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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 171 158
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +84
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 58 30 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.51% 0.62% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.06% 3.47% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 19
10th Percentile £48,000 £62,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £49,625 £68,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -23.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £101,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% -23.33%

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 385 865 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.00% 17.74% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 233 570 789
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 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
Berkshire +7 42 £72,500 -3.33% 14
Buckinghamshire +2 13 £52,500 -30.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £120,000 - 2
Spring Boot
South East

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (17.24%) Confluence
2 7 (12.07%) JBoss
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 54 (93.10%) AWS
2 34 (58.62%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (58.62%) Serverless
3 33 (56.90%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (51.72%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.52%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.52%) Azure
5 9 (15.52%) GCP
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.62%) AWS KMS
7 5 (8.62%) Route 53
8 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (79.31%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (56.90%) Relational Database
3 24 (41.38%) RDBMS
4 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
5 7 (12.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (8.62%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (79.31%) Jenkins
2 41 (70.69%) JUnit
3 33 (56.90%) Mockito
4 24 (41.38%) JMeter
5 15 (25.86%) Git
6 13 (22.41%) Maven
7 12 (20.69%) SonarQube
8 11 (18.97%) JIRA
9 9 (15.52%) GitLab
10 6 (10.34%) Bitbucket
10 6 (10.34%) Cucumber
10 6 (10.34%) Selenium
10 6 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (8.62%) DbUnit
11 5 (8.62%) jMock
General
1 41 (70.69%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (77.59%) Developer
1 45 (77.59%) Java Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Lead Developer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Backend Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (94.83%) Spring
2 40 (68.97%) REST
3 39 (67.24%) Hibernate
3 39 (67.24%) Web Services
4 33 (56.90%) ActiveMQ
5 31 (53.45%) Apache Camel
6 30 (51.72%) HTML
7 24 (41.38%) jQuery
7 24 (41.38%) WireMock
8 17 (29.31%) JSON
8 17 (29.31%) Kafka
8 17 (29.31%) RESTful
8 17 (29.31%) XML
9 14 (24.14%) React
9 14 (24.14%) SOAP
10 13 (22.41%) JPA
11 10 (17.24%) AngularJS
12 7 (12.07%) Bootstrap
12 7 (12.07%) J2EE
13 6 (10.34%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (60.34%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (93.10%) Microservices
2 53 (91.38%) Agile
3 48 (82.76%) TDD
4 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
5 36 (62.07%) BDD
6 25 (43.10%) Scrum
7 24 (41.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (41.38%) Process Management
7 24 (41.38%) Workflow
8 21 (36.21%) DevOps
8 21 (36.21%) Kanban
9 19 (32.76%) SDLC
10 15 (25.86%) Containerisation
11 10 (17.24%) Test Automation
12 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
13 7 (12.07%) Architectural Design
13 7 (12.07%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (10.34%) Front End Development
14 6 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (58.62%) JavaScript
3 25 (43.10%) Python
4 24 (41.38%) Shell Script
5 15 (25.86%) SQL
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (41.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) SLA
2 6 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 51 (87.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (74.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (41.38%) Kibana
3 9 (15.52%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Dynatrace
1 24 (41.38%) Splunk
2 6 (10.34%) Solace
3 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.17%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.45%) WSO2
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle