Spring Job Trends in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 291 289
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 -163
Permanent jobs citing Spring 432 390 797
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.04% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.57% 5.01% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 267 256 610
10th Percentile £52,240 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £118,425
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -3.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,751 7,789 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 20.85% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 5,913 14,024
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Spring job vacancy trend in England

Spring
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in England

Spring
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
London -20 207 £75,000 -9.09% 72
North of England -18 109 £70,000 -11.18% 26
South West -34 54 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North West -16 51 £67,500 -20.82% 14
Yorkshire -33 49 £75,000 +11.11% 5
South East -83 39 £75,000 +15.38% 26
Midlands -32 19 £55,000 -8.33% 3
West Midlands -20 17 £45,000 -33.33% 2
North East -33 9 £45,000 -18.18% 7
East of England -41 3 £62,500 +13.64% 4
East Midlands -63 1 £55,200 +16.21% 1
Spring
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (3.70%) Apache
2 14 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.24%) JBoss
3 12 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.78%) OpenStack
3 12 (2.78%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.93%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) Camunda
5 3 (0.69%) Liferay
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 235 (54.40%) AWS
2 82 (18.98%) Serverless
3 71 (16.44%) Azure
4 49 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
5 47 (10.88%) Amazon ECS
6 45 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 41 (9.49%) GCP
8 35 (8.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (6.71%) OpenShift
11 24 (5.56%) SaaS
12 22 (5.09%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (4.86%) GitHub
14 20 (4.63%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (4.17%) Apigee
16 15 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (3.47%) Amazon ECR
17 14 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 6 (1.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.08%) AMQP
2 3 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.97%) NoSQL
2 60 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (11.57%) Relational Database
4 27 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 22 (5.09%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.40%) MySQL
6 19 (4.40%) RDBMS
7 15 (3.47%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.31%) Redis
10 6 (1.39%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.16%) Big Data
11 5 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.16%) Couchbase
12 4 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.69%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.46%) Power BI
15 1 (0.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 69 (15.97%) Git
2 60 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 40 (9.26%) GitLab
4 31 (7.18%) JUnit
5 28 (6.48%) Maven
6 21 (4.86%) Gradle
7 19 (4.40%) Cucumber
8 16 (3.70%) JIRA
9 14 (3.24%) Mockito
9 14 (3.24%) Selenium
10 13 (3.01%) Cypress.io
10 13 (3.01%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.16%) JMeter
12 3 (0.69%) Postman
12 3 (0.69%) Subversion
12 3 (0.69%) TestNG
13 2 (0.46%) Checkstyle
13 2 (0.46%) ESLint
13 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 105 (24.31%) Finance
2 76 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 48 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.32%) Telecoms
5 19 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.17%) Banking
7 16 (3.70%) Billing
8 13 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.55%) Advertising
9 11 (2.55%) Front Office
9 11 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.31%) Games
11 6 (1.39%) Law
12 5 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.16%) Retail
12 5 (1.16%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.93%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 208 (48.15%) Developer
2 154 (35.65%) Java Developer
3 121 (28.01%) Senior
4 103 (23.84%) Java Engineer
5 87 (20.14%) Software Engineer
6 63 (14.58%) Senior Developer
7 54 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 48 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 43 (9.95%) Lead
10 42 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (8.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (8.10%) Senior Java Engineer
13 27 (6.25%) Architect
14 24 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (4.40%) Lead Developer
16 18 (4.17%) Backend Developer
17 15 (3.47%) Software Developer
18 13 (3.01%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
18 13 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
19 12 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (78.94%) Spring Boot
2 117 (27.08%) React
3 108 (25.00%) REST
4 100 (23.15%) AngularJS
5 73 (16.90%) Kafka
6 56 (12.96%) Hibernate
7 51 (11.81%) Node.js
7 51 (11.81%) RESTful
8 37 (8.56%) Web Services
9 32 (7.41%) HTML
10 26 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
11 24 (5.56%) JPA
11 24 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
12 23 (5.32%) CSS
12 23 (5.32%) Spring MVC
13 21 (4.86%) Vue
14 20 (4.63%) .NET
14 20 (4.63%) SOAP
15 19 (4.40%) JSON
16 17 (3.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 59 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.94%) Public Cloud
6 13 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.78%) DataPower
8 10 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.85%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
14 2 (0.46%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (0.46%) Low-Code
14 2 (0.46%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.31%) Linux
2 5 (1.16%) CentOS
2 5 (1.16%) Debian
2 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.69%) Android
3 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (48.38%) Microservices
2 203 (46.99%) CI/CD
3 177 (40.97%) Agile
4 156 (36.11%) DevOps
5 144 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 134 (31.02%) Software Engineering
7 110 (25.46%) Containerisation
8 96 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 93 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (21.53%) Test Automation
10 79 (18.29%) TDD
11 74 (17.13%) Event-Driven
12 71 (16.44%) Scrum
13 70 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (14.58%) AI
15 62 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
17 47 (10.88%) Code Quality
18 46 (10.65%) BDD
19 42 (9.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 427 (98.84%) Java
2 95 (21.99%) JavaScript
2 95 (21.99%) SQL
3 64 (14.81%) Python
4 55 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 12 (2.78%) Go
7 11 (2.55%) Bash
8 9 (2.08%) Groovy
9 8 (1.85%) C#
10 7 (1.62%) Delphi
10 7 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.39%) PHP
11 6 (1.39%) Scala
12 5 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.93%) C++
14 3 (0.69%) Ruby
15 2 (0.46%) C
16 1 (0.23%) Korn
16 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 43 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.72%) Degree
4 26 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.63%) QA
2 6 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (33.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 165 (38.19%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.88%) Terraform
3 21 (4.86%) Ansible
4 18 (4.17%) Grafana
5 11 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.31%) Kibana
7 9 (2.08%) HP Fortify
8 5 (1.16%) Puppet
9 2 (0.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (5.56%) Oracle
2 15 (3.47%) Google
3 8 (1.85%) Red Hat
4 7 (1.62%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.62%) Splunk
5 6 (1.39%) AppDynamics
5 6 (1.39%) Solace
6 5 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.16%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.93%) IBM
7 4 (0.93%) Peregrine
8 3 (0.69%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.69%) Revolut
8 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.46%) Pega
9 2 (0.46%) WSO2
10 1 (0.23%) Atlassian