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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 353 226
Rank change year-on-year -18 -127 -1
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 299 437 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.78% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.23% 3.64% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 200 230 584
10th Percentile £52,400 £43,449 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £109,250
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 7,075 11,992 13,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 21.52% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,291 7,171 10,747
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £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 - - -3.09%
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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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 +21 286 £70,500 -6.00% 211
UK excluding London -2 175 £65,000 -3.70% 152
London -36 119 £85,000 -5.56% 84
Work from Home +65 113 £65,000 -10.34% 103
North of England +56 75 £67,500 - 59
Yorkshire +20 38 £75,000 +11.11% 19
South East -8 37 £77,500 +19.23% 50
South West -14 36 £65,000 -3.70% 23
North West +37 34 £65,000 -3.70% 34
Midlands +49 22 £57,500 -8.00% 12
West Midlands +44 15 £57,500 - 9
East Midlands +1 7 £57,500 -8.00% 3
Scotland -30 7 £77,500 +10.71% 4
North East +16 5 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East of England +28 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Wales -11 1 £55,200 -18.22% 6

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
4 4 (1.34%) JBoss
5 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) Camunda
6 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 2 (0.67%) Liferay
7 1 (0.33%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 220 (73.58%) AWS
2 82 (27.42%) Serverless
3 58 (19.40%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (16.72%) AWS Lambda
5 46 (15.38%) Azure
6 45 (15.05%) Amazon S3
7 44 (14.72%) Amazon EKS
8 31 (10.37%) GCP
9 23 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 22 (7.36%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (6.69%) Apigee
12 20 (6.69%) SaaS
13 18 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 17 (5.69%) Amazon ECR
14 17 (5.69%) GitHub
15 14 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.67%) Amazon MSK
16 5 (1.67%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.01%) AMQP
2 4 (1.34%) HTTP
2 4 (1.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (25.08%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (14.72%) Relational Database
3 42 (14.05%) MongoDB
4 33 (11.04%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.35%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.35%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.01%) MySQL
6 9 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.34%) Big Data
9 3 (1.00%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.67%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.67%) DB2
10 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 82 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 55 (18.39%) Git
3 46 (15.38%) GitLab
4 37 (12.37%) JUnit
5 32 (10.70%) Cypress.io
6 27 (9.03%) Maven
7 21 (7.02%) Mockito
8 19 (6.35%) SonarQube
9 17 (5.69%) JMeter
10 14 (4.68%) Cucumber
10 14 (4.68%) JIRA
11 10 (3.34%) Selenium
12 7 (2.34%) Gradle
13 5 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.67%) Vite
14 4 (1.34%) Babel
14 4 (1.34%) Subversion
14 4 (1.34%) webpack
15 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (24.75%) Finance
2 51 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.37%) Financial Institution
5 11 (3.68%) Banking
6 9 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.34%) Billing
9 6 (2.01%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.67%) Games
11 4 (1.34%) Health Technology
12 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.00%) Aviation
12 3 (1.00%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.00%) Legal
12 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Advertising
13 2 (0.67%) Law
13 2 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 150 (50.17%) Developer
2 113 (37.79%) Java Developer
3 83 (27.76%) Senior
4 69 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 58 (19.40%) Java Engineer
6 41 (13.71%) Senior Developer
7 36 (12.04%) Lead
8 34 (11.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (11.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (9.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 28 (9.36%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (9.03%) Senior Java Engineer
11 21 (7.02%) Backend Developer
11 21 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (5.02%) Kafka Engineer
13 14 (4.68%) Software Developer
13 14 (4.68%) Technical Leader
14 13 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 13 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 13 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (91.97%) Spring
2 87 (29.10%) React
3 70 (23.41%) Kafka
3 70 (23.41%) REST
4 57 (19.06%) AngularJS
5 46 (15.38%) RESTful
6 44 (14.72%) Hibernate
7 38 (12.71%) HTML
8 35 (11.71%) Node.js
9 31 (10.37%) Web Services
10 30 (10.03%) ActiveMQ
10 30 (10.03%) Jest
11 23 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (6.69%) Apache Camel
13 20 (6.69%) JSON
14 19 (6.35%) CSS
14 19 (6.35%) XML
15 17 (5.69%) Gherkin
16 16 (5.35%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 85 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 57 (19.06%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.34%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.34%) IoT
8 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.00%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Replication
10 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.33%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.34%) Linux
2 3 (1.00%) CentOS
2 3 (1.00%) Debian
2 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.67%) Android
3 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (57.86%) Agile
1 173 (57.86%) Microservices
2 157 (52.51%) CI/CD
3 124 (41.47%) DevOps
4 107 (35.79%) Software Engineering
5 97 (32.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (25.75%) TDD
7 73 (24.41%) Containerisation
8 61 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (19.40%) Scrum
10 55 (18.39%) BDD
10 55 (18.39%) Mentoring
11 48 (16.05%) Event-Driven
12 43 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (14.38%) SDLC
13 42 (14.05%) Fintech
14 39 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
15 38 (12.71%) User Experience
16 37 (12.37%) Code Quality
17 32 (10.70%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 297 (99.33%) Java
2 98 (32.78%) JavaScript
3 64 (21.40%) Python
4 62 (20.74%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.37%) SQL
6 20 (6.69%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.69%) Bash
8 16 (5.35%) Groovy
9 14 (4.68%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.01%) Go
11 8 (2.68%) Delphi
12 6 (2.01%) C#
13 3 (1.00%) PHP
14 2 (0.67%) R
14 2 (0.67%) Ruby
14 2 (0.67%) Scala
15 1 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 52 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.02%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.02%) Degree
4 15 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.34%) 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 10 (3.34%) 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 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (51.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.02%) Kibana
3 17 (5.69%) Ansible
3 17 (5.69%) HP Fortify
4 16 (5.35%) Terraform
5 14 (4.68%) Grafana
6 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.00%) Puppet
7 1 (0.33%) Istio
7 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.69%) Oracle
2 20 (6.69%) Splunk
3 15 (5.02%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.68%) 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