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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 149 92
Rank change year-on-year -22 -57 +14
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,675 2,430 5,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 2.39% 3.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.94% 7.93% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 699 1,287 2,122
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,300 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,235 £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 £116,250 £120,000 £108,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,706 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +4.51% +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 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
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 8 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 8 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 1,272 £65,000 +3.66% 112
England -134 837 £75,000 -5.82% 170
Scotland +55 754 £65,000 -1.52% 22
Work from Home -89 461 £75,000 +7.14% 98
London -88 383 £90,000 +1.50% 84
South East +21 156 £70,000 - 22
North of England -94 144 £75,000 +11.11% 24
South West -10 120 £62,500 +4.17% 15
North West -90 102 £72,500 +11.54% 17
Midlands -128 41 £56,250 -6.25% 10
West Midlands -78 35 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Yorkshire -1 31 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Wales +7 29 £44,250 -26.25% 3
Northern Ireland -25 15 £97,500 +95.00% 7
East of England -53 13 £50,000 -28.57% 9
North East -8 11 £55,000 -0.22% 3
East Midlands -63 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
1 114 (6.81%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.85%) FileNet
3 54 (3.22%) Apache
4 52 (3.10%) Confluence
5 42 (2.51%) OpenStack
6 41 (2.45%) JBoss
7 39 (2.33%) Red Hat Fuse
8 37 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (1.85%) WebLogic
10 28 (1.67%) Tomcat
11 21 (1.25%) Camunda
11 21 (1.25%) GemFire
12 16 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.48%) Apache Pig
14 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.18%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
15 2 (0.12%) Mule
15 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.060%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 874 (52.18%) AWS
2 268 (16.00%) Azure
3 160 (9.55%) Serverless
4 147 (8.78%) Amazon S3
5 122 (7.28%) GCP
6 116 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (5.13%) GitHub
8 80 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (3.34%) OpenShift
11 39 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (2.15%) SaaS
13 30 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
14 28 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.43%) Datadog
16 18 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (1.07%) IBM Cloud
17 13 (0.78%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.73%) AMQP
2 17 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 11 (0.66%) Internet
4 5 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) MQTT
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.060%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (19.28%) NoSQL
2 228 (13.61%) Relational Database
3 186 (11.10%) Elasticsearch
4 159 (9.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 130 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
6 124 (7.40%) MongoDB
7 117 (6.99%) Big Data
8 96 (5.73%) MySQL
9 95 (5.67%) Hadoop
10 63 (3.76%) RDBMS
11 53 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
12 52 (3.10%) SQL Server
13 38 (2.27%) CockroachDB
14 37 (2.21%) Apache Hive
15 28 (1.67%) DB2
16 26 (1.55%) Cloudera CDH
16 26 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
17 25 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
18 22 (1.31%) Hazelcast
19 21 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 305 (18.21%) Jenkins
2 294 (17.55%) JUnit
3 263 (15.70%) Git
4 148 (8.84%) Maven
5 106 (6.33%) Jasmine
6 102 (6.09%) Selenium
7 97 (5.79%) Cypress.io
8 74 (4.42%) JIRA
9 69 (4.12%) Mockito
10 63 (3.76%) Protractor
11 61 (3.64%) Gradle
12 60 (3.58%) Cucumber
12 60 (3.58%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (3.58%) WebDriver
13 51 (3.04%) IntelliJ
14 50 (2.99%) GitLab
15 35 (2.09%) Postman
16 31 (1.85%) CircleCI
17 21 (1.25%) Jaeger
17 21 (1.25%) Travis CI
General
1 930 (55.52%) Finance
2 729 (43.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 689 (41.13%) Law
4 331 (19.76%) Banking
5 239 (14.27%) Marketing
6 200 (11.94%) Social Skills
7 199 (11.88%) Legal
8 183 (10.93%) Investment Banking
9 116 (6.93%) Public Sector
10 93 (5.55%) Analytical Skills
11 78 (4.66%) Financial Institution
12 60 (3.58%) Private Banking
13 42 (2.51%) Police
14 39 (2.33%) Games
15 32 (1.91%) Aerospace
16 30 (1.79%) Front Office
17 28 (1.67%) Retail
18 22 (1.31%) Prime Brokerage
19 15 (0.90%) Publishing
20 10 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 827 (49.37%) Software Engineer
2 625 (37.31%) Java Engineer
3 556 (33.19%) Java Software Engineer
4 505 (30.15%) Developer
5 450 (26.87%) Java Developer
6 349 (20.84%) Senior
7 345 (20.60%) Lead
8 239 (14.27%) Full Stack Engineer
9 221 (13.19%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 210 (12.54%) Lead Software Engineer
11 160 (9.55%) Senior Developer
12 156 (9.31%) Lead Java Engineer
13 150 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
14 110 (6.57%) Full Stack Developer
15 101 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 90 (5.37%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 85 (5.07%) Senior Java Engineer
18 56 (3.34%) Engineering Manager
18 56 (3.34%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 55 (3.28%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 890 (53.13%) Spring Boot
2 572 (34.15%) AngularJS
3 562 (33.55%) React
4 430 (25.67%) Kafka
5 408 (24.36%) Hibernate
6 342 (20.42%) J2EE
7 318 (18.99%) REST
8 276 (16.48%) HTML
9 273 (16.30%) Node.js
10 265 (15.82%) CSS
11 255 (15.22%) JSON
12 231 (13.79%) RESTful
13 196 (11.70%) JMS
14 193 (11.52%) Web Services
15 159 (9.49%) jQuery
16 151 (9.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 135 (8.06%) JPA
18 132 (7.88%) XML
19 127 (7.58%) GraphQL
20 107 (6.39%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 413 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 222 (13.25%) Algorithms
3 124 (7.40%) Data Structures
4 110 (6.57%) Public Cloud
5 68 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (3.94%) Distributed Applications
7 60 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
9 52 (3.10%) Management Information System
9 52 (3.10%) Onboarding
10 46 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 45 (2.69%) Legacy Code
12 40 (2.39%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.55%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.25%) Replication
15 19 (1.13%) Blockchain
16 18 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (0.96%) Virtual Team
18 15 (0.90%) Client/Server
19 14 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.18%) Linux
2 68 (4.06%) Unix
3 26 (1.55%) CentOS
3 26 (1.55%) Debian
3 26 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 12 (0.72%) Windows
5 4 (0.24%) AIX
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (70.15%) Agile
2 1,044 (62.33%) Software Engineering
3 794 (47.40%) CI/CD
4 690 (41.19%) SDLC
5 685 (40.90%) Microservices
6 483 (28.84%) Operational Stability
7 449 (26.81%) Full Stack Development
8 419 (25.01%) Artificial Intelligence
9 411 (24.54%) Machine Learning
10 341 (20.36%) TDD
11 332 (19.82%) Community of Practice
12 315 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
13 294 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 286 (17.07%) DevOps
15 244 (14.57%) Computer Science
16 240 (14.33%) Visualisation
17 233 (13.91%) Decision-Making
18 218 (13.01%) Risk Management
19 209 (12.48%) Mentoring
20 205 (12.24%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,654 (98.75%) Java
2 600 (35.82%) SQL
3 487 (29.07%) JavaScript
4 283 (16.90%) Python
5 258 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 69 (4.12%) Shell Script
7 55 (3.28%) C#
8 52 (3.10%) Ruby
9 48 (2.87%) Kotlin
10 40 (2.39%) Groovy
11 29 (1.73%) PHP
12 24 (1.43%) Scala
13 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.84%) Go
15 13 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.48%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) C++
17 7 (0.42%) Rust
18 5 (0.30%) COBOL
18 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 214 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 188 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 152 (9.07%) Degree
4 116 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.30%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.18%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.060%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.72%) QA
2 56 (3.34%) SLA
3 33 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.60%) GDPR
5 6 (0.36%) SEPA
6 3 (0.18%) MiFID
7 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
System Software
1 347 (20.72%) Docker
2 31 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.43%) HDFS
4 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.060%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 513 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 213 (12.72%) Terraform
3 101 (6.03%) Ansible
4 72 (4.30%) Grafana
5 51 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.97%) Kibana
7 29 (1.73%) OpenSSO
7 29 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.55%) 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 (0.060%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.060%) Kiali
12 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 287 (17.13%) Oracle
2 113 (6.75%) Google
3 83 (4.96%) Splunk
4 80 (4.78%) Dynatrace
5 44 (2.63%) SaltStack
6 42 (2.51%) Red Hat
6 42 (2.51%) WSO2
7 29 (1.73%) Databricks
7 29 (1.73%) Remedy
8 20 (1.19%) IBM
8 20 (1.19%) Pega
9 16 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 16 (0.96%) Sybase
10 10 (0.60%) Microsoft
11 9 (0.54%) TOWER Software
12 6 (0.36%) Confluent
12 6 (0.36%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.30%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus
14 4 (0.24%) Vertica