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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 218 166
Rank change year-on-year +94 -52 +58
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 45 6 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.38% 0.100% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.14% 0.68% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 24
10th Percentile £54,500 £64,250 -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £79,688
90th Percentile £75,000 - £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.23% +3.33%

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 444 883 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.62% 14.66% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 332 528 569
10th Percentile £36,825 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,125 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,868 £78,750
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

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 - - 1
Birmingham +39 10 £70,000 -12.50% 3
Solihull - 5 £75,000 -
Shropshire - 5 £64,500 - 1
Warwickshire - 4 - -
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Coventry - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £47,500 -
Spring Boot
England

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 17 (37.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (88.89%) AWS
2 28 (62.22%) Azure
3 13 (28.89%) GCP
4 10 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (13.33%) AWS KMS
7 6 (13.33%) Route 53
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.67%) Serverless
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (17.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (15.56%) DynamoDB
6 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
7 3 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (73.33%) Maven
2 31 (68.89%) SonarQube
3 28 (62.22%) JIRA
4 25 (55.56%) GitLab
5 24 (53.33%) Bitbucket
5 24 (53.33%) Cucumber
5 24 (53.33%) Selenium
5 24 (53.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (22.22%) Git
6 10 (22.22%) Jenkins
7 9 (20.00%) JUnit
7 9 (20.00%) Mockito
8 6 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (13.33%) DbUnit
8 6 (13.33%) jMock
9 2 (4.44%) JMeter
10 1 (2.22%) Gatling
General
1 25 (55.56%) Finance
2 24 (53.33%) Banking
2 24 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
4 12 (26.67%) Retail
5 11 (24.44%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 19 (42.22%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Lead Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Scala Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Scala Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Scala Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (100.00%) Spring
2 33 (73.33%) JPA
3 27 (60.00%) React
4 26 (57.78%) HTML
5 24 (53.33%) CSS
5 24 (53.33%) Kafka
5 24 (53.33%) Redux
6 22 (48.89%) Hibernate
6 22 (48.89%) RESTful
7 18 (40.00%) REST
8 11 (24.44%) CSS3
8 11 (24.44%) HTML5
8 11 (24.44%) Jest
8 11 (24.44%) Sass
9 10 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (20.00%) Web Services
11 8 (17.78%) AngularJS
11 8 (17.78%) SOAP
12 7 (15.56%) Bootstrap
13 6 (13.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (53.33%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (95.56%) Agile
2 41 (91.11%) Microservices
3 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
4 32 (71.11%) Containerisation
5 31 (68.89%) DevOps
6 30 (66.67%) TDD
7 29 (64.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (64.44%) Test Automation
8 25 (55.56%) Software Engineering
9 24 (53.33%) Front End Development
9 24 (53.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 24 (53.33%) SDLC
10 16 (35.56%) Clean Code
10 16 (35.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (28.89%) BDD
11 13 (28.89%) Mentoring
12 12 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
12 12 (26.67%) User Experience
13 11 (24.44%) Migration
13 11 (24.44%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (71.11%) SQL
3 31 (68.89%) JavaScript
4 14 (31.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.89%) Python
6 3 (6.67%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) Scala
7 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (55.56%) QA
2 11 (24.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (88.89%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (75.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Grafana
3 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Solace
2 6 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.89%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.44%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle