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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 222 319
Rank change year-on-year -120 +97 -25
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 535 706 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.43% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.24% 7.85% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 338 238 492
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,400 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £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 £94,694 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,625 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -

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 10,207 8,988 20,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 18.26% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,641 5,944 15,215
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% -9.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 12 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 12 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 -93 468 £75,000 +3.45% 129
UK excluding London -160 291 £70,000 -1.75% 97
London +18 220 £80,000 -3.03% 64
North of England -36 151 £70,000 -17.77% 25
Work from Home -161 134 £70,000 -3.45% 64
North West -57 83 £65,000 -26.69% 11
Yorkshire +20 58 £75,000 -4.83% 10
South West -60 46 £67,500 -1.82% 12
Wales -11 37 £70,000 +39.67% 7
South East -76 35 £67,500 -3.57% 23
Midlands -100 18 £53,750 -15.02% 15
West Midlands -41 17 £50,000 -29.82% 12
Scotland -76 11 £65,000 -16.83% 9
North East -50 10 £50,000 -31.03% 4
East of England -29 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 (4.11%) Confluence
2 16 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.12%) Camunda
6 4 (0.75%) JBoss
6 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.37%) 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 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 308 (57.57%) AWS
2 141 (26.36%) Azure
2 141 (26.36%) Serverless
3 109 (20.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 104 (19.44%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (14.95%) Amazon S3
7 79 (14.77%) GitHub
8 67 (12.52%) GCP
9 53 (9.91%) AWS Step Functions
10 40 (7.48%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (7.48%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (7.48%) Apigee
11 39 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (3.55%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (3.18%) OpenShift
15 13 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (2.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.43%) DMARC
2 8 (1.50%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (15.70%) NoSQL
3 61 (11.40%) DynamoDB
4 47 (8.79%) Relational Database
5 37 (6.92%) MongoDB
6 35 (6.54%) MySQL
7 18 (3.36%) Redis
8 14 (2.62%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.06%) DTS
10 11 (2.06%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.87%) Db2
12 7 (1.31%) Big Data
12 7 (1.31%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.75%) Flink
16 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 119 (22.24%) Jenkins
2 82 (15.33%) GitLab
3 68 (12.71%) Git
4 50 (9.35%) Maven
5 39 (7.29%) Cypress.io
6 36 (6.73%) JUnit
7 34 (6.36%) Cucumber
8 33 (6.17%) SonarQube
9 25 (4.67%) JIRA
10 22 (4.11%) Mockito
11 19 (3.55%) Selenium
12 17 (3.18%) Gradle
13 10 (1.87%) JMeter
14 8 (1.50%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.31%) Postman
16 6 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.75%) Zephyr
18 3 (0.56%) Newman
General
1 121 (22.62%) Finance
2 82 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 78 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.23%) Banking
5 21 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.18%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.62%) Advertising
8 13 (2.43%) Front Office
9 12 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.68%) Billing
11 9 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 5 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.93%) Games
13 5 (0.93%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Retail
15 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 245 (45.79%) Developer
2 188 (35.14%) Java Developer
3 137 (25.61%) Java Engineer
4 135 (25.23%) Senior
5 93 (17.38%) Software Engineer
6 76 (14.21%) Lead
7 69 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (12.52%) Senior Developer
9 52 (9.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (8.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (8.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 42 (7.85%) Senior Java Engineer
13 37 (6.92%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.79%) Architect
16 27 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (4.86%) Principal Java Engineer
18 25 (4.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 23 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
19 23 (4.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (90.65%) Spring
2 143 (26.73%) AngularJS
3 130 (24.30%) Kafka
4 117 (21.87%) REST
5 114 (21.31%) React
6 95 (17.76%) Node.js
7 87 (16.26%) RESTful
8 57 (10.65%) Hibernate
9 45 (8.41%) JPA
10 37 (6.92%) Jest
11 34 (6.36%) Gherkin
12 31 (5.79%) OAuth
12 31 (5.79%) Vue
13 30 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (5.42%) HTML
15 27 (5.05%) OAuth2
16 26 (4.86%) Web Services
17 23 (4.30%) Ruby on Rails
18 20 (3.74%) CSS
19 18 (3.36%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 141 (26.36%) Cloud Native
2 87 (16.26%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.66%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (5.05%) Public Cloud
6 25 (4.67%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.74%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.36%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.87%) EPoS
9 10 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.87%) iSeries
10 7 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.12%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.75%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.24%) Linux
2 6 (1.12%) CentOS
2 6 (1.12%) Debian
2 6 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.12%) Ubuntu
3 5 (0.93%) Windows
4 4 (0.75%) AIX
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (60.75%) CI/CD
2 295 (55.14%) Microservices
3 272 (50.84%) Agile
4 234 (43.74%) DevOps
5 168 (31.40%) Containerisation
6 162 (30.28%) Software Engineering
7 159 (29.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 125 (23.36%) Test Automation
9 122 (22.80%) Event-Driven
9 122 (22.80%) Mentoring
10 119 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 103 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (16.82%) TDD
13 81 (15.14%) Scrum
14 79 (14.77%) AI
15 73 (13.64%) BDD
16 70 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
17 66 (12.34%) Architectural Patterns
18 65 (12.15%) Clean Code
18 65 (12.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 529 (98.88%) Java
2 114 (21.31%) Python
3 103 (19.25%) SQL
4 85 (15.89%) JavaScript
5 78 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 35 (6.54%) Groovy
7 31 (5.79%) Bash
8 28 (5.23%) Kotlin
9 23 (4.30%) Ruby
10 12 (2.24%) C#
11 10 (1.87%) RPG
12 9 (1.68%) C++
13 7 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.12%) COBOL
15 5 (0.93%) Go
16 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.75%) Scala
17 2 (0.37%) C
17 2 (0.37%) PHP
18 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 111 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.27%) AWS Certification
3 64 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.85%) Degree
5 40 (7.48%) DV Cleared
6 36 (6.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.67%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.54%) QA
2 18 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.18%) WCAG
4 7 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.12%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 217 (40.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 187 (34.95%) Kubernetes
2 94 (17.57%) Terraform
3 44 (8.22%) Ansible
4 30 (5.61%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.62%) Grafana
6 13 (2.43%) Kibana
7 12 (2.24%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.12%) Puppet
9 5 (0.93%) Packer
10 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.67%) Oracle
2 22 (4.11%) Splunk
3 17 (3.18%) Google
4 14 (2.62%) IBM
4 14 (2.62%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.43%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.24%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.24%) OpenAI
7 10 (1.87%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.31%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.31%) Solace
9 6 (1.12%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.93%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.56%) Revolut
11 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.56%) WSO2
12 2 (0.37%) Pega
12 2 (0.37%) TikTok
13 1 (0.19%) Sitecore