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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 224 317
Rank change year-on-year -130 +93 -21
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 524 700 797
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.42% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 7.90% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 339 236 445
10th Percentile £52,260 £49,000 £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 £94,083 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,240 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,218 8,861 18,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 18.01% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,644 5,854 13,720
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £102,500
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 21 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 21 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 -89 460 £75,000 +3.45% 173
UK excluding London -166 283 £70,000 - 101
London +27 221 £80,000 -3.03% 101
North of England -40 144 £70,000 -14.54% 30
Work from Home -172 129 £70,000 -3.45% 75
North West -54 81 £65,000 -26.69% 15
Yorkshire +10 53 £75,000 -2.48% 8
South West -61 45 £67,500 -1.82% 10
Wales -18 39 £70,000 +12.00% 5
South East -78 34 £68,750 -1.79% 25
Midlands -103 18 £57,500 -9.09% 18
West Midlands -44 17 £56,250 -21.05% 13
North East -42 10 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Scotland -76 10 £65,000 -16.13% 11
East of England -23 3 £62,500 -26.47%

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 21 (4.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.15%) Apache
3 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.15%) Camunda
4 4 (0.76%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 304 (58.02%) AWS
2 137 (26.15%) Azure
3 135 (25.76%) Serverless
4 107 (20.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 99 (18.89%) AWS Lambda
6 80 (15.27%) Amazon ECS
6 80 (15.27%) GitHub
7 76 (14.50%) Amazon S3
8 63 (12.02%) GCP
9 48 (9.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 39 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (6.68%) Amazon ECR
11 35 (6.68%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (6.68%) Apigee
12 30 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (3.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 17 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (2.86%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (2.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.48%) DMARC
2 7 (1.34%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) LTE
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 85 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (10.69%) DynamoDB
4 48 (9.16%) Relational Database
5 40 (7.63%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.87%) MySQL
7 19 (3.63%) Redis
8 13 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.10%) DTS
9 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.91%) Db2
11 5 (0.95%) Big Data
11 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.76%) Flink
13 3 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 114 (21.76%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.46%) GitLab
3 67 (12.79%) Git
4 42 (8.02%) Maven
5 37 (7.06%) Cucumber
6 34 (6.49%) Cypress.io
6 34 (6.49%) JUnit
7 28 (5.34%) SonarQube
8 23 (4.39%) JIRA
9 21 (4.01%) Mockito
10 20 (3.82%) Selenium
11 14 (2.67%) Gradle
12 10 (1.91%) JMeter
13 8 (1.53%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.34%) Postman
15 6 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.15%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.57%) Newman
General
1 118 (22.52%) Finance
2 83 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 81 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.49%) Banking
5 23 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.44%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.67%) Advertising
7 14 (2.67%) Front Office
8 12 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.10%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.53%) Billing
10 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.15%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.76%) Retail
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Games
15 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (44.08%) Developer
2 176 (33.59%) Java Developer
3 139 (26.53%) Java Engineer
4 133 (25.38%) Senior
5 87 (16.60%) Software Engineer
6 79 (15.08%) Lead
7 66 (12.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (11.83%) Senior Developer
9 51 (9.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 47 (8.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (8.59%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (8.21%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (7.44%) Principal Engineer
14 34 (6.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.92%) Architect
16 27 (5.15%) Principal Java Engineer
16 27 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (4.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 25 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
19 21 (4.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (91.41%) Spring
2 138 (26.34%) Kafka
3 132 (25.19%) AngularJS
4 112 (21.37%) REST
5 109 (20.80%) React
6 95 (18.13%) Node.js
7 85 (16.22%) RESTful
8 52 (9.92%) Hibernate
9 43 (8.21%) JPA
10 32 (6.11%) Jest
10 32 (6.11%) OAuth
11 30 (5.73%) HTML
11 30 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (5.53%) Gherkin
13 28 (5.34%) OAuth2
13 28 (5.34%) Vue
14 26 (4.96%) Web Services
15 24 (4.58%) Ruby on Rails
16 21 (4.01%) CSS
17 16 (3.05%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 142 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 93 (17.75%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.82%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (6.11%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (5.53%) Public Cloud
6 28 (5.34%) e-Learning
7 21 (4.01%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.82%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.91%) EPoS
9 10 (1.91%) iSeries
10 9 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
13 5 (0.95%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.76%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.91%) Linux
2 5 (0.95%) Windows
3 4 (0.76%) AIX
3 4 (0.76%) CentOS
3 4 (0.76%) Debian
3 4 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (61.83%) CI/CD
2 293 (55.92%) Microservices
3 263 (50.19%) Agile
4 224 (42.75%) DevOps
5 166 (31.68%) Containerisation
6 159 (30.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 154 (29.39%) Software Engineering
8 129 (24.62%) Test Automation
9 128 (24.43%) Event-Driven
10 123 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 121 (23.09%) Mentoring
12 98 (18.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (16.79%) TDD
14 80 (15.27%) Scrum
15 77 (14.69%) AI
16 75 (14.31%) BDD
17 69 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
18 66 (12.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (12.40%) Architectural Patterns
20 62 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 518 (98.85%) Java
2 116 (22.14%) Python
3 109 (20.80%) SQL
4 82 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.73%) Groovy
7 29 (5.53%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.96%) Bash
9 24 (4.58%) Ruby
10 13 (2.48%) C#
11 10 (1.91%) RPG
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 7 (1.34%) COBOL
13 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.95%) Go
15 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Scala
16 2 (0.38%) C
16 2 (0.38%) PHP
17 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 103 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.17%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.82%) Degree
5 39 (7.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (7.25%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 20 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.06%) QA
2 20 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.44%) WCAG
4 7 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.15%) NCSC
6 5 (0.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 212 (40.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 184 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.13%) Terraform
3 43 (8.21%) Ansible
4 25 (4.77%) HP Fortify
5 14 (2.67%) Grafana
6 13 (2.48%) Kibana
7 12 (2.29%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.95%) Packer
9 4 (0.76%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (4.77%) Oracle
2 22 (4.20%) Splunk
3 16 (3.05%) Google
4 15 (2.86%) IBM
4 15 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.48%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.10%) OpenAI
8 10 (1.91%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.15%) Solace
10 5 (0.95%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.95%) Peregrine
10 5 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.76%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.57%) WSO2
13 2 (0.38%) Pega
13 2 (0.38%) Revolut
13 2 (0.38%) TikTok
14 1 (0.19%) Workday