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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 230 265
Rank change year-on-year -115 +35 +1
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 445 605 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.39% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.94% 6.95% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 247 251 571
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,125 £97,528 £93,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £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 9,005 8,699 20,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 19.99% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,614 6,119 15,728
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,063 £50,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,813
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -72 417 £70,250 -6.33% 151
UK excluding London -162 229 £69,200 -4.55% 105
London +8 191 £75,000 -9.09% 67
North of England -45 141 £71,250 -13.64% 48
Work from Home -120 128 £72,500 -5.73% 109
Yorkshire +1 72 £75,000 -2.48% 8
North West -57 62 £65,000 -26.69% 32
South West -54 40 £60,000 -7.69% 14
South East -58 37 £77,500 +10.71% 24
Midlands -95 15 £51,250 +7.89% 5
West Midlands -46 14 £45,000 -35.71% 3
North East -35 7 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Wales -27 5 £51,619 +21.40% 3
Scotland -71 4 £65,000 -23.76% 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 (3.15%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.92%) OpenStack
3 11 (2.47%) Apache
4 9 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.57%) Confluence
6 5 (1.12%) JBoss
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.67%) Liferay
8 2 (0.45%) Camunda
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 256 (57.53%) AWS
2 122 (27.42%) Serverless
3 82 (18.43%) Amazon ECS
4 81 (18.20%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (17.53%) Amazon S3
5 78 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 70 (15.73%) Azure
7 56 (12.58%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (11.69%) Apigee
9 49 (11.01%) Amazon ECR
10 41 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (8.76%) GCP
12 31 (6.97%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (4.72%) OpenShift
14 20 (4.49%) GitHub
15 16 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (3.37%) SaaS
17 8 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 6 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 5 (1.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.02%) AMQP
2 5 (1.12%) Internet
3 3 (0.67%) HTTP
4 2 (0.45%) DMARC
5 1 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.83%) NoSQL
2 64 (14.38%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (12.81%) DynamoDB
4 47 (10.56%) Relational Database
5 27 (6.07%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.04%) MySQL
6 18 (4.04%) RDBMS
7 10 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.25%) Redis
8 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.12%) Big Data
9 5 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.12%) NonStop SQL
9 5 (1.12%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.90%) Flink
11 3 (0.67%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.67%) DB2
11 3 (0.67%) DTS
11 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 105 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 73 (16.40%) GitLab
3 61 (13.71%) Maven
4 51 (11.46%) Git
5 47 (10.56%) Cypress.io
6 45 (10.11%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.07%) JUnit
8 21 (4.72%) Cucumber
8 21 (4.72%) Gradle
9 18 (4.04%) Mockito
10 17 (3.82%) JIRA
11 10 (2.25%) Selenium
12 8 (1.80%) JMeter
13 4 (0.90%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.67%) Postman
14 3 (0.67%) TestNG
15 2 (0.45%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.45%) ESLint
15 2 (0.45%) Liquibase
15 2 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 96 (21.57%) Finance
2 53 (11.91%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.94%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.60%) Banking
5 16 (3.60%) Billing
6 13 (2.92%) Financial Institution
7 11 (2.47%) Advertising
7 11 (2.47%) Front Office
8 9 (2.02%) Games
8 9 (2.02%) Tech for Good
9 8 (1.80%) Health Technology
9 8 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Digital Healthcare
14 2 (0.45%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 235 (52.81%) Developer
2 190 (42.70%) Java Developer
3 120 (26.97%) Senior
4 118 (26.52%) Java Engineer
5 81 (18.20%) Software Engineer
6 68 (15.28%) Senior Developer
7 57 (12.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 56 (12.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 51 (11.46%) Lead
10 48 (10.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (9.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (8.99%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (6.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 20 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
15 19 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (4.04%) Lead Developer
16 18 (4.04%) Software Developer
17 17 (3.82%) AWS Developer
17 17 (3.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 17 (3.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (89.21%) Spring
2 137 (30.79%) AngularJS
3 108 (24.27%) React
3 108 (24.27%) REST
4 82 (18.43%) Kafka
5 59 (13.26%) RESTful
6 51 (11.46%) Node.js
7 43 (9.66%) Gherkin
7 43 (9.66%) Hibernate
7 43 (9.66%) Jest
8 37 (8.31%) Web Services
9 33 (7.42%) HTML
10 25 (5.62%) Vue
11 24 (5.39%) JPA
12 21 (4.72%) CSS
12 21 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (4.49%) OAuth
14 18 (4.04%) JSON
15 16 (3.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 62 (13.93%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.15%) e-Learning
6 14 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.12%) IoT
11 3 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.67%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.67%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.45%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.45%) EPoS
12 2 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.02%) Linux
2 6 (1.35%) Android
2 6 (1.35%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.12%) CentOS
3 5 (1.12%) Debian
3 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (49.66%) CI/CD
2 220 (49.44%) Microservices
3 207 (46.52%) Agile
4 180 (40.45%) DevOps
5 144 (32.36%) Full-Stack Development
6 129 (28.99%) Software Engineering
7 111 (24.94%) Containerisation
8 103 (23.15%) Mentoring
9 98 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (17.30%) TDD
10 77 (17.30%) Test Automation
11 74 (16.63%) Scrum
12 65 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (13.71%) Event-Driven
14 59 (13.26%) SDLC
15 58 (13.03%) Clean Code
16 56 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (12.13%) AI
18 53 (11.91%) BDD
19 51 (11.46%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 442 (99.33%) Java
2 99 (22.25%) JavaScript
3 76 (17.08%) TypeScript
4 74 (16.63%) SQL
5 64 (14.38%) Python
6 43 (9.66%) Bash
6 43 (9.66%) Groovy
7 25 (5.62%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.57%) C#
8 7 (1.57%) C++
8 7 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.35%) PHP
10 5 (1.12%) Go
11 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.45%) C
12 2 (0.45%) RPG
12 2 (0.45%) Ruby
13 1 (0.22%) Korn
13 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.46%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 36 (8.09%) Degree
5 24 (5.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.39%) ITIL Certification
6 18 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.04%) QA
2 5 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.12%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 179 (40.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 156 (35.06%) Kubernetes
2 50 (11.24%) Terraform
3 41 (9.21%) HP Fortify
4 29 (6.52%) Ansible
5 11 (2.47%) Kibana
6 9 (2.02%) Grafana
6 9 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.12%) Packer
7 5 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (4.27%) Oracle
2 12 (2.70%) Google
3 11 (2.47%) Splunk
4 9 (2.02%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.57%) Red Hat
5 7 (1.57%) Solace
6 6 (1.35%) IBM
6 6 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 5 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.12%) Peregrine
7 5 (1.12%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.67%) Revolut
8 3 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.45%) Pega
9 2 (0.45%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.45%) WSO2
10 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.22%) Sitecore