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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 369 262
Rank change year-on-year +38 -107 -40
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 387 444 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.66% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 3.28% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 190 229 591
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 7,446 13,533 14,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.33% 20.15% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,103 8,100 11,775
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% -

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 11 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 11 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 +22 316 £72,500 -4.29% 251
UK excluding London +79 244 £65,000 - 143
London -5 148 £100,000 +11.11% 134
Work from Home +63 109 £65,000 +8.33% 171
North of England +65 67 £66,250 -1.85% 43
Scotland +31 67 £75,000 +22.45% 14
North West +52 50 £65,000 - 27
South East +11 44 £67,500 +1.89% 40
South West +7 36 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Midlands +79 29 £62,500 +4.17% 19
West Midlands +66 22 £65,000 - 14
Yorkshire +9 13 £67,500 -6.90% 10
East Midlands +32 7 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East +14 6 £65,000 - 6
East of England +17 3 £62,500 -7.41% 2
Northern Ireland -6 2 £45,000 -23.40% 5
Wales -6 2 £58,850 -12.81% 4

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 15 (3.88%) Apache
2 13 (3.36%) Confluence
3 10 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.07%) Camunda
4 8 (2.07%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (1.81%) JBoss
6 6 (1.55%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 303 (78.29%) AWS
2 84 (21.71%) Serverless
3 65 (16.80%) Azure
4 54 (13.95%) GCP
5 52 (13.44%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (12.66%) Amazon EKS
7 46 (11.89%) GitHub
8 43 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (10.59%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (10.34%) Amazon S3
11 23 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (4.91%) OpenShift
13 17 (4.39%) SaaS
14 14 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
16 7 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.81%) AWS KMS
16 7 (1.81%) Route 53
17 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) AMQP
1 4 (1.03%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) Broadband
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (27.65%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (21.45%) Relational Database
3 63 (16.28%) MongoDB
4 51 (13.18%) NoSQL
5 32 (8.27%) RDBMS
6 21 (5.43%) MySQL
7 18 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 16 (4.13%) DynamoDB
9 14 (3.62%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.07%) CockroachDB
11 8 (2.07%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.81%) Redis
13 5 (1.29%) Big Data
14 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 85 (21.96%) Jenkins
2 66 (17.05%) JUnit
3 65 (16.80%) Git
4 41 (10.59%) Mockito
5 34 (8.79%) GitLab
6 24 (6.20%) JIRA
6 24 (6.20%) Maven
7 23 (5.94%) JMeter
8 21 (5.43%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.39%) Selenium
10 15 (3.88%) Cypress.io
11 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (1.81%) DbUnit
12 7 (1.81%) jMock
13 6 (1.55%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.29%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.29%) Gradle
14 5 (1.29%) Vite
15 4 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 187 (48.32%) Finance
2 98 (25.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (24.29%) Law
4 81 (20.93%) Social Skills
5 66 (17.05%) Banking
6 60 (15.50%) Public Sector
7 40 (10.34%) Marketing
8 38 (9.82%) Financial Institution
9 28 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.10%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.84%) Legal
12 7 (1.81%) Games
12 7 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.29%) Electronics
13 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.29%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.03%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.03%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 168 (43.41%) Software Engineer
2 149 (38.50%) Developer
3 120 (31.01%) Java Engineer
4 112 (28.94%) Java Developer
5 92 (23.77%) Java Software Engineer
6 90 (23.26%) Senior
7 58 (14.99%) Lead
8 42 (10.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 40 (10.34%) Senior Developer
10 37 (9.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 36 (9.30%) Senior Java Engineer
12 32 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
13 30 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 28 (7.24%) Lead Software Engineer
14 28 (7.24%) Senior Java Developer
15 26 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (6.46%) Software Developer
17 24 (6.20%) Backend Developer
18 21 (5.43%) Kafka Engineer
19 17 (4.39%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (92.25%) Spring
2 147 (37.98%) Kafka
3 115 (29.72%) React
4 96 (24.81%) RESTful
5 83 (21.45%) REST
6 65 (16.80%) AngularJS
7 58 (14.99%) Hibernate
8 52 (13.44%) Web Services
9 46 (11.89%) ActiveMQ
10 43 (11.11%) HTML
11 31 (8.01%) Node.js
12 30 (7.75%) Apache Camel
13 29 (7.49%) JPA
13 29 (7.49%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (6.98%) jQuery
15 22 (5.68%) JSON
15 22 (5.68%) WireMock
16 21 (5.43%) RxJava
16 21 (5.43%) SOAP
16 21 (5.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (33.59%) Cloud Native
2 69 (17.83%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.04%) Algorithms
4 24 (6.20%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.39%) Distributed Applications
7 15 (3.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 12 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.84%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.58%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.81%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.55%) Wiki
14 4 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.78%) Replication
16 2 (0.52%) e-Learning
16 2 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) CentOS
3 2 (0.52%) Debian
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (69.77%) Agile
2 223 (57.62%) CI/CD
3 221 (57.11%) Software Engineering
4 220 (56.85%) Microservices
5 119 (30.75%) DevOps
6 117 (30.23%) TDD
7 112 (28.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 107 (27.65%) SDLC
9 85 (21.96%) Containerisation
9 85 (21.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (20.41%) BDD
11 71 (18.35%) Mentoring
12 70 (18.09%) Scrum
13 69 (17.83%) Event-Driven
14 67 (17.31%) Fintech
15 58 (14.99%) Operational Stability
16 56 (14.47%) Test Automation
17 55 (14.21%) AI
18 53 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
19 52 (13.44%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 386 (99.74%) Java
2 102 (26.36%) JavaScript
3 75 (19.38%) SQL
4 73 (18.86%) Python
5 60 (15.50%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.24%) Shell Script
7 25 (6.46%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.07%) Delphi
8 8 (2.07%) Go
9 7 (1.81%) C#
9 7 (1.81%) C++
9 7 (1.81%) Scala
10 5 (1.29%) Rust
11 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.78%) Groovy
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.94%) AWS Certification
3 23 (5.94%) Degree
4 16 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.17%) QA
2 9 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.55%) NCSC
3 6 (1.55%) NIST
4 4 (1.03%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 162 (41.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 222 (57.36%) Kubernetes
2 37 (9.56%) Terraform
3 28 (7.24%) Kibana
4 16 (4.13%) Ansible
5 15 (3.88%) Grafana
6 11 (2.84%) Argo
7 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (15.50%) Oracle
2 39 (10.08%) Splunk
3 31 (8.01%) Dynatrace
4 14 (3.62%) Atlassian
4 14 (3.62%) Google
5 6 (1.55%) IBM
5 6 (1.55%) SAP
6 5 (1.29%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.03%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.03%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.03%) Moogsoft
7 4 (1.03%) Pega
7 4 (1.03%) WSO2
8 3 (0.78%) Solace
9 2 (0.52%) Databricks
9 2 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.52%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.26%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.26%) Veracode