85%) Cucumber
9 20 (4.62%) Gradle
10 17 (3.93%) JIRA
11 15 (3.46%) Mockito
12 10 (2.31%) Selenium
13 5 (1.15%) JMeter
14 4 (0.92%) Claude Code
15 3 (0.69%) Postman
15 3 (0.69%) TestNG
16 2 (0.46%) Checkstyle
16 2 (0.46%) ESLint
16 2 (0.46%) Liquibase
16 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (21.71%) Finance
2 50 (11.55%) Social Skills
3 41 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.08%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.93%) Banking
6 16 (3.70%) Billing
7 14 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.54%) Advertising
8 11 (2.54%) Front Office
9 9 (2.08%) Games
9 9 (2.08%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.85%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.85%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 233 (53.81%) Developer
2 187 (43.19%) Java Developer
3 116 (26.79%) Java Engineer
3 116 (26.79%) Senior
4 75 (17.32%) Software Engineer
5 68 (15.70%) Senior Developer
6 58 (13.39%) Senior Java Developer
7 53 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 47 (10.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 47 (10.85%) Lead
9 41 (9.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 39 (9.01%) Senior Java Engineer
11 28 (6.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 17 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
12 17 (3.93%) Software Developer
13 16 (3.70%) AWS Developer
13 16 (3.70%) Backend Developer
13 16 (3.70%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 15 (3.46%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (88.91%) Spring
2 133 (30.72%) AngularJS
3 107 (24.71%) React
4 102 (23.56%) REST
5 77 (17.78%) Kafka
6 58 (13.39%) RESTful
7 47 (10.85%) Node.js
8 43 (9.93%) Gherkin
9 42 (9.70%) Jest
10 41 (9.47%) Hibernate
11 34 (7.85%) Web Services
12 31 (7.16%) HTML
13 25 (5.77%) JPA
14 23 (5.31%) Vue
15 22 (5.08%) CSS
16 19 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (4.16%) OAuth
18 17 (3.93%) JSON
19 15 (3.46%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 57 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.46%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.23%) e-Learning
5 14 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.77%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.15%) IoT
10 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.69%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.46%) Web Conferencing
13 1 (0.23%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.62%) Linux
2 6 (1.39%) Android
2 6 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.92%) CentOS
3 4 (0.92%) Debian
3 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (49.42%) CI/CD
2 208 (48.04%) Microservices
3 198 (45.73%) Agile
4 177 (40.88%) DevOps
5 141 (32.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (28.18%) Software Engineering
7 109 (25.17%) Containerisation
8 99 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (21.94%) Mentoring
10 76 (17.55%) Test Automation
11 70 (16.17%) TDD
12 69 (15.94%) Scrum
13 66 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 59 (13.63%) Clean Code
14 59 (13.63%) Event-Driven
15 54 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (12.47%) SDLC
16 53 (12.24%) AI
17 51 (11.78%) Secure Coding
18 49 (11.32%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 430 (99.31%) Java
2 95 (21.94%) JavaScript
3 78 (18.01%) TypeScript
4 75 (17.32%) SQL
5 63 (14.55%) Python
6 42 (9.70%) Bash
6 42 (9.70%) Groovy
7 25 (5.77%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.62%) Go
9 6 (1.39%) PHP
10 5 (1.15%) C#
11 4 (0.92%) C++
11 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.69%) Ruby
13 2 (0.46%) C
14 1 (0.23%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) R
14 1 (0.23%) RPG
Qualifications
1 69 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.32%) AWS Certification
3 40 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 34 (7.85%) Degree
5 24 (5.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.54%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.93%) QA
2 5 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.92%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (40.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 151 (34.87%) Kubernetes
2 49 (11.32%) Terraform
3 41 (9.47%) HP Fortify
4 27 (6.24%) Ansible
5 9 (2.08%) Grafana
5 9 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Kibana
7 5 (1.15%) Packer
8 4 (0.92%) Puppet
9 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (4.39%) Oracle
2 10 (2.31%) Google
3 8 (1.85%) Splunk
4 7 (1.62%) Solace
5 6 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.39%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.15%) IBM
6 5 (1.15%) Peregrine
7 4 (0.92%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.69%) Revolut
8 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.46%) Pega
9 2 (0.46%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.23%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.23%) Sitecore