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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 318 243
Rank change year-on-year -36 -75 0
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 351 437 938
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.86% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 3.92% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 219 248 675
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,410 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,785 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +13.05% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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 7,452 11,134 17,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 21.82% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,490 6,614 14,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,189 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +13 330 £70,000 -12.50% 159
UK excluding London -18 192 £65,000 -3.70% 120
London -26 139 £82,500 -5.83% 73
Work from Home +62 129 £67,950 -14.60% 82
North of England +32 84 £70,000 -12.50% 26
South West -6 48 £65,000 -14.19% 24
Yorkshire +5 44 £75,000 +7.14% 5
South East -28 38 £75,000 +20.00% 41
North West +28 36 £67,500 -15.63% 21
Midlands +25 15 £50,100 -25.78% 14
West Midlands +35 12 £45,000 -35.71% 12
Scotland -33 7 £78,750 -1.03% 11
East of England +20 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -8 4 £55,200 +0.36%
East Midlands -12 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -5 1 £55,200 +16.68% 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 (5.98%) Apache
2 13 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.14%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) Liferay
6 2 (0.57%) Camunda
6 2 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 235 (66.95%) AWS
2 93 (26.50%) Serverless
3 65 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (17.66%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (16.52%) Amazon S3
6 51 (14.53%) Azure
7 40 (11.40%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 36 (10.26%) GCP
10 33 (9.40%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (8.55%) Apigee
12 27 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
13 25 (7.12%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (7.12%) SaaS
14 23 (6.55%) OpenShift
15 21 (5.98%) GitHub
16 18 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.42%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.56%) AMQP
2 5 (1.42%) Internet
3 4 (1.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (11.68%) NoSQL
3 40 (11.40%) Relational Database
4 36 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 29 (8.26%) DynamoDB
6 18 (5.13%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.13%) MySQL
7 11 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.71%) Big Data
9 6 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.57%) DB2
12 2 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.28%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (24.50%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.24%) Git
3 53 (15.10%) GitLab
4 40 (11.40%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.26%) Maven
6 32 (9.12%) JUnit
7 28 (7.98%) SonarQube
8 17 (4.84%) Cucumber
8 17 (4.84%) JIRA
9 16 (4.56%) Mockito
10 12 (3.42%) Gradle
11 11 (3.13%) JMeter
11 11 (3.13%) Selenium
12 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.42%) Vite
13 3 (0.85%) Postman
13 3 (0.85%) TestNG
14 2 (0.57%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.57%) ESLint
14 2 (0.57%) Liquibase
General
1 76 (21.65%) Finance
2 56 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 41 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 17 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.42%) Billing
7 11 (3.13%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.85%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.28%) Banking
10 8 (2.28%) Games
11 4 (1.14%) Advertising
11 4 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.85%) Front Office
12 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Marketing
13 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (49.57%) Developer
2 132 (37.61%) Java Developer
3 96 (27.35%) Senior
4 83 (23.65%) Software Engineer
5 76 (21.65%) Java Engineer
6 49 (13.96%) Senior Developer
7 46 (13.11%) Lead
8 40 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (11.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (10.83%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (8.83%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (8.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (6.55%) Backend Developer
14 18 (5.13%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.84%) Lead Java Developer
16 15 (4.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 14 (3.99%) Software Developer
18 13 (3.70%) Technical Leader
19 12 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (90.03%) Spring
2 97 (27.64%) React
3 78 (22.22%) REST
4 73 (20.80%) Kafka
5 69 (19.66%) AngularJS
6 45 (12.82%) Hibernate
6 45 (12.82%) RESTful
7 44 (12.54%) Node.js
8 38 (10.83%) Jest
9 30 (8.55%) HTML
10 29 (8.26%) Web Services
11 26 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (7.12%) Gherkin
13 23 (6.55%) ActiveMQ
13 23 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (5.70%) JPA
15 18 (5.13%) JSON
16 16 (4.56%) Apache Camel
16 16 (4.56%) CSS
16 16 (4.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 94 (26.78%) Cloud Native
2 55 (15.67%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.70%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (2.85%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.99%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.71%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.42%) IoT
11 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.28%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.99%) Linux
2 6 (1.71%) Android
2 6 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.42%) CentOS
3 5 (1.42%) Debian
3 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (54.13%) Microservices
2 185 (52.71%) Agile
3 184 (52.42%) CI/CD
4 155 (44.16%) DevOps
5 131 (37.32%) Software Engineering
6 117 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 87 (24.79%) Containerisation
8 78 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 77 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (19.66%) TDD
11 57 (16.24%) Scrum
12 55 (15.67%) Event-Driven
13 50 (14.25%) BDD
14 48 (13.68%) SDLC
15 47 (13.39%) Test Automation
16 45 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (12.25%) Fintech
19 40 (11.40%) Collaborative Culture
20 39 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 348 (99.15%) Java
2 92 (26.21%) JavaScript
3 69 (19.66%) TypeScript
4 66 (18.80%) Python
5 44 (12.54%) SQL
6 26 (7.41%) Bash
7 24 (6.84%) Groovy
8 17 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.56%) Go
9 9 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.28%) Delphi
11 6 (1.71%) PHP
12 4 (1.14%) C#
13 2 (0.57%) R
13 2 (0.57%) Ruby
14 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.26%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.98%) Degree
5 19 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (2.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.41%) QA
2 7 (1.99%) NCSC
3 6 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.71%) NIST
4 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 155 (44.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 164 (46.72%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.98%) Terraform
3 25 (7.12%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.98%) Ansible
5 17 (4.84%) Grafana
6 15 (4.27%) Kibana
7 7 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
10 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (7.12%) Oracle
2 15 (4.27%) Google
2 15 (4.27%) Splunk
3 9 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.99%) Atlassian
4 7 (1.99%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.71%) Solace
6 5 (1.42%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.14%) Pega
7 4 (1.14%) WSO2
8 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.85%) Revolut
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.28%) IBM
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.28%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.28%) Okta
9 1 (0.28%) SAP