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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 236 357
Rank change year-on-year -98 +121 -68
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 633 649 544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.33% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 7.63% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 401 189 292
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £119,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +4.62% -1.89% +6.00%

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 12,040 8,505 16,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.32% 17.37% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,583 5,440 10,286
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £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 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -97 523 £75,000 +3.45% 632
UK excluding London -168 354 £68,000 +4.62% 398
London +7 247 £80,000 -15.79% 364
North of England -56 153 £72,250 +7.04% 129
Work from Home -166 149 £69,000 +6.15% 315
North West -59 94 £65,000 - 75
South West -42 65 £68,000 +13.33% 58
Wales -22 57 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Yorkshire +5 50 £85,000 +25.93% 25
South East -91 33 £68,750 -1.79% 39
West Midlands -55 30 £62,500 -10.71% 28
Midlands -115 30 £62,500 -2.34% 40
Scotland -77 15 £71,000 +5.19% 84
North East -67 9 £52,500 -20.75% 29
Northern Ireland -85 9 £60,000 +9.09% 24
East of England -53 2 £58,750 -16.07% 6

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 (3.79%) Confluence
2 14 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.90%) Apache
3 12 (1.90%) Camunda
4 7 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.63%) CICS
5 4 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.47%) JBoss
6 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 387 (61.14%) AWS
2 181 (28.59%) Azure
3 132 (20.85%) Serverless
4 126 (19.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 117 (18.48%) GitHub
6 100 (15.80%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (14.22%) GCP
8 79 (12.48%) Amazon ECS
9 73 (11.53%) Amazon S3
10 70 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (6.79%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.11%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.11%) Apigee
15 25 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
17 21 (3.32%) SaaS
18 19 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.84%) AMQP
2 14 (2.21%) DMARC
3 11 (1.74%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (17.22%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (16.59%) NoSQL
3 60 (9.48%) MongoDB
4 59 (9.32%) Relational Database
5 52 (8.21%) DynamoDB
6 47 (7.42%) MySQL
7 18 (2.84%) Redis
8 15 (2.37%) Db2
9 13 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.58%) DTS
10 10 (1.58%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.26%) Big Data
12 7 (1.11%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.11%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.11%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.79%) Flink
15 4 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.63%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 139 (21.96%) Jenkins
2 92 (14.53%) GitLab
3 86 (13.59%) Git
4 52 (8.21%) Cucumber
5 42 (6.64%) JUnit
6 39 (6.16%) Maven
7 31 (4.90%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.11%) Mockito
9 22 (3.48%) JIRA
10 20 (3.16%) SonarQube
11 18 (2.84%) Selenium
12 13 (2.05%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.74%) JMeter
14 9 (1.42%) Gradle
15 7 (1.11%) Postman
16 6 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.79%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.79%) Eclipse
17 5 (0.79%) REST Assured
18 4 (0.63%) Zephyr
General
1 151 (23.85%) Finance
2 121 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.58%) Banking
5 41 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.53%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.21%) Health Technology
10 12 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.58%) Publishing
12 9 (1.42%) Front Office
13 8 (1.26%) Advertising
14 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.79%) Law
15 5 (0.79%) Retail
16 3 (0.47%) Back Office
16 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Marketing
16 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 257 (40.60%) Developer
2 178 (28.12%) Java Developer
3 170 (26.86%) Senior
4 151 (23.85%) Java Engineer
5 125 (19.75%) Software Engineer
6 93 (14.69%) Lead
7 77 (12.16%) Senior Developer
8 70 (11.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.69%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (8.53%) Senior Java Developer
11 52 (8.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (7.58%) Senior Java Engineer
13 43 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 41 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
15 40 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
16 37 (5.85%) Principal Java Engineer
17 32 (5.06%) Architect
17 32 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 32 (5.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 24 (3.79%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (92.58%) Spring
2 193 (30.49%) Kafka
3 138 (21.80%) Terraform
4 136 (21.48%) React
5 122 (19.27%) REST
6 114 (18.01%) AngularJS
7 106 (16.75%) RESTful
8 105 (16.59%) Node.js
9 64 (10.11%) Hibernate
10 60 (9.48%) JPA
11 50 (7.90%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (6.32%) OAuth
13 35 (5.53%) OAuth2
14 33 (5.21%) HTML
15 31 (4.90%) Jest
15 31 (4.90%) Ruby on Rails
16 29 (4.58%) .NET
17 24 (3.79%) CSS
18 22 (3.48%) Vue
18 22 (3.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 201 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 135 (21.33%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (9.32%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.42%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (7.42%) Public Cloud
5 42 (6.64%) e-Learning
6 35 (5.53%) Product Ownership
7 33 (5.21%) Mainframe
8 13 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.58%) EPoS
11 10 (1.58%) iSeries
12 9 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.26%) Digital Wallet
13 8 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.26%) Media Streaming
13 8 (1.26%) Podcast
14 6 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.37%) Linux
2 7 (1.11%) CentOS
2 7 (1.11%) Debian
2 7 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.11%) Ubuntu
3 6 (0.95%) AIX
4 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.47%) Windows
6 2 (0.32%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (64.30%) CI/CD
2 358 (56.56%) Microservices
3 322 (50.87%) Agile
4 270 (42.65%) DevOps
5 224 (35.39%) Software Engineering
6 192 (30.33%) Containerisation
7 183 (28.91%) Event-Driven
8 172 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 169 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 153 (24.17%) Mentoring
11 146 (23.06%) Test Automation
12 110 (17.38%) AI
13 109 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
15 102 (16.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 99 (15.64%) TDD
17 97 (15.32%) Scrum
18 94 (14.85%) BDD
19 90 (14.22%) Observability
20 80 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 626 (98.89%) Java
2 146 (23.06%) Python
3 125 (19.75%) SQL
4 106 (16.75%) TypeScript
5 84 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 35 (5.53%) Kotlin
7 31 (4.90%) Ruby
8 22 (3.48%) Groovy
9 19 (3.00%) C#
10 18 (2.84%) Bash
10 18 (2.84%) COBOL
11 12 (1.90%) JCL
12 10 (1.58%) C++
12 10 (1.58%) RPG
13 8 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.95%) Scala
15 4 (0.63%) Go
16 3 (0.47%) C
17 2 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 139 (21.96%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.01%) AWS Certification
4 57 (9.00%) DV Cleared
5 53 (8.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (5.06%) Degree
7 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.16%) OCP
14 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.43%) QA
2 34 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.79%) WCAG
4 8 (1.26%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 257 (40.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 226 (35.70%) Kubernetes
2 75 (11.85%) Ansible
3 24 (3.79%) Grafana
4 22 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.69%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.21%) Kibana
7 9 (1.42%) Puppet
8 7 (1.11%) Packer
9 4 (0.63%) Argo
9 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (5.53%) Splunk
2 30 (4.74%) Oracle
3 26 (4.11%) Google
4 19 (3.00%) IBM
4 19 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.53%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.21%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.26%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.11%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.11%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.79%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.47%) Solace
12 3 (0.47%) WSO2
13 2 (0.32%) Apple
13 2 (0.32%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.32%) TikTok
14 1 (0.16%) Guidewire