Spring Boot Job Trends in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 218 160
Rank change year-on-year +96 -58 +71
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 46 3 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.44% 0.054% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.67% 0.36% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 17 0 24
10th Percentile £55,750 - £38,500
25th Percentile £57,500 - £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 - £77,625
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.73% -2.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 431 844 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.49% 15.31% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 318 460 517
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -7.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the West Midlands

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Staffordshire - 16 - -
Birmingham +41 11 £70,000 -
Warwickshire +47 5 - - 3
Shropshire - 5 £64,500 - 1
Solihull - 5 £75,000 -
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Coventry - 1 - - 1
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (36.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (91.30%) AWS
2 28 (60.87%) Azure
3 14 (30.43%) GCP
4 10 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (21.74%) Amazon S3
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (13.04%) AWS KMS
6 6 (13.04%) Route 53
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.70%) Serverless
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (52.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.91%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (15.22%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
7 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (71.74%) Maven
2 31 (67.39%) SonarQube
3 28 (60.87%) JIRA
4 25 (54.35%) GitLab
5 24 (52.17%) Bitbucket
5 24 (52.17%) Cucumber
5 24 (52.17%) Selenium
5 24 (52.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (23.91%) Jenkins
7 10 (21.74%) JUnit
7 10 (21.74%) Mockito
8 9 (19.57%) Git
9 6 (13.04%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (13.04%) DbUnit
9 6 (13.04%) jMock
10 2 (4.35%) JMeter
11 1 (2.17%) Gatling
General
1 25 (54.35%) Finance
2 24 (52.17%) Banking
2 24 (52.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (32.61%) Public Sector
4 12 (26.09%) Retail
5 11 (23.91%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (23.91%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Software Engineer
2 19 (41.30%) Developer
2 19 (41.30%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Lead Java Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Java Scala Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Scala Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Scala Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (100.00%) Spring
2 32 (69.57%) JPA
3 27 (58.70%) React
4 26 (56.52%) HTML
5 24 (52.17%) CSS
5 24 (52.17%) Kafka
5 24 (52.17%) Redux
6 23 (50.00%) RESTful
7 21 (45.65%) Hibernate
8 18 (39.13%) REST
9 11 (23.91%) CSS3
9 11 (23.91%) HTML5
9 11 (23.91%) Jest
9 11 (23.91%) Sass
10 10 (21.74%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (19.57%) Web Services
12 8 (17.39%) SOAP
13 7 (15.22%) Bootstrap
14 6 (13.04%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (52.17%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (52.17%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (93.48%) Microservices
2 42 (91.30%) Agile
3 37 (80.43%) CI/CD
4 33 (71.74%) DevOps
5 32 (69.57%) Containerisation
6 30 (65.22%) TDD
7 29 (63.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (63.04%) Test Automation
8 26 (56.52%) Software Engineering
9 24 (52.17%) Front End Development
9 24 (52.17%) Performance Optimisation
9 24 (52.17%) SDLC
10 16 (34.78%) Clean Code
10 16 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (28.26%) BDD
11 13 (28.26%) Mentoring
12 12 (26.09%) Strategic Thinking
12 12 (26.09%) User Experience
13 11 (23.91%) Migration
13 11 (23.91%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (69.57%) SQL
3 30 (65.22%) JavaScript
4 15 (32.61%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.70%) Python
6 3 (6.52%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) Scala
7 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (54.35%) QA
2 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (89.13%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (76.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.70%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Solace
2 6 (13.04%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle