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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 130 187
Rank change year-on-year -18 +57 +24
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 25 51 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.44% 1.53% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 11.54% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 30
10th Percentile - £48,000 £57,125
25th Percentile £80,000 £51,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £52,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.36% +43.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% -8.20% +19.61%

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 544 442 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.51% 13.25% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 439 287 948
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.61% -13.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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
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 23 May 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 -4 24 £82,500 +13.79% 1
Buckinghamshire -13 1 - - 1
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 8 (32.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.00%) Camunda
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 19 (76.00%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (76.00%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (76.00%) Serverless
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (16.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (76.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (64.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (76.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (52.00%) Git
3 10 (40.00%) JUnit
4 8 (32.00%) Mockito
5 7 (28.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) Ant
6 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.00%) Gradle
6 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Developer
2 20 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (20.00%) Java Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (88.00%) REST
2 20 (80.00%) Spring
3 17 (68.00%) React
4 16 (64.00%) Web Services
5 12 (48.00%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (40.00%) Mustache
7 8 (32.00%) Apache Camel
7 8 (32.00%) Hibernate
7 8 (32.00%) HTML
7 8 (32.00%) Node.js
8 7 (28.00%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (28.00%) jQuery
8 7 (28.00%) Kafka
8 7 (28.00%) WireMock
9 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
9 6 (24.00%) JPA
10 5 (20.00%) JSON
10 5 (20.00%) XML
11 4 (16.00%) Java EE
11 4 (16.00%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (20.00%) IoT
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) Microservices
2 20 (80.00%) Agile
2 20 (80.00%) TDD
3 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (56.00%) Scrum
5 12 (48.00%) SDLC
6 11 (44.00%) BDD
7 9 (36.00%) DevOps
8 8 (32.00%) Workflow
9 7 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (28.00%) Kanban
10 5 (20.00%) Biometrics
10 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (20.00%) Process Management
11 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
11 4 (16.00%) Domain-Driven Design
12 3 (12.00%) Clean Code
12 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 2 (8.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Java
2 14 (56.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Kibana
3 5 (20.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Dynatrace
1 7 (28.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (16.00%) IBM
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat