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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 187 215
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 -102
Permanent jobs citing Spring 256 234 365
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.92% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 7.23% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 144 100 259
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,938 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -8.33% +3.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £106,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,275 £137,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%

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 3,356 3,238 5,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.75% 26.51% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,285 2,225 4,749
10th Percentile £51,250 £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 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +8 30 £90,000 -10.67% 6
South London -19 10 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 5
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 (2.73%) Apache Spark
1 7 (2.73%) JBoss
2 6 (2.34%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.95%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.78%) Camunda
4 2 (0.78%) Liferay
4 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (45.31%) AWS
2 65 (25.39%) Azure
3 25 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (9.38%) GCP
4 24 (9.38%) GitHub
5 14 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (4.69%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.69%) Serverless
7 11 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.91%) Azure Storage
9 8 (3.13%) SaaS
10 7 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.34%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.95%) dbt
12 5 (1.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) DMARC
2 2 (0.78%) AMQP
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.45%) NoSQL
2 27 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (10.16%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.91%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.52%) MySQL
6 9 (3.52%) Redis
7 5 (1.95%) Db2
7 5 (1.95%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (1.56%) DTS
8 4 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.39%) Big Data
11 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (12.50%) GitLab
2 22 (8.59%) Cucumber
2 22 (8.59%) Git
3 14 (5.47%) Gradle
3 14 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.69%) JUnit
5 11 (4.30%) Maven
6 7 (2.73%) Claude Code
6 7 (2.73%) Mockito
7 5 (1.95%) JIRA
8 4 (1.56%) Selenium
9 3 (1.17%) Postman
9 3 (1.17%) Spock
10 2 (0.78%) JMeter
10 2 (0.78%) Subversion
11 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.39%) git-flow
11 1 (0.39%) NetBeans
General
1 106 (41.41%) Finance
2 49 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.38%) Banking
5 19 (7.42%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.64%) Financial Institution
7 14 (5.47%) Billing
8 12 (4.69%) Front Office
9 9 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.73%) Games
11 4 (1.56%) Advertising
11 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.78%) Aviation
12 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Law
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 94 (36.72%) Developer
2 85 (33.20%) Java Engineer
3 77 (30.08%) Java Developer
4 75 (29.30%) Senior
5 35 (13.67%) Software Engineer
6 31 (12.11%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (11.33%) Senior Developer
8 26 (10.16%) Senior Java Developer
9 25 (9.77%) Architect
10 24 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
10 24 (9.38%) Lead
10 24 (9.38%) Software Engineering Manager
10 24 (9.38%) Software Manager
11 22 (8.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (8.59%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (7.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (7.42%) Principal Java Engineer
14 18 (7.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (79.30%) Spring Boot
2 71 (27.73%) Kafka
3 51 (19.92%) REST
4 48 (18.75%) React
5 36 (14.06%) RESTful
6 30 (11.72%) AngularJS
7 27 (10.55%) Node.js
8 23 (8.98%) Hibernate
9 18 (7.03%) OAuth
10 15 (5.86%) HTML
11 14 (5.47%) Web Services
12 12 (4.69%) CSS
12 12 (4.69%) OAuth2
13 11 (4.30%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (4.30%) JSON
13 11 (4.30%) Middleware
13 11 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.30%) SOAP
14 10 (3.91%) Bootstrap
14 10 (3.91%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 77 (30.08%) Cloud Native
2 46 (17.97%) Public Cloud
3 38 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (10.16%) Product Ownership
5 21 (8.20%) e-Learning
6 19 (7.42%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.56%) DataPower
9 4 (1.56%) EPoS
9 4 (1.56%) iSeries
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.39%) Equities
12 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.78%) Linux
1 2 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (59.38%) Microservices
2 126 (49.22%) CI/CD
3 89 (34.77%) Software Engineering
4 87 (33.98%) Agile
5 77 (30.08%) Test Automation
6 73 (28.52%) Mentoring
7 70 (27.34%) Containerisation
8 65 (25.39%) Event-Driven
9 63 (24.61%) DevOps
10 58 (22.66%) Technical Leadership
11 52 (20.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (19.53%) Roadmaps
13 49 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (17.58%) AI
15 43 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 43 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (12.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 32 (12.50%) BDD
18 28 (10.94%) Architectural Patterns
19 26 (10.16%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 251 (98.05%) Java
2 50 (19.53%) SQL
3 36 (14.06%) JavaScript
4 23 (8.98%) TypeScript
5 22 (8.59%) Python
6 11 (4.30%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.95%) C++
7 5 (1.95%) PHP
8 4 (1.56%) Go
8 4 (1.56%) RPG
9 2 (0.78%) C#
9 2 (0.78%) Scala
9 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (12.89%) Degree
2 31 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 22 (8.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.03%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (24.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (28.52%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.42%) Terraform
3 5 (1.95%) Grafana
3 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.17%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (3.91%) SendGrid
2 9 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.13%) Solace
4 6 (2.34%) Google
4 6 (2.34%) Oracle
5 4 (1.56%) IBM
6 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.17%) Revolut
6 3 (1.17%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) TikTok
8 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.39%) Workday