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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 231 321
Rank change year-on-year -128 +90 -21
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 533 705 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.44% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 7.97% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 345 241 437
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,271 8,848 18,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 18.02% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,657 5,833 13,542
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -113 466 £75,000 +3.45% 187
UK excluding London -165 286 £70,000 - 121
London +16 226 £80,000 -3.03% 100
North of England -54 145 £70,000 -11.18% 34
Work from Home -165 128 £70,000 -1.75% 87
North West -53 82 £65,000 -26.69% 16
Yorkshire +13 53 £75,000 +1.69% 8
South West -60 44 £67,500 -6.90% 13
Wales -10 42 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -66 34 £67,500 -3.57% 28
Midlands -102 18 £57,500 -9.09% 22
West Midlands -56 17 £56,250 -19.64% 17
North East -50 10 £50,000 -23.08% 10
Scotland -70 10 £65,000 -16.13% 18
East of England -20 3 £62,500 -26.47% 2

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 22 (4.13%) Confluence
2 14 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.50%) Camunda
4 7 (1.31%) Apache
4 7 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.75%) JBoss
5 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 312 (58.54%) AWS
2 142 (26.64%) Azure
3 137 (25.70%) Serverless
4 108 (20.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 101 (18.95%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (15.57%) GitHub
7 81 (15.20%) Amazon ECS
8 76 (14.26%) Amazon S3
9 66 (12.38%) GCP
10 48 (9.01%) AWS Step Functions
11 42 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
12 35 (6.57%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (6.57%) Apigee
13 30 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.56%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (3.00%) OpenShift
17 14 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (2.44%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.44%) DMARC
2 7 (1.31%) AMQP
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (16.89%) NoSQL
2 89 (16.70%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (10.51%) DynamoDB
4 51 (9.57%) Relational Database
5 41 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 39 (7.32%) MySQL
7 19 (3.56%) Redis
8 13 (2.44%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.06%) DTS
11 10 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.88%) Db2
11 10 (1.88%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.94%) Big Data
12 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.75%) Flink
14 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 118 (22.14%) Jenkins
2 81 (15.20%) GitLab
3 71 (13.32%) Git
4 42 (7.88%) Maven
5 37 (6.94%) Cucumber
6 36 (6.75%) Cypress.io
6 36 (6.75%) JUnit
7 28 (5.25%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.50%) JIRA
9 22 (4.13%) Mockito
10 20 (3.75%) Selenium
11 14 (2.63%) Gradle
12 10 (1.88%) JMeter
13 8 (1.50%) Claude Code
14 7 (1.31%) Postman
15 6 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
16 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.75%) Zephyr
17 3 (0.56%) Spock
General
1 121 (22.70%) Finance
2 87 (16.32%) Social Skills
3 86 (16.14%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.94%) Banking
5 26 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.81%) Front Office
8 14 (2.63%) Advertising
8 14 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.25%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.50%) Billing
10 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.13%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.94%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.75%) Retail
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 235 (44.09%) Developer
2 176 (33.02%) Java Developer
3 139 (26.08%) Java Engineer
4 136 (25.52%) Senior
5 87 (16.32%) Software Engineer
6 79 (14.82%) Lead
7 66 (12.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (12.01%) Senior Developer
9 51 (9.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
11 45 (8.44%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (7.88%) Java Software Engineer
13 39 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
14 34 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (5.82%) Architect
16 28 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (5.07%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 27 (5.07%) Principal Java Engineer
18 25 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
19 22 (4.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (91.37%) Spring
2 143 (26.83%) Kafka
3 133 (24.95%) AngularJS
4 113 (21.20%) REST
5 111 (20.83%) React
6 93 (17.45%) Node.js
7 91 (17.07%) RESTful
8 55 (10.32%) Hibernate
9 47 (8.82%) JPA
10 34 (6.38%) Jest
10 34 (6.38%) OAuth
11 32 (6.00%) HTML
12 31 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
13 30 (5.63%) OAuth2
14 29 (5.44%) Gherkin
15 28 (5.25%) Vue
16 26 (4.88%) Ruby on Rails
17 25 (4.69%) Web Services
18 23 (4.32%) CSS
19 16 (3.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 149 (27.95%) Cloud Native
2 96 (18.01%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (5.44%) Public Cloud
6 28 (5.25%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.50%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.94%) Mainframe
9 10 (1.88%) EPoS
9 10 (1.88%) iSeries
10 9 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.31%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.94%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.88%) Linux
2 5 (0.94%) AIX
2 5 (0.94%) Windows
3 4 (0.75%) CentOS
3 4 (0.75%) Debian
3 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (62.29%) CI/CD
2 301 (56.47%) Microservices
3 270 (50.66%) Agile
4 229 (42.96%) DevOps
5 171 (32.08%) Containerisation
6 159 (29.83%) Software Engineering
7 158 (29.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 133 (24.95%) Test Automation
9 132 (24.77%) Event-Driven
10 126 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 125 (23.45%) Mentoring
12 100 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (16.89%) TDD
14 83 (15.57%) Scrum
15 82 (15.38%) AI
16 77 (14.45%) BDD
17 72 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
18 69 (12.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (12.20%) Architectural Patterns
20 63 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 527 (98.87%) Java
2 119 (22.33%) Python
3 111 (20.83%) SQL
4 85 (15.95%) JavaScript
5 78 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 30 (5.63%) Groovy
7 29 (5.44%) Kotlin
8 26 (4.88%) Bash
8 26 (4.88%) Ruby
9 14 (2.63%) C#
10 10 (1.88%) RPG
11 9 (1.69%) C++
12 7 (1.31%) COBOL
12 7 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.94%) Go
14 4 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.75%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) C
15 2 (0.38%) PHP
16 1 (0.19%) Natural
Qualifications
1 106 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.95%) AWS Certification
3 65 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.88%) Degree
5 39 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 38 (7.13%) DV Cleared
7 20 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 20 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.75%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.19%) OCP
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.69%) QA
2 22 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.75%) WCAG
4 7 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.13%) NCSC
6 5 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 216 (40.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 188 (35.27%) Kubernetes
2 96 (18.01%) Terraform
3 43 (8.07%) Ansible
4 25 (4.69%) HP Fortify
5 15 (2.81%) Grafana
6 13 (2.44%) Kibana
6 13 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.94%) Packer
8 4 (0.75%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (4.88%) Oracle
2 23 (4.32%) Splunk
3 18 (3.38%) Google
4 16 (3.00%) IBM
4 16 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.44%) SendGrid
6 12 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 12 (2.25%) OneLogin
6 12 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.13%) Solace
8 5 (0.94%) AppDynamics
8 5 (0.94%) Peregrine
8 5 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.75%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.56%) WSO2
11 2 (0.38%) Pega
11 2 (0.38%) Revolut
11 2 (0.38%) TikTok
12 1 (0.19%) Workday