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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 216 145
Rank change year-on-year +77 -71 +96
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 26 3 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.056% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.18% 0.35% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 19 0 29
10th Percentile £53,480 - £38,500
25th Percentile £56,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 - £75,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -3.23%

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 421 846 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.38% 15.67% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 335 466 510
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -6.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,001
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
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 6 November 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 6 November 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
Birmingham +39 10 £67,500 - 2
Shropshire - 5 £64,500 - 5
Solihull - 4 £75,000 -
Worcestershire - 2 £47,000 - 3
Staffordshire - 2 - -
Warwickshire +43 1 - - 4
Coventry - 1 £55,200 - 3
Herefordshire - 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (26.92%) Azure
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (23.08%) AWS KMS
4 6 (23.08%) Route 53
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (15.38%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
4 5 (19.23%) NoSQL
5 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 10 (38.46%) JUnit
1 10 (38.46%) Maven
2 9 (34.62%) Git
2 9 (34.62%) Mockito
2 9 (34.62%) SonarQube
3 7 (26.92%) JIRA
4 6 (23.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (23.08%) DbUnit
4 6 (23.08%) jMock
5 5 (19.23%) GitLab
6 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (15.38%) Selenium
7 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
7 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (7.69%) JMeter
9 1 (3.85%) Gatling
General
1 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 18 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Scala Developer
6 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Scala Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Scala Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (100.00%) Spring
2 15 (57.69%) RESTful
3 11 (42.31%) JPA
4 9 (34.62%) Hibernate
4 9 (34.62%) REST
4 9 (34.62%) Web Services
5 8 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
6 7 (26.92%) React
6 7 (26.92%) SOAP
7 6 (23.08%) Bootstrap
7 6 (23.08%) PowerMock
7 6 (23.08%) Spring Batch
7 6 (23.08%) Spring Integration
8 5 (19.23%) HTML
9 3 (11.54%) CSS
9 3 (11.54%) CSS3
9 3 (11.54%) HTML5
9 3 (11.54%) Kafka
9 3 (11.54%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Agile
1 21 (80.77%) Microservices
2 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 16 (61.54%) TDD
4 13 (50.00%) BDD
5 12 (46.15%) DevOps
6 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
7 9 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
8 8 (30.77%) Scrum
9 7 (26.92%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
9 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
10 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (23.08%) Kanban
10 6 (23.08%) Open Source
10 6 (23.08%) Pair Programming
11 5 (19.23%) User Experience
12 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
12 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) Python
6 3 (11.54%) C#
6 3 (11.54%) Scala
7 2 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.85%) Delphi
8 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (73.08%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Solace
4 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.69%) Jaspersoft