Spring Job Trends in Reading

Pivotal Spring Framework
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 27 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +42
Permanent jobs citing Spring 21 48 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 3.54% 6.62% 5.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 40.38% 25.67% 23.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 23
10th Percentile £58,750 £60,875 £49,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -15.63% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £85,000 £87,000
Berkshire median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -6.45% -3.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

Spring 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 52 187 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.77% 25.79% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 83 154
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,510 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,688 £50,369
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Reading over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (28.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
2 18 (85.71%) Amazon ECS
2 18 (85.71%) Serverless
3 17 (80.95%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (52.38%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 6 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure
7 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (85.71%) Relational Database
2 17 (80.95%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (52.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 12 (57.14%) JUnit
3 11 (52.38%) JMeter
3 11 (52.38%) Mockito
4 6 (28.57%) Git
General
1 13 (61.90%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Games
2 1 (4.76%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
1 17 (80.95%) Java Developer
2 14 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 11 (52.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) Spring Boot
2 17 (80.95%) REST
3 16 (76.19%) Web Services
4 12 (57.14%) Hibernate
5 11 (52.38%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (52.38%) Apache Camel
5 11 (52.38%) HTML
5 11 (52.38%) jQuery
5 11 (52.38%) JSON
5 11 (52.38%) WireMock
5 11 (52.38%) XML
6 8 (38.10%) React
7 6 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (28.57%) Kafka
7 6 (28.57%) Mustache
7 6 (28.57%) Node.js
8 1 (4.76%) RESTful
8 1 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (80.95%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 18 (85.71%) Agile
2 18 (85.71%) Microservices
2 18 (85.71%) TDD
3 17 (80.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (80.95%) SDLC
4 11 (52.38%) BDD
4 11 (52.38%) Process Management
4 11 (52.38%) Workflow
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (9.52%) AI
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) User Experience
7 1 (4.76%) Biometrics
7 1 (4.76%) Coaching
7 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.76%) High Availability
7 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning
7 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 12 (57.14%) Python
4 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (90.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (52.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Dynatrace
1 11 (52.38%) Splunk