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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 153 150
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +79
Permanent jobs citing Spring Boot 32 45 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.05% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 4.95% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 18
10th Percentile £46,575 £61,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £58,438 £62,188 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £123,000 £79,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +8.70% -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 327 909 844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.82% 21.12% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 237 541 591
10th Percentile £35,512 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,980 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £93,750
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 27 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 27 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 -10 28 £76,250 +8.93% 13
Buckinghamshire - 3 £65,000 - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £120,000 - 3
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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) JBoss
1 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
1 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 26 (81.25%) AWS
2 23 (71.88%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (71.88%) Serverless
3 22 (68.75%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (59.38%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) Route 53
7 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (68.75%) Relational Database
3 18 (56.25%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (65.63%) JUnit
3 19 (59.38%) Mockito
4 18 (56.25%) JMeter
5 5 (15.63%) Git
6 3 (9.38%) JIRA
7 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.13%) DbUnit
7 1 (3.13%) jMock
7 1 (3.13%) Maven
7 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (87.50%) Developer
1 28 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Developer
2 17 (53.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 15 (46.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Junior
5 1 (3.13%) Junior Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (90.63%) Spring
2 25 (78.13%) REST
3 23 (71.88%) Web Services
4 20 (62.50%) Apache Camel
5 19 (59.38%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (59.38%) Hibernate
6 18 (56.25%) HTML
6 18 (56.25%) jQuery
6 18 (56.25%) JSON
6 18 (56.25%) WireMock
6 18 (56.25%) XML
7 6 (18.75%) Kafka
7 6 (18.75%) React
8 5 (15.63%) RESTful
9 3 (9.38%) SOAP
10 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (6.25%) J2EE
10 2 (6.25%) Mustache
10 2 (6.25%) Node.js
11 1 (3.13%) GraalVM
Miscellaneous
1 22 (68.75%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) IoT
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Microservices
2 27 (84.38%) Agile
3 25 (78.13%) CI/CD
3 25 (78.13%) TDD
4 21 (65.63%) BDD
4 21 (65.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (56.25%) Process Management
5 18 (56.25%) Workflow
6 15 (46.88%) SDLC
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 5 (15.63%) DevOps
8 5 (15.63%) Kanban
9 4 (12.50%) AI
9 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
11 2 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
11 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering
11 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 20 (62.50%) Python
3 18 (56.25%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 18 (56.25%) Kibana
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Dynatrace
1 18 (56.25%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle