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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 121 117
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 +49
Permanent jobs citing Spring 26 63 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.65% 1.81% 2.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 8.09% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 33
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,625 £49,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £87,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% -6.67%

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 348 779 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.72% 22.42% 22.95%
Number of salaries quoted 251 461 580
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 1 January 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 1 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 -35 22 £72,500 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 4 £65,000 -
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 6 (23.08%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.85%) Camunda
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (88.46%) AWS
2 19 (73.08%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (73.08%) Serverless
3 18 (69.23%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (46.15%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
6 6 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (7.69%) Azure
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.85%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (76.92%) Relational Database
2 19 (73.08%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (46.15%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (53.85%) JUnit
3 13 (50.00%) Mockito
4 12 (46.15%) JMeter
5 8 (30.77%) Git
6 1 (3.85%) Ant
6 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.85%) Gradle
6 1 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 15 (57.69%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Games
3 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 19 (73.08%) Java Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (57.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 12 (46.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (84.62%) Spring Boot
2 19 (73.08%) REST
3 17 (65.38%) Web Services
4 14 (53.85%) Hibernate
5 13 (50.00%) HTML
6 12 (46.15%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (46.15%) Apache Camel
6 12 (46.15%) jQuery
6 12 (46.15%) JSON
6 12 (46.15%) WireMock
6 12 (46.15%) XML
7 9 (34.62%) React
8 6 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (23.08%) Kafka
8 6 (23.08%) Mustache
8 6 (23.08%) Node.js
9 2 (7.69%) RESTful
10 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
10 1 (3.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Agile
2 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 20 (76.92%) Microservices
2 20 (76.92%) TDD
3 18 (69.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (65.38%) SDLC
5 13 (50.00%) Workflow
6 12 (46.15%) BDD
6 12 (46.15%) Process Management
7 6 (23.08%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 3 (11.54%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) User Experience
10 2 (7.69%) AI
10 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
11 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Working
11 1 (3.85%) Community of Practice
11 1 (3.85%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Java
2 19 (73.08%) JavaScript
3 14 (53.85%) Python
4 12 (46.15%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 2 (7.69%) Go
7 1 (3.85%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) Groovy
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (88.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (46.15%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) PingFederate
3 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Dynatrace
1 12 (46.15%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat