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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 183 208
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 -93
Permanent jobs citing Spring 252 234 360
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 1.88% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 7.04% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 148 101 249
10th Percentile £56,750 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £122,500 £138,000
England median annual salary £74,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.07% -3.33% -2.00%

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 3,391 3,322 6,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.47% 26.74% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 2,319 4,753
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £81,945
Median % change year-on-year - +0.68% +2.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +4 31 £90,000 -12.20% 18
South London -23 10 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -10 9 £80,000 +33.33% 9
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.98%) Camunda
3 5 (1.98%) JBoss
4 4 (1.59%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (3.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (47.62%) AWS
2 76 (30.16%) Azure
3 27 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 27 (10.71%) GitHub
4 23 (9.13%) GCP
5 17 (6.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.16%) Azure Storage
8 12 (4.76%) Serverless
9 11 (4.37%) OpenShift
10 10 (3.97%) Lucidchart
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.16%) DMARC
2 1 (0.40%) AMQP
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 34 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.92%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.97%) Db2
6 9 (3.57%) DTS
6 9 (3.57%) MySQL
6 9 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.57%) Redis
7 5 (1.98%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.40%) Big Data
10 1 (0.40%) Flink
10 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (13.49%) GitLab
2 24 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 19 (7.54%) Git
4 15 (5.95%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.16%) Gradle
5 13 (5.16%) JUnit
6 11 (4.37%) Maven
7 8 (3.17%) Mockito
8 7 (2.78%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.98%) Selenium
10 4 (1.59%) JIRA
11 3 (1.19%) Spock
12 2 (0.79%) JMeter
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.40%) git-flow
13 1 (0.40%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.40%) Postman
13 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 107 (42.46%) Finance
2 45 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.71%) Banking
5 16 (6.35%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.76%) Front Office
6 12 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.37%) Billing
8 8 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Games
9 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.59%) Advertising
11 3 (1.19%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Aviation
12 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.40%) iGaming
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 87 (34.52%) Java Engineer
2 85 (33.73%) Developer
3 70 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 70 (27.78%) Senior
4 30 (11.90%) Senior Java Engineer
4 30 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 28 (11.11%) Lead
6 27 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 26 (10.32%) Engineering Manager
7 26 (10.32%) Software Engineering Manager
7 26 (10.32%) Software Manager
8 25 (9.92%) Architect
9 24 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
9 24 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 21 (8.33%) Principal Java Engineer
11 20 (7.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 17 (6.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (3.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (79.37%) Spring Boot
2 78 (30.95%) Kafka
3 49 (19.44%) REST
4 42 (16.67%) React
5 38 (15.08%) RESTful
6 34 (13.49%) Node.js
7 29 (11.51%) AngularJS
8 21 (8.33%) Hibernate
8 21 (8.33%) OAuth
9 17 (6.75%) OAuth2
10 16 (6.35%) Middleware
11 13 (5.16%) YAML
12 12 (4.76%) Web Services
13 11 (4.37%) HTML
14 10 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.57%) Bootstrap
15 9 (3.57%) SOAP
16 8 (3.17%) Akka
16 8 (3.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 81 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 50 (19.84%) Public Cloud
3 44 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 23 (9.13%) e-Learning
6 20 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.57%) EPoS
9 9 (3.57%) iSeries
10 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.19%) DataPower
10 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.40%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.40%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.40%) Distributed Applications
12 1 (0.40%) Equities
12 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Linux
1 2 (0.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (61.51%) Microservices
2 130 (51.59%) CI/CD
3 90 (35.71%) Agile
4 86 (34.13%) Software Engineering
5 84 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 76 (30.16%) Event-Driven
7 74 (29.37%) Containerisation
8 72 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 62 (24.60%) DevOps
10 58 (23.02%) Technical Leadership
11 50 (19.84%) Roadmaps
12 46 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (16.27%) AI
16 39 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 34 (13.49%) BDD
18 32 (12.70%) Architectural Patterns
19 30 (11.90%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 247 (98.02%) Java
2 50 (19.84%) SQL
3 32 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.32%) Python
5 21 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.57%) RPG
7 8 (3.17%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.98%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Go
10 2 (0.79%) C#
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
11 1 (0.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.51%) Degree
3 24 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 24 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.33%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (27.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.54%) Terraform
3 5 (1.98%) Grafana
3 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.19%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.16%) SendGrid
2 9 (3.57%) IBM
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.78%) Solace
4 6 (2.38%) Google
4 6 (2.38%) Oracle
5 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.19%) Revolut
6 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.79%) TikTok
8 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.40%) Sybase
8 1 (0.40%) Workday