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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 192 228
Rank change year-on-year +1 +36 -102
Permanent jobs citing Spring 285 218 266
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.79% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 6.79% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 153 95 148
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,175
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £105,625
90th Percentile £111,500 £122,500 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 3,535 3,210 4,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.84% 26.35% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,307 2,208 3,606
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 August 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 August 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 +6 31 £95,000 -8.43% 18
West London -13 11 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South London -36 9 £70,000 -15.15% 3
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 14 (4.91%) Camunda
2 12 (4.21%) Confluence
3 5 (1.75%) Apache
3 5 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) JBoss
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.86%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (54.04%) AWS
2 89 (31.23%) Azure
3 34 (11.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (10.53%) GCP
5 28 (9.82%) GitHub
6 17 (5.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.91%) Serverless
9 13 (4.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.56%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.56%) Azure Storage
10 11 (3.86%) Lucidchart
11 9 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.56%) DMARC
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.60%) NoSQL
2 44 (15.44%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (14.39%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.77%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.21%) Redis
6 11 (3.86%) Db2
7 10 (3.51%) DTS
8 7 (2.46%) MySQL
9 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.70%) Flink
12 2 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) Big Data
13 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (15.09%) GitLab
2 33 (11.58%) Cucumber
3 24 (8.42%) Git
4 20 (7.02%) Jenkins
5 17 (5.96%) JUnit
6 14 (4.91%) Mockito
7 10 (3.51%) Gradle
7 10 (3.51%) Maven
8 8 (2.81%) Selenium
9 7 (2.46%) Claude Code
10 4 (1.40%) Spock
11 3 (1.05%) JIRA
12 2 (0.70%) JMeter
13 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.35%) git-flow
13 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 124 (43.51%) Finance
2 65 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 51 (17.89%) Banking
4 35 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.72%) Financial Institution
6 13 (4.56%) Front Office
7 9 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.46%) Billing
10 6 (2.11%) Retail
10 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.75%) Marketing
12 4 (1.40%) Advertising
13 3 (1.05%) Games
13 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Aviation
14 2 (0.70%) Law
14 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 99 (34.74%) Java Engineer
2 89 (31.23%) Senior
3 80 (28.07%) Developer
4 63 (22.11%) Java Developer
5 39 (13.68%) Software Engineer
6 37 (12.98%) Senior Java Engineer
7 35 (12.28%) Lead
8 29 (10.18%) Engineering Manager
8 29 (10.18%) Software Engineering Manager
8 29 (10.18%) Software Manager
9 28 (9.82%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (9.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (9.47%) Principal Java Engineer
11 23 (8.07%) Senior Developer
12 22 (7.72%) Architect
13 18 (6.32%) Senior Java Developer
13 18 (6.32%) Technical Leader
14 17 (5.96%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (5.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (76.14%) Spring Boot
2 113 (39.65%) Kafka
3 52 (18.25%) RESTful
4 50 (17.54%) REST
5 38 (13.33%) React
6 32 (11.23%) Node.js
7 29 (10.18%) OAuth
8 27 (9.47%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.12%) OAuth2
10 25 (8.77%) Hibernate
11 16 (5.61%) JPA
12 13 (4.56%) Middleware
12 13 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.56%) YAML
13 11 (3.86%) JWT
14 10 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.51%) HTML
14 10 (3.51%) Web Services
15 8 (2.81%) OpenID
15 8 (2.81%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 96 (33.68%) Cloud Native
2 77 (27.02%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (21.40%) Public Cloud
4 35 (12.28%) Product Ownership
5 31 (10.88%) e-Learning
6 24 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.51%) EPoS
9 10 (3.51%) iSeries
10 8 (2.81%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.11%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.40%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.05%) Blog
13 3 (1.05%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.05%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Linux
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.86%) Microservices
2 163 (57.19%) CI/CD
3 114 (40.00%) Agile
4 107 (37.54%) Event-Driven
5 104 (36.49%) Software Engineering
6 102 (35.79%) Test Automation
7 85 (29.82%) Mentoring
8 80 (28.07%) Containerisation
9 75 (26.32%) DevOps
10 62 (21.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 58 (20.35%) Technical Leadership
13 56 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (18.95%) Roadmaps
15 51 (17.89%) AI
16 44 (15.44%) BDD
16 44 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (13.68%) CQRS
19 38 (13.33%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 279 (97.89%) Java
2 62 (21.75%) SQL
3 33 (11.58%) Python
4 30 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.56%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.51%) RPG
8 6 (2.11%) C#
9 5 (1.75%) C++
10 3 (1.05%) Go
11 2 (0.70%) Scala
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) ProC
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (10.88%) AWS Certification
1 31 (10.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 29 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.42%) Degree
4 22 (7.72%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.35%) OCP
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.42%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (22.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.07%) Terraform
3 4 (1.40%) Ansible
4 3 (1.05%) Grafana
4 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.26%) Google
2 13 (4.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.56%) SendGrid
3 12 (4.21%) IBM
3 12 (4.21%) Oracle
4 7 (2.46%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.40%) Solace
5 4 (1.40%) Splunk
6 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.70%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.70%) TikTok
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.35%) Sybase
8 1 (0.35%) Workday