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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 206 197
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 -91
Permanent jobs citing Spring 215 212 376
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 1.67% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.71% 6.48% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 126 112 283
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +1.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £134,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% -6.67% -5.82%

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 3,202 3,271 5,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.72% 25.84% 24.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 2,406 4,710
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%

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 May 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 May 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 +1 24 £85,000 -19.05% 12
South London -27 9 £70,000 -15.15%
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 9 (4.19%) JBoss
2 7 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.26%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.40%) Liferay
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (40.47%) AWS
2 38 (17.67%) Azure
3 20 (9.30%) GCP
4 17 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.98%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.51%) SaaS
7 11 (5.12%) Serverless
8 8 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.26%) GitHub
10 6 (2.79%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.33%) dbt
11 5 (2.33%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.40%) Anthos
12 3 (1.40%) Apigee
12 3 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.40%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.35%) NoSQL
2 23 (10.70%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.51%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.05%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.72%) Redis
7 6 (2.79%) MySQL
7 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.86%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.40%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) Flink
11 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.23%) GitLab
2 19 (8.84%) Git
3 14 (6.51%) Cucumber
4 12 (5.58%) Gradle
5 8 (3.72%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.26%) JUnit
6 7 (3.26%) Maven
7 4 (1.86%) Claude Code
7 4 (1.86%) JIRA
7 4 (1.86%) Selenium
8 3 (1.40%) Postman
9 2 (0.93%) Mockito
9 2 (0.93%) Subversion
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 80 (37.21%) Finance
2 41 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.70%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.44%) Billing
6 14 (6.51%) Banking
7 12 (5.58%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (5.12%) Front Office
9 9 (4.19%) Games
10 4 (1.86%) Advertising
11 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Aviation
12 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.93%) Retail
12 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.47%) iGaming
13 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (43.26%) Developer
2 77 (35.81%) Java Developer
3 74 (34.42%) Java Engineer
4 69 (32.09%) Senior
5 37 (17.21%) Software Engineer
6 29 (13.49%) Senior Developer
7 28 (13.02%) Java Software Engineer
7 28 (13.02%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (13.02%) Senior Java Engineer
8 19 (8.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (8.37%) Architect
10 16 (7.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (6.98%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (5.58%) Lead
12 12 (5.58%) Principal Java Engineer
13 11 (5.12%) Engineering Manager
13 11 (5.12%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.12%) Software Engineering Manager
13 11 (5.12%) Software Manager
14 8 (3.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (78.14%) Spring Boot
2 51 (23.72%) Kafka
3 48 (22.33%) REST
4 44 (20.47%) React
5 25 (11.63%) AngularJS
6 24 (11.16%) Hibernate
7 22 (10.23%) RESTful
8 15 (6.98%) SOAP
8 15 (6.98%) Web Services
9 14 (6.51%) CSS
9 14 (6.51%) HTML
9 14 (6.51%) Node.js
10 13 (6.05%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.05%) JSON
11 11 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
12 10 (4.65%) GraphQL
12 10 (4.65%) Middleware
12 10 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (4.65%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (11.16%) Public Cloud
4 14 (6.51%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.05%) e-Learning
5 13 (6.05%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.26%) DataPower
8 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.86%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.47%) Equities
12 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Linux
1 2 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (54.42%) Microservices
2 85 (39.53%) CI/CD
3 71 (33.02%) Software Engineering
4 64 (29.77%) Agile
5 52 (24.19%) Mentoring
6 50 (23.26%) DevOps
7 48 (22.33%) Containerisation
7 48 (22.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (20.93%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 42 (19.53%) AI
11 39 (18.14%) Event-Driven
12 38 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (16.74%) Roadmaps
14 35 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (9.77%) BDD
17 20 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 20 (9.30%) Scrum
18 19 (8.84%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 213 (99.07%) Java
2 47 (21.86%) SQL
3 36 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.30%) Python
5 16 (7.44%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.51%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.79%) PHP
8 5 (2.33%) Go
9 4 (1.86%) C++
10 3 (1.40%) C#
10 3 (1.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (14.88%) Degree
2 22 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 14 (6.51%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.79%) QA
2 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (24.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (31.16%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.91%) Terraform
3 5 (2.33%) Grafana
3 5 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.26%) Solace
2 6 (2.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.86%) Google
3 4 (1.86%) Oracle
4 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.40%) Revolut
5 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.47%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.47%) Splunk
5 1 (0.47%) Workday