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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 139 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 -47 +15
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,685 2,685 5,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 2.57% 3.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.03% 8.46% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 725 1,350 2,107
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £106,250
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 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -5 1,277 £65,000 - 101
England -133 844 £75,000 -6.25% 174
Scotland +40 754 £65,000 -1.52% 15
Work from Home -77 477 £71,538 +2.20% 96
London -92 389 £90,000 - 92
South East +20 152 £70,000 - 18
North of England -112 146 £75,000 +11.11% 22
South West +6 122 £60,500 -6.92% 19
North West -100 102 £72,500 +11.54% 12
Midlands -142 44 £57,500 -4.17% 7
West Midlands -87 38 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Yorkshire -2 32 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Wales +11 29 £44,250 -31.92% 3
Northern Ireland -21 17 £97,500 +95.00% 7
East of England -68 13 £50,000 -28.57% 10
North East -7 12 £55,000 -0.22% 5
East Midlands -79 5 - - 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
1 112 (6.65%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.70%) FileNet
3 52 (3.09%) Apache
4 51 (3.03%) Confluence
5 42 (2.49%) OpenStack
6 41 (2.43%) JBoss
7 39 (2.31%) Red Hat Fuse
8 36 (2.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (1.84%) WebLogic
10 28 (1.66%) Tomcat
11 21 (1.25%) Camunda
11 21 (1.25%) GemFire
12 16 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.47%) Apache Pig
14 4 (0.24%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
16 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
16 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 880 (52.23%) AWS
2 272 (16.14%) Azure
3 156 (9.26%) Serverless
4 144 (8.55%) Amazon S3
5 118 (7.00%) GCP
6 113 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (4.81%) GitHub
8 80 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
9 62 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (2.97%) OpenShift
11 39 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (2.26%) SaaS
13 30 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
14 29 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
15 26 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.31%) Datadog
17 18 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (0.95%) IBM Cloud
19 15 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
20 12 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.60%) AMQP
2 17 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 12 (0.71%) Internet
4 5 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.059%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (18.81%) NoSQL
2 223 (13.23%) Relational Database
3 181 (10.74%) Elasticsearch
4 157 (9.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 130 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
6 126 (7.48%) MongoDB
7 120 (7.12%) Big Data
8 97 (5.76%) MySQL
9 93 (5.52%) Hadoop
10 62 (3.68%) RDBMS
11 51 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
11 51 (3.03%) SQL Server
12 38 (2.26%) CockroachDB
13 37 (2.20%) Apache Hive
14 26 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.48%) DB2
16 24 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
17 23 (1.36%) Hazelcast
18 22 (1.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 311 (18.46%) Jenkins
2 292 (17.33%) JUnit
3 263 (15.61%) Git
4 151 (8.96%) Maven
5 105 (6.23%) Jasmine
6 102 (6.05%) Selenium
7 96 (5.70%) Cypress.io
8 75 (4.45%) JIRA
9 69 (4.09%) Mockito
10 65 (3.86%) Gradle
11 63 (3.74%) Protractor
12 62 (3.68%) Cucumber
13 60 (3.56%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (3.56%) WebDriver
14 54 (3.20%) IntelliJ
15 47 (2.79%) GitLab
16 37 (2.20%) Postman
17 31 (1.84%) CircleCI
18 21 (1.25%) Jaeger
18 21 (1.25%) Travis CI
General
1 938 (55.67%) Finance
2 720 (42.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 681 (40.42%) Law
4 338 (20.06%) Banking
5 237 (14.07%) Marketing
6 204 (12.11%) Legal
7 195 (11.57%) Social Skills
8 180 (10.68%) Investment Banking
9 115 (6.82%) Public Sector
10 93 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
11 79 (4.69%) Financial Institution
12 60 (3.56%) Private Banking
13 43 (2.55%) Games
14 41 (2.43%) Police
15 30 (1.78%) Front Office
16 29 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 29 (1.72%) Retail
17 22 (1.31%) Prime Brokerage
18 15 (0.89%) Publishing
19 10 (0.59%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 817 (48.49%) Software Engineer
2 614 (36.44%) Java Engineer
3 550 (32.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 519 (30.80%) Developer
5 465 (27.60%) Java Developer
6 351 (20.83%) Senior
7 345 (20.47%) Lead
8 236 (14.01%) Full Stack Engineer
9 218 (12.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 208 (12.34%) Lead Software Engineer
11 163 (9.67%) Senior Developer
