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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 335 242
Rank change year-on-year -9 -93 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 355 436 947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.86% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.77% 3.92% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 222 248 682
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £79,569 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +12.74% -8.93%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.30% -2.31%

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 7,440 11,112 17,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.43% 21.92% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,477 6,597 14,395
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +9 334 £70,000 -12.50% 146
UK excluding London -7 192 £65,000 -3.70% 110
London -17 143 £82,500 -5.83% 69
Work from Home +36 130 £68,400 -14.04% 73
North of England +33 84 £70,000 -12.50% 25
South West -10 48 £65,000 -13.33% 23
Yorkshire +1 44 £75,000 +7.14% 5
South East -33 38 £75,000 +20.00% 40
North West +41 36 £67,500 -15.63% 20
Midlands +21 15 £50,100 -25.78% 9
West Midlands +35 12 £45,000 -35.71% 7
Scotland -38 7 £78,750 -1.03% 9
East of England +25 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -3 4 £55,200 +0.36%
East Midlands -9 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -1 1 £55,200 +16.68% 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 21 (5.92%) Apache
2 13 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) Liferay
6 2 (0.56%) Camunda
6 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 238 (67.04%) AWS
2 93 (26.20%) Serverless
3 65 (18.31%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (17.46%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (16.34%) Amazon S3
6 53 (14.93%) Azure
7 40 (11.27%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (10.42%) GCP
10 33 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (8.45%) Apigee
12 27 (7.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 25 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (7.04%) SaaS
14 24 (6.76%) OpenShift
15 22 (6.20%) GitHub
16 18 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.41%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.54%) AMQP
2 5 (1.41%) Internet
3 4 (1.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (21.97%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (11.83%) NoSQL
3 41 (11.55%) Relational Database
4 36 (10.14%) MongoDB
5 29 (8.17%) DynamoDB
6 19 (5.35%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.10%) MySQL
7 11 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.69%) Big Data
9 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.56%) DB2
12 2 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.28%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (24.23%) Jenkins
2 57 (16.06%) Git
3 54 (15.21%) GitLab
4 40 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.14%) Maven
6 32 (9.01%) JUnit
7 28 (7.89%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.07%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.79%) JIRA
10 16 (4.51%) Mockito
11 12 (3.38%) Gradle
12 11 (3.10%) JMeter
12 11 (3.10%) Selenium
13 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.41%) Vite
14 3 (0.85%) Postman
14 3 (0.85%) TestNG
15 2 (0.56%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.56%) ESLint
15 2 (0.56%) Liquibase
General
1 77 (21.69%) Finance
2 56 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 41 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 18 (5.07%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.66%) Billing
7 11 (3.10%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.82%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.25%) Banking
10 8 (2.25%) Games
11 4 (1.13%) Advertising
11 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.85%) Front Office
12 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Law
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 175 (49.30%) Developer
2 133 (37.46%) Java Developer
3 97 (27.32%) Senior
4 84 (23.66%) Software Engineer
5 78 (21.97%) Java Engineer
6 50 (14.08%) Senior Developer
7 47 (13.24%) Lead
8 41 (11.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 40 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 39 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (8.73%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (8.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 26 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (6.48%) Backend Developer
15 18 (5.07%) Lead Developer
16 17 (4.79%) Lead Java Developer
17 15 (4.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 14 (3.94%) Software Developer
19 13 (3.66%) Technical Leader
20 12 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (90.14%) Spring
2 97 (27.32%) React
3 81 (22.82%) REST
4 75 (21.13%) Kafka
5 70 (19.72%) AngularJS
6 45 (12.68%) Hibernate
6 45 (12.68%) Node.js
6 45 (12.68%) RESTful
7 38 (10.70%) Jest
8 30 (8.45%) HTML
9 29 (8.17%) Web Services
10 27 (7.61%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (7.04%) Gherkin
12 23 (6.48%) ActiveMQ
12 23 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (5.63%) JPA
14 18 (5.07%) JSON
15 16 (4.51%) Apache Camel
15 16 (4.51%) CSS
15 16 (4.51%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 96 (27.04%) Cloud Native
2 58 (16.34%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.97%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.41%) IoT
11 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.28%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.97%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Android
2 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.41%) CentOS
3 5 (1.41%) Debian
3 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (54.65%) Microservices
2 188 (52.96%) Agile
3 187 (52.68%) CI/CD
4 156 (43.94%) DevOps
5 132 (37.18%) Software Engineering
6 117 (32.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 89 (25.07%) Containerisation
8 81 (22.82%) Mentoring
9 77 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (19.44%) TDD
11 58 (16.34%) Event-Driven
11 58 (16.34%) Scrum
12 51 (14.37%) BDD
13 49 (13.80%) SDLC
14 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
15 46 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (12.39%) Fintech
16 44 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
17 41 (11.55%) Collaborative Culture
18 40 (11.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 352 (99.15%) Java
2 93 (26.20%) JavaScript
3 69 (19.44%) TypeScript
4 67 (18.87%) Python
5 45 (12.68%) SQL
6 26 (7.32%) Bash
7 24 (6.76%) Groovy
8 17 (4.79%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.82%) Go
10 9 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.25%) Delphi
12 6 (1.69%) PHP
13 4 (1.13%) C#
14 2 (0.56%) R
14 2 (0.56%) Ruby
15 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 59 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.92%) Degree
5 19 (5.35%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.35%) QA
2 7 (1.97%) NCSC
3 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 157 (44.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 167 (47.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.89%) Terraform
3 25 (7.04%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.92%) Ansible
5 17 (4.79%) Grafana
6 15 (4.23%) Kibana
7 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.41%) Puppet
9 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
10 1 (0.28%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (7.04%) Oracle
2 15 (4.23%) Google
2 15 (4.23%) Splunk
3 9 (2.54%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.97%) Atlassian
4 7 (1.97%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.69%) Solace
6 5 (1.41%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.13%) Pega
7 4 (1.13%) WSO2
8 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.85%) Revolut
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.28%) IBM
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.28%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.28%) Okta
9 1 (0.28%) SAP