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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 237 345
Rank change year-on-year -110 +108 -56
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 588 649 603
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.97% 7.59% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 380 193 311
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,375
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 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +4.00%

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 11,839 8,555 16,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 17.44% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,600 5,488 11,304
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year - +6.16% -5.81%

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 4 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 4 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 -86 487 £75,000 +3.45% 541
UK excluding London -175 330 £70,000 +3.70% 328
London +17 230 £80,000 -3.03% 340
North of England -66 144 £72,500 -5.73% 93
Work from Home -175 135 £70,000 +7.69% 287
North West -56 86 £65,000 -17.52% 57
South West -49 59 £68,250 +13.75% 46
Wales -18 54 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire +1 49 £85,000 +13.33% 19
South East -86 32 £68,750 -1.79% 42
West Midlands -44 27 £62,500 -10.71% 34
Midlands -99 27 £62,500 - 42
Scotland -77 14 £71,000 -5.33% 65
North East -60 9 £50,000 -24.53% 17
Northern Ireland -87 8 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -38 2 £58,750 -30.88% 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 23 (3.91%) Confluence
2 12 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.87%) Camunda
4 10 (1.70%) Apache
5 7 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.68%) CICS
6 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.51%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 354 (60.20%) AWS
2 172 (29.25%) Azure
3 127 (21.60%) Serverless
4 113 (19.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 109 (18.54%) GitHub
6 96 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (14.63%) GCP
8 76 (12.93%) Amazon ECS
9 69 (11.73%) Amazon S3
10 66 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (5.27%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (4.42%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (4.42%) Apigee
15 24 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
17 18 (3.06%) SaaS
18 17 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.38%) AMQP
2 13 (2.21%) DMARC
3 9 (1.53%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (16.84%) NoSQL
3 56 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 52 (8.84%) MongoDB
5 51 (8.67%) DynamoDB
6 45 (7.65%) MySQL
7 20 (3.40%) Redis
8 14 (2.38%) Db2
9 12 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.70%) DTS
10 10 (1.70%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.02%) Big Data
12 6 (1.02%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.85%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.85%) Flink
13 5 (0.85%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.68%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 134 (22.79%) Jenkins
2 85 (14.46%) GitLab
3 84 (14.29%) Git
4 45 (7.65%) Cucumber
5 42 (7.14%) JUnit
6 37 (6.29%) Maven
7 30 (5.10%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.42%) Mockito
9 22 (3.74%) JIRA
10 19 (3.23%) Selenium
10 19 (3.23%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.70%) Gradle
11 10 (1.70%) JMeter
12 9 (1.53%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.19%) Postman
14 6 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.02%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.68%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.68%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 138 (23.47%) Finance
2 110 (18.71%) Social Skills
3 101 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.35%) Banking
5 34 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.04%) Health Technology
8 12 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 9 (1.53%) Advertising
9 9 (1.53%) Front Office
10 5 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.85%) Law
10 5 (0.85%) Publishing
10 5 (0.85%) Retail
11 3 (0.51%) Back Office
11 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.51%) iGaming
11 3 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 242 (41.16%) Developer
2 173 (29.42%) Java Developer
3 154 (26.19%) Senior
4 143 (24.32%) Java Engineer
5 110 (18.71%) Software Engineer
6 89 (15.14%) Lead
7 68 (11.56%) Senior Developer
8 66 (11.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 52 (8.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 49 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 47 (7.99%) Senior Java Engineer
12 45 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
13 42 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
14 38 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
16 31 (5.27%) Architect
16 31 (5.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 31 (5.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 31 (5.27%) Principal Java Engineer
17 22 (3.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 543 (92.35%) Spring
2 172 (29.25%) Kafka
3 122 (20.75%) React
4 120 (20.41%) Terraform
5 116 (19.73%) REST
6 112 (19.05%) AngularJS
7 103 (17.52%) RESTful
8 100 (17.01%) Node.js
9 64 (10.88%) Hibernate
10 60 (10.20%) JPA
11 44 (7.48%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (6.46%) OAuth
13 34 (5.78%) OAuth2
14 33 (5.61%) HTML
15 31 (5.27%) Ruby on Rails
16 30 (5.10%) Jest
17 29 (4.93%) .NET
18 25 (4.25%) CSS
18 25 (4.25%) Vue
19 22 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 123 (20.92%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (8.50%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (6.97%) Public Cloud
6 36 (6.12%) e-Learning
7 32 (5.44%) Mainframe
8 29 (4.93%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.70%) EPoS
10 10 (1.70%) iSeries
10 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.36%) Digital Wallet
13 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.04%) Linux
2 6 (1.02%) AIX
3 5 (0.85%) CentOS
3 5 (0.85%) Debian
3 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.51%) Windows
6 2 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 333 (56.63%) Microservices
3 292 (49.66%) Agile
4 251 (42.69%) DevOps
5 190 (32.31%) Software Engineering
6 176 (29.93%) Containerisation
7 166 (28.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 163 (27.72%) Event-Driven
9 152 (25.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 143 (24.32%) Test Automation
11 138 (23.47%) Mentoring
12 99 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (15.82%) AI
13 93 (15.82%) TDD
14 92 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 87 (14.80%) BDD
17 84 (14.29%) Scrum
18 77 (13.10%) Observability
19 70 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 583 (99.15%) Java
2 139 (23.64%) Python
3 119 (20.24%) SQL
4 91 (15.48%) TypeScript
5 85 (14.46%) JavaScript
6 34 (5.78%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.27%) Ruby
8 21 (3.57%) Groovy
9 19 (3.23%) C#
10 17 (2.89%) Bash
10 17 (2.89%) COBOL
11 11 (1.87%) JCL
12 10 (1.70%) C++
12 10 (1.70%) RPG
13 7 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.02%) Scala
15 4 (0.68%) Go
16 3 (0.51%) C
17 2 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 124 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 70 (11.90%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 47 (7.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.61%) Degree
7 14 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
14 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.52%) QA
2 34 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.08%) WCAG
4 7 (1.19%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.02%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 235 (39.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (34.86%) Kubernetes
2 66 (11.22%) Ansible
3 20 (3.40%) Grafana
4 18 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.72%) HP Fortify
6 13 (2.21%) Kibana
7 7 (1.19%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Argo
8 3 (0.51%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (5.10%) Splunk
2 29 (4.93%) Oracle
3 24 (4.08%) Google
4 18 (3.06%) IBM
5 16 (2.72%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.72%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.21%) SendGrid
8 7 (1.19%) Broadcom
9 5 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.85%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.85%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.85%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.51%) Solace
10 3 (0.51%) WSO2
11 2 (0.34%) Apple
11 2 (0.34%) Pega
11 2 (0.34%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.34%) TikTok