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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 220 302
Rank change year-on-year -126 +82 -14
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 476 706 969
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.58% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 8.09% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 283 240 532
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £84,375 £95,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +15.08% -3.08%

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 9,520 8,729 21,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 19.58% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,098 5,718 16,379
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -106 434 £72,500 - 145
UK excluding London -171 240 £67,500 -6.90% 112
London +6 213 £77,500 -6.06% 66
North of England -51 142 £70,000 -17.89% 41
Work from Home -144 131 £72,500 - 67
North West -49 73 £65,000 -26.69% 21
Yorkshire +9 61 £75,000 -4.83% 16
South East -61 35 £70,000 - 14
South West -70 35 £60,000 -11.11% 21
Wales -29 18 £70,000 +47.97% 10
Midlands -83 15 £57,500 -11.54% 6
West Midlands -47 14 £53,750 -23.21% 3
North East -41 8 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -90 5 £65,000 -18.75% 11
East of England -31 2 £67,500 -20.59% 4

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 15 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.52%) Confluence
3 9 (1.89%) Apache
4 7 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.26%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.05%) JBoss
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.42%) Liferay
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 265 (55.67%) AWS
2 124 (26.05%) Serverless
3 98 (20.59%) Azure
4 89 (18.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 88 (18.49%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (15.13%) Amazon S3
8 54 (11.34%) GitHub
9 52 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 47 (9.87%) GCP
11 43 (9.03%) Apigee
12 40 (8.40%) Amazon ECR
13 39 (8.19%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.57%) OpenShift
17 16 (3.36%) SaaS
18 14 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 12 (2.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.10%) DMARC
2 8 (1.68%) AMQP
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 69 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (11.55%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.24%) Relational Database
5 29 (6.09%) MongoDB
6 25 (5.25%) MySQL
7 15 (3.15%) RDBMS
7 15 (3.15%) Redis
8 10 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.26%) Big Data
10 6 (1.26%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.05%) DTS
11 5 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.84%) Db2
12 4 (0.84%) Flink
13 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 105 (22.06%) Jenkins
2 75 (15.76%) GitLab
3 60 (12.61%) Git
4 51 (10.71%) Maven
5 39 (8.19%) Cypress.io
6 34 (7.14%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.30%) JUnit
8 29 (6.09%) Cucumber
9 22 (4.62%) JIRA
10 20 (4.20%) Gradle
11 19 (3.99%) Mockito
12 14 (2.94%) Selenium
13 10 (2.10%) JMeter
14 7 (1.47%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.47%) Postman
15 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.63%) Spock
16 2 (0.42%) IntelliJ
16 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 108 (22.69%) Finance
2 72 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 59 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.04%) Banking
5 19 (3.99%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.15%) Advertising
8 13 (2.73%) Billing
9 12 (2.52%) Front Office
10 9 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.89%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.68%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.47%) Games
13 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Law
14 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 232 (48.74%) Developer
2 182 (38.24%) Java Developer
3 131 (27.52%) Senior
4 130 (27.31%) Java Engineer
5 85 (17.86%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.87%) Senior Developer
7 59 (12.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (11.55%) Lead
9 53 (11.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (9.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (9.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 45 (9.45%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 28 (5.88%) Architect
15 27 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 21 (4.41%) Principal Java Engineer
18 20 (4.20%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 20 (4.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 431 (90.55%) Spring
2 137 (28.78%) AngularJS
3 112 (23.53%) React
4 105 (22.06%) REST
5 102 (21.43%) Kafka
6 72 (15.13%) RESTful
7 71 (14.92%) Node.js
8 40 (8.40%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.35%) Jest
10 34 (7.14%) Gherkin
11 32 (6.72%) HTML
12 30 (6.30%) Web Services
13 28 (5.88%) OAuth
13 28 (5.88%) Vue
14 27 (5.67%) JPA
15 23 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.62%) CSS
16 22 (4.62%) OAuth2
17 18 (3.78%) Spring MVC
18 17 (3.57%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 109 (22.90%) Cloud Native
2 68 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.83%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 21 (4.41%) e-Learning
6 15 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.47%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.84%) EPoS
11 4 (0.84%) iSeries
12 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.63%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.63%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.63%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.10%) Linux
2 6 (1.26%) Android
2 6 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.05%) CentOS
3 5 (1.05%) Debian
3 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.05%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (53.78%) CI/CD
2 250 (52.52%) Microservices
3 223 (46.85%) Agile
4 191 (40.13%) DevOps
5 150 (31.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 140 (29.41%) Software Engineering
7 133 (27.94%) Containerisation
8 117 (24.58%) Mentoring
9 105 (22.06%) Test Automation
10 99 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (18.91%) Event-Driven
12 87 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (17.02%) TDD
14 69 (14.50%) Scrum
15 67 (14.08%) AI
16 66 (13.87%) BDD
17 60 (12.61%) SDLC
18 58 (12.18%) Clean Code
18 58 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (10.92%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 471 (98.95%) Java
2 92 (19.33%) SQL
3 86 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 77 (16.18%) Python
5 76 (15.97%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.35%) Groovy
7 33 (6.93%) Bash
8 30 (6.30%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.52%) Ruby
10 10 (2.10%) C#
11 9 (1.89%) C++
12 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.26%) PHP
14 5 (1.05%) Go
15 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.84%) RPG
16 3 (0.63%) Scala
17 2 (0.42%) C
17 2 (0.42%) COBOL
18 1 (0.21%) Natural
Qualifications
1 89 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.39%) AWS Certification
3 56 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.61%) Degree
5 28 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (4.83%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.04%) QA
2 10 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.47%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.47%) WCAG
4 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 181 (38.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 152 (31.93%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.87%) Terraform
3 33 (6.93%) Ansible
4 30 (6.30%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.73%) Grafana
5 13 (2.73%) Kibana
6 11 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.05%) Packer
7 5 (1.05%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.46%) Oracle
2 18 (3.78%) Splunk
3 14 (2.94%) Google
4 12 (2.52%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.31%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.10%) SendGrid
7 8 (1.68%) IBM
7 8 (1.68%) Solace
8 6 (1.26%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.05%) OneLogin
9 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.05%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.05%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.63%) Revolut
10 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.42%) Pega
11 2 (0.42%) TikTok
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2