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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 239 326
Rank change year-on-year -110 +87 -45
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 574 668 666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.33% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.37% 7.89% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 373 206 338
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £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 £86,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £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 10,680 8,463 15,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.97% 16.87% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7,801 5,490 11,353
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -93 482 £75,000 +3.45% 304
UK excluding London -164 317 £70,000 +3.70% 210
London +8 233 £80,000 -3.03% 174
North of England -64 144 £72,000 -4.00% 62
Work from Home -174 134 £70,000 +3.70% 162
North West -59 84 £65,000 -17.52% 38
South West -54 55 £67,750 +10.61% 30
Yorkshire +12 51 £75,000 - 10
Wales -13 51 £70,000 +12.00% 7
South East -84 33 £68,750 -1.79% 30
West Midlands -38 23 £62,500 -10.71% 19
Midlands -94 23 £62,500 -1.19% 26
Scotland -84 14 £65,000 -14.75% 38
North East -60 9 £50,000 -23.08% 14
Northern Ireland -80 5 £60,000 +9.09% 14
East of England -33 2 £58,750 -30.88% 5

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 23 (4.01%) Confluence
2 14 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.74%) Apache
3 10 (1.74%) Camunda
4 9 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.87%) JBoss
6 4 (0.70%) CICS
6 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle 10gAS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 337 (58.71%) AWS
2 165 (28.75%) Azure
3 135 (23.52%) Serverless
4 109 (18.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 104 (18.12%) GitHub
6 102 (17.77%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (14.63%) GCP
8 80 (13.94%) Amazon ECS
9 72 (12.54%) Amazon S3
10 61 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (8.19%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (5.92%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (5.40%) Amazon ECR
14 31 (5.40%) Apigee
15 21 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.26%) DMARC
2 11 (1.92%) AMQP
3 6 (1.05%) SMS
4 1 (0.17%) Internet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (16.03%) NoSQL
3 57 (9.93%) Relational Database
4 56 (9.76%) DynamoDB
5 46 (8.01%) MongoDB
6 43 (7.49%) MySQL
7 19 (3.31%) Redis
8 14 (2.44%) Db2
9 12 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.92%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.74%) DTS
11 10 (1.74%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.05%) Big Data
14 5 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.87%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.70%) Flink
16 3 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 134 (23.34%) Jenkins
2 83 (14.46%) GitLab
3 79 (13.76%) Git
4 42 (7.32%) JUnit
5 40 (6.97%) Cucumber
6 39 (6.79%) Maven
7 35 (6.10%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.53%) Mockito
9 24 (4.18%) SonarQube
10 23 (4.01%) JIRA
11 21 (3.66%) Selenium
12 11 (1.92%) Gradle
13 10 (1.74%) JMeter
14 8 (1.39%) Claude Code
15 7 (1.22%) Postman
16 6 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
17 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
17 4 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 134 (23.34%) Finance
2 105 (18.29%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.36%) Banking
5 32 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.09%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.92%) Front Office
10 10 (1.74%) Advertising
10 10 (1.74%) Tech for Good
11 9 (1.57%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.87%) Billing
12 5 (0.87%) Law
12 5 (0.87%) Retail
12 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Games
13 3 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 241 (41.99%) Developer
2 175 (30.49%) Java Developer
3 147 (25.61%) Senior
4 139 (24.22%) Java Engineer
5 105 (18.29%) Software Engineer
6 91 (15.85%) Lead
7 68 (11.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 66 (11.50%) Senior Developer
9 58 (10.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.36%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (8.01%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (7.49%) Java Software Engineer
13 42 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
14 37 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (5.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 33 (5.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (5.40%) Architect
18 28 (4.88%) Principal Java Engineer
19 23 (4.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (91.46%) Spring
2 153 (26.66%) Kafka
3 125 (21.78%) AngularJS
4 120 (20.91%) React
5 111 (19.34%) REST
6 103 (17.94%) Node.js
6 103 (17.94%) RESTful
7 62 (10.80%) Hibernate
8 56 (9.76%) JPA
9 36 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.10%) Jest
10 35 (6.10%) OAuth
11 34 (5.92%) HTML
12 31 (5.40%) OAuth2
12 31 (5.40%) Ruby on Rails
13 27 (4.70%) Vue
14 26 (4.53%) .NET
14 26 (4.53%) CSS
15 25 (4.36%) Gherkin
15 25 (4.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 114 (19.86%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.01%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (7.49%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (6.10%) Public Cloud
6 30 (5.23%) e-Learning
7 29 (5.05%) Mainframe
7 29 (5.05%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.74%) EPoS
8 10 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.74%) iSeries
9 8 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
9 8 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.09%) Linux
2 6 (1.05%) AIX
3 5 (0.87%) CentOS
3 5 (0.87%) Debian
3 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.70%) Windows
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (63.24%) CI/CD
2 321 (55.92%) Microservices
3 283 (49.30%) Agile
4 246 (42.86%) DevOps
5 181 (31.53%) Software Engineering
6 180 (31.36%) Containerisation
7 170 (29.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 146 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 145 (25.26%) Event-Driven
10 136 (23.69%) Test Automation
11 132 (23.00%) Mentoring
12 98 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (15.85%) AI
13 91 (15.85%) TDD
14 84 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.63%) Scrum
15 80 (13.94%) BDD
15 80 (13.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 70 (12.20%) Clean Code
16 70 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 569 (99.13%) Java
2 143 (24.91%) Python
3 112 (19.51%) SQL
4 92 (16.03%) JavaScript
5 91 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.75%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.40%) Ruby
8 26 (4.53%) Groovy
9 22 (3.83%) Bash
10 19 (3.31%) C#
11 14 (2.44%) COBOL
12 11 (1.92%) C++
13 10 (1.74%) RPG
14 8 (1.39%) JCL
15 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.87%) Scala
17 4 (0.70%) Go
18 3 (0.52%) C
19 2 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.02%) AWS Certification
4 50 (8.71%) DV Cleared
5 43 (7.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.27%) Degree
7 17 (2.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 17 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.89%) QA
2 33 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.18%) WCAG
4 7 (1.22%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.05%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.05%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 232 (40.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 201 (35.02%) Kubernetes
2 116 (20.21%) Terraform
3 62 (10.80%) Ansible
4 21 (3.66%) HP Fortify
5 18 (3.14%) Grafana
6 16 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.26%) Kibana
8 7 (1.22%) Puppet
9 3 (0.52%) Argo
9 3 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (4.88%) Splunk
2 26 (4.53%) Oracle
3 23 (4.01%) Google
4 17 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.79%) IBM
5 16 (2.79%) OneLogin
6 14 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.26%) SendGrid
8 11 (1.92%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.87%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.87%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.70%) Broadcom
10 4 (0.70%) Solace
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.52%) WSO2
12 2 (0.35%) Apple
12 2 (0.35%) Pega
12 2 (0.35%) Rackspace