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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 209 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 -66 -50
Permanent jobs citing Spring 196 248 444
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 1.64% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 6.15% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 124 110 379
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £91,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £128,500 £117,650
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%

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 2,766 4,030 5,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.25% 26.57% 26.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 2,522 4,895
10th Percentile £50,565 £52,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 8 February 2026.

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 8 February 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
Central London +26 20 £100,000 -5.88% 20
South London +5 12 £70,000 -6.67% 6
West London -5 1 £82,500 - 1
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 12 (6.12%) JBoss
2 11 (5.61%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.57%) Apache
4 5 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.53%) Liferay
7 2 (1.02%) Confluence
8 1 (0.51%) Camunda
8 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.59%) AWS
2 26 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
2 26 (13.27%) Serverless
3 25 (12.76%) SaaS
4 22 (11.22%) Azure
5 17 (8.67%) GCP
6 16 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (5.61%) OpenShift
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.08%) GitHub
12 6 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.55%) Apigee
13 5 (2.55%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.55%) Figma
14 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.82%) Relational Database
2 30 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (13.27%) RDBMS
4 23 (11.73%) NoSQL
5 21 (10.71%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.10%) SQL Server
7 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.55%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.55%) Redis
10 4 (2.04%) MySQL
11 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.53%) Apache Ignite
12 2 (1.02%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.51%) Big Data
13 1 (0.51%) Flink
13 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.22%) Git
3 17 (8.67%) GitLab
4 14 (7.14%) JUnit
5 11 (5.61%) JIRA
6 9 (4.59%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.59%) JMeter
6 9 (4.59%) Mockito
7 8 (4.08%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.57%) Gradle
8 7 (3.57%) Maven
9 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.55%) Vite
10 4 (2.04%) Postman
11 3 (1.53%) Selenium
11 3 (1.53%) Subversion
12 1 (0.51%) MLflow
12 1 (0.51%) NUnit
12 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (32.65%) Finance
2 59 (30.10%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 19 (9.69%) Financial Institution
5 18 (9.18%) Telecoms
6 17 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.12%) Front Office
8 11 (5.61%) Billing
9 9 (4.59%) Banking
10 6 (3.06%) Games
11 4 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.53%) Law
12 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.02%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (41.84%) Developer
2 62 (31.63%) Java Developer
3 61 (31.12%) Senior
4 60 (30.61%) Java Engineer
5 44 (22.45%) Software Engineer
6 32 (16.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (16.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 25 (12.76%) Senior Java Engineer
8 24 (12.24%) Architect
9 22 (11.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 19 (9.69%) Lead
11 17 (8.67%) Senior Developer
12 16 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (6.12%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.59%) Angular Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Backend Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Kafka Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Kafka Engineer
14 9 (4.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (71.94%) Spring Boot
2 51 (26.02%) Kafka
3 46 (23.47%) REST
4 38 (19.39%) React
5 35 (17.86%) Hibernate
6 26 (13.27%) AngularJS
7 23 (11.73%) GraphQL
8 20 (10.20%) HTML
9 19 (9.69%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (9.69%) JSON
9 19 (9.69%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (9.18%) Node.js
10 18 (9.18%) XML
11 17 (8.67%) RESTful
11 17 (8.67%) SOAP
11 17 (8.67%) Web Services
12 15 (7.65%) .NET
13 13 (6.63%) Middleware
13 13 (6.63%) Next.js
14 12 (6.12%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 62 (31.63%) Cloud Native
2 32 (16.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.61%) DataPower
4 10 (5.10%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.59%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.59%) Reference Data
5 9 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.57%) e-Learning
6 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.02%) Equities
10 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (56.12%) Microservices
2 78 (39.80%) CI/CD
3 73 (37.24%) Agile
4 58 (29.59%) Software Engineering
5 56 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 45 (22.96%) Event-Driven
8 43 (21.94%) DevOps
9 38 (19.39%) Containerisation
10 35 (17.86%) Test Automation
11 32 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (15.31%) AI
12 30 (15.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (15.31%) TDD
13 29 (14.80%) BDD
13 29 (14.80%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (12.76%) Fintech
16 22 (11.22%) Roadmaps
17 20 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 194 (98.98%) Java
2 43 (21.94%) JavaScript
3 38 (19.39%) SQL
4 30 (15.31%) Python
5 22 (11.22%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.18%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.59%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.06%) PHP
9 5 (2.55%) C#
9 5 (2.55%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) Go
10 2 (1.02%) Ruby
11 1 (0.51%) Delphi
11 1 (0.51%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.78%) Degree
3 18 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.63%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.51%) ISEB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.06%) QA
3 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (29.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.12%) Kibana
3 7 (3.57%) Terraform
4 5 (2.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) Argo
6 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (5.10%) Google
2 9 (4.59%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.59%) Splunk
3 8 (4.08%) Solace
4 7 (3.57%) Oracle
5 5 (2.55%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.53%) Revolut
7 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.51%) HP
8 1 (0.51%) OpenText
8 1 (0.51%) Siebel