Spring Boot Job Trends

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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 353 246
Rank change year-on-year -6 -107 -21
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 322 478 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.74% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 3.53% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 187 254 587
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,900 £47,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 7,003 13,551 13,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.93% 20.90% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,121 8,229 11,114
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +36 281 £71,000 -5.33% 100
UK excluding London +31 194 £65,000 -3.70% 105
London -27 130 £100,000 +11.11% 41
Work from Home +58 106 £65,000 -3.70% 54
North of England +50 64 £66,250 -8.62% 20
South East +15 38 £67,500 +8.00% 39
Scotland -3 38 £72,500 +5.45% 12
North West +61 37 £65,000 -10.34% 13
South West -5 33 £62,500 -7.41% 17
Midlands +72 25 £58,000 -3.33% 10
Yorkshire +11 24 £70,000 -9.68% 6
West Midlands +71 18 £62,500 - 9
East Midlands +28 7 £57,500 -4.17% 1
North East +16 5 £65,000 +18.18% 1
East of England +29 3 £62,500 -7.41%
Wales -2 1 £55,200 -18.22% 3

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 (4.97%) Apache
2 10 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.48%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.55%) Camunda
5 4 (1.24%) JBoss
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.93%) Confluence
7 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 251 (77.95%) AWS
2 78 (24.22%) Serverless
3 55 (17.08%) Azure
4 54 (16.77%) Amazon ECS
5 47 (14.60%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (13.04%) GCP
7 39 (12.11%) Amazon S3
8 32 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (9.01%) GitHub
10 20 (6.21%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.59%) SaaS
12 17 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.80%) Apigee
15 9 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
17 7 (2.17%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) AMQP
1 4 (1.24%) HTTP
2 3 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (25.47%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (18.94%) Relational Database
3 48 (14.91%) MongoDB
4 39 (12.11%) NoSQL
5 27 (8.39%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.04%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.73%) MySQL
8 11 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.42%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.55%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.24%) Redis
11 3 (0.93%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.93%) Big Data
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 77 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 53 (16.46%) Git
3 50 (15.53%) JUnit
4 36 (11.18%) GitLab
5 30 (9.32%) Mockito
6 23 (7.14%) JMeter
7 21 (6.52%) Cypress.io
7 21 (6.52%) Maven
8 17 (5.28%) Cucumber
9 14 (4.35%) JIRA
10 10 (3.11%) Selenium
10 10 (3.11%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.55%) Gradle
12 5 (1.55%) Vite
13 4 (1.24%) Babel
13 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.24%) webpack
14 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.93%) CircleCI
General
1 121 (37.58%) Finance
2 62 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 48 (14.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (13.98%) Law
5 44 (13.66%) Public Sector
6 36 (11.18%) Banking
6 36 (11.18%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.59%) Marketing
8 17 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.17%) Legal
11 5 (1.55%) Games
11 5 (1.55%) Tech for Good
12 4 (1.24%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.93%) Aviation
13 3 (0.93%) Billing
13 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 3 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (43.79%) Developer
2 114 (35.40%) Software Engineer
3 106 (32.92%) Java Developer
4 82 (25.47%) Java Engineer
4 82 (25.47%) Senior
5 53 (16.46%) Java Software Engineer
6 46 (14.29%) Lead
7 37 (11.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (11.18%) Senior Developer
9 33 (10.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 31 (9.63%) Senior Java Engineer
11 29 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
12 28 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 21 (6.52%) Backend Developer
15 20 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (5.90%) Kafka Engineer
17 17 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
17 17 (5.28%) Software Developer
18 15 (4.66%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (93.17%) Spring
2 103 (31.99%) Kafka
3 101 (31.37%) React
4 70 (21.74%) REST
5 65 (20.19%) RESTful
6 53 (16.46%) AngularJS
7 50 (15.53%) Hibernate
8 43 (13.35%) HTML
9 37 (11.49%) ActiveMQ
10 35 (10.87%) Web Services
11 28 (8.70%) Node.js
12 26 (8.07%) Apache Camel
13 23 (7.14%) jQuery
14 22 (6.83%) JSON
15 21 (6.52%) Jest
15 21 (6.52%) JPA
15 21 (6.52%) WireMock
15 21 (6.52%) XML
16 20 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (5.59%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 110 (34.16%) Cloud Native
2 61 (18.94%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (4.97%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.73%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.11%) Distributed Applications
8 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.93%) IoT
11 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.93%) Replication
12 2 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.04%) Linux
2 2 (0.62%) CentOS
2 2 (0.62%) Debian
2 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (66.46%) Agile
2 187 (58.07%) Microservices
3 184 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 156 (48.45%) Software Engineering
5 112 (34.78%) DevOps
6 102 (31.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 90 (27.95%) TDD
8 75 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (22.05%) Containerisation
10 67 (20.81%) SDLC
11 66 (20.50%) BDD
12 58 (18.01%) Mentoring
13 56 (17.39%) Scrum
14 55 (17.08%) Fintech
15 54 (16.77%) Event-Driven
16 47 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (13.35%) Test Automation
18 39 (12.11%) Collaborative Culture
19 38 (11.80%) User Experience
20 37 (11.49%) AI
Programming Languages
1 320 (99.38%) Java
2 97 (30.12%) JavaScript
3 68 (21.12%) Python
4 57 (17.70%) TypeScript
5 51 (15.84%) SQL
6 26 (8.07%) Shell Script
7 20 (6.21%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.80%) Go
9 8 (2.48%) Delphi
10 7 (2.17%) C#
11 6 (1.86%) Bash
11 6 (1.86%) Groovy
12 5 (1.55%) Scala
13 3 (0.93%) C++
13 3 (0.93%) Ruby
13 3 (0.93%) Rust
14 2 (0.62%) R
14 2 (0.62%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.90%) Degree
5 13 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.90%) QA
2 10 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.17%) NCSC
4 6 (1.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 139 (43.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 181 (56.21%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.39%) Kibana
3 26 (8.07%) Terraform
4 13 (4.04%) Ansible
4 13 (4.04%) Grafana
5 7 (2.17%) HP Fortify
6 6 (1.86%) Argo
7 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.62%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) Istio
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (10.87%) Oracle
2 29 (9.01%) Splunk
3 25 (7.76%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.42%) Google
5 8 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.55%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.24%) Pega
7 4 (1.24%) WSO2
8 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.93%) Solace
9 2 (0.62%) IBM
9 2 (0.62%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
10 1 (0.31%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.31%) Moogsoft
10 1 (0.31%) Revolut
10 1 (0.31%) Veracode