Spring Job Trends in Dorset

Pivotal Spring Framework
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset 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 37 40 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +30
Permanent jobs citing Spring 10 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 2.09% 2.24% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.73% 6.77% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £50,600 £40,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,500 £41,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £50,000 £60,063
90th Percentile £75,500 £52,500 £61,750
South West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -0.83% -13.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 44 133 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 9.21% 33.17% 38.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 79 120
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,550 £32,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.99% +5.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £60,250 £75,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.77%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Dorset

Spring
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in Dorset

Spring
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +10 10 £57,500 +35.29% 6
Spring
South West

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) CockroachDB
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Gradle
2 3 (30.00%) JUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 3 (30.00%) TestNG
3 2 (20.00%) Checkstyle
3 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (20.00%) ESLint
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Mockito
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (20.00%) JWT
4 2 (20.00%) Kafka
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Security
4 2 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) MVC
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk