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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 348 260
Rank change year-on-year +11 -88 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 371 481 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.71% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.04% 3.51% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 187 251 578
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,364 13,706 13,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 20.33% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,260 8,241 11,383
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,281
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 21 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 21 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 +31 301 £70,000 -9.68% 275
UK excluding London +49 226 £65,000 -3.70% 162
London -16 149 £100,000 +11.11% 143
Work from Home +62 106 £65,000 +8.33% 165
Scotland +25 66 £75,000 +22.45% 16
North of England +55 57 £65,000 -3.70% 51
North West +60 40 £65,000 +1.96% 33
South East +20 40 £67,500 +3.85% 44
South West +4 36 £62,500 -7.41% 24
Midlands +81 27 £62,500 +4.17% 20
West Midlands +66 20 £63,750 - 15
Yorkshire +8 14 £66,250 -14.52% 12
East Midlands +34 7 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East +13 5 £65,000 - 6
East of England +26 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Wales 0 2 £58,850 -12.81% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 5

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 18 (4.85%) Apache
2 13 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.16%) Camunda
3 8 (2.16%) Confluence
3 8 (2.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (1.62%) JBoss
4 6 (1.62%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 292 (78.71%) AWS
2 81 (21.83%) Serverless
3 65 (17.52%) Azure
4 53 (14.29%) GCP
5 51 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
6 47 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (11.05%) GitHub
8 35 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (9.16%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (4.85%) OpenShift
11 18 (4.85%) SaaS
12 12 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.43%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (1.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 5 (1.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) AMQP
2 3 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (26.95%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (21.83%) Relational Database
3 60 (16.17%) MongoDB
4 49 (13.21%) NoSQL
5 32 (8.63%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.12%) MySQL
7 13 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.50%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.70%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.16%) CockroachDB
11 8 (2.16%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.89%) Redis
13 5 (1.35%) Big Data
14 4 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
15 3 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
15 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 79 (21.29%) Jenkins
2 60 (16.17%) Git
3 59 (15.90%) JUnit
4 36 (9.70%) Mockito
5 32 (8.63%) GitLab
6 23 (6.20%) JMeter
7 19 (5.12%) Maven
8 18 (4.85%) Cucumber
8 18 (4.85%) JIRA
9 15 (4.04%) Cypress.io
10 14 (3.77%) Selenium
11 6 (1.62%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.62%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.35%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.35%) Gradle
12 5 (1.35%) Vite
13 4 (1.08%) Babel
13 4 (1.08%) git-flow
13 4 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 180 (48.52%) Finance
2 98 (26.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (25.34%) Law
4 79 (21.29%) Social Skills
5 68 (18.33%) Banking
6 53 (14.29%) Public Sector
7 40 (10.78%) Marketing
8 37 (9.97%) Financial Institution
9 24 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (3.23%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.96%) Legal
12 7 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.35%) Electronics
13 5 (1.35%) Games
13 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.35%) Tech for Good
14 4 (1.08%) Private Banking
14 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.08%) Wholesale Banking
15 3 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 161 (43.40%) Software Engineer
2 146 (39.35%) Developer
3 115 (31.00%) Java Engineer
4 109 (29.38%) Java Developer
5 86 (23.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 82 (22.10%) Senior
7 58 (15.63%) Lead
8 40 (10.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 37 (9.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 37 (9.97%) Senior Developer
10 34 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (8.89%) Senior Java Engineer
12 32 (8.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 30 (8.09%) Lead Software Engineer
14 28 (7.55%) Senior Java Developer
15 26 (7.01%) Backend Developer
16 22 (5.93%) Software Developer
17 21 (5.66%) Kafka Engineer
17 21 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
18 15 (4.04%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (92.72%) Spring
2 141 (38.01%) Kafka
3 113 (30.46%) React
4 88 (23.72%) RESTful
5 77 (20.75%) REST
6 59 (15.90%) Hibernate
7 58 (15.63%) AngularJS
8 44 (11.86%) Web Services
9 43 (11.59%) HTML
10 40 (10.78%) ActiveMQ
11 30 (8.09%) Node.js
12 29 (7.82%) Apache Camel
12 29 (7.82%) JPA
13 27 (7.28%) jQuery
14 26 (7.01%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (5.93%) JSON
15 22 (5.93%) WireMock
16 21 (5.66%) XML
17 19 (5.12%) RxJava
18 18 (4.85%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 137 (36.93%) Cloud Native
2 65 (17.52%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (9.43%) Algorithms
4 27 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (5.93%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.58%) Distributed Applications
7 16 (4.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.96%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.89%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.81%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.81%) Replication
14 3 (0.81%) Wiki
15 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.31%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) CentOS
3 2 (0.54%) Debian
3 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (69.00%) Agile
2 221 (59.57%) CI/CD
3 209 (56.33%) Software Engineering
4 205 (55.26%) Microservices
5 114 (30.73%) DevOps
6 110 (29.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 104 (28.03%) SDLC
7 104 (28.03%) TDD
8 86 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (21.56%) Containerisation
10 71 (19.14%) BDD
11 70 (18.87%) Event-Driven
12 69 (18.60%) Fintech
13 67 (18.06%) Mentoring
14 62 (16.71%) Scrum
15 58 (15.63%) AI
15 58 (15.63%) Operational Stability
16 53 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 52 (14.02%) Machine Learning
18 51 (13.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 370 (99.73%) Java
2 102 (27.49%) JavaScript
3 75 (20.22%) Python
4 72 (19.41%) SQL
5 60 (16.17%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.55%) Shell Script
7 25 (6.74%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.70%) Go
9 8 (2.16%) Delphi
10 7 (1.89%) C#
10 7 (1.89%) Scala
11 5 (1.35%) C++
11 5 (1.35%) Rust
12 4 (1.08%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.54%) Groovy
13 2 (0.54%) R
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.47%) AWS Certification
4 22 (5.93%) Degree
5 15 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (2.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.58%) QA
2 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.62%) NCSC
3 6 (1.62%) NIST
4 3 (0.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 153 (41.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 215 (57.95%) Kubernetes
2 35 (9.43%) Terraform
3 28 (7.55%) Kibana
4 14 (3.77%) Ansible
5 13 (3.50%) Grafana
6 11 (2.96%) Argo
7 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) Istio
8 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (15.63%) Oracle
2 38 (10.24%) Splunk
3 31 (8.36%) Dynatrace
4 14 (3.77%) Google
5 10 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.62%) SAP
7 5 (1.35%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.08%) IBM
8 4 (1.08%) Pega
8 4 (1.08%) WSO2
9 3 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.81%) Moogsoft
9 3 (0.81%) Solace
10 2 (0.54%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.54%) Databricks
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.27%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.27%) Revolut
11 1 (0.27%) Veracode