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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 222 291
Rank change year-on-year -137 +69 -7
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 467 677 999
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.54% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.01% 7.86% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 273 240 539
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,950 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £94,083 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +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 9,319 8,608 21,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.10% 19.60% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,903 5,716 16,044
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +10.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 6 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 6 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 -95 430 £72,500 - 162
UK excluding London -184 236 £67,500 -6.90% 107
London +33 208 £77,500 -6.06% 76
North of England -53 140 £70,000 -17.89% 44
Work from Home -146 129 £70,000 -3.45% 76
North West -53 69 £65,000 -26.69% 25
Yorkshire +9 63 £75,000 -4.83% 14
South West -66 37 £64,200 -4.89% 18
South East -63 36 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Midlands -88 16 £51,250 -21.15% 4
West Midlands -54 15 £45,000 -36.84% 3
Wales -30 14 £51,619 +9.11% 11
North East -38 8 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -82 4 £65,000 -18.75% 6
East of England -33 1 £62,500 -24.24% 7

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 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.36%) Confluence
3 10 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.71%) Apache
5 7 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.07%) JBoss
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.64%) Liferay
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (55.46%) AWS
2 124 (26.55%) Serverless
3 87 (18.63%) Azure
4 85 (18.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (17.99%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (16.70%) Amazon ECS
7 71 (15.20%) Amazon S3
8 53 (11.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 46 (9.85%) Apigee
10 43 (9.21%) Amazon ECR
11 40 (8.57%) GCP
11 40 (8.57%) GitHub
12 39 (8.35%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (3.85%) OpenShift
15 15 (3.21%) SaaS
16 14 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 10 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.71%) AMQP
2 7 (1.50%) DMARC
3 2 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 71 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (11.78%) DynamoDB
4 45 (9.64%) Relational Database
5 28 (6.00%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.71%) MySQL
7 16 (3.43%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.57%) Redis
9 8 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.07%) Big Data
12 5 (1.07%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.07%) DTS
12 5 (1.07%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.86%) Db2
13 4 (0.86%) Flink
14 3 (0.64%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 106 (22.70%) Jenkins
2 75 (16.06%) GitLab
3 57 (12.21%) Git
4 54 (11.56%) Maven
5 42 (8.99%) Cypress.io
6 37 (7.92%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.42%) JUnit
8 28 (6.00%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.50%) Gradle
10 20 (4.28%) JIRA
11 19 (4.07%) Mockito
12 13 (2.78%) Selenium
13 10 (2.14%) JMeter
14 7 (1.50%) Claude Code
15 6 (1.28%) Postman
16 3 (0.64%) TestNG
17 2 (0.43%) Liquibase
17 2 (0.43%) Spock
17 2 (0.43%) Vagrant
17 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (22.27%) Finance
2 64 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 54 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 21 (4.50%) Banking
5 20 (4.28%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.64%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.21%) Advertising
7 15 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.00%) Billing
9 12 (2.57%) Front Office
10 9 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.93%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.71%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.50%) Games
12 7 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.43%) Law
16 2 (0.43%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 233 (49.89%) Developer
2 186 (39.83%) Java Developer
3 128 (27.41%) Senior
4 127 (27.19%) Java Engineer
5 82 (17.56%) Software Engineer
6 67 (14.35%) Senior Developer
7 57 (12.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (11.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 51 (10.92%) Lead
10 46 (9.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 46 (9.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (9.42%) Senior Java Engineer
12 28 (6.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (5.35%) Architect
13 25 (5.35%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (4.50%) Software Developer
16 20 (4.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 20 (4.28%) Principal Java Engineer
16 20 (4.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (90.58%) Spring
2 136 (29.12%) AngularJS
3 112 (23.98%) React
4 108 (23.13%) REST
5 95 (20.34%) Kafka
6 65 (13.92%) Node.js
7 64 (13.70%) RESTful
8 39 (8.35%) Hibernate
9 38 (8.14%) Jest
10 37 (7.92%) Gherkin
11 34 (7.28%) Web Services
12 31 (6.64%) HTML
13 25 (5.35%) OAuth
13 25 (5.35%) Vue
14 24 (5.14%) JPA
15 21 (4.50%) CSS
15 21 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (4.07%) OAuth2
17 18 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
18 17 (3.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 97 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 67 (14.35%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.50%) Public Cloud
5 20 (4.28%) e-Learning
6 14 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.57%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.07%) 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 (0.64%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.64%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.93%) Linux
2 6 (1.28%) Android
2 6 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.07%) CentOS
3 5 (1.07%) Debian
3 5 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.07%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.86%) Windows
5 2 (0.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (52.03%) Microservices
2 242 (51.82%) CI/CD
3 218 (46.68%) Agile
4 184 (39.40%) DevOps
5 151 (32.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 132 (28.27%) Software Engineering
7 122 (26.12%) Containerisation
8 112 (23.98%) Mentoring
9 99 (21.20%) Test Automation
10 96 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 84 (17.99%) TDD
12 82 (17.56%) Event-Driven
12 82 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 71 (15.20%) Scrum
14 66 (14.13%) BDD
15 64 (13.70%) AI
16 61 (13.06%) SDLC
17 57 (12.21%) Clean Code
18 53 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
19 51 (10.92%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 462 (98.93%) Java
2 91 (19.49%) JavaScript
3 87 (18.63%) SQL
4 78 (16.70%) TypeScript
5 70 (14.99%) Python
6 38 (8.14%) Groovy
7 36 (7.71%) Bash
8 28 (6.00%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.14%) Ruby
10 9 (1.93%) C#
11 8 (1.71%) C++
11 8 (1.71%) Go
12 7 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.28%) PHP
14 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.86%) RPG
15 2 (0.43%) C
16 1 (0.21%) COBOL
16 1 (0.21%) Natural
16 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 87 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.21%) AWS Certification
3 53 (11.35%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.57%) Degree
5 28 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.14%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.07%) QA
2 6 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.28%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 179 (38.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 149 (31.91%) Kubernetes
2 61 (13.06%) Terraform
3 35 (7.49%) Ansible
4 33 (7.07%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.78%) Kibana
6 12 (2.57%) Grafana
7 10 (2.14%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.07%) Packer
8 5 (1.07%) Puppet
9 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (5.57%) Oracle
2 15 (3.21%) Splunk
3 14 (3.00%) Google
4 11 (2.36%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.71%) IBM
6 8 (1.71%) Solace
7 7 (1.50%) SendGrid
8 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.07%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.07%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.07%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.64%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.64%) Revolut
11 3 (0.64%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.43%) Pega
12 2 (0.43%) TikTok
12 2 (0.43%) WSO2