Spring Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 151 148
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring 20 54 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.27% 1.41% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.76% 13.74% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 12
10th Percentile £60,613 £49,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £65,281 £51,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,875 £67,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% -14.29% +28.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £75,000 -
South East median annual salary £72,375 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.22% -3.57% +2.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

Spring 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 725 393 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.63% 10.26% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 554 245 552
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,854 £37,625
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,438 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Spring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -13 16 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Buckinghamshire -15 3 £70,750 +34.76% 4
Oxfordshire -29 1 - - 6
Spring
South East

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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 3 (15.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (60.00%) Serverless
3 8 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 16 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (30.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (45.00%) JUnit
3 8 (40.00%) JMeter
3 8 (40.00%) Mockito
4 5 (25.00%) Git
5 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (5.00%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (55.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 12 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (85.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (60.00%) REST
3 11 (55.00%) Hibernate
3 11 (55.00%) HTML
4 10 (50.00%) Web Services
5 9 (45.00%) Apache Camel
6 8 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (40.00%) jQuery
6 8 (40.00%) WireMock
7 7 (35.00%) JSON
7 7 (35.00%) XML
8 5 (25.00%) Mustache
8 5 (25.00%) React
9 3 (15.00%) CSS
9 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (15.00%) Jakarta EE
9 3 (15.00%) JPA
9 3 (15.00%) Node.js
9 3 (15.00%) RESTful
9 3 (15.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (35.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (75.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) TDD
4 12 (60.00%) Microservices
5 10 (50.00%) BDD
6 9 (45.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (45.00%) Workflow
7 8 (40.00%) DevOps
7 8 (40.00%) Scrum
7 8 (40.00%) SDLC
8 7 (35.00%) Process Management
9 6 (30.00%) Kanban
10 5 (25.00%) Biometrics
10 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (50.00%) Python
4 8 (40.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Kibana
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow