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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 328 242
Rank change year-on-year -9 -86 +4
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 385 415 994
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 3.98% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 238 246 666
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +10.34% -6.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £99,688 £92,359
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 7,768 10,440 17,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 22.09% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,706 6,563 14,323
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,001
90th Percentile £105,625 £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 28 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 28 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 +16 363 £71,750 -10.31% 111
UK excluding London -13 203 £67,500 -3.57% 92
London -14 160 £77,500 -11.54% 43
Work from Home +40 141 £70,000 -15.15% 65
North of England +46 95 £70,000 -12.50% 32
Yorkshire +5 54 £75,000 +3.45% 5
South West -12 48 £65,000 -18.75% 13
South East -49 38 £75,000 +20.00% 25
North West +15 37 £67,500 -15.63% 19
Midlands +9 15 £50,100 -25.78% 9
West Midlands +22 12 £45,000 -35.71% 9
Scotland -40 7 £78,750 -1.56% 8
East of England +13 4 £62,500 -10.71%
North East -7 4 £55,200 +0.36% 8
East Midlands -26 2 £47,600 -26.77%
Wales -5 1 £55,200 +16.68% 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 21 (5.45%) Apache
2 16 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.38%) OpenStack
4 12 (3.12%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.04%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) JBoss
6 3 (0.78%) Liferay
7 2 (0.52%) Camunda
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 248 (64.42%) AWS
2 100 (25.97%) Serverless
3 69 (17.92%) Amazon ECS
3 69 (17.92%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (16.88%) Amazon S3
5 57 (14.81%) Azure
6 49 (12.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 41 (10.65%) GCP
8 39 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (9.61%) Amazon SQS
9 37 (9.61%) Apigee
10 36 (9.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 32 (8.31%) Amazon ECR
12 29 (7.53%) OpenShift
13 25 (6.49%) GitHub
13 25 (6.49%) SaaS
14 18 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 5 (1.30%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.34%) AMQP
2 5 (1.30%) Internet
3 4 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.26%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (12.47%) NoSQL
3 47 (12.21%) Relational Database
4 38 (9.87%) DynamoDB
5 33 (8.57%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.71%) RDBMS
7 11 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.86%) MySQL
7 11 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.56%) Big Data
8 6 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.78%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (0.78%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.52%) DB2
11 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.52%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.26%) DTS
Development Applications
1 94 (24.42%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.36%) GitLab
3 55 (14.29%) Git
4 45 (11.69%) Cypress.io
5 44 (11.43%) Maven
6 35 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 31 (8.05%) JUnit
8 21 (5.45%) Cucumber
9 15 (3.90%) Gradle
9 15 (3.90%) JIRA
9 15 (3.90%) Mockito
10 13 (3.38%) Selenium
11 10 (2.60%) JMeter
12 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.78%) Postman
12 3 (0.78%) TestNG
12 3 (0.78%) Vite
13 2 (0.52%) ESLint
13 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (21.56%) Finance
2 58 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.01%) Financial Institution
5 22 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.42%) Billing
7 14 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.86%) Tech for Good
9 10 (2.60%) Games
9 10 (2.60%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.08%) Banking
10 8 (2.08%) Front Office
11 6 (1.56%) Advertising
12 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Law
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (50.39%) Developer
2 153 (39.74%) Java Developer
3 109 (28.31%) Senior
4 89 (23.12%) Software Engineer
5 86 (22.34%) Java Engineer
6 58 (15.06%) Senior Developer
7 48 (12.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 46 (11.95%) Lead
9 41 (10.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 39 (10.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (9.61%) Senior Java Engineer
12 33 (8.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (7.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (5.19%) Backend Developer
15 18 (4.68%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.42%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 17 (4.42%) Lead Java Developer
16 17 (4.42%) Software Developer
17 13 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
18 12 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (89.09%) Spring
2 99 (25.71%) React
3 86 (22.34%) AngularJS
4 85 (22.08%) REST
5 79 (20.52%) Kafka
6 47 (12.21%) Node.js
7 46 (11.95%) RESTful
8 43 (11.17%) Hibernate
9 42 (10.91%) Jest
10 32 (8.31%) Gherkin
11 29 (7.53%) HTML
12 28 (7.27%) Web Services
13 25 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
14 24 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (5.19%) JPA
16 19 (4.94%) JSON
17 18 (4.68%) ActiveMQ
17 18 (4.68%) XML
18 16 (4.16%) CSS
18 16 (4.16%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 99 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 58 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.08%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.30%) IoT
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.26%) Low-Code
13 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.34%) Linux
2 6 (1.56%) Android
2 6 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.30%) CentOS
3 5 (1.30%) Debian
3 5 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (53.51%) CI/CD
2 203 (52.73%) Microservices
3 201 (52.21%) Agile
4 174 (45.19%) DevOps
5 138 (35.84%) Software Engineering
6 122 (31.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 105 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 93 (24.16%) Mentoring
9 86 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (18.70%) TDD
11 64 (16.62%) Event-Driven
12 60 (15.58%) Scrum
12 60 (15.58%) Test Automation
13 56 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (13.51%) BDD
15 51 (13.25%) SDLC
16 48 (12.47%) AI
16 48 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (10.65%) Code Quality
17 41 (10.65%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 382 (99.22%) Java
2 97 (25.19%) JavaScript
3 73 (18.96%) TypeScript
4 70 (18.18%) Python
5 54 (14.03%) SQL
6 33 (8.57%) Bash
7 31 (8.05%) Groovy
8 24 (6.23%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.60%) Go
10 8 (2.08%) Delphi
10 8 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.56%) PHP
12 5 (1.30%) C#
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 61 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 36 (9.35%) AWS Certification
3 30 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.49%) Degree
5 19 (4.94%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.16%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.45%) QA
2 7 (1.82%) NCSC
3 6 (1.56%) NIST
4 5 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (44.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 178 (46.23%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.61%) Terraform
3 32 (8.31%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.45%) Ansible
4 21 (5.45%) Grafana
5 14 (3.64%) Kibana
6 11 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.30%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (6.23%) Oracle
2 15 (3.90%) Google
3 13 (3.38%) Splunk
4 9 (2.34%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.08%) Solace
6 7 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.30%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.04%) Pega
8 4 (1.04%) WSO2
9 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.78%) Revolut
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.26%) Okta
11 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.26%) SAP