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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 345 251
Rank change year-on-year +15 -94 -35
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 346 492 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.72% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 3.50% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 186 259 578
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,690 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +6.00% -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 7,283 14,043 13,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.66% 20.50% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,263 8,541 11,436
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £85,700 £84,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,289
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 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 22 November 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 +18 288 £70,500 -8.44% 268
UK excluding London +33 210 £65,000 -1.89% 160
London -17 141 £100,000 +11.11% 140
Work from Home +67 106 £65,000 +6.12% 166
North of England +56 56 £65,000 -3.70% 49
Scotland +16 54 £75,000 +20.00% 16
South East +8 40 £67,500 +8.00% 44
North West +63 39 £65,000 -3.70% 32
South West +4 33 £62,500 -7.41% 23
Midlands +88 27 £62,500 +4.17% 20
West Midlands +73 20 £63,750 - 15
Yorkshire +8 14 £66,250 -14.52% 11
East Midlands +34 7 £57,500 -4.17% 5
North East +20 5 £65,000 +18.18% 6
East of England +23 3 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Wales -1 2 £58,850 -12.81% 2
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 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 17 (4.91%) Apache
2 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.31%) Confluence
4 6 (1.73%) Camunda
4 6 (1.73%) JBoss
4 6 (1.73%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.73%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 272 (78.61%) AWS
2 78 (22.54%) Serverless
3 60 (17.34%) Azure
4 49 (14.16%) Amazon ECS
5 47 (13.58%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (13.58%) GCP
6 39 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (10.69%) GitHub
8 34 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (9.25%) Amazon S3
10 19 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (5.20%) OpenShift
11 18 (5.20%) SaaS
12 17 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.31%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.16%) AMQP
2 3 (0.87%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (27.75%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (21.39%) Relational Database
3 57 (16.47%) MongoDB
4 45 (13.01%) NoSQL
5 30 (8.67%) RDBMS
6 17 (4.91%) MySQL
7 13 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.60%) DynamoDB
11 8 (2.31%) CockroachDB
12 6 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.73%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.73%) Redis
13 4 (1.16%) Big Data
14 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.87%) DB2
14 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 77 (22.25%) Jenkins
2 58 (16.76%) Git
3 56 (16.18%) JUnit
4 35 (10.12%) Mockito
5 32 (9.25%) GitLab
6 23 (6.65%) JMeter
7 18 (5.20%) Cucumber
7 18 (5.20%) JIRA
7 18 (5.20%) Maven
8 14 (4.05%) Cypress.io
9 13 (3.76%) Selenium
10 6 (1.73%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.45%) Gradle
11 5 (1.45%) Vite
12 4 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.16%) Babel
12 4 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.16%) Subversion
12 4 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 157 (45.38%) Finance
2 75 (21.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 75 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 71 (20.52%) Law
4 56 (16.18%) Banking
5 53 (15.32%) Public Sector
6 37 (10.69%) Financial Institution
7 31 (8.96%) Marketing
8 21 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.89%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.60%) Legal
11 7 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.45%) Electronics
12 5 (1.45%) Games
12 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.45%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.16%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.16%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 142 (41.04%) Developer
2 139 (40.17%) Software Engineer
3 107 (30.92%) Java Developer
4 100 (28.90%) Java Engineer
5 80 (23.12%) Senior
6 71 (20.52%) Java Software Engineer
7 50 (14.45%) Lead
8 36 (10.40%) Senior Developer
9 33 (9.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (9.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (8.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 31 (8.96%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (8.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 27 (7.80%) Senior Java Developer
13 25 (7.23%) Backend Developer
14 23 (6.65%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (5.78%) Kafka Engineer
16 19 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (5.49%) Software Developer
17 15 (4.34%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (92.77%) Spring
2 127 (36.71%) Kafka
3 105 (30.35%) React
4 78 (22.54%) RESTful
5 74 (21.39%) REST
6 56 (16.18%) Hibernate
7 51 (14.74%) AngularJS
8 43 (12.43%) Web Services
9 41 (11.85%) HTML
10 40 (11.56%) ActiveMQ
11 29 (8.38%) Apache Camel
11 29 (8.38%) Node.js
12 27 (7.80%) JPA
13 26 (7.51%) jQuery
14 25 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (6.36%) JSON
15 22 (6.36%) WireMock
16 21 (6.07%) XML
17 19 (5.49%) RxJava
18 18 (5.20%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 124 (35.84%) Cloud Native
2 61 (17.63%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.51%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (7.23%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.49%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (4.05%) Distributed Applications
8 11 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.89%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.60%) Virtual Team
11 8 (2.31%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.45%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.87%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.87%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.87%) Replication
14 3 (0.87%) Wiki
15 2 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Unix
3 2 (0.58%) CentOS
3 2 (0.58%) Debian
3 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (67.92%) Agile
2 202 (58.38%) CI/CD
3 194 (56.07%) Microservices
4 185 (53.47%) Software Engineering
5 111 (32.08%) DevOps
6 102 (29.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 101 (29.19%) TDD
8 88 (25.43%) SDLC
9 76 (21.97%) Containerisation
9 76 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (20.52%) BDD
11 64 (18.50%) Event-Driven
11 64 (18.50%) Mentoring
12 63 (18.21%) Fintech
13 60 (17.34%) Scrum
14 49 (14.16%) AI
15 48 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (13.87%) Test Automation
16 43 (12.43%) Machine Learning
16 43 (12.43%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 345 (99.71%) Java
2 99 (28.61%) JavaScript
3 74 (21.39%) Python
4 65 (18.79%) SQL
5 57 (16.47%) TypeScript
6 28 (8.09%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.36%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.60%) Go
9 8 (2.31%) Delphi
10 7 (2.02%) C#
11 6 (1.73%) Scala
12 4 (1.16%) C++
12 4 (1.16%) Ruby
12 4 (1.16%) Rust
13 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.58%) Groovy
14 2 (0.58%) R
15 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 21 (6.07%) Degree
5 14 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.91%) QA
2 10 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.73%) NCSC
3 6 (1.73%) NIST
4 3 (0.87%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 146 (42.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 199 (57.51%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.96%) Terraform
3 28 (8.09%) Kibana
4 14 (4.05%) Ansible
5 13 (3.76%) Grafana
6 9 (2.60%) Argo
7 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.29%) Istio
8 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (14.16%) Oracle
2 36 (10.40%) Splunk
3 29 (8.38%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.76%) Google
5 10 (2.89%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.73%) SAP
7 5 (1.45%) Microsoft
8 4 (1.16%) IBM
8 4 (1.16%) Pega
8 4 (1.16%) WSO2
9 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.87%) Moogsoft
9 3 (0.87%) Solace
10 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.58%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.58%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.29%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) Revolut
11 1 (0.29%) Veracode