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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 231 328
Rank change year-on-year -124 +97 -40
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 568 665 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.33% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 7.34% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 370 206 336
10th Percentile £47,762 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 11,928 9,056 17,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.08% 18.16% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,674 5,913 12,190
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,765 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -93 476 £75,000 +3.45% 147
UK excluding London -179 316 £70,000 +3.70% 126
London +7 229 £80,000 -3.03% 63
North of England -59 142 £72,000 -4.00% 43
Work from Home -170 132 £70,000 +5.66% 104
North West -61 84 £65,000 -17.52% 22
South West -47 55 £67,750 +12.92% 22
Wales -6 51 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire +1 49 £80,000 +6.67% 7
South East -78 33 £68,750 -1.79% 26
West Midlands -54 24 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Midlands -106 24 £62,500 -1.19% 17
Scotland -74 14 £65,000 -14.75% 10
North East -52 9 £50,000 -23.08% 14
Northern Ireland -85 5 £60,000 +9.09% 2
East of England -31 2 £58,750 -30.88% 1

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 23 (4.05%) Confluence
2 13 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.76%) Apache
3 10 (1.76%) Camunda
4 8 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.70%) CICS
5 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 337 (59.33%) AWS
2 167 (29.40%) Azure
3 133 (23.42%) Serverless
4 109 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 108 (19.01%) GitHub
6 100 (17.61%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (14.79%) GCP
8 77 (13.56%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (12.32%) Amazon S3
10 64 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (7.75%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.75%) Apigee
15 22 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 14 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.29%) DMARC
2 11 (1.94%) AMQP
3 6 (1.06%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.25%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (16.55%) NoSQL
3 57 (10.04%) Relational Database
4 53 (9.33%) DynamoDB
5 47 (8.27%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.75%) MySQL
7 19 (3.35%) Redis
8 14 (2.46%) Db2
9 13 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.94%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.76%) DTS
12 9 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.41%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.06%) Big Data
15 5 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
15 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.88%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.70%) Flink
16 4 (0.70%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 132 (23.24%) Jenkins
2 81 (14.26%) GitLab
3 80 (14.08%) Git
4 42 (7.39%) JUnit
5 41 (7.22%) Cucumber
6 36 (6.34%) Maven
7 31 (5.46%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.58%) Mockito
9 23 (4.05%) JIRA
10 20 (3.52%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.35%) Selenium
12 12 (2.11%) Gradle
13 10 (1.76%) JMeter
14 8 (1.41%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.23%) Postman
16 6 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 134 (23.59%) Finance
2 104 (18.31%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.43%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.80%) Banking
5 29 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.76%) Advertising
9 10 (1.76%) Front Office
10 9 (1.58%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.58%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.88%) Law
11 5 (0.88%) Retail
12 3 (0.53%) Billing
12 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (41.73%) Developer
2 170 (29.93%) Java Developer
3 144 (25.35%) Senior
4 138 (24.30%) Java Engineer
5 103 (18.13%) Software Engineer
6 89 (15.67%) Lead
7 68 (11.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (11.09%) Senior Developer
9 55 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (8.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (7.92%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.57%) Principal Engineer
13 42 (7.39%) Java Software Engineer
14 37 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
16 33 (5.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 33 (5.81%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 30 (5.28%) Architect
18 29 (5.11%) Principal Java Engineer
19 22 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (92.08%) Spring
2 155 (27.29%) Kafka
3 118 (20.77%) AngularJS
3 118 (20.77%) React
4 115 (20.25%) Terraform
5 110 (19.37%) REST
6 103 (18.13%) RESTful
7 102 (17.96%) Node.js
8 63 (11.09%) Hibernate
9 57 (10.04%) JPA
10 38 (6.69%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (6.16%) OAuth
12 34 (5.99%) HTML
13 31 (5.46%) Jest
13 31 (5.46%) OAuth2
13 31 (5.46%) Ruby on Rails
14 27 (4.75%) .NET
15 26 (4.58%) CSS
15 26 (4.58%) Vue
16 24 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (30.28%) Cloud Native
2 117 (20.60%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.10%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (7.92%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.51%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.63%) e-Learning
7 30 (5.28%) Mainframe
8 24 (4.23%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.76%) EPoS
9 10 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.76%) iSeries
10 9 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.41%) Digital Wallet
11 8 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.06%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.94%) Linux
2 6 (1.06%) AIX
3 5 (0.88%) CentOS
3 5 (0.88%) Debian
3 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.53%) Windows
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (64.26%) CI/CD
2 320 (56.34%) Microservices
3 279 (49.12%) Agile
4 246 (43.31%) DevOps
5 178 (31.34%) Software Engineering
6 177 (31.16%) Containerisation
7 166 (29.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 149 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (25.88%) Event-Driven
10 137 (24.12%) Test Automation
11 129 (22.71%) Mentoring
12 97 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (16.02%) AI
13 91 (16.02%) TDD
14 84 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (14.61%) Scrum
16 82 (14.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 81 (14.26%) BDD
18 69 (12.15%) Observability
19 68 (11.97%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 563 (99.12%) Java
2 142 (25.00%) Python
3 113 (19.89%) SQL
4 88 (15.49%) TypeScript
5 87 (15.32%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.81%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.46%) Ruby
8 22 (3.87%) Groovy
9 19 (3.35%) C#
10 18 (3.17%) Bash
11 15 (2.64%) COBOL
12 11 (1.94%) C++
13 10 (1.76%) RPG
14 9 (1.58%) JCL
15 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.06%) Scala
17 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.70%) Go
19 3 (0.53%) C
20 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.80%) AWS Certification
4 49 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 43 (7.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.34%) Degree
7 15 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 15 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.18%) OCP
14 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.15%) QA
2 33 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.23%) WCAG
4 7 (1.23%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 230 (40.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 200 (35.21%) Kubernetes
2 63 (11.09%) Ansible
3 18 (3.17%) Grafana
4 17 (2.99%) HP Fortify
5 16 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.29%) Kibana
7 7 (1.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.53%) Argo
8 3 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (4.93%) Splunk
2 27 (4.75%) Oracle
3 24 (4.23%) Google
4 17 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.82%) IBM
5 16 (2.82%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.29%) SendGrid
8 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.88%) Broadcom
8 5 (0.88%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.88%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.70%) Solace
10 3 (0.53%) WSO2
11 2 (0.35%) Apple
11 2 (0.35%) Pega
11 2 (0.35%) Rackspace
11 2 (0.35%) Salesforce