Spring Boot Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Spring Boot
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 147 165
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -8
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 21 55 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.28% 1.44% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 13.85% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 8
10th Percentile £59,375 £48,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £49,625 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,125 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £76,469 £73,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £81,588 £101,500 £97,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 729 397 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.72% 10.39% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 556 246 562
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,854 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Spring Boot
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring Boot in the Thames Valley

Spring Boot
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Berkshire -19 16 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Buckinghamshire -9 4 £69,125 +31.67% 2
Oxfordshire -36 1 - - 7
Spring Boot
South East

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
2 15 (71.43%) Serverless
3 13 (61.90%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (28.57%) Azure
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
6 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 4 (19.05%) GitHub
6 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (9.52%) Apigee
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (80.95%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (80.95%) Relational Database
2 6 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 4 (19.05%) MySQL
4 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) GIS
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (90.48%) Jenkins
2 10 (47.62%) JUnit
3 8 (38.10%) JMeter
3 8 (38.10%) Mockito
4 6 (28.57%) Git
5 3 (14.29%) GitLab
6 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
6 2 (9.52%) Maven
6 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
7 1 (4.76%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (4.76%) Storybook
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 12 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (28.57%) Java Engineer
6 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
8 3 (14.29%) Senior
8 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (85.71%) Spring
2 12 (57.14%) HTML
3 11 (52.38%) Hibernate
3 11 (52.38%) REST
3 11 (52.38%) Web Services
4 9 (42.86%) Apache Camel
5 8 (38.10%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (38.10%) jQuery
5 8 (38.10%) WireMock
6 7 (33.33%) JSON
6 7 (33.33%) React
6 7 (33.33%) XML
7 5 (23.81%) Mustache
8 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (19.05%) CSS
8 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (19.05%) JPA
9 3 (14.29%) Node.js
9 3 (14.29%) RESTful
10 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Life Science
4 1 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 13 (61.90%) Microservices
3 13 (61.90%) TDD
4 12 (57.14%) DevOps
4 12 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (47.62%) BDD
5 10 (47.62%) SDLC
6 9 (42.86%) Workflow
7 8 (38.10%) Scrum
8 7 (33.33%) Process Management
9 6 (28.57%) Kanban
9 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
10 5 (23.81%) Biometrics
10 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
11 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
11 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
12 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 11 (52.38%) Python
4 8 (38.10%) Shell Script
5 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (9.52%) Groovy
7 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Kibana
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) HP Fortify
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Dynatrace
2 8 (38.10%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow