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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 222 314
Rank change year-on-year -119 +92 -15
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 528 707 881
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.44% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 7.89% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 333 239 504
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,000 £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 £93,778 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,500 £120,000
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 10,152 8,960 20,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.37% 18.31% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,577 5,929 15,418
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,750 £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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -101 463 £75,000 +3.45% 212
UK excluding London -171 286 £70,000 - 152
London +12 218 £80,000 -3.03% 109
North of England -52 151 £70,000 -17.77% 36
Work from Home -142 134 £70,000 -1.75% 79
North West -48 83 £65,000 -26.69% 17
Yorkshire +19 58 £75,000 -4.83% 11
South West -59 46 £67,500 -1.82% 56
Wales -15 35 £70,000 +47.97% 5
South East -89 34 £67,500 -3.57% 18
Midlands -103 16 £53,750 -16.02% 19
West Midlands -41 15 £50,000 -28.57% 16
Scotland -77 11 £65,000 -16.83% 11
North East -41 10 £50,000 -31.03% 8
East of England -23 3 £62,500 -26.47% 3

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 22 (4.17%) Confluence
2 16 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.70%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.95%) Camunda
6 4 (0.76%) JBoss
6 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 303 (57.39%) AWS
2 139 (26.33%) Azure
2 139 (26.33%) Serverless
3 106 (20.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 102 (19.32%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (15.72%) Amazon ECS
6 79 (14.96%) Amazon S3
7 77 (14.58%) GitHub
8 66 (12.50%) GCP
9 53 (10.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 40 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (7.58%) Apigee
11 39 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (3.22%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.46%) DMARC
2 8 (1.52%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.10%) NoSQL
2 83 (15.72%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (11.55%) DynamoDB
4 46 (8.71%) Relational Database
5 36 (6.82%) MongoDB
6 34 (6.44%) MySQL
7 18 (3.41%) Redis
8 14 (2.65%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.08%) DTS
10 11 (2.08%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.89%) Db2
12 7 (1.33%) Big Data
12 7 (1.33%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Flink
16 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 118 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 82 (15.53%) GitLab
3 67 (12.69%) Git
4 50 (9.47%) Maven
5 39 (7.39%) Cypress.io
6 35 (6.63%) JUnit
7 34 (6.44%) Cucumber
8 33 (6.25%) SonarQube
9 25 (4.73%) JIRA
10 21 (3.98%) Mockito
11 19 (3.60%) Selenium
12 17 (3.22%) Gradle
13 10 (1.89%) JMeter
14 8 (1.52%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.33%) Postman
16 6 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.14%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
18 3 (0.57%) Newman
General
1 120 (22.73%) Finance
2 80 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 75 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.30%) Banking
5 21 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.22%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.65%) Advertising
8 13 (2.46%) Front Office
9 12 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.70%) Billing
11 9 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.14%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.95%) Games
13 5 (0.95%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Retail
15 2 (0.38%) Law
15 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (45.83%) Developer
2 187 (35.42%) Java Developer
3 136 (25.76%) Java Engineer
3 136 (25.76%) Senior
4 93 (17.61%) Software Engineer
5 74 (14.02%) Lead
6 69 (13.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (12.69%) Senior Developer
8 52 (9.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 48 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 47 (8.90%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (8.14%) Senior Java Engineer
12 36 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 35 (6.63%) Principal Engineer
14 30 (5.68%) Architect
15 27 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.73%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 24 (4.55%) Principal Java Engineer
18 23 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
19 22 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (90.72%) Spring
2 143 (27.08%) AngularJS
3 126 (23.86%) Kafka
4 114 (21.59%) React
4 114 (21.59%) REST
5 94 (17.80%) Node.js
6 87 (16.48%) RESTful
7 55 (10.42%) Hibernate
8 43 (8.14%) JPA
9 37 (7.01%) Jest
10 34 (6.44%) Gherkin
11 31 (5.87%) Vue
12 30 (5.68%) OAuth
13 29 (5.49%) HTML
13 29 (5.49%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (4.92%) OAuth2
14 26 (4.92%) Web Services
15 21 (3.98%) Ruby on Rails
16 20 (3.79%) CSS
17 18 (3.41%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 137 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 83 (15.72%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 25 (4.73%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.79%) Product Ownership
8 16 (3.03%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.89%) EPoS
9 10 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.89%) iSeries
10 7 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.95%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) CentOS
2 6 (1.14%) Debian
2 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.95%) Windows
4 4 (0.76%) AIX
5 2 (0.38%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (60.23%) CI/CD
2 290 (54.92%) Microservices
3 265 (50.19%) Agile
4 230 (43.56%) DevOps
5 167 (31.63%) Containerisation
6 159 (30.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 159 (30.11%) Software Engineering
7 124 (23.48%) Test Automation
8 120 (22.73%) Event-Driven
9 119 (22.54%) Mentoring
10 116 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 102 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (17.05%) TDD
13 80 (15.15%) Scrum
14 74 (14.02%) AI
15 73 (13.83%) BDD
16 68 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
17 65 (12.31%) Architectural Patterns
17 65 (12.31%) Clean Code
18 64 (12.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 522 (98.86%) Java
2 113 (21.40%) Python
3 102 (19.32%) SQL
4 85 (16.10%) JavaScript
5 78 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.63%) Groovy
7 31 (5.87%) Bash
8 29 (5.49%) Kotlin
9 21 (3.98%) Ruby
10 12 (2.27%) C#
11 10 (1.89%) RPG
12 9 (1.70%) C++
13 7 (1.33%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.95%) COBOL
14 5 (0.95%) Go
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Scala
16 2 (0.38%) C
16 2 (0.38%) PHP
17 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 111 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.26%) AWS Certification
3 64 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.95%) Degree
5 40 (7.58%) DV Cleared
6 35 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.63%) QA
2 17 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.03%) WCAG
4 7 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 216 (40.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 186 (35.23%) Kubernetes
2 91 (17.23%) Terraform
3 44 (8.33%) Ansible
4 30 (5.68%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.65%) Grafana
6 13 (2.46%) Kibana
7 12 (2.27%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.14%) Puppet
9 5 (0.95%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.73%) Oracle
2 22 (4.17%) Splunk
3 15 (2.84%) Google
4 14 (2.65%) IBM
4 14 (2.65%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.46%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.89%) OneLogin
7 10 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.33%) Solace
9 6 (1.14%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.95%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.57%) Revolut
11 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.57%) WSO2
12 2 (0.38%) Pega
12 2 (0.38%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Sitecore