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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 329 243
Rank change year-on-year -20 -86 +2
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 355 431 938
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.87% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.70% 3.93% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 221 247 670
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £79,569 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +12.74% -6.81%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +7.14% -3.08%

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 7,548 10,971 17,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.42% 22.09% 23.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,550 6,611 14,288
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +1 334 £70,000 -12.50% 151
UK excluding London -17 192 £65,000 -3.70% 119
London -24 143 £80,000 -8.69% 63
Work from Home +54 129 £69,200 -13.03% 72
North of England +30 82 £70,000 -12.50% 29
South West -17 50 £65,000 -13.33% 23
Yorkshire 0 44 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South East -29 38 £75,000 +20.00% 38
North West +36 34 £67,500 -15.63% 20
Midlands +26 15 £50,100 -25.78% 16
West Midlands +25 12 £45,000 -35.71% 15
Scotland -35 7 £78,750 -1.03% 8
East of England +16 4 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North East -6 4 £55,200 +0.36% 2
East Midlands -12 3 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Wales -4 1 £55,200 +16.68% 3

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 21 (5.92%) Apache
2 13 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) Liferay
6 2 (0.56%) Camunda
6 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 237 (66.76%) AWS
2 91 (25.63%) Serverless
3 63 (17.75%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (17.46%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (16.34%) Amazon S3
6 54 (15.21%) Azure
7 40 (11.27%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (10.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (10.70%) GCP
10 33 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (8.45%) Apigee
12 27 (7.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 25 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (7.04%) SaaS
14 24 (6.76%) OpenShift
15 21 (5.92%) GitHub
16 18 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 5 (1.41%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.54%) AMQP
2 5 (1.41%) Internet
3 4 (1.13%) HTTP
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (21.97%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (11.83%) NoSQL
3 40 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 35 (9.86%) MongoDB
5 29 (8.17%) DynamoDB
6 19 (5.35%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.10%) MySQL
7 11 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.69%) Big Data
9 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.85%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.85%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.56%) DB2
12 2 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.28%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.28%) DocumentDB
13 1 (0.28%) Flink
Development Applications
1 85 (23.94%) Jenkins
2 56 (15.77%) Git
3 53 (14.93%) GitLab
4 40 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 36 (10.14%) Maven
6 32 (9.01%) JUnit
7 28 (7.89%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.07%) Cucumber
9 17 (4.79%) JIRA
10 16 (4.51%) Mockito
11 12 (3.38%) Gradle
12 11 (3.10%) JMeter
12 11 (3.10%) Selenium
13 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.41%) Vite
14 3 (0.85%) Postman
14 3 (0.85%) TestNG
15 2 (0.56%) Checkstyle
15 2 (0.56%) ESLint
15 2 (0.56%) Liquibase
General
1 77 (21.69%) Finance
2 56 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 18 (5.07%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.66%) Billing
7 11 (3.10%) Tech for Good
8 10 (2.82%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.25%) Banking
9 8 (2.25%) Games
10 4 (1.13%) Advertising
10 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (0.85%) Front Office
11 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (48.73%) Developer
2 133 (37.46%) Java Developer
3 95 (26.76%) Senior
4 84 (23.66%) Software Engineer
5 78 (21.97%) Java Engineer
6 48 (13.52%) Senior Developer
7 47 (13.24%) Lead
8 40 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (11.27%) Senior Java Developer
9 39 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (8.73%) Senior Java Engineer
11 30 (8.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 21 (5.92%) Backend Developer
14 18 (5.07%) Lead Developer
15 17 (4.79%) Lead Java Developer
16 15 (4.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 14 (3.94%) Software Developer
18 13 (3.66%) Technical Leader
19 12 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (90.14%) Spring
2 97 (27.32%) React
3 81 (22.82%) REST
4 75 (21.13%) Kafka
5 71 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 45 (12.68%) Hibernate
7 44 (12.39%) Node.js
7 44 (12.39%) RESTful
8 38 (10.70%) Jest
9 30 (8.45%) HTML
10 28 (7.89%) Web Services
11 27 (7.61%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (7.04%) Gherkin
13 24 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
14 23 (6.48%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (5.63%) JPA
16 18 (5.07%) JSON
17 16 (4.51%) Apache Camel
17 16 (4.51%) CSS
17 16 (4.51%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 95 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 58 (16.34%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.10%) Distributed Architecture
6 10 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.97%) e-Learning
9 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.41%) IoT
11 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.28%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.28%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.28%) Culture of Ownership
13 1 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.97%) Linux
2 6 (1.69%) Android
2 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.41%) CentOS
3 5 (1.41%) Debian
3 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (54.93%) Microservices
2 187 (52.68%) Agile
3 186 (52.39%) CI/CD
4 156 (43.94%) DevOps
5 132 (37.18%) Software Engineering
6 118 (33.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 89 (25.07%) Containerisation
8 80 (22.54%) Mentoring
9 77 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (19.15%) TDD
11 58 (16.34%) Event-Driven
12 55 (15.49%) Scrum
13 51 (14.37%) BDD
14 48 (13.52%) SDLC
14 48 (13.52%) Test Automation
15 45 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (12.39%) Fintech
16 44 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
17 40 (11.27%) Collaborative Culture
18 39 (10.99%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 352 (99.15%) Java
2 92 (25.92%) JavaScript
3 67 (18.87%) TypeScript
4 66 (18.59%) Python
5 44 (12.39%) SQL
6 26 (7.32%) Bash
7 24 (6.76%) Groovy
8 17 (4.79%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.82%) Go
10 9 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.25%) Delphi
12 6 (1.69%) PHP
13 4 (1.13%) C#
14 2 (0.56%) R
14 2 (0.56%) Ruby
15 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 58 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 27 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.20%) Degree
5 18 (5.07%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.35%) QA
2 7 (1.97%) NCSC
3 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 157 (44.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 167 (47.04%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.61%) Terraform
3 25 (7.04%) HP Fortify
4 21 (5.92%) Ansible
5 18 (5.07%) Grafana
6 15 (4.23%) Kibana
7 8 (2.25%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) Istio
9 1 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (7.04%) Oracle
2 15 (4.23%) Google
3 14 (3.94%) Splunk
4 9 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.97%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.69%) Solace
7 5 (1.41%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.13%) Pega
8 4 (1.13%) WSO2
9 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.85%) Revolut
10 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.28%) Okta
10 1 (0.28%) SAP