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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 202 150
Rank change year-on-year +8 -52 -57
Permanent jobs citing Spring 208 245 433
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.26% 1.73% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 6.45% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 132 117 354
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £120,000
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 2,892 3,801 5,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.56% 26.78% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 2,497 4,773
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £48,800
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 £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +17 25 £100,000 -6.98% 35
South London -7 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -7 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 (5.77%) JBoss
2 11 (5.29%) WebSphere
3 8 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.37%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.88%) Apache
6 3 (1.44%) Liferay
7 2 (0.96%) Confluence
8 1 (0.48%) Camunda
8 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 101 (48.56%) AWS
2 28 (13.46%) Azure
3 25 (12.02%) SaaS
4 21 (10.10%) Serverless
5 20 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (9.62%) GCP
6 15 (7.21%) OpenShift
7 11 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.33%) GitHub
10 7 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.40%) Apigee
12 5 (2.40%) dbt
12 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.87%) Relational Database
2 27 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (12.02%) NoSQL
3 25 (12.02%) RDBMS
4 18 (8.65%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.40%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.40%) Redis
9 4 (1.92%) MySQL
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.96%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.96%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.48%) Big Data
12 1 (0.48%) Flink
12 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.10%) Git
1 21 (10.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.65%) GitLab
3 11 (5.29%) JUnit
4 10 (4.81%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.33%) Gradle
6 8 (3.85%) JIRA
7 7 (3.37%) JMeter
7 7 (3.37%) Maven
7 7 (3.37%) Mockito
8 5 (2.40%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.92%) Postman
10 3 (1.44%) Selenium
10 3 (1.44%) Subversion
11 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.96%) Vite
12 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.48%) MLflow
12 1 (0.48%) NUnit
12 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 67 (32.21%) Finance
2 59 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.58%) Telecoms
5 20 (9.62%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.21%) Billing
8 14 (6.73%) Front Office
9 8 (3.85%) Games
10 7 (3.37%) Banking
11 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.44%) Law
12 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Advertising
13 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (42.31%) Developer
2 69 (33.17%) Java Developer
2 69 (33.17%) Senior
3 66 (31.73%) Java Engineer
4 49 (23.56%) Software Engineer
5 34 (16.35%) Java Software Engineer
6 28 (13.46%) Senior Java Engineer
7 27 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (12.02%) Senior Developer
9 24 (11.54%) Architect
10 23 (11.06%) Senior Java Developer
11 17 (8.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 17 (8.17%) Lead
12 15 (7.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (3.85%) Kafka Engineer
16 7 (3.37%) Angular Developer
16 7 (3.37%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (75.48%) Spring Boot
2 54 (25.96%) Kafka
3 48 (23.08%) REST
4 39 (18.75%) React
5 32 (15.38%) Hibernate
6 29 (13.94%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.62%) GraphQL
8 19 (9.13%) JSON
9 18 (8.65%) HTML
9 18 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (8.65%) RESTful
9 18 (8.65%) XML
10 17 (8.17%) Node.js
10 17 (8.17%) SOAP
11 16 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
11 16 (7.69%) Web Services
12 15 (7.21%) .NET
13 13 (6.25%) Middleware
14 12 (5.77%) Bootstrap
15 11 (5.29%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (29.33%) Cloud Native
2 31 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.29%) DataPower
4 9 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.85%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.37%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.88%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.88%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.44%) Equities
9 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (58.17%) Microservices
2 85 (40.87%) CI/CD
3 78 (37.50%) Agile
4 64 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 56 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 54 (25.96%) Mentoring
7 51 (24.52%) DevOps
8 48 (23.08%) Containerisation
9 47 (22.60%) Event-Driven
10 41 (19.71%) AI
11 37 (17.79%) Test Automation
12 34 (16.35%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (14.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (12.98%) BDD
17 26 (12.50%) TDD
18 24 (11.54%) Roadmaps
19 23 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
20 22 (10.58%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 206 (99.04%) Java
2 46 (22.12%) SQL
3 42 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 32 (15.38%) Python
5 19 (9.13%) Kotlin
5 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.37%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.88%) C#
7 6 (2.88%) PHP
8 5 (2.40%) Scala
9 2 (0.96%) Go
9 2 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Delphi
10 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.94%) Degree
3 21 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.29%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.88%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 59 (28.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (38.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.29%) Terraform
3 10 (4.81%) Kibana
4 7 (3.37%) Grafana
5 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (4.33%) Google
1 9 (4.33%) Solace
2 7 (3.37%) Dynatrace
2 7 (3.37%) Splunk
3 4 (1.92%) Oracle
4 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.44%) Revolut
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.48%) HP
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.48%) OpenText
6 1 (0.48%) Siebel