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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 234 334
Rank change year-on-year -107 +100 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 573 670 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.34% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.37% 7.97% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 370 208 338
10th Percentile £47,762 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 10,661 8,409 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 16.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 5,443 11,343
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -99 481 £75,000 +3.45% 316
UK excluding London -160 318 £70,000 +3.70% 221
London +9 231 £80,000 -3.03% 181
North of England -55 143 £72,000 -4.00% 67
Work from Home -167 131 £70,000 +3.70% 169
North West -54 84 £65,000 -17.52% 41
South West -43 55 £67,750 +12.92% 27
Wales -8 51 £70,000 +12.00% 9
Yorkshire +17 50 £77,500 +3.33% 10
South East -73 34 £68,750 -1.79% 33
West Midlands -47 24 £62,500 -10.71% 22
Midlands -105 24 £62,500 -1.19% 29
Scotland -87 14 £65,000 -14.75% 38
North East -54 9 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Northern Ireland -90 5 £60,000 +9.09% 14
East of England -40 2 £58,750 -30.88% 6

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 23 (4.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.75%) Apache
3 10 (1.75%) Camunda
4 9 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.70%) CICS
5 4 (0.70%) JBoss
5 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 338 (58.99%) AWS
2 167 (29.14%) Azure
3 133 (23.21%) Serverless
4 110 (19.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 106 (18.50%) GitHub
6 100 (17.45%) AWS Lambda
7 85 (14.83%) GCP
8 78 (13.61%) Amazon ECS
9 70 (12.22%) Amazon S3
10 62 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (7.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 33 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
14 29 (5.06%) Apigee
15 22 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.27%) DMARC
2 11 (1.92%) AMQP
3 6 (1.05%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (17.10%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (16.40%) NoSQL
3 58 (10.12%) Relational Database
4 54 (9.42%) DynamoDB
5 47 (8.20%) MongoDB
6 44 (7.68%) MySQL
7 19 (3.32%) Redis
8 14 (2.44%) Db2
9 12 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.75%) DTS
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.57%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.05%) Big Data
14 5 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.87%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.70%) Flink
16 3 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 133 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 82 (14.31%) GitLab
3 79 (13.79%) Git
4 42 (7.33%) JUnit
5 41 (7.16%) Cucumber
6 37 (6.46%) Maven
7 33 (5.76%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.54%) Mockito
9 23 (4.01%) JIRA
10 22 (3.84%) SonarQube
11 20 (3.49%) Selenium
12 11 (1.92%) Gradle
13 10 (1.75%) JMeter
14 8 (1.40%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.22%) Postman
16 6 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (23.73%) Finance
2 106 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.55%) Banking
5 31 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.14%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.75%) Advertising
9 10 (1.75%) Front Office
10 9 (1.57%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 5 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.87%) Law
11 5 (0.87%) Retail
12 4 (0.70%) Billing
12 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 238 (41.54%) Developer
2 172 (30.02%) Java Developer
3 145 (25.31%) Senior
4 139 (24.26%) Java Engineer
5 104 (18.15%) Software Engineer
6 91 (15.88%) Lead
7 68 (11.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (10.99%) Senior Developer
9 57 (9.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (8.03%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (8.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 43 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
12 42 (7.33%) Java Software Engineer
13 37 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (6.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (5.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 33 (5.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.41%) Architect
18 29 (5.06%) Principal Java Engineer
19 22 (3.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (91.80%) Spring
2 155 (27.05%) Kafka
3 121 (21.12%) AngularJS
4 119 (20.77%) React
5 111 (19.37%) REST
6 104 (18.15%) RESTful
7 102 (17.80%) Node.js
8 63 (10.99%) Hibernate
9 57 (9.95%) JPA
10 37 (6.46%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (6.11%) OAuth
12 34 (5.93%) HTML
13 33 (5.76%) Jest
14 31 (5.41%) OAuth2
14 31 (5.41%) Ruby on Rails
15 27 (4.71%) .NET
15 27 (4.71%) Vue
16 26 (4.54%) CSS
17 25 (4.36%) Web Services
18 23 (4.01%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 171 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 117 (20.42%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.03%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (7.85%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (6.46%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.58%) e-Learning
7 30 (5.24%) Mainframe
8 27 (4.71%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.75%) EPoS
9 10 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.75%) iSeries
10 9 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
11 8 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.92%) Linux
2 6 (1.05%) AIX
3 5 (0.87%) CentOS
3 5 (0.87%) Debian
3 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.52%) Windows
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (63.87%) CI/CD
2 322 (56.20%) Microservices
3 283 (49.39%) Agile
4 247 (43.11%) DevOps
5 180 (31.41%) Software Engineering
6 179 (31.24%) Containerisation
7 169 (29.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 150 (26.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 147 (25.65%) Event-Driven
10 139 (24.26%) Test Automation
11 132 (23.04%) Mentoring
12 99 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.88%) AI
13 91 (15.88%) TDD
14 85 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (14.49%) Scrum
16 81 (14.14%) BDD
16 81 (14.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 69 (12.04%) Observability
17 69 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 568 (99.13%) Java
2 143 (24.96%) Python
3 113 (19.72%) SQL
4 89 (15.53%) JavaScript
4 89 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 32 (5.58%) Kotlin
6 31 (5.41%) Ruby
7 24 (4.19%) Groovy
8 20 (3.49%) Bash
9 19 (3.32%) C#
10 15 (2.62%) COBOL
11 11 (1.92%) C++
12 10 (1.75%) RPG
13 9 (1.57%) JCL
14 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.87%) Scala
16 4 (0.70%) Go
17 3 (0.52%) C
18 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.04%) AWS Certification
4 51 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 44 (7.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.11%) Degree
7 16 (2.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.90%) QA
2 33 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.19%) WCAG
4 7 (1.22%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.05%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 232 (40.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 202 (35.25%) Kubernetes
2 117 (20.42%) Terraform
3 63 (10.99%) Ansible
4 19 (3.32%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.14%) Grafana
6 16 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.27%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Puppet
9 3 (0.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (4.89%) Splunk
2 26 (4.54%) Oracle
3 24 (4.19%) Google
4 17 (2.97%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.79%) IBM
5 16 (2.79%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.27%) SendGrid
8 12 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.87%) Broadcom
9 5 (0.87%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.70%) Solace
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.52%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Apple
12 2 (0.35%) Pega
12 2 (0.35%) Rackspace