Spring Boot Jobs

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 277 283
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -105
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 622 1,074 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.05% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.75% 5.05% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 234 548 860
10th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £97,328
90th Percentile £112,125 £120,000 £115,224
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +8.33%

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 9,208 21,249 29,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.84% 20.80% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,664 15,856 18,240
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,350 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Salary trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 28 May 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 +64 516 £75,000 -3.23% 1,103
UK excluding London +45 496 £72,500 +11.54% 1,113
Work from Home +136 373 £75,000 - 897
North of England +103 178 £86,957 +12.20% 242
North West +60 158 £88,662 +10.83% 124
London -26 145 £82,500 -2.94% 206
Scotland -21 87 £80,000 +18.52% 87
Midlands +112 82 £65,000 +18.18% 184
South East +77 73 £70,000 -6.67% 309
East Midlands +81 47 £47,500 - 64
South West +77 46 £72,500 +20.83% 124
West Midlands +76 35 £71,250 +29.55% 107
East of England +50 17 £82,500 +65.00% 122
Yorkshire +50 15 £78,810 +5.08% 87
Northern Ireland +42 13 £55,000 -4.35% 37
North East +46 5 £72,500 +69.59% 31
Wales +30 2 £42,520 -2.25% 40

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 174 (27.97%) Confluence
2 14 (2.25%) JBoss
3 13 (2.09%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (1.45%) Apache
4 9 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.29%) nginx
5 8 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.29%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.64%) Camunda
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.32%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 512 (82.32%) AWS
2 338 (54.34%) Azure
3 248 (39.87%) GCP
4 75 (12.06%) Serverless
5 56 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
6 49 (7.88%) Amazon S3
7 48 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (3.05%) GitHub
12 15 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (2.25%) Datadog
14 11 (1.77%) Apigee
14 11 (1.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (1.77%) npm
14 11 (1.77%) SaaS
15 10 (1.61%) AWS KMS
15 10 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
15 10 (1.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) HTTP
2 2 (0.32%) Firewall
2 2 (0.32%) Internet
2 2 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) AMQP
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.16%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (43.09%) SQL Server
2 104 (16.72%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (9.65%) Relational Database
4 53 (8.52%) NoSQL
5 41 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 38 (6.11%) MySQL
7 28 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (3.70%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.89%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.09%) Big Data
13 10 (1.61%) Cloud Spanner
14 8 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.13%) DB2
16 5 (0.80%) Apache Hive
16 5 (0.80%) Power BI
17 4 (0.64%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 304 (48.87%) Maven
2 289 (46.46%) Cucumber
3 286 (45.98%) GitLab
4 280 (45.02%) SonarQube
5 277 (44.53%) JIRA
6 269 (43.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 264 (42.44%) Selenium
8 258 (41.48%) Bitbucket
9 113 (18.17%) Jenkins
10 102 (16.40%) Git
11 94 (15.11%) JUnit
12 56 (9.00%) Mockito
13 15 (2.41%) IntelliJ
14 13 (2.09%) JMeter
15 12 (1.93%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.77%) webpack
17 10 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
17 10 (1.61%) DbUnit
17 10 (1.61%) jMock
17 10 (1.61%) Postman
General
1 438 (70.42%) Finance
2 338 (54.34%) Banking
3 282 (45.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (15.43%) Retail
5 93 (14.95%) Investment Banking
6 90 (14.47%) Corporate Banking
7 82 (13.18%) Social Skills
8 65 (10.45%) Public Sector
9 45 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (5.63%) Law
11 28 (4.50%) Financial Institution
12 16 (2.57%) Marketing
12 16 (2.57%) Telecoms
13 14 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.13%) Games
15 6 (0.96%) Electronics
15 6 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.64%) Advertising
16 4 (0.64%) Front Office
16 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 379 (60.93%) Software Engineer
