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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 207 196
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -98
Permanent jobs citing Spring 210 219 382
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.69% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 6.33% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 131 115 296
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £113,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £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 3,122 3,461 5,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.09% 26.78% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,178 2,500 4,702
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 £102,500
90th Percentile £129,125 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 24 £90,000 -11.76% 17
South London -31 8 £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 12 (5.71%) JBoss
2 10 (4.76%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.43%) Apache
5 3 (1.43%) Liferay
6 2 (0.95%) Camunda
6 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (42.38%) AWS
2 39 (18.57%) Azure
3 21 (10.00%) GCP
4 18 (8.57%) SaaS
5 16 (7.62%) OpenShift
6 12 (5.71%) Serverless
7 11 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.38%) dbt
10 5 (2.38%) GitHub
10 5 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.43%) Anthos
11 3 (1.43%) Apigee
11 3 (1.43%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) AMQP
2 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.81%) NoSQL
1 29 (13.81%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.10%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.76%) Redis
5 9 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.86%) MySQL
7 5 (2.38%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.48%) Flink
10 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.48%) Git
2 16 (7.62%) GitLab
3 12 (5.71%) Gradle
4 11 (5.24%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.29%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.29%) JUnit
6 6 (2.86%) Maven
6 6 (2.86%) Selenium
7 4 (1.90%) JIRA
8 3 (1.43%) Mockito
8 3 (1.43%) Postman
8 3 (1.43%) Subversion
9 2 (0.95%) JMeter
10 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.48%) git-flow
10 1 (0.48%) MLflow
10 1 (0.48%) NUnit
10 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (33.33%) Finance
2 49 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.76%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.95%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.62%) Billing
6 13 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.71%) Front Office
8 10 (4.76%) Banking
8 10 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.29%) Games
10 4 (1.90%) Advertising
10 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.43%) Law
11 3 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Aviation
12 2 (0.95%) Retail
13 1 (0.48%) iGaming
13 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (43.81%) Developer
2 77 (36.67%) Java Developer
3 66 (31.43%) Java Engineer
3 66 (31.43%) Senior
4 38 (18.10%) Software Engineer
5 27 (12.86%) Senior Developer
6 26 (12.38%) Java Software Engineer
7 25 (11.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (11.43%) Senior Java Engineer
9 23 (10.95%) Architect
10 21 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (6.19%) Lead
13 12 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (5.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 10 (4.76%) Senior Architect
15 10 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 9 (4.29%) Principal Java Engineer
17 8 (3.81%) Software Engineering Manager
17 8 (3.81%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (73.81%) Spring Boot
2 49 (23.33%) Kafka
3 45 (21.43%) REST
4 44 (20.95%) React
5 29 (13.81%) AngularJS
6 28 (13.33%) Hibernate
7 21 (10.00%) RESTful
8 16 (7.62%) HTML
8 16 (7.62%) SOAP
9 15 (7.14%) JSON
9 15 (7.14%) Web Services
10 14 (6.67%) CSS
11 13 (6.19%) .NET
11 13 (6.19%) Bootstrap
11 13 (6.19%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.19%) Node.js
11 13 (6.19%) XML
12 12 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (5.24%) Middleware
14 10 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.86%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.62%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.76%) DataPower
5 10 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.81%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.43%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.95%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.95%) Linux
1 2 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (54.29%) Microservices
2 87 (41.43%) CI/CD
3 65 (30.95%) Agile
4 64 (30.48%) Software Engineering
5 54 (25.71%) DevOps
6 52 (24.76%) Mentoring
7 49 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 48 (22.86%) Containerisation
9 45 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
10 43 (20.48%) Event-Driven
11 42 (20.00%) AI
12 40 (19.05%) Test Automation
13 35 (16.67%) Roadmaps
14 34 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 21 (10.00%) Scrum
19 20 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
19 20 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 208 (99.05%) Java
2 48 (22.86%) SQL
3 37 (17.62%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.52%) Python
5 16 (7.62%) Kotlin
6 15 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.86%) C#
7 6 (2.86%) PHP
8 5 (2.38%) Go
8 5 (2.38%) Scala
9 4 (1.90%) C++
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Delphi
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (16.67%) Degree
2 28 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.33%) QA
2 5 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.90%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (25.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.10%) Terraform
3 6 (2.86%) Grafana
4 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.43%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (2.86%) Google
1 6 (2.86%) Solace
2 5 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.43%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.43%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.43%) Revolut
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle
4 2 (0.95%) Splunk
5 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.48%) HP
5 1 (0.48%) OpenText
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.48%) Siebel