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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 214 307
Rank change year-on-year -135 +93 -24
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 479 705 969
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.58% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.03% 8.07% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 286 239 532
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -0.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +15.08% -3.08%

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 9,532 8,731 21,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.59% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,115 5,717 16,403
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £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 £112,200 £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 17 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 17 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 -106 437 £72,500 - 293
UK excluding London -194 240 £67,500 -6.90% 312
London +4 216 £77,500 -6.06% 66
North of England -48 143 £70,000 -17.89% 79
Work from Home -140 131 £72,500 -1.69% 265
North West -47 74 £65,000 -26.69% 38
Yorkshire +4 61 £75,000 -4.83% 28
South East -59 35 £70,000 - 58
South West -67 35 £60,000 -12.73% 39
Wales -27 18 £70,000 +47.97% 24
Midlands -90 14 £60,000 -7.69% 28
West Midlands -44 13 £62,500 -10.71% 15
North East -44 8 £50,000 -31.03% 15
Scotland -86 5 £65,000 -18.75% 34
East of England -27 2 £67,500 -20.59% 33

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 16 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.71%) Confluence
3 10 (2.09%) Apache
4 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.04%) JBoss
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.42%) Liferay
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 266 (55.53%) AWS
2 125 (26.10%) Serverless
3 102 (21.29%) Azure
4 90 (18.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 89 (18.58%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (16.08%) Amazon ECS
7 72 (15.03%) Amazon S3
8 56 (11.69%) GitHub
9 52 (10.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 49 (10.23%) GCP
11 43 (8.98%) Apigee
12 40 (8.35%) Amazon ECR
13 39 (8.14%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (3.76%) OpenShift
17 17 (3.55%) SaaS
18 15 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
19 14 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
20 12 (2.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.30%) DMARC
2 9 (1.88%) AMQP
3 3 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (15.87%) NoSQL
2 70 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (11.48%) DynamoDB
4 44 (9.19%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.85%) MongoDB
6 24 (5.01%) MySQL
7 16 (3.34%) Redis
8 15 (3.13%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.46%) Big Data
11 7 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
12 6 (1.25%) DTS
12 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.04%) Db2
13 5 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.84%) Flink
15 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 2 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 106 (22.13%) Jenkins
2 76 (15.87%) GitLab
3 61 (12.73%) Git
4 51 (10.65%) Maven
5 39 (8.14%) Cypress.io
6 34 (7.10%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.26%) JUnit
8 29 (6.05%) Cucumber
9 22 (4.59%) JIRA
10 20 (4.18%) Gradle
11 19 (3.97%) Mockito
12 14 (2.92%) Selenium
13 10 (2.09%) JMeter
14 7 (1.46%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.46%) Postman
15 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.63%) Spock
16 2 (0.42%) Subversion
16 2 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 108 (22.55%) Finance
2 73 (15.24%) Social Skills
3 60 (12.53%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.01%) Banking
5 19 (3.97%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.55%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.92%) Advertising
8 13 (2.71%) Billing
9 12 (2.51%) Front Office
10 10 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.88%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.67%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.46%) Games
14 5 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.42%) Law
16 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.42%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 234 (48.85%) Developer
2 182 (38.00%) Java Developer
3 131 (27.35%) Senior
4 130 (27.14%) Java Engineer
5 85 (17.75%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.78%) Senior Developer
7 60 (12.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 56 (11.69%) Lead
9 53 (11.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (9.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (9.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (9.39%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (6.05%) Architect
12 29 (6.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 26 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (4.38%) Principal Java Engineer
16 20 (4.18%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 20 (4.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (4.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (90.61%) Spring
2 138 (28.81%) AngularJS
3 113 (23.59%) React
4 106 (22.13%) REST
5 103 (21.50%) Kafka
6 75 (15.66%) Node.js
7 74 (15.45%) RESTful
8 40 (8.35%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.31%) Jest
10 34 (7.10%) Gherkin
11 31 (6.47%) HTML
12 30 (6.26%) Web Services
13 29 (6.05%) OAuth
13 29 (6.05%) Vue
14 27 (5.64%) JPA
15 24 (5.01%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (4.80%) OAuth2
17 22 (4.59%) CSS
18 18 (3.76%) OpenAPI
18 18 (3.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 112 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 68 (14.20%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (4.80%) Public Cloud
5 21 (4.38%) e-Learning
6 15 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.46%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.04%) EPoS
10 5 (1.04%) iSeries
11 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.63%) IoT
12 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.63%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.63%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.30%) Linux
2 6 (1.25%) Android
2 6 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.25%) CentOS
2 6 (1.25%) Debian
2 6 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.25%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (54.07%) CI/CD
2 253 (52.82%) Microservices
3 224 (46.76%) Agile
4 192 (40.08%) DevOps
5 149 (31.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 140 (29.23%) Software Engineering
7 137 (28.60%) Containerisation
8 118 (24.63%) Mentoring
9 105 (21.92%) Test Automation
10 99 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (19.21%) Event-Driven
12 88 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (16.91%) TDD
14 70 (14.61%) Scrum
15 66 (13.78%) AI
15 66 (13.78%) BDD
16 60 (12.53%) SDLC
17 59 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
18 57 (11.90%) Clean Code
19 52 (10.86%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 474 (98.96%) Java
2 92 (19.21%) SQL
3 87 (18.16%) JavaScript
4 80 (16.70%) Python
5 76 (15.87%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.31%) Groovy
7 33 (6.89%) Bash
8 30 (6.26%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.51%) Ruby
10 10 (2.09%) C#
11 9 (1.88%) C++
12 7 (1.46%) PHP
12 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.04%) Go
13 5 (1.04%) RPG
14 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.63%) Scala
16 2 (0.42%) C
16 2 (0.42%) COBOL
17 1 (0.21%) Natural
Qualifications
1 89 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.32%) AWS Certification
3 57 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.35%) Degree
5 28 (5.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 28 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 23 (4.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.22%) QA
2 11 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.67%) WCAG
4 7 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 182 (38.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 154 (32.15%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.99%) Terraform
3 34 (7.10%) Ansible
4 30 (6.26%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.71%) Grafana
5 13 (2.71%) Kibana
6 11 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.25%) Puppet
8 5 (1.04%) Packer
9 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.43%) Oracle
2 18 (3.76%) Splunk
3 15 (3.13%) Google
4 12 (2.51%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.30%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.30%) SendGrid
6 9 (1.88%) IBM
7 8 (1.67%) Solace
8 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.25%) OneLogin
9 6 (1.25%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.04%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.63%) Revolut
11 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.42%) Pega
12 2 (0.42%) TikTok
12 2 (0.42%) WSO2