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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 240 333
Rank change year-on-year -101 +93 -36
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 601 655 604
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.32% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.02% 7.58% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 383 196 302
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,256
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.89% +6.00%

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 11,971 8,644 16,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.60% 17.40% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,646 5,554 10,883
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,236 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 10 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 10 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 -101 495 £75,000 +3.45% 473
UK excluding London -177 337 £70,000 +7.69% 296
London +3 233 £80,000 -3.03% 294
North of England -59 147 £73,750 -1.67% 81
Work from Home -175 139 £70,000 +7.69% 239
North West -50 88 £65,000 -17.52% 51
South West -57 59 £68,250 +13.75% 41
Wales -20 56 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire -2 50 £85,000 +13.33% 16
South East -65 32 £68,750 -1.79% 41
West Midlands -44 29 £62,500 -10.71% 28
Midlands -104 29 £62,500 - 37
Scotland -78 14 £88,000 +17.33% 60
North East -57 9 £50,000 -24.53% 14
Northern Ireland -80 8 £60,000 +9.09% 27
East of England -41 2 £58,750 - 5

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 (3.99%) Confluence
2 13 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.83%) Apache
3 11 (1.83%) Camunda
4 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.67%) CICS
5 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 365 (60.73%) AWS
2 178 (29.62%) Azure
3 130 (21.63%) Serverless
4 120 (19.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 111 (18.47%) GitHub
6 99 (16.47%) AWS Lambda
7 90 (14.98%) GCP
8 78 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
9 71 (11.81%) Amazon S3
10 68 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
12 36 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (4.49%) Apigee
15 25 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
17 19 (3.16%) SaaS
18 17 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.66%) AMQP
2 13 (2.16%) DMARC
3 10 (1.66%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (17.64%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (17.30%) NoSQL
3 59 (9.82%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.15%) MongoDB
5 53 (8.82%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.65%) MySQL
7 20 (3.33%) Redis
8 14 (2.33%) Db2
9 12 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.66%) DTS
11 9 (1.50%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.16%) Big Data
14 6 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
14 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.83%) Flink
16 4 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.67%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 137 (22.80%) Jenkins
2 88 (14.64%) GitLab
3 87 (14.48%) Git
4 48 (7.99%) Cucumber
5 43 (7.15%) JUnit
6 39 (6.49%) Maven
7 31 (5.16%) Cypress.io
8 27 (4.49%) Mockito
9 23 (3.83%) JIRA
10 21 (3.49%) SonarQube
11 19 (3.16%) Selenium
12 10 (1.66%) Gradle
12 10 (1.66%) JMeter
13 9 (1.50%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.16%) Postman
15 6 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.67%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.67%) IntelliJ
16 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 145 (24.13%) Finance
2 114 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 105 (17.47%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.82%) Banking
5 40 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.16%) Health Technology
8 13 (2.16%) Tech for Good
9 12 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.50%) Advertising
10 9 (1.50%) Front Office
11 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.00%) Publishing
12 5 (0.83%) Law
12 5 (0.83%) Retail
13 3 (0.50%) Back Office
13 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.50%) iGaming
13 3 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 249 (41.43%) Developer
2 179 (29.78%) Java Developer
3 163 (27.12%) Senior
4 146 (24.29%) Java Engineer
5 113 (18.80%) Software Engineer
6 89 (14.81%) Lead
7 75 (12.48%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 54 (8.99%) Senior Java Developer
10 52 (8.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.99%) Senior Java Engineer
12 46 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
14 39 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (5.32%) Principal Java Engineer
17 31 (5.16%) Architect
17 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.16%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 23 (3.83%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (92.51%) Spring
2 177 (29.45%) Kafka
3 125 (20.80%) Terraform
4 124 (20.63%) React
5 116 (19.30%) REST
6 115 (19.13%) AngularJS
7 107 (17.80%) RESTful
8 102 (16.97%) Node.js
9 66 (10.98%) Hibernate
10 62 (10.32%) JPA
11 48 (7.99%) RabbitMQ
12 39 (6.49%) OAuth
13 35 (5.82%) OAuth2
14 32 (5.32%) HTML
15 31 (5.16%) Jest
15 31 (5.16%) Ruby on Rails
16 30 (4.99%) .NET
17 25 (4.16%) Vue
18 24 (3.99%) CSS
19 22 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 190 (31.61%) Cloud Native
2 127 (21.13%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.15%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (7.15%) Public Cloud
6 38 (6.32%) e-Learning
7 33 (5.49%) Mainframe
8 32 (5.32%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.66%) EPoS
11 10 (1.66%) iSeries
12 9 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
14 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.00%) AI Agents
15 6 (1.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.00%) AIX
2 6 (1.00%) CentOS
2 6 (1.00%) Debian
2 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.50%) Windows
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (64.23%) CI/CD
2 341 (56.74%) Microservices
3 304 (50.58%) Agile
4 260 (43.26%) DevOps
5 198 (32.95%) Software Engineering
6 181 (30.12%) Containerisation
7 169 (28.12%) Event-Driven
8 167 (27.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 158 (26.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (24.29%) Test Automation
11 143 (23.79%) Mentoring
12 104 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 97 (16.14%) AI
13 97 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (15.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 94 (15.64%) TDD
16 89 (14.81%) BDD
17 88 (14.64%) Scrum
18 82 (13.64%) Observability
19 73 (12.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 596 (99.17%) Java
2 139 (23.13%) Python
3 124 (20.63%) SQL
4 93 (15.47%) TypeScript
5 85 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 35 (5.82%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.16%) Ruby
8 22 (3.66%) Groovy
9 19 (3.16%) C#
10 18 (3.00%) Bash
10 18 (3.00%) COBOL
11 12 (2.00%) JCL
12 10 (1.66%) C++
12 10 (1.66%) RPG
13 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.00%) Scala
15 4 (0.67%) Go
16 3 (0.50%) C
17 2 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.98%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.32%) DV Cleared
5 49 (8.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 33 (5.49%) Degree
7 15 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.17%) OCP
15 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.15%) QA
2 34 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.99%) WCAG
4 7 (1.16%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.00%) NCSC
6 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 240 (39.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (34.94%) Kubernetes
2 69 (11.48%) Ansible
3 22 (3.66%) Grafana
4 20 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.83%) HP Fortify
6 13 (2.16%) Kibana
7 8 (1.33%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Argo
8 3 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (5.32%) Splunk
2 29 (4.83%) Oracle
3 25 (4.16%) Google
4 18 (3.00%) IBM
5 17 (2.83%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.66%) OneLogin
7 14 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.16%) SendGrid
9 8 (1.33%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.00%) SaltStack
11 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.83%) Peregrine
12 4 (0.67%) WSO2
13 3 (0.50%) Solace
14 2 (0.33%) Apple
14 2 (0.33%) Pega
14 2 (0.33%) Rackspace
14 2 (0.33%) TikTok