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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 240 346
Rank change year-on-year -88 +106 -61
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 640 656 558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.33% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 7.69% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 402 195 301
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £85,938 £87,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.48% - +8.00%

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 12,033 8,532 16,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 17.27% 21.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,567 5,459 10,410
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,275
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -94 530 £75,000 +3.45% 601
UK excluding London -173 359 £68,500 +1.48% 373
London +19 248 £80,000 -15.79% 357
North of England -59 156 £72,500 +3.57% 126
Work from Home -154 149 £70,000 +7.69% 303
North West -55 97 £65,000 -7.14% 73
South West -39 65 £68,000 +13.33% 53
Wales -15 57 £70,000 +12.00% 18
Yorkshire +8 49 £85,000 +25.93% 25
South East -96 33 £68,750 -1.79% 38
West Midlands -58 32 £62,500 -10.71% 22
Midlands -99 32 £62,500 -2.34% 30
Scotland -74 15 £71,000 +3.27% 80
North East -67 10 £55,000 -16.98% 28
Northern Ireland -91 9 £60,000 +9.09% 24
East of England -37 2 £58,750 -6.00% 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 24 (3.75%) Confluence
2 14 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.03%) Apache
4 12 (1.88%) Camunda
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.78%) CICS
6 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.47%) JBoss
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 394 (61.56%) AWS
2 184 (28.75%) Azure
3 131 (20.47%) Serverless
4 125 (19.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 121 (18.91%) GitHub
6 98 (15.31%) AWS Lambda
7 91 (14.22%) GCP
8 79 (12.34%) Amazon ECS
9 73 (11.41%) Amazon S3
9 73 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (6.41%) AWS Step Functions
11 40 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
13 27 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
15 24 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (3.75%) Apigee
16 21 (3.28%) SaaS
17 19 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
18 15 (2.34%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.81%) AMQP
2 14 (2.19%) DMARC
3 11 (1.72%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (17.03%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (16.09%) NoSQL
3 61 (9.53%) MongoDB
3 61 (9.53%) Relational Database
4 50 (7.81%) DynamoDB
5 46 (7.19%) MySQL
6 17 (2.66%) Redis
7 16 (2.50%) Db2
8 13 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.56%) DTS
9 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.25%) Big Data
11 7 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
11 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.09%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.78%) Flink
14 4 (0.63%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 141 (22.03%) Jenkins
2 91 (14.22%) GitLab
3 88 (13.75%) Git
4 53 (8.28%) Cucumber
5 42 (6.56%) JUnit
6 37 (5.78%) Maven
7 29 (4.53%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.06%) Mockito
9 21 (3.28%) JIRA
10 18 (2.81%) SonarQube
11 17 (2.66%) Selenium
12 14 (2.19%) Claude Code
13 11 (1.72%) JMeter
14 8 (1.25%) Gradle
15 7 (1.09%) Postman
16 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.78%) Eclipse
17 5 (0.78%) REST Assured
18 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (24.06%) Finance
2 122 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 116 (18.13%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.63%) Banking
5 42 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.19%) Health Technology
9 14 (2.19%) Publishing
10 12 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.41%) Front Office
12 7 (1.09%) Advertising
12 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.78%) Law
13 5 (0.78%) Retail
14 3 (0.47%) Back Office
14 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 257 (40.16%) Developer
2 177 (27.66%) Java Developer
3 173 (27.03%) Senior
4 151 (23.59%) Java Engineer
5 129 (20.16%) Software Engineer
6 95 (14.84%) Lead
7 77 (12.03%) Senior Developer
8 70 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.59%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (8.44%) Senior Java Developer
11 52 (8.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (7.50%) Senior Java Engineer
13 43 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
13 43 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (5.78%) Principal Java Engineer
16 33 (5.16%) Architect
17 32 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 31 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 24 (3.75%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 595 (92.97%) Spring
2 199 (31.09%) Kafka
3 139 (21.72%) React
3 139 (21.72%) Terraform
4 124 (19.38%) REST
5 111 (17.34%) AngularJS
6 106 (16.56%) Node.js
6 106 (16.56%) RESTful
7 66 (10.31%) Hibernate
8 60 (9.38%) JPA
9 50 (7.81%) RabbitMQ
10 40 (6.25%) OAuth
11 35 (5.47%) OAuth2
12 32 (5.00%) HTML
13 31 (4.84%) .NET
13 31 (4.84%) Ruby on Rails
14 29 (4.53%) Jest
15 23 (3.59%) CSS
16 22 (3.44%) OpenAPI
16 22 (3.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 204 (31.88%) Cloud Native
2 137 (21.41%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (9.69%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (7.34%) Public Cloud
5 42 (6.56%) e-Learning
6 35 (5.47%) Mainframe
6 35 (5.47%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.88%) Media Streaming
9 12 (1.88%) Podcast
10 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.56%) EPoS
11 10 (1.56%) iSeries
12 9 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.25%) Digital Wallet
13 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) CentOS
2 7 (1.09%) Debian
2 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 6 (0.94%) AIX
4 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.47%) Windows
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (64.53%) CI/CD
2 364 (56.88%) Microservices
3 327 (51.09%) Agile
4 277 (43.28%) DevOps
5 228 (35.63%) Software Engineering
6 200 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 189 (29.53%) Event-Driven
8 172 (26.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 169 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 156 (24.38%) Mentoring
11 147 (22.97%) Test Automation
12 115 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (17.50%) AI
14 106 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
15 103 (16.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 101 (15.78%) TDD
17 100 (15.63%) Scrum
18 95 (14.84%) BDD
19 93 (14.53%) Observability
20 81 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 633 (98.91%) Java
2 146 (22.81%) Python
3 124 (19.38%) SQL
4 107 (16.72%) TypeScript
5 84 (13.13%) JavaScript
6 35 (5.47%) Kotlin
7 31 (4.84%) Ruby
8 20 (3.13%) COBOL
8 20 (3.13%) Groovy
9 19 (2.97%) C#
10 16 (2.50%) Bash
11 14 (2.19%) JCL
12 10 (1.56%) RPG
13 9 (1.41%) C++
14 8 (1.25%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.94%) Scala
16 4 (0.63%) Go
17 3 (0.47%) C
18 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 139 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.91%) DV Cleared
5 53 (8.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.84%) Degree
7 15 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.16%) OCP
16 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.47%) QA
2 34 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.75%) WCAG
4 8 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 260 (40.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 235 (36.72%) Kubernetes
2 75 (11.72%) Ansible
3 24 (3.75%) Grafana
4 22 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.34%) HP Fortify
6 14 (2.19%) Kibana
7 9 (1.41%) Puppet
8 7 (1.09%) Packer
9 4 (0.63%) Argo
9 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (5.47%) Splunk
2 30 (4.69%) Oracle
3 27 (4.22%) Google
4 19 (2.97%) IBM
4 19 (2.97%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.50%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 14 (2.19%) SendGrid
8 13 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.41%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.09%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.78%) Peregrine
12 3 (0.47%) Solace
12 3 (0.47%) WSO2
13 2 (0.31%) Apple
13 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
13 2 (0.31%) TikTok
14 1 (0.16%) Guidewire