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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 218 310
Rank change year-on-year -133 +92 -20
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 487 703 921
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.55% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 8.05% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 296 238 521
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,063 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,528 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,944 £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 9,739 8,734 21,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.23% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,289 5,749 16,199
10th Percentile £40,450 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -102 433 £72,500 -3.33% 125
UK excluding London -183 248 £67,500 -6.90% 102
London +11 215 £77,500 -6.06% 54
North of England -52 140 £70,000 -21.05% 30
Work from Home -142 132 £70,000 -6.67% 56
North West -47 73 £65,000 -26.69% 13
Yorkshire +7 58 £75,000 -4.83% 13
South West -74 35 £60,000 -12.73% 21
South East -81 34 £68,750 -1.79% 20
Wales -26 25 £70,000 +47.97% 8
Midlands -90 14 £60,000 -7.69% 8
West Midlands -45 13 £62,500 -10.71% 7
North East -39 9 £50,000 -31.03% 5
Scotland -79 8 £65,000 -18.14% 10
East of England -29 3 £62,500 -26.47% 4

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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 15 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.64%) Apache
4 7 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.82%) JBoss
7 3 (0.62%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.21%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Liferay
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 278 (57.08%) AWS
2 130 (26.69%) Serverless
3 118 (24.23%) Azure
4 94 (19.30%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (19.10%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (16.02%) Amazon ECS
7 74 (15.20%) Amazon S3
8 68 (13.96%) GitHub
9 56 (11.50%) GCP
10 51 (10.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 41 (8.42%) Apigee
12 40 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (8.01%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
17 16 (3.29%) OpenShift
18 14 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (2.87%) GitHub Copilot
18 14 (2.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.67%) DMARC
2 8 (1.64%) AMQP
3 2 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (16.02%) NoSQL
2 76 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (11.50%) DynamoDB
4 46 (9.45%) Relational Database
5 30 (6.16%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.95%) MySQL
7 16 (3.29%) Redis
8 14 (2.87%) RDBMS
9 12 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.85%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.64%) DTS
12 7 (1.44%) Db2
13 6 (1.23%) Big Data
13 6 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
14 5 (1.03%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.82%) Flink
16 3 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 111 (22.79%) Jenkins
2 77 (15.81%) GitLab
3 64 (13.14%) Git
4 50 (10.27%) Maven
5 38 (7.80%) Cypress.io
6 33 (6.78%) SonarQube
7 31 (6.37%) Cucumber
7 31 (6.37%) JUnit
8 22 (4.52%) JIRA
9 19 (3.90%) Mockito
10 18 (3.70%) Gradle
11 16 (3.29%) Selenium
12 10 (2.05%) JMeter
13 8 (1.64%) Claude Code
13 8 (1.64%) Postman
14 4 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.62%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.62%) Spock
15 3 (0.62%) Zephyr
General
1 110 (22.59%) Finance
2 76 (15.61%) Social Skills
3 67 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.13%) Banking
5 20 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.29%) Financial Institution
7 15 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.87%) Advertising
9 11 (2.26%) Billing
9 11 (2.26%) Front Office
9 11 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.85%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.44%) Games
11 7 (1.44%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.23%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Law
15 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 233 (47.84%) Developer
2 180 (36.96%) Java Developer
3 131 (26.90%) Java Engineer
4 129 (26.49%) Senior
5 86 (17.66%) Software Engineer
6 66 (13.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (13.14%) Senior Developer
8 59 (12.11%) Lead
9 50 (10.27%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (9.65%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (9.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (9.03%) Senior Java Engineer
12 33 (6.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 32 (6.57%) Architect
14 28 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
15 27 (5.54%) Principal Engineer
16 22 (4.52%) Principal Java Engineer
17 21 (4.31%) Software Developer
18 20 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
19 19 (3.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (90.76%) Spring
2 136 (27.93%) AngularJS
3 113 (23.20%) React
4 112 (23.00%) Kafka
5 106 (21.77%) REST
6 84 (17.25%) Node.js
7 83 (17.04%) RESTful
8 46 (9.45%) Hibernate
9 35 (7.19%) Jest
10 33 (6.78%) Gherkin
10 33 (6.78%) JPA
11 31 (6.37%) Vue
12 30 (6.16%) HTML
13 29 (5.95%) OAuth
14 28 (5.75%) Web Services
15 26 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (4.93%) OAuth2
17 21 (4.31%) CSS
18 18 (3.70%) OpenAPI
19 17 (3.49%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 121 (24.85%) Cloud Native
2 71 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.52%) e-Learning
7 18 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.46%) Mainframe
9 10 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.85%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.44%) EPoS
11 7 (1.44%) iSeries
12 5 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.82%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.62%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.03%) CentOS
2 5 (1.03%) Debian
2 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.03%) Ubuntu
2 5 (1.03%) Windows
3 4 (0.82%) Android
3 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.62%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (56.47%) CI/CD
2 264 (54.21%) Microservices
3 236 (48.46%) Agile
4 200 (41.07%) DevOps
5 154 (31.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 149 (30.60%) Software Engineering
7 146 (29.98%) Containerisation
8 116 (23.82%) Mentoring
9 112 (23.00%) Test Automation
10 103 (21.15%) Event-Driven
11 99 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 81 (16.63%) TDD
14 74 (15.20%) Scrum
15 68 (13.96%) AI
15 68 (13.96%) BDD
16 62 (12.73%) Clean Code
16 62 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
17 61 (12.53%) SDLC
18 56 (11.50%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 481 (98.77%) Java
2 93 (19.10%) SQL
3 83 (17.04%) JavaScript
3 83 (17.04%) Python
4 75 (15.40%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.98%) Groovy
6 31 (6.37%) Bash
7 29 (5.95%) Kotlin
8 17 (3.49%) Ruby
9 11 (2.26%) C#
10 9 (1.85%) C++
11 7 (1.44%) RPG
11 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.03%) Go
12 5 (1.03%) PHP
13 4 (0.82%) COBOL
13 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.82%) Scala
14 2 (0.41%) C
15 1 (0.21%) Natural
Qualifications
1 91 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.94%) AWS Certification
3 58 (11.91%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.21%) Degree
5 31 (6.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.93%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.16%) QA
2 14 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.46%) WCAG
4 7 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (0.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 193 (39.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 161 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 70 (14.37%) Terraform
3 31 (6.37%) Ansible
4 29 (5.95%) HP Fortify
5 13 (2.67%) Grafana
5 13 (2.67%) Kibana
6 11 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.03%) Packer
7 5 (1.03%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (5.13%) Oracle
2 20 (4.11%) Splunk
3 14 (2.87%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.67%) SendGrid
5 12 (2.46%) Dynatrace
5 12 (2.46%) Google
6 11 (2.26%) IBM
7 8 (1.64%) OneLogin
8 7 (1.44%) Solace
9 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.03%) Peregrine
10 5 (1.03%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.62%) Revolut
11 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.62%) WSO2
12 2 (0.41%) Pega
12 2 (0.41%) TikTok
13 1 (0.21%) Okta