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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 209 193
Rank change year-on-year -4 -16 -94
Permanent jobs citing Spring 208 215 388
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.67% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.68% 6.21% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 129 113 303
10th Percentile £54,750 £56,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £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 £113,500 £105,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £130,000
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 3,112 3,462 5,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.22% 26.82% 24.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,167 2,500 4,731
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 £130,000 £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 17 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 17 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 -2 24 £90,000 -11.76% 17
South London -33 6 £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 11 (5.29%) JBoss
2 10 (4.81%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.44%) Apache
5 3 (1.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.96%) Camunda
6 2 (0.96%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
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 87 (41.83%) AWS
2 38 (18.27%) Azure
3 20 (9.62%) GCP
4 18 (8.65%) SaaS
5 16 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 11 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (5.29%) Serverless
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.40%) dbt
9 5 (2.40%) GitHub
9 5 (2.40%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.44%) Anthos
10 3 (1.44%) Apigee
10 3 (1.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) AMQP
2 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.94%) NoSQL
2 28 (13.46%) Relational Database
3 17 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.17%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.81%) Redis
5 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.88%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.88%) MySQL
7 5 (2.40%) Couchbase
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.92%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.96%) 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 21 (10.10%) Git
2 16 (7.69%) GitLab
3 12 (5.77%) Gradle
4 11 (5.29%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.81%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.85%) JUnit
7 7 (3.37%) Selenium
8 6 (2.88%) Maven
9 5 (2.40%) JIRA
10 4 (1.92%) Postman
11 3 (1.44%) Mockito
11 3 (1.44%) Subversion
12 2 (0.96%) JMeter
13 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.48%) git-flow
13 1 (0.48%) MLflow
13 1 (0.48%) NUnit
13 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (33.65%) Finance
2 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.06%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.69%) Billing
6 13 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Front Office
8 10 (4.81%) Banking
8 10 (4.81%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.33%) Games
10 4 (1.92%) Advertising
10 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.44%) Law
11 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Aviation
12 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 1 (0.48%) iGaming
13 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (43.27%) Developer
2 75 (36.06%) Java Developer
3 64 (30.77%) Java Engineer
3 64 (30.77%) Senior
4 38 (18.27%) Software Engineer
5 26 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 26 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 24 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
7 23 (11.06%) Architect
7 23 (11.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 21 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (7.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (6.25%) Lead
11 12 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (4.81%) Senior Architect
13 10 (4.81%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (4.33%) Principal Java Engineer
15 8 (3.85%) Software Engineering Manager
15 8 (3.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (73.08%) Spring Boot
2 49 (23.56%) Kafka
3 44 (21.15%) React
3 44 (21.15%) REST
4 28 (13.46%) AngularJS
5 27 (12.98%) Hibernate
6 21 (10.10%) RESTful
7 16 (7.69%) HTML
7 16 (7.69%) SOAP
8 15 (7.21%) JSON
9 14 (6.73%) .NET
9 14 (6.73%) CSS
9 14 (6.73%) Web Services
10 13 (6.25%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.25%) GraphQL
10 13 (6.25%) XML
11 12 (5.77%) Node.js
11 12 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.29%) Middleware
13 10 (4.81%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.81%) DataPower
5 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.85%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.40%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.96%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (54.33%) Microservices
2 87 (41.83%) CI/CD
3 64 (30.77%) Agile
3 64 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 53 (25.48%) DevOps
5 52 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 49 (23.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 45 (21.63%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (20.67%) Event-Driven
10 42 (20.19%) AI
11 41 (19.71%) Test Automation
12 35 (16.83%) Roadmaps
13 33 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 20 (9.62%) Integration Patterns
17 20 (9.62%) Scrum
18 19 (9.13%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 206 (99.04%) Java
2 48 (23.08%) SQL
3 36 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 19 (9.13%) Python
5 16 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 15 (7.21%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.88%) C#
7 6 (2.88%) PHP
8 5 (2.40%) Go
8 5 (2.40%) Scala
9 4 (1.92%) C++
10 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.48%) Delphi
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
11 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (16.83%) Degree
2 28 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.40%) 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 6 (2.88%) QA
2 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.92%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 52 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (34.13%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.17%) Terraform
3 6 (2.88%) Grafana
4 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Kibana
6 2 (0.96%) Ansible
7 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (2.88%) Google
1 6 (2.88%) Solace
2 5 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.44%) Revolut
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle
4 2 (0.96%) 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