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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 195 141
Rank change year-on-year -20 -54 -40
Permanent jobs citing Spring 176 257 405
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.28% 1.64% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.63% 6.13% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 109 101 357
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £111,750
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% - -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 2,654 4,195 4,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.30% 26.71% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,909 2,591 4,287
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 2 January 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 2 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
South London +12 19 £76,250 +12.96% 1
Central London +29 13 £100,000 -5.88% 13
West London 0 2 £71,250 -
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 (5.11%) JBoss
2 8 (4.55%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.98%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.70%) Liferay
5 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) Camunda
6 1 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 114 (64.77%) AWS
2 33 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
3 32 (18.18%) Serverless
4 23 (13.07%) SaaS
5 21 (11.93%) Azure
6 19 (10.80%) GCP
7 17 (9.66%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.11%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.11%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.55%) GitHub
12 6 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.84%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.84%) Figma
14 4 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.27%) Apigee
14 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (1.70%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 26 (14.77%) RDBMS
4 25 (14.20%) MongoDB
5 19 (10.80%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.84%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.84%) Redis
10 3 (1.70%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.70%) MySQL
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.14%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.57%) Big Data
12 1 (0.57%) Flink
Development Applications
1 32 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.50%) Git
3 17 (9.66%) JUnit
4 15 (8.52%) GitLab
4 15 (8.52%) Mockito
5 14 (7.95%) JMeter
6 10 (5.68%) JIRA
7 9 (5.11%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.84%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.84%) Vite
9 4 (2.27%) Gradle
9 4 (2.27%) Maven
10 3 (1.70%) Postman
10 3 (1.70%) Selenium
10 3 (1.70%) Subversion
11 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.57%) MLflow
11 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.57%) Storybook
General
1 64 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 60 (34.09%) Finance
3 29 (16.48%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.93%) Financial Institution
5 17 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (9.09%) Banking
7 12 (6.82%) Front Office
8 11 (6.25%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.41%) Billing
10 4 (2.27%) Games
10 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Law
12 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Aviation
13 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (45.45%) Developer
2 62 (35.23%) Java Developer
3 51 (28.98%) Senior
4 47 (26.70%) Java Engineer
5 39 (22.16%) Software Engineer
6 34 (19.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (14.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (14.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (11.93%) Senior Java Engineer
9 18 (10.23%) Architect
10 17 (9.66%) Lead
11 14 (7.95%) Senior Developer
12 13 (7.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (6.82%) Kafka Engineer
13 12 (6.82%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 10 (5.68%) Angular Developer
14 10 (5.68%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 10 (5.68%) Kafka Developer
15 9 (5.11%) Backend Developer
15 9 (5.11%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (70.45%) Spring Boot
2 50 (28.41%) Kafka
3 41 (23.30%) REST
4 36 (20.45%) Hibernate
5 33 (18.75%) React
6 27 (15.34%) AngularJS
6 27 (15.34%) HTML
7 24 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (11.93%) GraphQL
9 20 (11.36%) JSON
10 19 (10.80%) RESTful
10 19 (10.80%) Web Services
10 19 (10.80%) XML
11 17 (9.66%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (9.09%) Apache Camel
13 15 (8.52%) jQuery
14 14 (7.95%) Node.js
14 14 (7.95%) WireMock
15 13 (7.39%) CSS
15 13 (7.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.98%) Cloud Native
2 29 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.25%) Hedge funds
3 11 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.68%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.55%) DataPower
6 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.70%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.70%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Equities
10 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (57.39%) Microservices
2 76 (43.18%) CI/CD
3 73 (41.48%) Agile
4 55 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (27.84%) Software Engineering
6 41 (23.30%) DevOps
7 40 (22.73%) TDD
8 38 (21.59%) Event-Driven
8 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (20.45%) Mentoring
10 35 (19.89%) Containerisation
11 32 (18.18%) BDD
12 29 (16.48%) Test Automation
13 26 (14.77%) SDLC
14 25 (14.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (14.20%) Fintech
15 23 (13.07%) AI
15 23 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (11.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 175 (99.43%) Java
2 48 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 34 (19.32%) Python
4 26 (14.77%) SQL
5 24 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 15 (8.52%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.84%) PHP
8 5 (2.84%) Scala
9 4 (2.27%) C#
10 2 (1.14%) Ruby
11 1 (0.57%) Delphi
11 1 (0.57%) Go
11 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.34%) Degree
3 17 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.68%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.11%) Master's Degree
7 8 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.57%) ISEB
10 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 8 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 58 (32.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (39.77%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.66%) Kibana
3 4 (2.27%) Terraform
4 3 (1.70%) Grafana
5 2 (1.14%) Ansible
6 1 (0.57%) Argo
6 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.95%) Dynatrace
1 14 (7.95%) Splunk
2 9 (5.11%) Google
2 9 (5.11%) Oracle
3 6 (3.41%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.41%) Solace
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks
5 1 (0.57%) HP
5 1 (0.57%) OpenText
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.57%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) Siebel