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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 213 300
Rank change year-on-year -139 +87 -15
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 463 702 982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.59% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 8.03% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 273 239 536
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,900 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £94,389 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £64,250
% change year-on-year -6.90% +12.84% -1.15%

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 9,345 8,741 21,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.77% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,931 5,723 16,222
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,850 £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 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 10 June 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 -104 425 £72,500 - 116
UK excluding London -181 229 £67,500 -6.90% 85
London +23 211 £77,500 -6.06% 47
North of England -55 137 £70,000 -17.89% 30
Work from Home -139 128 £70,000 -3.45% 67
North West -50 71 £65,000 -26.69% 12
Yorkshire -2 58 £75,000 -4.83% 12
South East -60 34 £75,000 +7.14% 11
South West -67 34 £60,000 -11.11% 20
Midlands -84 16 £51,250 -21.15% 3
West Midlands -43 15 £45,000 -36.84% 2
Wales -32 14 £51,619 +9.11% 6
North East -37 8 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Scotland -78 5 £65,000 -18.75% 6
East of England -28 1 £62,500 -24.24% 4

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 (3.02%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.38%) Confluence
3 8 (1.73%) Apache
4 7 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.08%) JBoss
6 3 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.43%) Liferay
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (54.21%) AWS
2 118 (25.49%) Serverless
3 91 (19.65%) Azure
4 82 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (17.49%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (15.55%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (14.47%) Amazon S3
8 50 (10.80%) AWS Step Functions
9 45 (9.72%) GitHub
10 42 (9.07%) Apigee
11 41 (8.86%) GCP
12 39 (8.42%) Amazon ECR
13 36 (7.78%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.89%) OpenShift
16 16 (3.46%) SaaS
17 13 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
18 11 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) DMARC
2 8 (1.73%) AMQP
3 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.22%) HTTP
4 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (15.33%) NoSQL
2 68 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (11.23%) DynamoDB
4 45 (9.72%) Relational Database
5 27 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.75%) MySQL
7 16 (3.46%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.81%) Redis
9 8 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.30%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.08%) Big Data
11 5 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.08%) DTS
11 5 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.86%) Db2
12 4 (0.86%) Flink
13 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 101 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 71 (15.33%) GitLab
3 57 (12.31%) Git
4 51 (11.02%) Maven
5 38 (8.21%) Cypress.io
6 33 (7.13%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.48%) JUnit
8 28 (6.05%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.54%) JIRA
10 20 (4.32%) Gradle
10 20 (4.32%) Mockito
11 13 (2.81%) Selenium
12 10 (2.16%) JMeter
13 7 (1.51%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.30%) Postman
15 3 (0.65%) Spock
16 2 (0.43%) ESLint
16 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
16 2 (0.43%) REST Assured
16 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (22.68%) Finance
2 67 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 55 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.75%) Banking
5 20 (4.32%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.67%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.24%) Advertising
7 15 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.02%) Billing
9 12 (2.59%) Front Office
10 9 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.94%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.73%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.51%) Games
13 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Law
14 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.43%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 228 (49.24%) Developer
2 180 (38.88%) Java Developer
3 129 (27.86%) Java Engineer
3 129 (27.86%) Senior
4 83 (17.93%) Software Engineer
5 66 (14.25%) Senior Developer
6 55 (11.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (11.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 51 (11.02%) Lead
9 47 (10.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 47 (10.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 45 (9.72%) Senior Java Engineer
11 26 (5.62%) Architect
11 26 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 25 (5.40%) Principal Engineer
13 24 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (4.54%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 21 (4.54%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (4.54%) Software Developer
15 20 (4.32%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (90.93%) Spring
2 134 (28.94%) AngularJS
3 111 (23.97%) React
4 104 (22.46%) REST
5 94 (20.30%) Kafka
6 67 (14.47%) RESTful
7 66 (14.25%) Node.js
8 39 (8.42%) Hibernate
9 34 (7.34%) Jest
10 33 (7.13%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.70%) HTML
11 31 (6.70%) Web Services
12 27 (5.83%) OAuth
12 27 (5.83%) Vue
13 25 (5.40%) JPA
14 21 (4.54%) CSS
14 21 (4.54%) OAuth2
14 21 (4.54%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.67%) Spring MVC
16 15 (3.24%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 98 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 62 (13.39%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 20 (4.32%) e-Learning
6 14 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.08%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.86%) EPoS
10 4 (0.86%) iSeries
11 3 (0.65%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.65%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.65%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.94%) Linux
2 6 (1.30%) Android
2 6 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.08%) CentOS
3 5 (1.08%) Debian
3 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.08%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.86%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 240 (51.84%) Microservices
3 213 (46.00%) Agile
4 180 (38.88%) DevOps
5 146 (31.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 132 (28.51%) Software Engineering
7 126 (27.21%) Containerisation
8 115 (24.84%) Mentoring
9 100 (21.60%) Test Automation
10 96 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 84 (18.14%) Event-Driven
12 81 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 79 (17.06%) TDD
14 68 (14.69%) Scrum
15 64 (13.82%) BDD
16 63 (13.61%) AI
17 58 (12.53%) SDLC
18 56 (12.10%) Clean Code
19 53 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
20 50 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 458 (98.92%) Java
2 88 (19.01%) JavaScript
3 86 (18.57%) SQL
4 74 (15.98%) TypeScript
5 72 (15.55%) Python
6 34 (7.34%) Groovy
7 32 (6.91%) Bash
8 29 (6.26%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.16%) Ruby
10 9 (1.94%) C#
11 8 (1.73%) C++
12 7 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.30%) PHP
14 5 (1.08%) Go
15 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.86%) RPG
16 2 (0.43%) C
17 1 (0.22%) Natural
17 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.88%) AWS Certification
3 53 (11.45%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.64%) Degree
5 27 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.75%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.54%) QA
2 8 (1.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.08%) WCAG
5 1 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 173 (37.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 146 (31.53%) Kubernetes
2 61 (13.17%) Terraform
3 33 (7.13%) Ansible
4 29 (6.26%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.81%) Kibana
6 12 (2.59%) Grafana
7 10 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.08%) Packer
8 5 (1.08%) Puppet
9 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.40%) Oracle
2 15 (3.24%) Splunk
3 13 (2.81%) Google
4 11 (2.38%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.94%) SendGrid
7 8 (1.73%) IBM
7 8 (1.73%) Solace
8 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.08%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.08%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.86%) OneLogin
10 4 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.65%) Revolut
11 3 (0.65%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.43%) Pega
12 2 (0.43%) TikTok
12 2 (0.43%) WSO2