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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 226 321
Rank change year-on-year -124 +95 -30
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 537 705 762
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.44% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 8.01% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 345 240 420
10th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £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 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,648 £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 10,354 8,804 17,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 17.92% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,676 5,808 12,993
10th Percentile £40,688 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 25 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 25 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 -96 468 £75,000 +3.45% 172
UK excluding London -170 287 £70,000 - 111
London +9 228 £80,000 -3.03% 93
North of England -48 146 £70,000 -11.18% 32
Work from Home -177 127 £70,000 - 82
North West -58 82 £65,000 -26.69% 15
Yorkshire +6 54 £75,000 +1.69% 7
South West -63 45 £67,500 -1.82% 12
Wales -13 42 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -87 32 £67,500 -3.57% 27
Midlands -109 18 £57,500 -9.09% 21
West Midlands -50 17 £56,250 -19.64% 16
Scotland -76 11 £65,000 -16.13% 14
North East -46 10 £50,000 -23.08% 10
East of England -24 3 £62,500 -26.47% 1

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 22 (4.10%) Confluence
2 14 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.49%) Apache
3 8 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.49%) Camunda
4 4 (0.74%) JBoss
4 4 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.37%) 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 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 318 (59.22%) AWS
2 145 (27.00%) Azure
3 138 (25.70%) Serverless
4 108 (20.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 102 (18.99%) AWS Lambda
6 84 (15.64%) GitHub
7 82 (15.27%) Amazon ECS
8 77 (14.34%) Amazon S3
9 68 (12.66%) GCP
10 49 (9.12%) AWS Step Functions
11 42 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (6.89%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (6.70%) Amazon ECR
13 36 (6.70%) Apigee
14 30 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 17 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (2.79%) OpenShift
18 14 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
19 13 (2.42%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.42%) DMARC
2 8 (1.49%) AMQP
3 3 (0.56%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.76%) NoSQL
1 90 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (10.61%) DynamoDB
3 50 (9.31%) Relational Database
4 43 (8.01%) MongoDB
5 40 (7.45%) MySQL
6 20 (3.72%) Redis
7 12 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.23%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.05%) DTS
8 11 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.86%) Db2
10 5 (0.93%) Big Data
10 5 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.74%) Flink
12 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 121 (22.53%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.08%) GitLab
3 70 (13.04%) Git
4 42 (7.82%) Maven
5 37 (6.89%) Cypress.io
5 37 (6.89%) JUnit
6 36 (6.70%) Cucumber
7 29 (5.40%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.47%) JIRA
9 22 (4.10%) Mockito
10 21 (3.91%) Selenium
11 13 (2.42%) Gradle
12 10 (1.86%) JMeter
13 8 (1.49%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.30%) Postman
15 6 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.56%) Newman
General
1 121 (22.53%) Finance
2 88 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 86 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.89%) Banking
5 26 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.35%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.79%) Front Office
8 14 (2.61%) Advertising
8 14 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.23%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.30%) Billing
10 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.12%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.93%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.93%) Retail
13 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (43.95%) Developer
2 176 (32.77%) Java Developer
3 139 (25.88%) Java Engineer
4 138 (25.70%) Senior
5 89 (16.57%) Software Engineer
6 79 (14.71%) Lead
7 68 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (11.92%) Senior Developer
9 52 (9.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (8.38%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
13 38 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (6.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.77%) Architect
16 29 (5.40%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (5.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 26 (4.84%) Principal Java Engineer
19 25 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
20 22 (4.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (91.25%) Spring
2 145 (27.00%) Kafka
3 133 (24.77%) AngularJS
4 114 (21.23%) React
5 113 (21.04%) REST
6 95 (17.69%) Node.js
7 92 (17.13%) RESTful
8 57 (10.61%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.31%) JPA
10 36 (6.70%) Jest
11 35 (6.52%) OAuth
12 32 (5.96%) HTML
12 32 (5.96%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (5.77%) OAuth2
14 30 (5.59%) Gherkin
15 28 (5.21%) Vue
16 26 (4.84%) Ruby on Rails
17 25 (4.66%) Web Services
18 23 (4.28%) CSS
19 16 (2.98%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 152 (28.31%) Cloud Native
2 98 (18.25%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.38%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 27 (5.03%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.47%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.91%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.86%) EPoS
9 10 (1.86%) iSeries
10 9 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.86%) Linux
2 5 (0.93%) AIX
2 5 (0.93%) Windows
3 4 (0.74%) CentOS
3 4 (0.74%) Debian
3 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (62.94%) CI/CD
2 304 (56.61%) Microservices
3 273 (50.84%) Agile
4 234 (43.58%) DevOps
5 173 (32.22%) Containerisation
6 162 (30.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 162 (30.17%) Software Engineering
7 136 (25.33%) Test Automation
8 135 (25.14%) Event-Driven
9 128 (23.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (23.09%) Mentoring
11 101 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (16.95%) TDD
13 84 (15.64%) AI
14 82 (15.27%) Scrum
15 76 (14.15%) BDD
16 72 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
17 71 (13.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 65 (12.10%) Architectural Patterns
19 64 (11.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 531 (98.88%) Java
2 124 (23.09%) Python
3 111 (20.67%) SQL
4 87 (16.20%) JavaScript
5 82 (15.27%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.77%) Groovy
7 29 (5.40%) Kotlin
8 27 (5.03%) Bash
9 26 (4.84%) Ruby
10 15 (2.79%) C#
11 10 (1.86%) C++
11 10 (1.86%) RPG
12 7 (1.30%) COBOL
12 7 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.93%) Go
14 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.74%) Scala
15 2 (0.37%) C
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
16 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 107 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.85%) AWS Certification
3 65 (12.10%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.82%) Degree
5 38 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 38 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 21 (3.91%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.01%) QA
2 24 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.72%) WCAG
4 7 (1.30%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.12%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 221 (41.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 191 (35.57%) Kubernetes
2 98 (18.25%) Terraform
3 44 (8.19%) Ansible
4 26 (4.84%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.79%) Grafana
6 13 (2.42%) Kibana
6 13 (2.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.93%) Packer
8 4 (0.74%) Puppet
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (4.84%) Oracle
2 23 (4.28%) Splunk
3 18 (3.35%) Google
4 16 (2.98%) IBM
4 16 (2.98%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.42%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.23%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.23%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.23%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.12%) Solace
8 5 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.93%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.74%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.56%) WSO2
11 2 (0.37%) Pega
11 2 (0.37%) Revolut
11 2 (0.37%) TikTok
12 1 (0.19%) Workday