Spring Job Trends in London

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 198 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 -66 -29
Permanent jobs citing Spring 164 267 417
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 1.66% 2.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.22% 6.12% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 103 110 375
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £67,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.02%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,636 4,361 5,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.68% 27.04% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 2,761 4,434
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,825
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £108,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year - -3.35% -0.37%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Spring job vacancy trend in London

Spring
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring in London

Spring
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
South London +20 23 £76,250 +22.00% 1
Central London +34 16 £100,000 -6.98% 9
West London +2 3 £60,000 -
Spring
England

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 7 (4.27%) JBoss
1 7 (4.27%) WebSphere
2 6 (3.66%) Apache
3 3 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) Camunda
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 119 (72.56%) AWS
2 37 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (21.95%) Serverless
4 22 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (13.41%) SaaS
5 18 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (10.98%) Azure
6 15 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.15%) GCP
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 7 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (4.27%) GitHub
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (3.05%) CloudFront
10 5 (3.05%) Figma
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.83%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.56%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (21.34%) Relational Database
3 28 (17.07%) RDBMS
4 25 (15.24%) MongoDB
5 17 (10.37%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.88%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.27%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.05%) Couchbase
9 5 (3.05%) Redis
10 3 (1.83%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.83%) MySQL
11 2 (1.22%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.61%) Big Data
12 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.61%) Flink
12 1 (0.61%) OLAP
12 1 (0.61%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 35 (21.34%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.80%) Git
3 20 (12.20%) JUnit
4 18 (10.98%) Mockito
5 17 (10.37%) JMeter
6 15 (9.15%) GitLab
7 9 (5.49%) Cypress.io
7 9 (5.49%) JIRA
8 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.05%) Maven
8 5 (3.05%) Vite
9 4 (2.44%) Gradle
10 3 (1.83%) Selenium
10 3 (1.83%) Subversion
11 2 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.61%) NUnit
12 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.61%) Storybook
12 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 62 (37.80%) Finance
3 29 (17.68%) Public Sector
4 24 (14.63%) Financial Institution
5 18 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (10.37%) Banking
7 12 (7.32%) Front Office
8 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.83%) Billing
9 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Aviation
10 2 (1.22%) Games
10 2 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Law
10 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 75 (45.73%) Developer
2 60 (36.59%) Java Developer
3 47 (28.66%) Senior
4 44 (26.83%) Java Engineer
5 36 (21.95%) Software Engineer
6 33 (20.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (17.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 23 (14.02%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (12.20%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (10.37%) Lead
11 14 (8.54%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 13 (7.93%) Senior Developer
13 12 (7.32%) Kafka Engineer
13 12 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
14 11 (6.71%) Architect
15 10 (6.10%) Angular Developer
15 10 (6.10%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 10 (6.10%) Kafka Developer
16 9 (5.49%) Backend Developer
17 8 (4.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (68.90%) Spring Boot
2 50 (30.49%) Kafka
3 41 (25.00%) REST
4 35 (21.34%) Hibernate
5 30 (18.29%) React
6 27 (16.46%) ActiveMQ
6 27 (16.46%) AngularJS
7 26 (15.85%) HTML
8 21 (12.80%) Web Services
9 20 (12.20%) GraphQL
9 20 (12.20%) XML
10 19 (11.59%) JSON
11 18 (10.98%) RESTful
12 17 (10.37%) Apache Camel
12 17 (10.37%) jQuery
12 17 (10.37%) WireMock
13 15 (9.15%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (8.54%) Node.js
15 13 (7.93%) Akka
15 13 (7.93%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 52 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 33 (20.12%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 11 (6.71%) Hedge funds
5 10 (6.10%) Management Information System
5 10 (6.10%) Reference Data
5 10 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.27%) DataPower
7 5 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.83%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.83%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.22%) Equities
9 2 (1.22%) Replication
10 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (57.32%) Microservices
2 78 (47.56%) Agile
3 76 (46.34%) CI/CD
4 51 (31.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (28.05%) Software Engineering
6 45 (27.44%) TDD
7 38 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (22.56%) BDD
8 37 (22.56%) Event-Driven
9 34 (20.73%) DevOps
10 29 (17.68%) Mentoring
10 29 (17.68%) SDLC
11 28 (17.07%) Containerisation
12 27 (16.46%) Fintech
12 27 (16.46%) Test Automation
13 24 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 22 (13.41%) Scrum
15 21 (12.80%) Computer Science
15 21 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (10.98%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 163 (99.39%) Java
2 47 (28.66%) JavaScript
3 36 (21.95%) Python
4 24 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.41%) SQL
6 19 (11.59%) Shell Script
7 15 (9.15%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.05%) Scala
9 4 (2.44%) C#
10 2 (1.22%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) Delphi
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.46%) Degree
3 17 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.49%) Master's Degree
7 8 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ISEB
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (34.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (41.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.20%) Kibana
3 5 (3.05%) Terraform
4 3 (1.83%) Ansible
4 3 (1.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
5 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (10.37%) Dynatrace
1 17 (10.37%) Splunk
2 9 (5.49%) Oracle
3 8 (4.88%) Google
4 6 (3.66%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.66%) Solace
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.61%) Databricks
6 1 (0.61%) HP
6 1 (0.61%) OpenText
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.61%) SAP
6 1 (0.61%) Siebel