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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 135 126
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +101
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 28 46 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.70% 1.33% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.98% 5.95% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 27
10th Percentile £63,250 £61,250 £48,750
25th Percentile - £62,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,000 £79,750 £85,500
South East median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% - -14.75%

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 351 773 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.80% 22.35% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 254 457 587
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,750 £87,500 £93,000
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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 January 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 3 January 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 -23 25 £80,000 +14.29% 9
Buckinghamshire - 2 £65,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £120,000 - 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 (21.43%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.57%) Camunda
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
2 19 (67.86%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (67.86%) Serverless
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (67.86%) Relational Database
2 12 (42.86%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 14 (50.00%) JUnit
3 13 (46.43%) Mockito
4 12 (42.86%) JMeter
5 7 (25.00%) Git
6 1 (3.57%) Ant
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.57%) Gradle
6 1 (3.57%) JIRA
6 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 14 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Games
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 24 (85.71%) Java Developer
3 15 (53.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (53.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 12 (42.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (85.71%) REST
2 22 (78.57%) Spring
3 17 (60.71%) Web Services
4 14 (50.00%) React
5 13 (46.43%) HTML
6 12 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (42.86%) Apache Camel
6 12 (42.86%) Hibernate
6 12 (42.86%) jQuery
6 12 (42.86%) JSON
6 12 (42.86%) WireMock
6 12 (42.86%) XML
7 7 (25.00%) Kafka
8 6 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (21.43%) Mustache
8 6 (21.43%) Node.js
9 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
9 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
9 1 (3.57%) Nightwatchjs
9 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (64.29%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (17.86%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Microservices
2 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (71.43%) TDD
4 18 (64.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (64.29%) SDLC
5 13 (46.43%) Workflow
6 12 (42.86%) BDD
6 12 (42.86%) Process Management
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
9 2 (7.14%) AI
9 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
9 2 (7.14%) User Experience
10 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security
10 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Culture
10 1 (3.57%) Design Patterns
10 1 (3.57%) Product Discovery
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Java
2 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 14 (50.00%) Python
4 12 (42.86%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.14%) Go
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (67.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (42.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Dynatrace
1 12 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat