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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 331 268
Rank change year-on-year -22 -63 -2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 422 390 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.92% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 4.66% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 235 262 590
10th Percentile £51,710 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,398 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,200 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +11.54% -

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 8,745 8,364 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.73% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 6,401 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 30 April 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 30 April 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 0 392 £70,000 -9.68% 106
UK excluding London -80 221 £69,200 -4.55% 82
London -4 171 £75,000 -9.09% 51
Work from Home 0 136 £71,250 -9.59% 94
North of England +2 129 £72,500 -14.83% 28
Yorkshire -15 70 £77,500 -1.66% 2
North West -13 51 £67,500 -23.87% 19
South West -51 43 £62,500 -3.85% 13
South East -69 35 £80,000 +18.52% 22
Midlands -27 17 £45,000 -5.26% 5
West Midlands -9 15 £45,000 -23.40% 3
North East -28 8 £50,100 -8.91% 7
Wales -26 5 £51,619 +21.40% 2
Scotland -53 4 £65,000 -18.75% 5
East of England -25 1 £62,500 -24.24% 4
East Midlands -54 1 £55,200 +16.21% 2

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 14 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.08%) Apache
3 12 (2.84%) OpenStack
4 11 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.18%) JBoss
6 4 (0.95%) Confluence
7 3 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.71%) Liferay
8 2 (0.47%) Camunda
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 250 (59.24%) AWS
2 110 (26.07%) Serverless
3 78 (18.48%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (17.54%) Amazon ECS
4 74 (17.54%) Amazon S3
5 71 (16.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (14.93%) Azure
7 53 (12.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (12.09%) Apigee
9 48 (11.37%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (9.48%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (8.77%) GCP
12 29 (6.87%) OpenShift
13 26 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (5.69%) GitHub
15 17 (4.03%) SaaS
16 13 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.18%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.13%) AMQP
2 5 (1.18%) Internet
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.64%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (14.93%) NoSQL
3 55 (13.03%) DynamoDB
4 44 (10.43%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.92%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.74%) MySQL
7 16 (3.79%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.13%) Redis
11 6 (1.42%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.18%) Big Data
12 5 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.95%) Flink
13 4 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (0.71%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 103 (24.41%) Jenkins
2 74 (17.54%) GitLab
3 59 (13.98%) Git
4 57 (13.51%) Maven
5 45 (10.66%) Cypress.io
5 45 (10.66%) SonarQube
6 31 (7.35%) JUnit
7 25 (5.92%) Cucumber
8 20 (4.74%) Gradle
9 18 (4.27%) Selenium
10 16 (3.79%) JIRA
11 14 (3.32%) Mockito
12 4 (0.95%) JMeter
13 3 (0.71%) Postman
13 3 (0.71%) TestNG
14 2 (0.47%) Checkstyle
14 2 (0.47%) ESLint
14 2 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
15 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 90 (21.33%) Finance
2 56 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.21%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.79%) Billing
7 14 (3.32%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.08%) Banking
9 11 (2.61%) Advertising
9 11 (2.61%) Front Office
10 9 (2.13%) Games
10 9 (2.13%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.90%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.71%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.47%) Law
16 2 (0.47%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 233 (55.21%) Developer
2 184 (43.60%) Java Developer
3 116 (27.49%) Senior
4 108 (25.59%) Java Engineer
5 71 (16.82%) Senior Developer
5 71 (16.82%) Software Engineer
6 55 (13.03%) Senior Java Developer
7 49 (11.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 47 (11.14%) Lead
9 41 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
10 36 (8.53%) Senior Java Engineer
11 35 (8.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (6.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 21 (4.98%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.03%) Lead Developer
15 16 (3.79%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.79%) Lead Java Developer
16 15 (3.55%) Backend Developer
17 14 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
18 13 (3.08%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (88.86%) Spring
2 131 (31.04%) AngularJS
3 107 (25.36%) React
4 99 (23.46%) REST
5 71 (16.82%) Kafka
6 56 (13.27%) RESTful
7 44 (10.43%) Node.js
8 42 (9.95%) Gherkin
8 42 (9.95%) Jest
9 37 (8.77%) Hibernate
10 33 (7.82%) Web Services
11 30 (7.11%) HTML
12 27 (6.40%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (6.16%) JPA
14 23 (5.45%) Vue
15 22 (5.21%) CSS
16 21 (4.98%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (4.27%) Spring MVC
18 16 (3.79%) JSON
19 15 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 74 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 52 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.61%) e-Learning
8 8 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.18%) IoT
11 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.71%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.71%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.47%) Client/Server
13 2 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.42%) Android
2 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.18%) CentOS
3 5 (1.18%) Debian
3 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (51.18%) CI/CD
2 196 (46.45%) Agile
3 195 (46.21%) Microservices
4 180 (42.65%) DevOps
5 131 (31.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 123 (29.15%) Software Engineering
7 109 (25.83%) Containerisation
8 97 (22.99%) Mentoring
9 93 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (17.77%) Test Automation
11 74 (17.54%) TDD
12 69 (16.35%) Scrum
13 62 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 61 (14.45%) Event-Driven
15 58 (13.74%) Secure Coding
16 56 (13.27%) Clean Code
17 55 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
18 54 (12.80%) SDLC
19 51 (12.09%) BDD
20 48 (11.37%) AI
Programming Languages
1 420 (99.53%) Java
2 95 (22.51%) JavaScript
3 75 (17.77%) SQL
4 74 (17.54%) TypeScript
5 66 (15.64%) Python
6 42 (9.95%) Bash
7 41 (9.72%) Groovy
8 25 (5.92%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.90%) Delphi
10 7 (1.66%) Go
11 6 (1.42%) PHP
12 5 (1.18%) C#
13 4 (0.95%) C++
13 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.71%) Ruby
14 3 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.47%) C
16 1 (0.24%) Korn
16 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.90%) AWS Certification
3 39 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 34 (8.06%) Degree
5 24 (5.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.69%) ITIL Certification
6 23 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.79%) QA
2 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.95%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 175 (41.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 155 (36.73%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.37%) Terraform
3 41 (9.72%) HP Fortify
4 27 (6.40%) Ansible
5 17 (4.03%) Grafana
6 9 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.66%) Kibana
8 5 (1.18%) Packer
8 5 (1.18%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (5.69%) Oracle
2 11 (2.61%) Google
3 7 (1.66%) Red Hat
3 7 (1.66%) Solace
4 6 (1.42%) Splunk
5 5 (1.18%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.18%) Peregrine
5 5 (1.18%) SaltStack
6 4 (0.95%) IBM
7 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.71%) Revolut
7 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.47%) Pega
8 2 (0.47%) WSO2
9 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.24%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.24%) Okta