Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Spring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Spring over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 152 91
Rank change year-on-year -33 -61 +16
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,580 2,331 6,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 2.39% 3.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.41% 7.99% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 668 1,192 2,154
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Salary trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +9 1,196 £65,000 - 140
England -148 788 £75,000 -3.23% 191
Scotland +58 731 £60,000 -9.09% 17
Work from Home -120 410 £72,500 +1.40% 121
London -90 369 £90,000 +2.86% 88
South East -1 148 £70,000 - 33
North of England -96 134 £72,500 +7.41% 33
South West -21 109 £65,000 - 20
North West -91 98 £70,000 +3.70% 26
Midlands -131 31 £57,500 -4.17% 10
West Midlands -92 29 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Yorkshire -10 25 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Wales -18 22 £44,250 -31.92% 4
East of England -53 15 £50,000 -28.57% 4
North East -10 11 £55,000 -1.79% 3
Northern Ireland -41 6 £95,000 +90.00% 20
East Midlands -53 1 - - 2

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 114 (7.22%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.20%) FileNet
3 57 (3.61%) Apache
4 41 (2.59%) Confluence
5 40 (2.53%) OpenStack
6 37 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 28 (1.77%) WebLogic
8 26 (1.65%) Tomcat
9 21 (1.33%) GemFire
10 19 (1.20%) Camunda
11 15 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
12 13 (0.82%) JBoss
13 10 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.38%) Apache Pig
15 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
16 2 (0.13%) GlassFish
16 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
16 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.063%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.063%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 853 (53.99%) AWS
2 261 (16.52%) Azure
3 147 (9.30%) Amazon S3
4 136 (8.61%) Serverless
5 122 (7.72%) GCP
6 114 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
7 87 (5.51%) GitHub
8 77 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
9 63 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (3.73%) OpenShift
11 39 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (2.15%) SaaS
13 31 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (1.84%) BlazeMeter
15 28 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
16 25 (1.58%) Datadog
17 18 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
19 12 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.84%) AMQP
2 17 (1.08%) Kerberos
3 9 (0.57%) Internet
4 6 (0.38%) FTP
5 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.19%) MQTT
5 3 (0.19%) SSH
6 2 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (20.06%) NoSQL
2 222 (14.05%) Relational Database
3 181 (11.46%) Elasticsearch
4 160 (10.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 133 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
6 119 (7.53%) MongoDB
7 113 (7.15%) Big Data
8 96 (6.08%) MySQL
9 93 (5.89%) Hadoop
10 61 (3.86%) RDBMS
11 54 (3.42%) SQL Server
12 52 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.41%) CockroachDB
14 33 (2.09%) Apache Hive
15 28 (1.77%) Cloudera CDH
16 27 (1.71%) DB2
17 26 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (1.39%) Hazelcast
20 21 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 293 (18.54%) JUnit
2 283 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 226 (14.30%) Git
4 145 (9.18%) Maven
5 106 (6.71%) Jasmine
6 102 (6.46%) Selenium
7 96 (6.08%) Cypress.io
8 65 (4.11%) Mockito
9 64 (4.05%) JIRA
10 63 (3.99%) Protractor
11 60 (3.80%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (3.80%) WebDriver
12 59 (3.73%) Cucumber
13 56 (3.54%) Gradle
14 50 (3.16%) GitLab
15 33 (2.09%) Postman
16 30 (1.90%) CircleCI
17 21 (1.33%) IntelliJ
17 21 (1.33%) Jaeger
18 20 (1.27%) JMeter
General
1 901 (57.03%) Finance
2 716 (45.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 680 (43.04%) Law
4 319 (20.19%) Banking
5 235 (14.87%) Marketing
6 196 (12.41%) Social Skills
7 194 (12.28%) Legal
8 181 (11.46%) Investment Banking
9 85 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
10 82 (5.19%) Public Sector
11 75 (4.75%) Financial Institution
12 57 (3.61%) Private Banking
13 37 (2.34%) Games
14 32 (2.03%) Aerospace
15 31 (1.96%) Front Office
16 30 (1.90%) Police
17 27 (1.71%) Retail
18 22 (1.39%) Prime Brokerage
19 15 (0.95%) Publishing
20 12 (0.76%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 776 (49.11%) Software Engineer
2 568 (35.95%) Java Engineer
3 502 (31.77%) Java Software Engineer
4 473 (29.94%) Developer
5 420 (26.58%) Java Developer
6 342 (21.65%) Lead
7 294 (18.61%) Senior
8 236 (14.94%) Full Stack Engineer
9 218 (13.80%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 207 (13.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 153 (9.68%) Lead Java Engineer
12 139 (8.80%) Senior Developer
13 128 (8.10%) Senior Java Developer
14 104 (6.58%) Full Stack Developer
15 84 (5.32%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 71 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
17 56 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
17 56 (3.54%) Senior Java Engineer
18 55 (3.48%) Software Engineering Manager
19 45 (2.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 875 (55.38%) Spring Boot
2 532 (33.67%) React
3 527 (33.35%) AngularJS
4 420 (26.58%) Kafka
5 374 (23.67%) Hibernate
6 314 (19.87%) J2EE
7 283 (17.91%) HTML
7 283 (17.91%) REST
8 274 (17.34%) CSS
9 273 (17.28%) Node.js
10 224 (14.18%) JSON
11 192 (12.15%) JMS
12 187 (11.84%) RESTful
13 164 (10.38%) Web Services
14 157 (9.94%) jQuery
15 151 (9.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 127 (8.04%) GraphQL
17 109 (6.90%) JPA
18 108 (6.84%) Spring Integration
19 105 (6.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 417 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 220 (13.92%) Algorithms
3 122 (7.72%) Data Structures
4 107 (6.77%) Public Cloud
5 67 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (4.18%) Distributed Applications
7 63 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (3.42%) Onboarding
9 52 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 50 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
11 44 (2.78%) Legacy Code
12 43 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 35 (2.22%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.65%) Private Cloud
15 21 (1.33%) Replication
16 18 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (1.01%) Blockchain
17 16 (1.01%) Virtual Team
18 14 (0.89%) e-Learning
18 14 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.49%) Linux
2 65 (4.11%) Unix
3 28 (1.77%) CentOS
3 28 (1.77%) Debian
3 28 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (1.77%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.57%) Windows
5 4 (0.25%) AIX
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,131 (71.58%) Agile
2 1,000 (63.29%) Software Engineering
3 791 (50.06%) CI/CD
4 674 (42.66%) SDLC
5 659 (41.71%) Microservices
6 475 (30.06%) Operational Stability
7 435 (27.53%) Full Stack Development
8 415 (26.27%) Artificial Intelligence
9 407 (25.76%) Machine Learning
10 330 (20.89%) Community of Practice
11 329 (20.82%) TDD
12 289 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 281 (17.78%) DevOps
14 258 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
15 237 (15.00%) Computer Science
16 235 (14.87%) Visualisation
17 228 (14.43%) Decision-Making
18 218 (13.80%) Risk Management
19 197 (12.47%) BDD
20 178 (11.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,557 (98.54%) Java
2 577 (36.52%) SQL
3 479 (30.32%) JavaScript
4 262 (16.58%) Python
5 250 (15.82%) TypeScript
6 65 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 47 (2.97%) Kotlin
8 41 (2.59%) Groovy
9 34 (2.15%) C#
10 31 (1.96%) Ruby
11 29 (1.84%) PHP
12 26 (1.65%) Scala
13 18 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.82%) Go
15 10 (0.63%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.57%) Perl
17 7 (0.44%) Rust
18 5 (0.32%) C
18 5 (0.32%) COBOL
18 5 (0.32%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 172 (10.89%) Security Cleared
2 150 (9.49%) Degree
3 145 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 115 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 41 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.32%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.19%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.13%) ACCA
13 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.063%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.94%) QA
2 52 (3.29%) SLA
3 34 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.63%) GDPR
5 4 (0.25%) MiFID
5 4 (0.25%) SEPA
6 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.063%) Data Quality
System Software
1 330 (20.89%) Docker
2 30 (1.90%) Hyper-V
3 21 (1.33%) HDFS
4 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 495 (31.33%) Kubernetes
2 213 (13.48%) Terraform
3 97 (6.14%) Ansible
4 72 (4.56%) Grafana
5 51 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.15%) Kibana
7 29 (1.84%) Puppet
8 27 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.65%) OpenSSO
10 21 (1.33%) HAProxy
10 21 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (1.33%) Zipkin
11 7 (0.44%) Graphite
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
13 1 (0.063%) Consul
13 1 (0.063%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.063%) Packer
13 1 (0.063%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 285 (18.04%) Oracle
2 109 (6.90%) Google
3 82 (5.19%) Splunk
4 79 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 46 (2.91%) SaltStack
6 45 (2.85%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.53%) WSO2
8 28 (1.77%) Databricks
9 26 (1.65%) Remedy
10 19 (1.20%) IBM
10 19 (1.20%) Pega
11 16 (1.01%) Sybase
12 15 (0.95%) Cloudera
13 11 (0.70%) Microsoft
14 9 (0.57%) TOWER Software
15 6 (0.38%) Confluent
15 6 (0.38%) ION Trading
16 5 (0.32%) Micro Focus
16 5 (0.32%) MuleSoft
17 4 (0.25%) Reuters