Hybrid/Remote Spring Boot Job Trends

Spring Boot
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 149 318
Rank change year-on-year -119 +169 -109
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 133 376 282
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.51% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 8.46% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 112 100 236
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £46,278
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,691 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £91,934
90th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £101,875
UK median annual salary £70,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.33% - -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,357 4,445 8,589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.88% 29.66% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,991 7,518
10th Percentile £41,925 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring Boot and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Spring Boot
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Spring Boot salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.26%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) JBoss
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 90 (67.67%) AWS
2 49 (36.84%) Serverless
3 27 (20.30%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (18.80%) Azure
5 23 (17.29%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.03%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (10.53%) GCP
8 12 (9.02%) SaaS
9 11 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (8.27%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.27%) GitHub
10 9 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (6.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.76%) Apigee
13 3 (2.26%) Stripe
14 2 (1.50%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.80%) NoSQL
2 19 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.27%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.77%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.01%) MySQL
6 4 (3.01%) Redis
7 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) Flink
7 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.75%) Big Data
9 1 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.77%) Git
3 7 (5.26%) GitLab
3 7 (5.26%) Maven
4 5 (3.76%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.50%) Gradle
5 2 (1.50%) JIRA
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.75%) git-flow
6 1 (0.75%) MLflow
6 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Finance
3 14 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.77%) Games
4 9 (6.77%) Tech for Good
5 8 (6.02%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) Health Technology
5 8 (6.02%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.50%) Advertising
7 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.75%) iGaming
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (51.88%) Developer
2 61 (45.86%) Java Developer
3 43 (32.33%) Java Engineer
4 37 (27.82%) Senior
5 35 (26.32%) Software Engineer
6 24 (18.05%) Lead
7 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 20 (15.04%) Java Software Engineer
9 19 (14.29%) Senior Developer
10 15 (11.28%) Senior Java Developer
11 13 (9.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 11 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (8.27%) Lead Developer
13 10 (7.52%) Lead Java Developer
14 9 (6.77%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (6.77%) Software Developer
15 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (6.02%) Java Software Developer
15 8 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (93.23%) Spring
2 40 (30.08%) React
3 34 (25.56%) REST
4 33 (24.81%) AngularJS
5 24 (18.05%) Node.js
6 13 (9.77%) Kafka
7 12 (9.02%) RESTful
8 10 (7.52%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (6.77%) Vue
10 8 (6.02%) React Native
11 7 (5.26%) Web Services
12 5 (3.76%) Gherkin
12 5 (3.76%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.76%) Jest
12 5 (3.76%) JSON
12 5 (3.76%) XML
13 4 (3.01%) CSS
13 4 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (3.01%) JPA
13 4 (3.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Android
1 6 (4.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.75%) CentOS
2 1 (0.75%) Debian
2 1 (0.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.88%) CI/CD
2 62 (46.62%) DevOps
3 54 (40.60%) Agile
4 53 (39.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (39.10%) Software Engineering
6 44 (33.08%) Microservices
7 37 (27.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (25.56%) Mentoring
9 32 (24.06%) Containerisation
10 27 (20.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (20.30%) Test Automation
11 26 (19.55%) TDD
12 21 (15.79%) Clean Code
12 21 (15.79%) Design Patterns
13 19 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (14.29%) Scrum
14 18 (13.53%) AI
15 16 (12.03%) Architectural Patterns
15 16 (12.03%) Collaborative Culture
16 13 (9.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 130 (97.74%) Java
2 25 (18.80%) JavaScript
3 22 (16.54%) Python
4 21 (15.79%) SQL
5 15 (11.28%) Kotlin
6 14 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.01%) Bash
7 4 (3.01%) C#
7 4 (3.01%) Groovy
8 3 (2.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Korn
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.01%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.75%) Degree
4 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (43.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.80%) Terraform
3 15 (11.28%) Ansible
4 5 (3.76%) HP Fortify
4 5 (3.76%) Packer
5 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
1 3 (2.26%) Revolut
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle
3 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.75%) Google
3 1 (0.75%) IBM
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.75%) SaltStack