12 154 (9.14%) Lead Java Engineer
13 153 (9.08%) Senior Java Developer
14 105 (6.23%) Full Stack Developer
15 100 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 87 (5.16%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 82 (4.87%) Senior Java Engineer
18 55 (3.26%) Engineering Manager
19 54 (3.20%) Architect
19 54 (3.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 902 (53.53%) Spring Boot
2 571 (33.89%) AngularJS
3 557 (33.06%) React
4 445 (26.41%) Kafka
5 408 (24.21%) Hibernate
6 336 (19.94%) J2EE
7 324 (19.23%) REST
8 265 (15.73%) HTML
8 265 (15.73%) Node.js
9 258 (15.31%) JSON
10 255 (15.13%) CSS
11 231 (13.71%) RESTful
12 195 (11.57%) JMS
13 188 (11.16%) Web Services
14 158 (9.38%) jQuery
15 150 (8.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 139 (8.25%) JPA
17 134 (7.95%) XML
18 125 (7.42%) GraphQL
19 103 (6.11%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 402 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 220 (13.06%) Algorithms
3 123 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 105 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 68 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (3.03%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.03%) Onboarding
10 44 (2.61%) Legacy Code
11 42 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (2.31%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.48%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.31%) Blockchain
15 21 (1.25%) Replication
16 18 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (0.95%) Reference Data
17 16 (0.95%) Virtual Team
18 15 (0.89%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.15%) Linux
2 67 (3.98%) Unix
3 24 (1.42%) CentOS
3 24 (1.42%) Debian
3 24 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 13 (0.77%) Windows
5 4 (0.24%) AIX
5 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (69.79%) Agile
2 1,031 (61.19%) Software Engineering
3 788 (46.77%) CI/CD
4 697 (41.36%) Microservices
5 690 (40.95%) SDLC
6 479 (28.43%) Operational Stability
7 447 (26.53%) Full Stack Development
8 415 (24.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 409 (24.27%) Machine Learning
10 341 (20.24%) TDD
11 330 (19.58%) Community of Practice
12 318 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
13 287 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 287 (17.03%) DevOps
14 244 (14.48%) Computer Science
15 237 (14.07%) Visualisation
16 230 (13.65%) Decision-Making
17 214 (12.70%) Risk Management
18 205 (12.17%) Mentoring
19 204 (12.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,661 (98.58%) Java
2 605 (35.91%) SQL
3 489 (29.02%) JavaScript
4 285 (16.91%) Python
5 260 (15.43%) TypeScript
6 70 (4.15%) Shell Script
7 54 (3.20%) C#
8 52 (3.09%) Ruby
9 49 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 40 (2.37%) Groovy
11 29 (1.72%) PHP
12 22 (1.31%) Scala
13 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.89%) Go
14 15 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.47%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) C++
16 7 (0.42%) Rust
17 5 (0.30%) COBOL
17 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 213 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 188 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 155 (9.20%) Degree
4 119 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 34 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.30%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.18%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.12%) OCP
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.059%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.63%) QA
2 56 (3.32%) SLA
3 32 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.71%) SEPA
5 10 (0.59%) GDPR
6 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.059%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 362 (21.48%) Docker
2 31 (1.84%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.059%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 520 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 209 (12.40%) Terraform
3 100 (5.93%) Ansible
4 72 (4.27%) Grafana
5 49 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.96%) Kibana
7 29 (1.72%) OpenSSO
7 29 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.42%) Puppet
9 21 (1.25%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.25%) Zipkin
10 7 (0.42%) Graphite
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.059%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.059%) Packer
Vendors
1 279 (16.56%) Oracle
2 112 (6.65%) Google
3 83 (4.93%) Splunk
4 76 (4.51%) Dynatrace
5 42 (2.49%) SaltStack
5 42 (2.49%) WSO2
6 38 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 30 (1.78%) Databricks
8 29 (1.72%) Remedy
9 20 (1.19%) Pega
10 17 (1.01%) IBM
11 16 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 14 (0.83%) Sybase
13 9 (0.53%) Microsoft
13 9 (0.53%) TOWER Software
14 7 (0.42%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.36%) Confluent
15 6 (0.36%) ION Trading
16 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus
17 4 (0.24%) TIBCO