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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 196 136
Rank change year-on-year +29 -60 +103
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 13 2 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.046% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 0.28% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 34
10th Percentile £35,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £42,213 - £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.74%
75th Percentile £68,125 - £72,137
90th Percentile £68,750 - £72,500
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +2.67% -6.25%

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 412 705 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.83% 16.26% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 358 382 527
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,185 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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
Birmingham - 5 £62,500 - 4
Worcestershire - 3 £36,500 - 1
Warwickshire +26 2 £80,000 - 2
Coventry - 2 £48,975 -
Shropshire - 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) Gatling
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
6 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (15.38%) Java Scala Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Scala Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Software Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Scala Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) React
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) Django
3 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (15.38%) Flask
3 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 2 (15.38%) JPA
3 2 (15.38%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) HTML
4 1 (7.69%) JWT
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) Code Quality
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
5 2 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Delphi
4 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
4 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk