Spring Boot Job Trends

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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 345 250
Rank change year-on-year +23 -95 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 372 475 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.71% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.10% 3.50% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 189 246 581
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,301 13,553 14,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 20.24% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,204 8,120 11,562
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,956 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 18 November 2025. 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 +22 302 £72,500 -6.45% 264
UK excluding London +58 228 £65,000 -3.70% 155
London -28 148 £100,000 +11.11% 136
Work from Home +57 107 £65,000 +8.33% 171
Scotland +15 66 £75,000 +22.45% 17
North of England +70 57 £66,250 -1.85% 47
South East +13 41 £67,500 +3.85% 32
North West +63 40 £65,000 +8.33% 29
South West +9 35 £62,500 -7.41% 30
Midlands +72 29 £62,500 +4.17% 19
West Midlands +72 22 £65,000 - 12
Yorkshire +12 13 £67,500 -12.90% 13
East Midlands +30 7 £57,500 -4.17% 7
North East +11 6 £65,000 - 5
East of England +19 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Wales -1 2 £58,850 -12.81% 3
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 6

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 17 (4.57%) Apache
2 12 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.69%) Confluence
4 8 (2.15%) Camunda
4 8 (2.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.61%) JBoss
5 6 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 294 (79.03%) AWS
2 83 (22.31%) Serverless
3 64 (17.20%) Azure
4 53 (14.25%) GCP
5 51 (13.71%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (12.63%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (11.56%) AWS Lambda
7 43 (11.56%) GitHub
8 40 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (10.48%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (4.84%) OpenShift
12 18 (4.84%) SaaS
13 14 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.42%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.61%) AWS KMS
16 6 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) AMQP
2 3 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (21.77%) Relational Database
3 59 (15.86%) MongoDB
4 48 (12.90%) NoSQL
5 32 (8.60%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.11%) MySQL
7 18 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.49%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.15%) CockroachDB
11 8 (2.15%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.88%) Redis
13 5 (1.34%) Big Data
14 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
15 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 82 (22.04%) Jenkins
2 62 (16.67%) Git
2 62 (16.67%) JUnit
3 39 (10.48%) Mockito
4 32 (8.60%) GitLab
5 23 (6.18%) JMeter
6 22 (5.91%) Maven
7 20 (5.38%) JIRA
8 18 (4.84%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.03%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.76%) Selenium
11 9 (2.42%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.61%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.61%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.61%) jMock
13 5 (1.34%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.34%) Gradle
13 5 (1.34%) Vite
14 4 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 181 (48.66%) Finance
2 98 (26.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (25.27%) Law
4 79 (21.24%) Social Skills
5 67 (18.01%) Banking
6 58 (15.59%) Public Sector
7 40 (10.75%) Marketing
8 37 (9.95%) Financial Institution
9 25 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.96%) Legal
12 7 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.34%) Electronics
13 5 (1.34%) Games
13 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.34%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.08%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.08%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (43.55%) Software Engineer
2 146 (39.25%) Developer
3 116 (31.18%) Java Engineer
4 110 (29.57%) Java Developer
5 87 (23.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 83 (22.31%) Senior
7 59 (15.86%) Lead
8 40 (10.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 37 (9.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 36 (9.68%) Senior Developer
11 35 (9.41%) Senior Java Engineer
12 34 (9.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 32 (8.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 29 (7.80%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (7.26%) Senior Java Developer
16 25 (6.72%) Backend Developer
17 23 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
18 22 (5.91%) Software Developer
19 21 (5.65%) Kafka Engineer
20 16 (4.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (92.74%) Spring
2 140 (37.63%) Kafka
3 115 (30.91%) React
4 90 (24.19%) RESTful
5 80 (21.51%) REST
6 61 (16.40%) AngularJS
7 60 (16.13%) Hibernate
8 49 (13.17%) Web Services
9 43 (11.56%) ActiveMQ
9 43 (11.56%) HTML
10 31 (8.33%) JPA
11 30 (8.06%) Node.js
12 29 (7.80%) Apache Camel
13 27 (7.26%) jQuery
14 26 (6.99%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (5.91%) JSON
15 22 (5.91%) WireMock
16 21 (5.65%) XML
17 19 (5.11%) RxJava
17 19 (5.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 136 (36.56%) Cloud Native
2 66 (17.74%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.41%) Algorithms
4 26 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (5.91%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.57%) Distributed Applications
6 17 (4.57%) Distributed Architecture
7 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.96%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.69%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.88%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.81%) Replication
13 3 (0.81%) Wiki
14 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.11%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) CentOS
3 2 (0.54%) Debian
3 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (69.89%) Agile
2 221 (59.41%) CI/CD
3 210 (56.45%) Software Engineering
4 208 (55.91%) Microservices
5 114 (30.65%) DevOps
6 110 (29.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (28.76%) TDD
8 104 (27.96%) SDLC
9 86 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (22.58%) Containerisation
11 74 (19.89%) BDD
12 69 (18.55%) Event-Driven
13 68 (18.28%) Fintech
13 68 (18.28%) Mentoring
14 65 (17.47%) Scrum
15 58 (15.59%) Operational Stability
16 57 (15.32%) AI
17 53 (14.25%) Test Automation
18 52 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
19 51 (13.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 371 (99.73%) Java
2 101 (27.15%) JavaScript
3 75 (20.16%) Python
4 72 (19.35%) SQL
5 62 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.53%) Shell Script
7 25 (6.72%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.69%) Go
9 8 (2.15%) Delphi
10 7 (1.88%) C#
10 7 (1.88%) Scala
11 5 (1.34%) C++
11 5 (1.34%) Rust
12 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.91%) Degree
5 15 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.84%) QA
2 10 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.61%) NCSC
3 6 (1.61%) NIST
4 3 (0.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 154 (41.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 214 (57.53%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.95%) Terraform
3 28 (7.53%) Kibana
4 14 (3.76%) Ansible
4 14 (3.76%) Grafana
5 11 (2.96%) Argo
6 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) Istio
8 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (15.59%) Oracle
2 38 (10.22%) Splunk
3 31 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 14 (3.76%) Google
5 13 (3.49%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.61%) SAP
7 5 (1.34%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.08%) IBM
8 4 (1.08%) Pega
8 4 (1.08%) WSO2
9 3 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.81%) Moogsoft
9 3 (0.81%) Solace
10 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.54%) Databricks
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.27%) Jaspersoft
11 1 (0.27%) Revolut