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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 338 220
Rank change year-on-year -32 -118 +19
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 299 437 783
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.80% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.26% 3.73% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 197 229 582
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,690 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +6.27% -8.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 7,024 11,707 13,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 21.39% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 6,913 10,805
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -1 287 £71,000 -8.39% 150
UK excluding London +8 168 £65,000 -3.70% 108
London -18 124 £85,000 -5.56% 64
Work from Home +62 113 £65,000 -10.34% 77
North of England +62 73 £70,000 +3.70% 43
Yorkshire +18 39 £75,000 +11.11% 15
South West -2 37 £65,000 -3.70% 15
South East -14 37 £80,000 +23.08% 35
North West +50 31 £65,000 -3.70% 21
Midlands +35 18 £57,500 -11.54% 6
West Midlands +43 13 £57,500 - 5
Scotland -33 6 £78,750 +12.50% 3
North East +11 5 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East Midlands -6 5 £57,500 -11.54% 1
East of England +23 3 £62,500 -10.71% 3
Wales -10 1 £55,200 -18.22% 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 18 (6.02%) Apache
2 13 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 10 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.00%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) JBoss
5 3 (1.00%) Liferay
6 2 (0.67%) Camunda
6 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 216 (72.24%) AWS
2 82 (27.42%) Serverless
3 57 (19.06%) Amazon ECS
4 51 (17.06%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 45 (15.05%) Azure
7 43 (14.38%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (10.70%) GCP
9 23 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (7.02%) Apigee
10 21 (7.02%) OpenShift
10 21 (7.02%) SaaS
11 19 (6.35%) GitHub
12 18 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
14 14 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.67%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.34%) AMQP
2 5 (1.67%) Internet
3 4 (1.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.08%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (13.71%) MongoDB
2 41 (13.71%) Relational Database
3 33 (11.04%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.35%) DynamoDB
5 18 (6.02%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.01%) MySQL
8 4 (1.34%) Big Data
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.00%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.67%) DB2
10 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.33%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 82 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 54 (18.06%) Git
3 46 (15.38%) GitLab
4 36 (12.04%) JUnit
5 33 (11.04%) Cypress.io
6 25 (8.36%) Maven
7 21 (7.02%) Mockito
8 20 (6.69%) SonarQube
9 16 (5.35%) JMeter
10 14 (4.68%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.68%) JIRA
11 11 (3.68%) Selenium
12 7 (2.34%) Gradle
13 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.67%) Vite
14 3 (1.00%) TestNG
15 2 (0.67%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.67%) ESLint
15 2 (0.67%) Postman
15 2 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 67 (22.41%) Finance
2 53 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.70%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.68%) Banking
5 11 (3.68%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.68%) Billing
7 7 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Games
8 6 (2.01%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.67%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.00%) Legal
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Law
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (49.50%) Developer
2 110 (36.79%) Java Developer
3 86 (28.76%) Senior
4 70 (23.41%) Software Engineer
5 60 (20.07%) Java Engineer
6 42 (14.05%) Senior Developer
7 37 (12.37%) Lead
8 35 (11.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 35 (11.71%) Senior Java Developer
9 29 (9.70%) Java Software Engineer
10 28 (9.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 28 (9.36%) Senior Java Engineer
11 22 (7.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 21 (7.02%) Backend Developer
13 15 (5.02%) Kafka Engineer
14 14 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (4.68%) Software Developer
15 13 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 13 (4.35%) Technical Leader
16 12 (4.01%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (91.97%) Spring
2 88 (29.43%) React
3 70 (23.41%) Kafka
3 70 (23.41%) REST
4 54 (18.06%) AngularJS
5 43 (14.38%) Hibernate
6 41 (13.71%) RESTful
7 37 (12.37%) HTML
7 37 (12.37%) Node.js
8 31 (10.37%) Web Services
9 30 (10.03%) Jest
10 29 (9.70%) ActiveMQ
11 24 (8.03%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (7.02%) JSON
14 20 (6.69%) Apache Camel
15 19 (6.35%) CSS
15 19 (6.35%) XML
16 17 (5.69%) Gherkin
17 15 (5.02%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.76%) Cloud Native
2 55 (18.39%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.34%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.67%) IoT
8 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.33%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.34%) Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Android
2 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.00%) CentOS
2 3 (1.00%) Debian
2 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (57.86%) Microservices
2 166 (55.52%) Agile
3 158 (52.84%) CI/CD
4 128 (42.81%) DevOps
5 106 (35.45%) Software Engineering
6 101 (33.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 78 (26.09%) Containerisation
8 75 (25.08%) TDD
9 63 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (20.07%) Mentoring
11 55 (18.39%) Scrum
12 52 (17.39%) BDD
13 49 (16.39%) Event-Driven
14 44 (14.72%) SDLC
15 41 (13.71%) Fintech
15 41 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
16 39 (13.04%) User Experience
17 38 (12.71%) Code Quality
18 35 (11.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 297 (99.33%) Java
2 97 (32.44%) JavaScript
3 65 (21.74%) Python
4 62 (20.74%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.04%) SQL
6 18 (6.02%) Bash
7 16 (5.35%) Groovy
7 16 (5.35%) Kotlin
7 16 (5.35%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.01%) Go
9 8 (2.68%) Delphi
10 6 (2.01%) C#
11 5 (1.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) R
12 2 (0.67%) Ruby
12 2 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 50 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.35%) AWS Certification
3 19 (6.35%) Degree
4 15 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.02%) QA
2 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.34%) NCSC
4 6 (2.01%) NIST
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 141 (47.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 154 (51.51%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.69%) Kibana
3 17 (5.69%) HP Fortify
3 17 (5.69%) Terraform
4 16 (5.35%) Ansible
5 15 (5.02%) Grafana
6 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.00%) Puppet
8 1 (0.33%) Istio
8 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.69%) Oracle
2 20 (6.69%) Splunk
3 14 (4.68%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.35%) Google
5 8 (2.68%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.34%) Pega
6 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.34%) Solace
6 4 (1.34%) WSO2
7 3 (1.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.00%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.33%) IBM
9 1 (0.33%) Moogsoft