2 141 (22.67%) Developer
3 119 (19.13%) Java Developer
4 106 (17.04%) Java Engineer
5 101 (16.24%) Senior
6 64 (10.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 50 (8.04%) Lead
8 49 (7.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 41 (6.59%) Senior Developer
10 34 (5.47%) Senior Java Developer
11 28 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 23 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (2.89%) Lead Developer
13 18 (2.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (2.73%) AWS Developer
15 16 (2.57%) Java Pricing Developer
15 16 (2.57%) Pricing Developer
16 15 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (2.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (88.91%) Spring
2 382 (61.41%) Kafka
3 336 (54.02%) React
4 273 (43.89%) HTML
4 273 (43.89%) JPA
5 259 (41.64%) CSS
6 249 (40.03%) Redux
7 224 (36.01%) Hibernate
8 202 (32.48%) RESTful
9 183 (29.42%) REST
10 101 (16.24%) Jest
11 93 (14.95%) HTML5
12 92 (14.79%) CSS3
13 90 (14.47%) Sass
14 86 (13.83%) AngularJS
15 68 (10.93%) Web Services
16 45 (7.23%) ActiveMQ
17 42 (6.75%) Node.js
18 31 (4.98%) SOAP
19 27 (4.34%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 264 (42.44%) Enterprise Software
1 264 (42.44%) Product Ownership
2 61 (9.81%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (6.75%) Cloud Native
4 29 (4.66%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.02%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.41%) Credit Derivative
8 10 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
9 9 (1.45%) Wiki
10 8 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.29%) Life Science
11 7 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.96%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.48%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.48%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.56%) Linux
2 15 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (77.81%) Microservices
2 475 (76.37%) Agile
3 445 (71.54%) Software Engineering
4 438 (70.42%) CI/CD
5 397 (63.83%) DevOps
6 344 (55.31%) Test Automation
7 340 (54.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 336 (54.02%) Containerisation
9 309 (49.68%) SDLC
10 287 (46.14%) TDD
11 262 (42.12%) Front End Development
12 254 (40.84%) Performance Optimisation
13 195 (31.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 181 (29.10%) Clean Code
15 143 (22.99%) Mentoring
16 106 (17.04%) User Experience
17 96 (15.43%) Strategic Thinking
18 92 (14.79%) Migration
19 90 (14.47%) Responsive Web Design
20 89 (14.31%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 614 (98.71%) Java
2 347 (55.79%) JavaScript
3 333 (53.54%) SQL
4 146 (23.47%) TypeScript
5 64 (10.29%) Python
6 19 (3.05%) Go
7 18 (2.89%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.73%) C++
9 8 (1.29%) C#
10 4 (0.64%) Groovy
10 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.48%) Rust
12 2 (0.32%) ABAP
12 2 (0.32%) Bash
13 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.16%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) Scala
13 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 50 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 14 (2.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (1.29%) Degree
5 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.16%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (41.64%) QA
2 91 (14.63%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.09%) SLA
4 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.16%) NCSC
5 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 458 (73.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) Postfix
3 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.16%) NDS
Systems Management
1 454 (72.99%) Kubernetes
2 60 (9.65%) Terraform
3 43 (6.91%) Ansible
4 18 (2.89%) Grafana
5 15 (2.41%) Kibana
6 13 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.93%) Istio
8 8 (1.29%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.29%) Packer
9 3 (0.48%) Argo
9 3 (0.48%) Control-M
10 2 (0.32%) Oozie
11 1 (0.16%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) Kiali
11 1 (0.16%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 248 (39.87%) Solace
2 26 (4.18%) Oracle
2 26 (4.18%) Splunk
3 21 (3.38%) Google
4 20 (3.22%) IBM
5 19 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.29%) Bloomberg
8 8 (1.29%) SAP
8 8 (1.29%) Sybase
9 5 (0.80%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (0.64%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.64%) Microsoft
10 4 (0.64%) WSO2
11 3 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.48%) Informatica
12 2 (0.32%) Moogsoft
12 2 (0.32%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.32%) YouTube