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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 237 366
Rank change year-on-year -88 +129 -95
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 652 629 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.28% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.46% 7.61% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 415 177 262
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.00%

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 11,944 8,270 15,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 16.86% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,389 5,270 9,600
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -96 534 £75,000 +3.45% 516
UK excluding London -164 369 £67,500 - 314
London +17 247 £80,000 -20.00% 302
Work from Home -154 158 £67,500 +1.89% 261
North of England -63 150 £66,250 -3.64% 113
North West -62 95 £65,000 -7.14% 63
South West -31 72 £68,000 +4.62% 31
Wales -12 62 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Yorkshire -7 36 £85,000 +30.77% 25
West Midlands -54 33 £62,500 -10.71% 19
Midlands -106 33 £62,500 -3.85% 21
South East -73 29 £67,500 - 30
North East -57 19 £55,000 -16.98% 27
Scotland -75 15 £71,000 -2.07% 78
Northern Ireland -69 11 £60,000 +9.09% 21
East of England -52 2 £58,750 -6.00% 8

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 (3.68%) Confluence
2 15 (2.30%) Camunda
3 13 (1.99%) Apache
3 13 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.53%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.07%) CICS
6 4 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 406 (62.27%) AWS
2 189 (28.99%) Azure
3 135 (20.71%) GitHub
4 121 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 121 (18.56%) Serverless
5 97 (14.88%) GCP
6 90 (13.80%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (12.88%) GitHub Actions
8 71 (10.89%) Amazon S3
9 68 (10.43%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.91%) AWS Step Functions
13 31 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
15 24 (3.68%) SaaS
16 20 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (2.45%) Apigee
18 16 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.07%) AMQP
2 15 (2.30%) DMARC
3 13 (1.99%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (16.56%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.43%) MongoDB
4 56 (8.59%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.06%) MySQL
6 41 (6.29%) DynamoDB
7 18 (2.76%) Db2
8 16 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.15%) Redis
10 10 (1.53%) DTS
10 10 (1.53%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
12 7 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.07%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.61%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 135 (20.71%) Jenkins
2 94 (14.42%) GitLab
3 88 (13.50%) Git
4 57 (8.74%) Cucumber
5 48 (7.36%) JUnit
6 33 (5.06%) Maven
7 32 (4.91%) Mockito
8 26 (3.99%) Cypress.io
9 21 (3.22%) JIRA
10 15 (2.30%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.15%) Claude Code
11 14 (2.15%) Selenium
12 10 (1.53%) JMeter
13 7 (1.07%) Gradle
13 7 (1.07%) Postman
13 7 (1.07%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.77%) Gatling
General
1 162 (24.85%) Finance
2 130 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 122 (18.71%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.43%) Banking
5 47 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.76%) Tech for Good
9 16 (2.45%) Health Technology
10 14 (2.15%) Publishing
11 8 (1.23%) Front Office
11 8 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.77%) Advertising
13 5 (0.77%) Law
13 5 (0.77%) Retail
14 3 (0.46%) Back Office
14 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.46%) Marketing
14 3 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 250 (38.34%) Developer
2 179 (27.45%) Senior
3 175 (26.84%) Java Developer
4 148 (22.70%) Java Engineer
5 127 (19.48%) Software Engineer
6 103 (15.80%) Lead
7 76 (11.66%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 58 (8.90%) Principal Engineer
10 53 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
10 53 (8.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 49 (7.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 46 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 43 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (5.67%) Principal Java Engineer
15 36 (5.52%) Architect
16 35 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
17 32 (4.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 31 (4.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 24 (3.68%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 613 (94.02%) Spring
2 204 (31.29%) Kafka
3 144 (22.09%) Terraform
4 126 (19.33%) React
5 123 (18.87%) REST
6 111 (17.02%) RESTful
7 110 (16.87%) Node.js
8 90 (13.80%) AngularJS
9 69 (10.58%) Hibernate
10 61 (9.36%) JPA
11 51 (7.82%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (6.60%) OAuth
13 38 (5.83%) OAuth2
14 35 (5.37%) .NET
15 32 (4.91%) Ruby on Rails
16 31 (4.75%) HTML
17 26 (3.99%) Jest
18 23 (3.53%) CSS
18 23 (3.53%) OpenAPI
18 23 (3.53%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 227 (34.82%) Cloud Native
2 138 (21.17%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (11.50%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (7.82%) Public Cloud
5 50 (7.67%) Legacy Systems
6 45 (6.90%) e-Learning
7 44 (6.75%) Product Ownership
8 40 (6.13%) Mainframe
9 19 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (2.61%) Virtual Team
11 16 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.84%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.84%) Media Streaming
12 12 (1.84%) Podcast
13 10 (1.53%) EPoS
13 10 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.53%) iSeries
14 9 (1.38%) Digital Wallet
14 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.30%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) AIX
2 7 (1.07%) CentOS
2 7 (1.07%) Debian
2 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.46%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (68.56%) CI/CD
2 382 (58.59%) Microservices
3 342 (52.45%) Agile
4 294 (45.09%) DevOps
5 237 (36.35%) Software Engineering
6 211 (32.36%) Containerisation
7 193 (29.60%) Event-Driven
8 181 (27.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 167 (25.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 162 (24.85%) Mentoring
11 158 (24.23%) Test Automation
12 122 (18.71%) AI
12 122 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (16.87%) Scrum
15 108 (16.56%) TDD
16 106 (16.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 100 (15.34%) Observability
18 95 (14.57%) BDD
19 92 (14.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 644 (98.77%) Java
2 155 (23.77%) Python
3 117 (17.94%) SQL
4 105 (16.10%) TypeScript
5 82 (12.58%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.06%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.91%) Ruby
8 24 (3.68%) COBOL
9 19 (2.91%) C#
10 18 (2.76%) JCL
11 16 (2.45%) Groovy
12 12 (1.84%) Bash
13 10 (1.53%) RPG
14 7 (1.07%) C++
14 7 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.92%) Scala
16 4 (0.61%) Go
17 3 (0.46%) C
18 2 (0.31%) PHP
18 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 76 (11.66%) AWS Certification
4 62 (9.51%) DV Cleared
5 55 (8.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (3.83%) Degree
7 16 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
10 9 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
15 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.15%) OCP
16 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (11.66%) QA
2 37 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.83%) WCAG
4 7 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.92%) NCSC
6 2 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 277 (42.48%) Docker
2 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 257 (39.42%) Kubernetes
2 77 (11.81%) Ansible
3 29 (4.45%) Grafana
4 25 (3.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.69%) HP Fortify
6 9 (1.38%) Kibana
6 9 (1.38%) Puppet
7 6 (0.92%) Packer
8 4 (0.61%) Argo
8 4 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (5.83%) Splunk
2 32 (4.91%) Oracle
3 27 (4.14%) Google
4 18 (2.76%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.61%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.30%) IBM
6 15 (2.30%) SendGrid
7 14 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.99%) OpenAI
9 11 (1.69%) Broadcom
10 7 (1.07%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.07%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.46%) Adobe
11 3 (0.46%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.46%) Solace
12 2 (0.31%) Apple
12 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.31%) TikTok
12 2 (0.31%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) Okta