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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 203 194
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -88
Permanent jobs citing Spring 214 212 383
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.05% 1.66% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 6.44% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 127 112 289
10th Percentile £54,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +1.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,563 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £134,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.67% -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 3,179 3,291 5,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.62% 25.83% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 2,435 4,696
10th Percentile £52,500 £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 £126,250 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +3 24 £85,000 -19.05% 11
South London -25 10 £70,000 -15.15%
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 9 (4.21%) JBoss
2 7 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.27%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.40%) Liferay
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (41.59%) AWS
2 39 (18.22%) Azure
3 21 (9.81%) GCP
4 16 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (7.48%) OpenShift
5 14 (6.54%) SaaS
6 11 (5.14%) Serverless
7 8 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (3.27%) GitHub
9 6 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.34%) dbt
10 5 (2.34%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.40%) Anthos
11 3 (1.40%) Apigee
11 3 (1.40%) Stripe
12 2 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.95%) NoSQL
2 23 (10.75%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.01%) MongoDB
5 13 (6.07%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.74%) Redis
7 7 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.80%) MySQL
9 5 (2.34%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.87%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.40%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.47%) Flink
12 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.28%) GitLab
2 20 (9.35%) Git
3 14 (6.54%) Cucumber
4 12 (5.61%) Gradle
5 9 (4.21%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.74%) JUnit
7 6 (2.80%) Maven
8 5 (2.34%) Selenium
9 4 (1.87%) JIRA
10 3 (1.40%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.40%) Postman
11 2 (0.93%) Mockito
11 2 (0.93%) Subversion
12 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.47%) git-flow
12 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 79 (36.92%) Finance
2 41 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.75%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.48%) Billing
6 14 (6.54%) Banking
7 13 (6.07%) Financial Institution
8 11 (5.14%) Front Office
9 10 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (4.21%) Games
11 4 (1.87%) Advertising
12 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Aviation
13 2 (0.93%) Law
13 2 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.47%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 93 (43.46%) Developer
2 76 (35.51%) Java Developer
3 73 (34.11%) Java Engineer
4 70 (32.71%) Senior
5 35 (16.36%) Software Engineer
6 30 (14.02%) Senior Developer
7 28 (13.08%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (13.08%) Senior Java Engineer
8 27 (12.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 19 (8.88%) Architect
10 18 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (6.07%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (5.61%) Lead
14 11 (5.14%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (5.14%) Principal Java Engineer
14 11 (5.14%) Software Engineering Manager
14 11 (5.14%) Software Manager
15 10 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (3.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (77.57%) Spring Boot
2 50 (23.36%) Kafka
3 47 (21.96%) REST
4 43 (20.09%) React
5 25 (11.68%) AngularJS
6 24 (11.21%) Hibernate
7 22 (10.28%) RESTful
8 15 (7.01%) SOAP
8 15 (7.01%) Web Services
9 14 (6.54%) CSS
9 14 (6.54%) HTML
9 14 (6.54%) Node.js
10 13 (6.07%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.07%) JSON
11 12 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.14%) Spring MVC
13 10 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (4.67%) Middleware
13 10 (4.67%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (4.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (10.75%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.07%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.61%) e-Learning
5 12 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.27%) DataPower
8 6 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.47%) Equities
12 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.93%) Linux
1 2 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (54.21%) Microservices
2 85 (39.72%) CI/CD
3 70 (32.71%) Software Engineering
4 65 (30.37%) Agile
5 51 (23.83%) DevOps
5 51 (23.83%) Mentoring
6 50 (23.36%) Containerisation
7 45 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 44 (20.56%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (20.09%) Test Automation
10 40 (18.69%) AI
11 39 (18.22%) Event-Driven
12 38 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (16.82%) Roadmaps
14 34 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.28%) BDD
17 20 (9.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 20 (9.35%) Scrum
17 20 (9.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 212 (99.07%) Java
2 46 (21.50%) SQL
3 35 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 21 (9.81%) Python
5 15 (7.01%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.54%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.80%) PHP
8 5 (2.34%) Go
9 4 (1.87%) C#
9 4 (1.87%) C++
10 3 (1.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Delphi
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (14.95%) Degree
2 23 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.80%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (25.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (32.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.94%) Terraform
3 6 (2.80%) Grafana
4 5 (2.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.27%) Solace
2 6 (2.80%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.34%) Google
3 5 (2.34%) Oracle
4 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.40%) Revolut
5 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.47%) Splunk
5 1 (0.47%) Workday