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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 219 147
Rank change year-on-year +12 -72 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring 184 243 434
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.25% 1.58% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 5.97% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 116 99 375
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,375 £129,500 £115,750
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 2,716 4,068 5,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.48% 26.41% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,511 4,814
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 27 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 27 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
Central London +21 14 £100,000 -6.98% 14
South London +8 12 £62,600 -7.26% 4
West London 0 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 (6.52%) JBoss
2 11 (5.98%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.63%) Liferay
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Camunda
5 1 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 105 (57.07%) AWS
2 30 (16.30%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (15.22%) Serverless
4 25 (13.59%) SaaS
5 18 (9.78%) Azure
6 16 (8.70%) GCP
7 15 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.89%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.80%) GitHub
11 6 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.72%) Apigee
12 5 (2.72%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.72%) Figma
13 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.63%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.85%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (16.85%) Relational Database
2 26 (14.13%) RDBMS
3 22 (11.96%) NoSQL
4 21 (11.41%) MongoDB
5 10 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.72%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.72%) Redis
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.63%) MySQL
9 2 (1.09%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.54%) Big Data
10 1 (0.54%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.41%) Git
3 17 (9.24%) JUnit
4 16 (8.70%) GitLab
5 13 (7.07%) Mockito
6 12 (6.52%) JMeter
7 10 (5.43%) JIRA
8 9 (4.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (3.80%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.26%) Maven
11 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.72%) Gradle
11 5 (2.72%) Vite
12 4 (2.17%) Postman
13 3 (1.63%) Selenium
14 2 (1.09%) Subversion
15 1 (0.54%) MLflow
15 1 (0.54%) NUnit
15 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
15 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 57 (30.98%) Finance
3 29 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.24%) Financial Institution
5 16 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.07%) Front Office
7 9 (4.89%) Banking
7 9 (4.89%) Billing
8 6 (3.26%) Games
9 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (43.48%) Developer
2 62 (33.70%) Java Developer
3 56 (30.43%) Senior
4 52 (28.26%) Java Engineer
5 40 (21.74%) Software Engineer
6 33 (17.93%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (15.22%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 23 (12.50%) Architect
9 23 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (9.24%) Lead
11 15 (8.15%) Senior Developer
12 14 (7.61%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (6.52%) Senior Architect
14 10 (5.43%) Angular Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Kafka Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (4.89%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (70.11%) Spring Boot
2 46 (25.00%) Kafka
3 45 (24.46%) REST
4 38 (20.65%) React
5 36 (19.57%) Hibernate
6 25 (13.59%) AngularJS
7 23 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 23 (12.50%) HTML
8 22 (11.96%) JSON
9 21 (11.41%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (11.41%) XML
10 20 (10.87%) RESTful
11 17 (9.24%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (9.24%) SOAP
11 17 (9.24%) Web Services
12 16 (8.70%) Node.js
13 15 (8.15%) Apache Camel
14 14 (7.61%) .NET
15 13 (7.07%) jQuery
15 13 (7.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (30.98%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.98%) DataPower
4 10 (5.43%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.43%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.43%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.72%) e-Learning
6 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.09%) Equities
9 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.98%) Microservices
2 74 (40.22%) CI/CD
3 64 (34.78%) Agile
4 57 (30.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 51 (27.72%) Software Engineering
6 44 (23.91%) DevOps
7 43 (23.37%) Mentoring
8 41 (22.28%) Event-Driven
9 33 (17.93%) Containerisation
10 32 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (17.39%) TDD
10 32 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 29 (15.76%) BDD
12 28 (15.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 27 (14.67%) AI
13 27 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (11.41%) Fintech
15 21 (11.41%) SDLC
16 19 (10.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 183 (99.46%) Java
2 44 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 33 (17.93%) SQL
4 30 (16.30%) Python
5 22 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.78%) Kotlin
7 12 (6.52%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.26%) PHP
9 5 (2.72%) Scala
10 4 (2.17%) C#
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.50%) Degree
3 15 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.54%) ISEB
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.26%) QA
System Software
1 55 (29.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (38.04%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.15%) Kibana
3 5 (2.72%) Terraform
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.52%) Dynatrace
1 12 (6.52%) Splunk
2 9 (4.89%) Google
3 7 (3.80%) Oracle
3 7 (3.80%) Solace
4 5 (2.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks
5 1 (0.54%) HP
5 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.54%) OpenText
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.54%) Revolut
5 1 (0.54%) Siebel