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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 156 151
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +88
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 38 37 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.86% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.31% 4.34% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £45,150 £62,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £68,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £126,000 £103,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +17.39% -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 336 853 904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.66% 19.78% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 214 496 629
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,875 £43,760
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,856
Median % change year-on-year - -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +6 34 £72,500 -3.33% 30
Buckinghamshire - 3 £65,000 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £120,000 - 2
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 5 (13.16%) JBoss
1 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (10.53%) Confluence
3 2 (5.26%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (92.11%) AWS
2 28 (73.68%) Amazon ECS
2 28 (73.68%) Serverless
3 27 (71.05%) Amazon EKS
4 24 (63.16%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (10.53%) AWS KMS
7 4 (10.53%) Route 53
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.63%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (86.84%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (71.05%) Relational Database
3 20 (52.63%) RDBMS
4 5 (13.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (10.53%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (86.84%) Jenkins
2 30 (78.95%) JUnit
3 24 (63.16%) Mockito
4 20 (52.63%) JMeter
5 11 (28.95%) Git
6 5 (13.16%) JIRA
6 5 (13.16%) Maven
7 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (10.53%) DbUnit
7 4 (10.53%) jMock
7 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (78.95%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (89.47%) Developer
1 34 (89.47%) Java Developer
2 17 (44.74%) Full-Stack Developer
2 17 (44.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 15 (39.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Backend Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Junior Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (97.37%) Spring
2 32 (84.21%) Web Services
3 30 (78.95%) REST
4 25 (65.79%) ActiveMQ
4 25 (65.79%) Apache Camel
4 25 (65.79%) Hibernate
5 20 (52.63%) HTML
5 20 (52.63%) jQuery
5 20 (52.63%) WireMock
6 19 (50.00%) JSON
6 19 (50.00%) XML
7 11 (28.95%) RESTful
8 10 (26.32%) SOAP
9 6 (15.79%) Kafka
10 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
10 5 (13.16%) Bootstrap
10 5 (13.16%) J2EE
10 5 (13.16%) JPA
10 5 (13.16%) Spring Batch
10 5 (13.16%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 28 (73.68%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (94.74%) Agile
1 36 (94.74%) Microservices
2 34 (89.47%) TDD
3 29 (76.32%) BDD
4 26 (68.42%) CI/CD
5 20 (52.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (52.63%) Process Management
5 20 (52.63%) Workflow
6 16 (42.11%) SDLC
7 15 (39.47%) Scrum
8 12 (31.58%) Kanban
9 8 (21.05%) DevOps
10 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 4 (10.53%) Open Source
11 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
12 3 (7.89%) AI
12 3 (7.89%) Machine Learning
13 2 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 21 (55.26%) Python
4 20 (52.63%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (84.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (52.63%) Kibana
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Dynatrace
1 20 (52.63%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle