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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 235 355
Rank change year-on-year -102 +120 -77
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 641 654 555
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.32% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.33% 7.69% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 405 195 301
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,750 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.37% - +8.00%

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 12,017 8,504 16,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 17.18% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8,550 5,442 10,365
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,938 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 26 September 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 -95 529 £75,000 +3.45% 641
UK excluding London -175 360 £67,750 +0.37% 406
London +8 248 £80,000 -15.79% 363
North of England -55 154 £72,250 +3.21% 139
Work from Home -165 150 £68,000 +4.62% 326
North West -53 97 £65,000 -7.14% 85
South West -39 66 £68,000 +13.33% 58
Wales -8 59 £70,000 +12.00% 16
Yorkshire -3 46 £85,000 +25.93% 26
South East -77 33 £68,750 -1.79% 39
West Midlands -51 32 £62,500 -10.71% 27
Midlands -106 32 £62,500 -2.34% 39
Scotland -75 15 £71,000 +3.27% 83
North East -58 11 £53,750 -18.87% 28
Northern Ireland -87 9 £60,000 +9.09% 26
East of England -45 2 £58,750 -6.00% 6

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 24 (3.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.03%) Apache
4 12 (1.87%) Camunda
5 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.78%) CICS
6 5 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.47%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) JBoss
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 395 (61.62%) AWS
2 186 (29.02%) Azure
3 129 (20.12%) Serverless
4 123 (19.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 122 (19.03%) GitHub
6 96 (14.98%) AWS Lambda
7 92 (14.35%) GCP
8 76 (11.86%) Amazon ECS
9 75 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (10.92%) Amazon S3
11 40 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
12 38 (5.93%) AWS Step Functions
13 31 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
16 22 (3.43%) Amazon ECR
16 22 (3.43%) Apigee
17 21 (3.28%) SaaS
18 20 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
19 16 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.81%) AMQP
2 15 (2.34%) DMARC
3 11 (1.72%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (17.00%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (15.91%) NoSQL
3 63 (9.83%) MongoDB
4 61 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.33%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.18%) MySQL
7 17 (2.65%) Redis
8 16 (2.50%) Db2
9 13 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.56%) DTS
10 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.25%) Big Data
12 7 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
12 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.09%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.78%) Flink
15 4 (0.62%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 139 (21.68%) Jenkins
2 90 (14.04%) GitLab
3 89 (13.88%) Git
4 52 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 42 (6.55%) JUnit
6 35 (5.46%) Maven
7 28 (4.37%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.06%) Mockito
9 20 (3.12%) JIRA
10 16 (2.50%) Selenium
10 16 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 14 (2.18%) Claude Code
12 11 (1.72%) JMeter
13 8 (1.25%) Gradle
14 7 (1.09%) Postman
15 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.78%) Bitbucket
16 5 (0.78%) Eclipse
16 5 (0.78%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (24.02%) Finance
2 122 (19.03%) Social Skills
3 120 (18.72%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.61%) Banking
5 42 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (3.43%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 14 (2.18%) Health Technology
9 14 (2.18%) Publishing
10 12 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.40%) Front Office
12 7 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.94%) Advertising
14 5 (0.78%) Law
14 5 (0.78%) Retail
15 3 (0.47%) Back Office
15 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Marketing
15 3 (0.47%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 256 (39.94%) Developer
2 177 (27.61%) Java Developer
3 174 (27.15%) Senior
4 152 (23.71%) Java Engineer
5 130 (20.28%) Software Engineer
6 96 (14.98%) Lead
7 78 (12.17%) Senior Developer
8 69 (10.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (8.58%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (8.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 52 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 48 (7.49%) Senior Java Engineer
13 43 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
13 43 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 40 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (5.77%) Principal Java Engineer
16 33 (5.15%) Architect
17 32 (4.99%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 31 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 23 (3.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 597 (93.14%) Spring
2 200 (31.20%) Kafka
3 139 (21.68%) React
3 139 (21.68%) Terraform
4 124 (19.34%) REST
5 108 (16.85%) RESTful
6 107 (16.69%) AngularJS
7 106 (16.54%) Node.js
8 67 (10.45%) Hibernate
9 61 (9.52%) JPA
10 51 (7.96%) RabbitMQ
11 41 (6.40%) OAuth
12 36 (5.62%) OAuth2
13 32 (4.99%) Ruby on Rails
14 31 (4.84%) .NET
14 31 (4.84%) HTML
15 28 (4.37%) Jest
16 22 (3.43%) CSS
16 22 (3.43%) OpenAPI
16 22 (3.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 207 (32.29%) Cloud Native
2 138 (21.53%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (9.83%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (7.49%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (7.33%) Public Cloud
6 42 (6.55%) e-Learning
7 37 (5.77%) Product Ownership
8 36 (5.62%) Mainframe
9 15 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
10 14 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.18%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.87%) Media Streaming
11 12 (1.87%) Podcast
12 11 (1.72%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.56%) EPoS
13 10 (1.56%) iSeries
14 9 (1.40%) Digital Wallet
14 9 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.94%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.34%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) AIX
2 7 (1.09%) CentOS
2 7 (1.09%) Debian
2 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (64.59%) CI/CD
2 366 (57.10%) Microservices
3 327 (51.01%) Agile
4 277 (43.21%) DevOps
5 231 (36.04%) Software Engineering
6 201 (31.36%) Containerisation
7 191 (29.80%) Event-Driven
8 172 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 171 (26.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 159 (24.80%) Mentoring
11 150 (23.40%) Test Automation
12 116 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (17.63%) AI
14 106 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (16.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 102 (15.91%) TDD
17 101 (15.76%) Scrum
18 95 (14.82%) BDD
18 95 (14.82%) Observability
19 82 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 633 (98.75%) Java
2 146 (22.78%) Python
3 122 (19.03%) SQL
4 106 (16.54%) TypeScript
5 83 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 33 (5.15%) Kotlin
7 32 (4.99%) Ruby
8 20 (3.12%) COBOL
9 19 (2.96%) C#
10 18 (2.81%) Groovy
11 14 (2.18%) Bash
11 14 (2.18%) JCL
12 10 (1.56%) RPG
13 9 (1.40%) C++
14 8 (1.25%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.94%) Scala
16 4 (0.62%) Go
17 3 (0.47%) C
18 2 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 138 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 77 (12.01%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.23%) AWS Certification
4 57 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 52 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (4.84%) Degree
7 15 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.47%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.16%) OCP
15 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (11.08%) QA
2 35 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.90%) WCAG
4 8 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (0.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 258 (40.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 236 (36.82%) Kubernetes
2 75 (11.70%) Ansible
3 25 (3.90%) Grafana
4 23 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.18%) Kibana
6 13 (2.03%) HP Fortify
7 9 (1.40%) Puppet
8 7 (1.09%) Packer
9 4 (0.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (5.62%) Splunk
2 31 (4.84%) Oracle
3 27 (4.21%) Google
4 19 (2.96%) IBM
4 19 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.65%) OneLogin
6 15 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.34%) SendGrid
7 13 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.40%) Broadcom
9 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.09%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.78%) Peregrine
11 3 (0.47%) Solace
11 3 (0.47%) WSO2
12 2 (0.31%) Apple
12 2 (0.31%) Rackspace
12 2 (0.31%) TikTok
13 1 (0.16%) Guidewire