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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 128 175
Rank change year-on-year -14 +47 +51
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 18 34 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.24% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 6.71% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 39
10th Percentile - £60,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £67,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -18.18% +17.86%
75th Percentile £88,438 £69,375 £88,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -24.24% +15.79%

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 399 507 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.28% 18.49% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 302 358 958
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,800 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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
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 24 March 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 -11 17 £81,250 +25.00% 5
Buckinghamshire -19 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 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 11 (61.11%) Amazon ECS
2 11 (61.11%) Amazon EKS
2 11 (61.11%) Serverless
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Git
2 7 (38.89%) JUnit
3 6 (33.33%) Mockito
4 5 (27.78%) JMeter
5 1 (5.56%) Ant
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) Gradle
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 16 (88.89%) Java Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (44.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 7 (38.89%) Senior
4 7 (38.89%) Senior Developer
4 7 (38.89%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (27.78%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (88.89%) REST
2 13 (72.22%) React
2 13 (72.22%) Spring
3 10 (55.56%) Web Services
4 6 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (33.33%) HTML
4 6 (33.33%) Kafka
4 6 (33.33%) Mustache
4 6 (33.33%) Node.js
5 5 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (27.78%) Apache Camel
5 5 (27.78%) Hibernate
5 5 (27.78%) jQuery
5 5 (27.78%) JSON
5 5 (27.78%) WireMock
5 5 (27.78%) XML
6 1 (5.56%) CSS
6 1 (5.56%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (27.78%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Microservices
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) TDD
3 11 (61.11%) SDLC
4 10 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (33.33%) Scrum
5 6 (33.33%) Workflow
6 5 (27.78%) BDD
6 5 (27.78%) Process Management
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) DevOps
8 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
8 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
8 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (5.56%) Product Discovery
8 1 (5.56%) User Experience
8 1 (5.56%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Java
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
5 2 (11.11%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
1 5 (27.78%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat