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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 347 253
Rank change year-on-year -7 -94 0
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 387 382 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.88% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.78% 3.95% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 234 242 653
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,257 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +12.07% -8.10%
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -3.70%

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 8,093 9,668 18,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 22.17% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,935 6,675 15,098
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -4 361 £70,000 -15.15% 120
UK excluding London -13 210 £67,500 -10.00% 101
London -19 154 £75,000 -14.34% 40
Work from Home +35 135 £70,000 -17.89% 107
North of England +9 103 £70,500 -17.30% 44
Yorkshire -4 56 £75,000 +3.45% 10
South West -33 47 £65,000 -18.75% 11
North West +11 43 £67,500 -23.87% 23
South East -38 37 £75,000 +20.00% 24
Midlands -9 15 £50,100 -25.78% 10
West Midlands +15 12 £45,000 -35.71% 9
Scotland -35 9 £66,250 -17.19% 7
North East -20 4 £31,850 -42.09% 11
East of England +5 2 £62,500 -21.88% 2
Wales -7 2 £50,100 +17.83% 4
East Midlands -32 2 £47,600 -26.77% 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 17 (4.39%) Apache
2 14 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.62%) OpenStack
3 12 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.03%) Confluence
4 4 (1.03%) JBoss
5 3 (0.78%) Liferay
6 2 (0.52%) Camunda
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 242 (62.53%) AWS
2 99 (25.58%) Serverless
3 68 (17.57%) AWS Lambda
4 66 (17.05%) Amazon ECS
5 63 (16.28%) Azure
6 62 (16.02%) Amazon S3
7 52 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (11.37%) GCP
9 39 (10.08%) AWS Step Functions
10 38 (9.82%) Apigee
11 37 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (8.79%) Amazon ECR
14 30 (7.75%) OpenShift
15 28 (7.24%) GitHub
16 22 (5.68%) SaaS
17 18 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
19 9 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 5 (1.29%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.33%) AMQP
2 5 (1.29%) Internet
3 3 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (21.45%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (13.70%) NoSQL
3 49 (12.66%) Relational Database
4 41 (10.59%) DynamoDB
5 30 (7.75%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.43%) RDBMS
7 18 (4.65%) MySQL
8 13 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.55%) Big Data
10 6 (1.55%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.78%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.78%) Redis
14 2 (0.52%) DB2
14 2 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
15 1 (0.26%) DTS
15 1 (0.26%) Flink
15 1 (0.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 98 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 63 (16.28%) GitLab
3 55 (14.21%) Git
4 45 (11.63%) Maven
5 43 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 36 (9.30%) SonarQube
7 33 (8.53%) JUnit
8 22 (5.68%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.39%) Gradle
9 17 (4.39%) Mockito
10 13 (3.36%) Selenium
11 12 (3.10%) JIRA
12 8 (2.07%) JMeter
13 3 (0.78%) Postman
13 3 (0.78%) TestNG
14 2 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.52%) ESLint
14 2 (0.52%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 82 (21.19%) Finance
2 55 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.94%) Telecoms
5 21 (5.43%) Financial Institution
6 17 (4.39%) Billing
7 15 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.84%) Tech for Good
9 10 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 9 (2.33%) Front Office
10 9 (2.33%) Games
11 7 (1.81%) Advertising
11 7 (1.81%) Banking
12 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.78%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Marketing
15 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 207 (53.49%) Developer
2 166 (42.89%) Java Developer
3 111 (28.68%) Senior
4 80 (20.67%) Java Engineer
5 79 (20.41%) Software Engineer
6 64 (16.54%) Senior Developer
7 53 (13.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 44 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (11.37%) Lead
9 36 (9.30%) Senior Java Engineer
10 35 (9.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (8.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 29 (7.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 18 (4.65%) Backend Developer
13 18 (4.65%) Lead Developer
14 17 (4.39%) Lead Java Developer
14 17 (4.39%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.36%) Applications Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 12 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (88.89%) Spring
2 95 (24.55%) React
3 94 (24.29%) AngularJS
4 85 (21.96%) REST
5 70 (18.09%) Kafka
6 51 (13.18%) Node.js
7 50 (12.92%) RESTful
8 48 (12.40%) Hibernate
9 39 (10.08%) Jest
10 33 (8.53%) Gherkin
11 29 (7.49%) HTML
11 29 (7.49%) Web Services
12 26 (6.72%) JPA
13 25 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (5.68%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (4.91%) JSON
16 18 (4.65%) CSS
17 17 (4.39%) Spring MVC
18 16 (4.13%) XML
19 15 (3.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 89 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 54 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.07%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.29%) IoT
11 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.52%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.26%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
14 1 (0.26%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Linux
2 6 (1.55%) Android
2 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.29%) CentOS
3 5 (1.29%) Debian
3 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (53.49%) CI/CD
2 202 (52.20%) Microservices
3 199 (51.42%) Agile
4 179 (46.25%) DevOps
5 128 (33.07%) Software Engineering
6 124 (32.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 111 (28.68%) Containerisation
8 90 (23.26%) Mentoring
9 86 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (18.35%) TDD
11 64 (16.54%) Scrum
12 63 (16.28%) Test Automation
13 59 (15.25%) Event-Driven
14 55 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
16 49 (12.66%) SDLC
17 47 (12.14%) AI
18 46 (11.89%) BDD
19 39 (10.08%) Clean Code
19 39 (10.08%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 384 (99.22%) Java
2 95 (24.55%) JavaScript
3 72 (18.60%) TypeScript
4 70 (18.09%) Python
5 59 (15.25%) SQL
6 34 (8.79%) Bash
7 32 (8.27%) Groovy
8 25 (6.46%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.58%) Go
10 8 (2.07%) Delphi
11 6 (1.55%) PHP
11 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.29%) C#
13 2 (0.52%) R
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 60 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.79%) AWS Certification
3 28 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.46%) Degree
5 21 (5.43%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (4.39%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.39%) QA
2 7 (1.81%) NCSC
3 6 (1.55%) NIST
4 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 172 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 174 (44.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (9.82%) Terraform
3 33 (8.53%) HP Fortify
4 23 (5.94%) Ansible
5 21 (5.43%) Grafana
6 12 (3.10%) Kibana
7 11 (2.84%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.29%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Packer
9 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (6.20%) Oracle
2 13 (3.36%) Google
3 11 (2.84%) Splunk
4 7 (1.81%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.81%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.81%) Solace
5 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.29%) Pega
5 5 (1.29%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.29%) WSO2
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft
6 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.78%) Revolut
6 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.26%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.26%) Okta
7 1 (0.26%) SAP