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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 201 175
Rank change year-on-year -9 -26 -77
Permanent jobs citing Spring 203 212 398
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.64% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 6.08% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 130 109 317
10th Percentile £54,875 £59,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,610 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -2.66% -
75th Percentile £92,188 £118,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £129,000 £125,000
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 3,043 3,486 5,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.65% 27.02% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 2,516 4,746
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,227 £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 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.76%

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 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 4 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 +5 25 £90,000 -15.29% 20
South London -14 8 £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 12 (5.91%) JBoss
2 11 (5.42%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.48%) Apache
5 3 (1.48%) Liferay
6 2 (0.99%) Camunda
6 2 (0.99%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.84%) AWS
2 35 (17.24%) Azure
3 21 (10.34%) SaaS
4 20 (9.85%) GCP
5 16 (7.88%) OpenShift
6 13 (6.40%) Serverless
7 11 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.96%) GitHub
11 5 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.46%) dbt
11 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.48%) Anthos
12 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.48%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.78%) Relational Database
2 28 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 20 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.85%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.43%) Redis
6 8 (3.94%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.96%) MySQL
8 5 (2.46%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.48%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.49%) Flink
11 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.49%) Tableau
11 1 (0.49%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (10.34%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) GitLab
3 14 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.91%) Gradle
5 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.93%) JUnit
6 7 (3.45%) Maven
7 6 (2.96%) JIRA
7 6 (2.96%) Selenium
8 5 (2.46%) Mockito
9 4 (1.97%) JMeter
9 4 (1.97%) Postman
10 3 (1.48%) Subversion
11 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.49%) git-flow
12 1 (0.49%) MLflow
12 1 (0.49%) NUnit
12 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (32.02%) Finance
2 50 (24.63%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.33%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.88%) Billing
6 14 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 13 (6.40%) Front Office
8 9 (4.43%) Banking
8 9 (4.43%) Games
9 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.48%) Advertising
10 3 (1.48%) Law
10 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Aviation
11 2 (0.99%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) iGaming
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (43.35%) Developer
2 73 (35.96%) Java Developer
3 65 (32.02%) Senior
4 64 (31.53%) Java Engineer
5 43 (21.18%) Software Engineer
6 29 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 26 (12.81%) Senior Developer
8 25 (12.32%) Senior Java Engineer
9 24 (11.82%) Architect
9 24 (11.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 22 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (7.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (5.91%) Lead
13 11 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.45%) Principal Java Engineer
16 6 (2.96%) Angular Developer
16 6 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (73.40%) Spring Boot
2 48 (23.65%) Kafka
3 46 (22.66%) REST
4 43 (21.18%) React
5 30 (14.78%) Hibernate
6 29 (14.29%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.85%) RESTful
8 17 (8.37%) HTML
8 17 (8.37%) JSON
8 17 (8.37%) SOAP
9 15 (7.39%) .NET
9 15 (7.39%) GraphQL
9 15 (7.39%) Web Services
9 15 (7.39%) XML
10 14 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (6.40%) Bootstrap
11 13 (6.40%) CSS
12 12 (5.91%) Middleware
12 12 (5.91%) Node.js
13 10 (4.93%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.91%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.42%) DataPower
5 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.94%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.48%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.99%) Equities
13 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
1 2 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (54.68%) Microservices
2 85 (41.87%) CI/CD
3 68 (33.50%) Agile
4 62 (30.54%) Software Engineering
5 52 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (25.12%) DevOps
7 49 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 47 (23.15%) Containerisation
9 46 (22.66%) Event-Driven
10 42 (20.69%) AI
11 41 (20.20%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (19.21%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (15.27%) Roadmaps
15 28 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
17 20 (9.85%) Scrum
17 20 (9.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.01%) Java
2 49 (24.14%) SQL
3 38 (18.72%) JavaScript
4 22 (10.84%) Python
5 17 (8.37%) Kotlin
6 16 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.96%) C#
7 6 (2.96%) PHP
8 5 (2.46%) Scala
9 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.48%) C++
10 3 (1.48%) Go
11 1 (0.49%) Delphi
11 1 (0.49%) Korn
11 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (15.76%) Degree
2 30 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.49%) ISEB
8 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.46%) QA
2 3 (1.48%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (25.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.39%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Grafana
3 6 (2.96%) Kibana
4 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (3.45%) Solace
2 6 (2.96%) Google
3 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.97%) Splunk
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.48%) Revolut
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) OpenText
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.49%) Siebel