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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 226 280
Rank change year-on-year -115 +54 -10
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 471 619 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.45% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 7.50% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 273 231 548
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £93,750
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 8,250 20,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 19.32% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,899 5,556 15,850
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -83 441 £72,500 -3.33% 134
UK excluding London -167 236 £67,500 -6.90% 99
London +18 211 £75,000 -9.09% 56
North of England -54 145 £70,000 -17.89% 41
Work from Home -143 133 £71,250 -1.72% 61
North West -59 69 £65,000 -26.69% 27
Yorkshire +1 68 £75,000 -4.83% 10
South East -53 39 £75,000 +7.14% 16
South West -62 39 £65,000 -3.70% 23
Midlands -97 16 £51,250 -21.15% 3
West Midlands -52 15 £45,000 -36.84% 1
North East -41 8 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Wales -34 7 £51,619 +21.40% 4
Scotland -75 4 £65,000 -18.75% 3
East of England -44 1 £62,500 -24.24% 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 14 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.76%) OpenStack
3 9 (1.91%) Apache
3 9 (1.91%) Confluence
4 8 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.06%) JBoss
6 3 (0.64%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.64%) Liferay
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.21%) Camunda
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 259 (54.99%) AWS
2 123 (26.11%) Serverless
3 85 (18.05%) Azure
4 81 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 81 (17.20%) AWS Lambda
5 80 (16.99%) Amazon ECS
6 76 (16.14%) Amazon S3
7 55 (11.68%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (10.19%) Apigee
9 45 (9.55%) Amazon ECR
10 43 (9.13%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (8.92%) GCP
12 32 (6.79%) GitHub
13 31 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (4.25%) OpenShift
15 16 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.40%) SaaS
16 10 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.91%) AMQP
2 7 (1.49%) DMARC
3 3 (0.64%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (15.92%) NoSQL
2 69 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (11.68%) DynamoDB
4 46 (9.77%) Relational Database
5 28 (5.94%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.03%) MySQL
7 18 (3.82%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.34%) Redis
9 10 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.27%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.06%) Big Data
12 5 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.06%) DTS
12 5 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (0.85%) DB2
13 4 (0.85%) Flink
14 3 (0.64%) CockroachDB
14 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 105 (22.29%) Jenkins
2 74 (15.71%) GitLab
3 56 (11.89%) Git
4 55 (11.68%) Maven
5 42 (8.92%) Cypress.io
6 39 (8.28%) SonarQube
7 29 (6.16%) JUnit
8 25 (5.31%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.46%) Gradle
10 18 (3.82%) Mockito
11 17 (3.61%) JIRA
12 10 (2.12%) Selenium
13 9 (1.91%) JMeter
14 6 (1.27%) Claude Code
15 4 (0.85%) Postman
16 3 (0.64%) TestNG
17 2 (0.42%) Checkstyle
17 2 (0.42%) ESLint
17 2 (0.42%) Liquibase
17 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (22.29%) Finance
2 60 (12.74%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.67%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.25%) Banking
6 16 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.40%) Billing
6 16 (3.40%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.18%) Advertising
8 12 (2.55%) Front Office
9 9 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.91%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.70%) Games
10 8 (1.70%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
15 2 (0.42%) Law
15 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (51.38%) Developer
2 198 (42.04%) Java Developer
3 130 (27.60%) Senior
4 128 (27.18%) Java Engineer
5 83 (17.62%) Software Engineer
6 70 (14.86%) Senior Developer
7 58 (12.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (12.31%) Senior Java Developer
8 52 (11.04%) Lead
9 49 (10.40%) Java Software Engineer
10 45 (9.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (9.34%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (6.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 24 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (4.46%) Architect
16 20 (4.25%) Software Developer
17 19 (4.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 19 (4.03%) Principal Java Engineer
17 19 (4.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (90.66%) Spring
2 139 (29.51%) AngularJS
3 112 (23.78%) React
4 109 (23.14%) REST
5 95 (20.17%) Kafka
6 65 (13.80%) RESTful
7 59 (12.53%) Node.js
8 42 (8.92%) Hibernate
9 39 (8.28%) Gherkin
10 38 (8.07%) Jest
11 37 (7.86%) Web Services
12 31 (6.58%) HTML
13 25 (5.31%) JPA
13 25 (5.31%) OAuth
13 25 (5.31%) Vue
14 21 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (4.25%) CSS
16 19 (4.03%) OAuth2
17 18 (3.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 93 (19.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (14.65%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.03%) Public Cloud
5 18 (3.82%) e-Learning
6 17 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.85%) EPoS
10 4 (0.85%) iSeries
11 3 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.64%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.64%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.64%) IoT
11 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.64%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.27%) Android
2 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.06%) CentOS
3 5 (1.06%) Debian
3 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (51.38%) Microservices
2 240 (50.96%) CI/CD
3 214 (45.44%) Agile
4 186 (39.49%) DevOps
5 151 (32.06%) Full-Stack Development
6 133 (28.24%) Software Engineering
7 128 (27.18%) Containerisation
8 113 (23.99%) Mentoring
9 99 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 83 (17.62%) TDD
12 78 (16.56%) Event-Driven
13 77 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 74 (15.71%) Scrum
15 63 (13.38%) SDLC
16 61 (12.95%) AI
17 60 (12.74%) BDD
18 59 (12.53%) Clean Code
19 55 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
20 52 (11.04%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 467 (99.15%) Java
2 97 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 86 (18.26%) SQL
4 79 (16.77%) TypeScript
5 71 (15.07%) Python
6 40 (8.49%) Groovy
7 38 (8.07%) Bash
8 28 (5.94%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.70%) C#
9 8 (1.70%) Go
10 7 (1.49%) C++
10 7 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.27%) PHP
12 4 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.85%) RPG
13 3 (0.64%) Ruby
14 2 (0.42%) C
15 1 (0.21%) Korn
15 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.25%) AWS Certification
3 51 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.49%) Degree
5 29 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 24 (5.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.25%) QA
2 6 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 187 (39.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 160 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 58 (12.31%) Terraform
3 35 (7.43%) HP Fortify
4 33 (7.01%) Ansible
5 13 (2.76%) Kibana
6 12 (2.55%) Grafana
7 10 (2.12%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.06%) Packer
8 5 (1.06%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (4.88%) Oracle
2 14 (2.97%) Splunk
3 13 (2.76%) Google
4 10 (2.12%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.91%) Microsoft
6 8 (1.70%) IBM
6 8 (1.70%) Solace
7 7 (1.49%) SendGrid
8 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.06%) Peregrine
9 5 (1.06%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.64%) Revolut
10 3 (0.64%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.42%) Pega
11 2 (0.42%) TikTok
11 2 (0.42%) WSO2
12 1 (0.21%) Workday