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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 284 262
Rank change year-on-year -74 -22 +5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 430 465 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 1.08% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 5.52% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 238 262 581
10th Percentile £52,055 £44,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,188 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,398 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,950 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.28% +11.54% -

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 8,787 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 6,348 15,703
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -31 400 £70,000 -9.68% 140
UK excluding London -116 223 £67,950 -6.28% 105
London -3 177 £75,000 -9.09% 63
Work from Home -64 134 £71,250 -9.59% 78
North of England -17 133 £72,500 -14.83% 36
Yorkshire -14 70 £76,250 -3.25% 5
North West -25 55 £67,500 -23.87% 24
South West -50 43 £62,500 -3.85% 19
South East -67 34 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Midlands -60 16 £45,000 -5.26% 6
West Midlands -22 14 £45,000 -23.40% 3
North East -27 8 £50,100 -8.91% 7
Wales -26 5 £51,619 +21.40% 7
Scotland -71 4 £65,000 -18.75% 8
East of England -15 1 £62,500 -24.24% 7
East Midlands -70 1 £55,200 +16.21% 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 14 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.02%) Apache
3 12 (2.79%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.16%) Confluence
5 5 (1.16%) JBoss
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.70%) Liferay
7 2 (0.47%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (59.30%) AWS
2 113 (26.28%) Serverless
3 79 (18.37%) AWS Lambda
4 76 (17.67%) Amazon ECS
5 75 (17.44%) Amazon S3
6 74 (17.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (14.88%) Azure
8 54 (12.56%) AWS Step Functions
9 51 (11.86%) Apigee
10 48 (11.16%) Amazon ECR
11 42 (9.77%) Amazon SQS
12 38 (8.84%) GCP
13 29 (6.74%) OpenShift
14 27 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (5.81%) GitHub
16 17 (3.95%) SaaS
17 14 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 13 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
19 8 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.16%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.09%) AMQP
2 5 (1.16%) Internet
3 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.81%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 55 (12.79%) DynamoDB
4 46 (10.70%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.28%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.65%) MySQL
7 17 (3.95%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.09%) Redis
11 6 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.16%) Big Data
12 5 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.93%) Flink
13 4 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.70%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 107 (24.88%) Jenkins
2 77 (17.91%) GitLab
3 60 (13.95%) Git
4 58 (13.49%) Maven
5 45 (10.47%) Cypress.io
5 45 (10.47%) SonarQube
6 32 (7.44%) JUnit
7 27 (6.28%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.65%) Gradle
9 18 (4.19%) Selenium
10 17 (3.95%) JIRA
11 15 (3.49%) Mockito
12 5 (1.16%) JMeter
13 3 (0.70%) Postman
13 3 (0.70%) TestNG
14 2 (0.47%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
14 2 (0.47%) ESLint
14 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 90 (20.93%) Finance
2 54 (12.56%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.07%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.12%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.72%) Billing
6 15 (3.49%) Banking
7 14 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.56%) Advertising
8 11 (2.56%) Front Office
9 9 (2.09%) Games
9 9 (2.09%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.86%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.70%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.47%) Law
15 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 236 (54.88%) Developer
2 186 (43.26%) Java Developer
3 119 (27.67%) Senior
4 113 (26.28%) Java Engineer
5 74 (17.21%) Senior Developer
5 74 (17.21%) Software Engineer
6 58 (13.49%) Senior Java Developer
7 50 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 46 (10.70%) Lead
9 45 (10.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 38 (8.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (8.60%) Senior Java Engineer
12 27 (6.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 21 (4.88%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.72%) AWS Developer
14 16 (3.72%) Backend Developer
14 16 (3.72%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.49%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (3.02%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (88.84%) Spring
2 133 (30.93%) AngularJS
3 107 (24.88%) React
4 101 (23.49%) REST
5 72 (16.74%) Kafka
6 57 (13.26%) RESTful
7 46 (10.70%) Node.js
8 42 (9.77%) Gherkin
8 42 (9.77%) Jest
9 41 (9.53%) Hibernate
10 34 (7.91%) Web Services
11 31 (7.21%) HTML
12 27 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (6.05%) JPA
14 23 (5.35%) Vue
15 22 (5.12%) CSS
16 21 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (4.19%) Spring MVC
18 17 (3.95%) JSON
19 16 (3.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 54 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.79%) e-Learning
7 12 (2.79%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.16%) IoT
11 4 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.70%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.40%) Android
2 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.16%) CentOS
3 5 (1.16%) Debian
3 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (50.23%) CI/CD
2 205 (47.67%) Microservices
3 199 (46.28%) Agile
4 182 (42.33%) DevOps
5 135 (31.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 126 (29.30%) Software Engineering
7 111 (25.81%) Containerisation
8 96 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (21.86%) Mentoring
10 77 (17.91%) TDD
11 76 (17.67%) Test Automation
12 70 (16.28%) Scrum
13 63 (14.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 59 (13.72%) Event-Driven
15 58 (13.49%) Secure Coding
16 57 (13.26%) Clean Code
16 57 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (12.79%) SDLC
18 54 (12.56%) BDD
19 48 (11.16%) AI
Programming Languages
1 428 (99.53%) Java
2 98 (22.79%) JavaScript
3 75 (17.44%) TypeScript
4 74 (17.21%) SQL
5 69 (16.05%) Python
6 42 (9.77%) Bash
7 41 (9.53%) Groovy
8 25 (5.81%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.86%) Delphi
10 7 (1.63%) Go
11 6 (1.40%) PHP
12 5 (1.16%) C#
13 4 (0.93%) C++
13 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.70%) Ruby
15 2 (0.47%) C
16 1 (0.23%) Korn
16 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.93%) AWS Certification
3 40 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 33 (7.67%) Degree
5 24 (5.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.58%) ITIL Certification
6 16 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.09%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.72%) QA
2 5 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 177 (41.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (36.28%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.16%) Terraform
3 41 (9.53%) HP Fortify
4 28 (6.51%) Ansible
5 17 (3.95%) Grafana
6 9 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.86%) Kibana
8 5 (1.16%) Packer
8 5 (1.16%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.81%) Oracle
2 11 (2.56%) Google
3 8 (1.86%) Splunk
4 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.63%) Solace
5 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.16%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.16%) Microsoft
6 5 (1.16%) Peregrine
6 5 (1.16%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.93%) IBM
8 3 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.70%) Revolut
8 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Pega
9 2 (0.47%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.23%) Okta
10 1 (0.23%) Workday