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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 230 318
Rank change year-on-year -130 +88 -28
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 559 689 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.39% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 7.96% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 363 222 376
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,782 £56,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

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 10,627 8,654 16,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 17.44% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,814 5,667 11,657
10th Percentile £40,738 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £107,500
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -105 476 £75,000 +3.45% 344
UK excluding London -172 303 £70,000 - 182
London +2 234 £80,000 -3.03% 225
North of England -55 144 £70,000 -11.18% 60
Work from Home -165 130 £70,000 +3.70% 184
North West -51 83 £65,000 -23.53% 40
Yorkshire +11 52 £75,000 - 10
South West -45 51 £67,500 +8.00% 24
Wales -7 46 £70,000 +12.00% 12
South East -74 32 £67,500 -3.57% 32
Midlands -103 21 £60,000 -5.14% 15
West Midlands -55 20 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Scotland -72 14 £65,000 -16.13% 29
North East -51 9 £50,000 -23.08% 10
Northern Ireland -87 3 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East of England -39 2 £58,750 -30.88% 1

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 (3.76%) Confluence
2 16 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.43%) Apache
4 8 (1.43%) Camunda
5 4 (0.72%) JBoss
5 4 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.36%) CICS
7 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 328 (58.68%) AWS
2 158 (28.26%) Azure
3 132 (23.61%) Serverless
4 107 (19.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 98 (17.53%) AWS Lambda
6 94 (16.82%) GitHub
7 81 (14.49%) Amazon ECS
8 79 (14.13%) GCP
9 72 (12.88%) Amazon S3
10 52 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (8.59%) AWS Step Functions
12 34 (6.08%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (5.90%) Amazon ECR
13 33 (5.90%) Apigee
14 30 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.58%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (2.50%) OpenShift
19 13 (2.33%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.33%) DMARC
2 8 (1.43%) AMQP
3 4 (0.72%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (15.74%) NoSQL
3 57 (10.20%) Relational Database
4 56 (10.02%) DynamoDB
5 41 (7.33%) MongoDB
6 39 (6.98%) MySQL
7 20 (3.58%) Redis
8 12 (2.15%) Db2
9 11 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.97%) DTS
9 11 (1.97%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.97%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.89%) Big Data
11 5 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
12 4 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.72%) Flink
12 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 128 (22.90%) Jenkins
2 85 (15.21%) GitLab
3 71 (12.70%) Git
4 40 (7.16%) JUnit
5 39 (6.98%) Cucumber
5 39 (6.98%) Maven
6 34 (6.08%) Cypress.io
7 26 (4.65%) SonarQube
8 24 (4.29%) Mockito
9 21 (3.76%) JIRA
9 21 (3.76%) Selenium
10 11 (1.97%) Gradle
11 10 (1.79%) JMeter
12 8 (1.43%) Claude Code
13 7 (1.25%) Postman
14 6 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.07%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.72%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (23.61%) Finance
2 99 (17.71%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.28%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.51%) Banking
5 30 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.22%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.50%) Front Office
9 12 (2.15%) Advertising
9 12 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.43%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.25%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.07%) Billing
12 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.89%) Retail
14 4 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.72%) Law
15 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.54%) Games
15 3 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 232 (41.50%) Developer
2 173 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 146 (26.12%) Senior
4 141 (25.22%) Java Engineer
5 101 (18.07%) Software Engineer
6 89 (15.92%) Lead
7 66 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (11.45%) Senior Developer
9 59 (10.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 48 (8.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 48 (8.59%) Senior Java Engineer
11 42 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (7.51%) Principal Engineer
12 34 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (5.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (5.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 30 (5.37%) Architect
14 30 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (5.01%) Principal Java Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 509 (91.06%) Spring
2 152 (27.19%) Kafka
3 128 (22.90%) AngularJS
4 116 (20.75%) React
5 111 (19.86%) REST
6 98 (17.53%) Node.js
7 93 (16.64%) RESTful
8 58 (10.38%) Hibernate
9 50 (8.94%) JPA
10 35 (6.26%) OAuth
11 34 (6.08%) Jest
12 32 (5.72%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (5.55%) OAuth2
14 30 (5.37%) HTML
15 28 (5.01%) Ruby on Rails
15 28 (5.01%) Vue
16 27 (4.83%) Gherkin
17 25 (4.47%) Web Services
18 23 (4.11%) .NET
19 22 (3.94%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 162 (28.98%) Cloud Native
2 107 (19.14%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (6.08%) Public Cloud
6 30 (5.37%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.47%) Mainframe
8 24 (4.29%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.79%) EPoS
9 10 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.79%) iSeries
10 7 (1.25%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.89%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.97%) Linux
2 5 (0.89%) AIX
2 5 (0.89%) Windows
3 4 (0.72%) CentOS
3 4 (0.72%) Debian
3 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (63.15%) CI/CD
2 314 (56.17%) Microservices
3 276 (49.37%) Agile
4 240 (42.93%) DevOps
5 178 (31.84%) Containerisation
6 175 (31.31%) Software Engineering
7 170 (30.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (25.40%) Event-Driven
9 140 (25.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 137 (24.51%) Test Automation
11 134 (23.97%) Mentoring
12 104 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 93 (16.64%) AI
14 89 (15.92%) TDD
15 80 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (14.31%) Scrum
16 77 (13.77%) BDD
16 77 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 68 (12.16%) Architectural Patterns
18 67 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 554 (99.11%) Java
2 138 (24.69%) Python
3 112 (20.04%) SQL
4 86 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 85 (15.21%) TypeScript
6 31 (5.55%) Kotlin
7 28 (5.01%) Groovy
7 28 (5.01%) Ruby
8 24 (4.29%) Bash
9 19 (3.40%) C#
10 11 (1.97%) COBOL
11 10 (1.79%) C++
11 10 (1.79%) RPG
12 7 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.89%) Go
13 5 (0.89%) JCL
14 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.72%) Scala
15 2 (0.36%) C
15 2 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 113 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.70%) AWS Certification
3 65 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 43 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 39 (6.98%) Degree
7 18 (3.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (3.22%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.72%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.87%) QA
2 28 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.76%) WCAG
4 7 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.07%) Government Security Classifications
5 6 (1.07%) NCSC
6 5 (0.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 226 (40.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 197 (35.24%) Kubernetes
2 109 (19.50%) Terraform
3 54 (9.66%) Ansible
4 23 (4.11%) HP Fortify
5 19 (3.40%) Grafana
6 17 (3.04%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.33%) Kibana
8 5 (0.89%) Puppet
9 4 (0.72%) Packer
10 3 (0.54%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (4.65%) Splunk
2 24 (4.29%) Oracle
3 21 (3.76%) Google
4 17 (3.04%) Microsoft
5 16 (2.86%) IBM
6 15 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 13 (2.33%) OneLogin
7 13 (2.33%) SendGrid
8 10 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.89%) Peregrine
9 5 (0.89%) Solace
10 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.72%) SaltStack
11 3 (0.54%) Broadcom
11 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.54%) WSO2
12 2 (0.36%) Pega
12 2 (0.36%) TikTok
13 1 (0.18%) Workday