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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 184 222
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -101
Permanent jobs citing Spring 284 222 269
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.03% 6.86% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 155 95 152
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £51,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £147,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

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 3,536 3,236 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.90% 26.36% 24.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 2,236 3,616
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +16 31 £92,500 -10.84% 18
West London -16 11 £80,000 +33.33% 5
South London -36 9 £70,000 -15.15% 5
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 14 (4.93%) Camunda
2 12 (4.23%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.76%) Apache
5 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.06%) JBoss
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (53.87%) AWS
2 89 (31.34%) Azure
3 32 (11.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (10.92%) GCP
5 27 (9.51%) GitHub
6 17 (5.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.93%) Serverless
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Storage
10 11 (3.87%) Lucidchart
11 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.17%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.11%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) DMARC
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.61%) NoSQL
2 42 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (13.73%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.23%) Redis
6 11 (3.87%) Db2
7 10 (3.52%) DTS
8 7 (2.46%) MySQL
9 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.76%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.70%) Flink
12 2 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) Big Data
13 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (14.08%) GitLab
2 30 (10.56%) Cucumber
3 23 (8.10%) Git
4 19 (6.69%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.63%) JUnit
6 13 (4.58%) Mockito
7 10 (3.52%) Gradle
8 9 (3.17%) Maven
9 8 (2.82%) Selenium
10 7 (2.46%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.41%) Spock
12 3 (1.06%) JIRA
13 2 (0.70%) JMeter
14 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.35%) git-flow
14 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 124 (43.66%) Finance
2 62 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.90%) Banking
4 35 (12.32%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.75%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.93%) Front Office
7 10 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Billing
8 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.46%) Retail
9 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.41%) Advertising
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
11 3 (1.06%) Games
11 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Aviation
12 2 (0.70%) Law
12 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 98 (34.51%) Java Engineer
2 88 (30.99%) Senior
3 82 (28.87%) Developer
4 66 (23.24%) Java Developer
5 38 (13.38%) Software Engineer
6 37 (13.03%) Senior Java Engineer
7 34 (11.97%) Lead
8 29 (10.21%) Engineering Manager
8 29 (10.21%) Principal Engineer
8 29 (10.21%) Software Engineering Manager
8 29 (10.21%) Software Manager
9 26 (9.15%) Principal Java Engineer
10 25 (8.80%) Senior Developer
10 25 (8.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (7.75%) Architect
12 20 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
13 17 (5.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 17 (5.99%) Technical Leader
14 15 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (76.06%) Spring Boot
2 108 (38.03%) Kafka
3 52 (18.31%) RESTful
4 49 (17.25%) REST
5 40 (14.08%) React
6 32 (11.27%) Node.js
7 29 (10.21%) OAuth
8 27 (9.51%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.15%) OAuth2
10 24 (8.45%) Hibernate
11 15 (5.28%) JPA
12 13 (4.58%) Middleware
12 13 (4.58%) YAML
13 12 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.87%) FIX Protocol
14 11 (3.87%) JWT
15 10 (3.52%) HTML
15 10 (3.52%) Web Services
16 8 (2.82%) .NET
16 8 (2.82%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 94 (33.10%) Cloud Native
2 73 (25.70%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (20.77%) Public Cloud
4 35 (12.32%) Product Ownership
5 29 (10.21%) e-Learning
6 23 (8.10%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (6.69%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.52%) EPoS
9 10 (3.52%) iSeries
10 7 (2.46%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.76%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.70%) Blog
14 2 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Linux
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
1 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (63.38%) Microservices
2 163 (57.39%) CI/CD
3 113 (39.79%) Agile
4 104 (36.62%) Software Engineering
5 102 (35.92%) Event-Driven
6 101 (35.56%) Test Automation
7 85 (29.93%) Mentoring
8 80 (28.17%) Containerisation
9 77 (27.11%) DevOps
10 61 (21.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (20.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 57 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (20.07%) Technical Leadership
12 55 (19.37%) Roadmaps
13 53 (18.66%) AI
14 46 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 44 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (14.44%) BDD
17 38 (13.38%) API Design
18 37 (13.03%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 278 (97.89%) Java
2 61 (21.48%) SQL
3 35 (12.32%) Python
4 31 (10.92%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.21%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.52%) Kotlin
6 10 (3.52%) RPG
7 6 (2.11%) C#
8 5 (1.76%) C++
9 3 (1.06%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) ProC
11 1 (0.35%) Ruby
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.21%) AWS Certification
1 29 (10.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 28 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) Degree
4 21 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) OCP
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.45%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (22.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (27.11%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.45%) Terraform
3 4 (1.41%) Ansible
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
4 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.28%) Google
2 13 (4.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) SendGrid
3 12 (4.23%) IBM
4 11 (3.87%) Oracle
5 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.76%) Solace
7 4 (1.41%) Splunk
8 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.70%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.70%) TikTok
10 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.35%) SAP
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.35%) Sybase
10 1 (0.35%) Workday