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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 197 236
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -98
Permanent jobs citing Spring 283 208 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.73% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.16% 6.02% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 147 87 134
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £90,625 £111,250 £109,375
90th Percentile £113,500 £125,500 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -0.73%

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 3,954 3,453 5,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.40% 28.69% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,567 2,360 3,950
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,750 £63,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 28 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 28 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 +13 28 £100,000 -3.61% 25
West London -14 11 £80,000 +33.33% 25
South London -31 9 £70,000 -15.15% 6
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 15 (5.30%) Camunda
2 12 (4.24%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) JBoss
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (56.18%) AWS
2 89 (31.45%) Azure
3 37 (13.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (10.25%) GitHub
5 28 (9.89%) GCP
6 17 (6.01%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (4.95%) Serverless
8 13 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (4.59%) Azure Storage
9 11 (3.89%) Lucidchart
10 9 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.59%) 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 57 (20.14%) NoSQL
2 45 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (12.37%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.19%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.24%) Redis
6 11 (3.89%) Db2
7 10 (3.53%) DTS
8 7 (2.47%) MySQL
9 4 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.06%) Flink
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (15.55%) GitLab
2 37 (13.07%) Cucumber
3 26 (9.19%) Git
4 22 (7.77%) Jenkins
5 20 (7.07%) JUnit
6 16 (5.65%) Mockito
7 12 (4.24%) Maven
8 9 (3.18%) Gradle
9 8 (2.83%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.83%) Selenium
10 4 (1.41%) JIRA
10 4 (1.41%) Spock
11 2 (0.71%) JMeter
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.35%) git-flow
12 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 128 (45.23%) Finance
2 64 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.79%) Banking
4 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.13%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.18%) Front Office
6 9 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.12%) Retail
9 5 (1.77%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Billing
11 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Aviation
12 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 2 (0.71%) Law
12 2 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
12 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (33.92%) Java Engineer
2 87 (30.74%) Senior
3 74 (26.15%) Developer
4 57 (20.14%) Java Developer
5 41 (14.49%) Software Engineer
6 36 (12.72%) Senior Java Engineer
7 33 (11.66%) Lead
8 31 (10.95%) Engineering Manager
8 31 (10.95%) Software Engineering Manager
8 31 (10.95%) Software Manager
9 30 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 29 (10.25%) Principal Engineer
11 28 (9.89%) Principal Java Engineer
12 22 (7.77%) Architect
13 18 (6.36%) Senior Developer
13 18 (6.36%) Technical Leader
14 15 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (4.95%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
16 13 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (74.56%) Spring Boot
2 118 (41.70%) Kafka
3 51 (18.02%) REST
3 51 (18.02%) RESTful
4 37 (13.07%) React
5 31 (10.95%) Node.js
6 29 (10.25%) OAuth
7 26 (9.19%) Hibernate
7 26 (9.19%) OAuth2
8 23 (8.13%) AngularJS
9 21 (7.42%) Terraform
10 17 (6.01%) JPA
11 14 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.59%) Middleware
12 13 (4.59%) YAML
13 11 (3.89%) JWT
14 10 (3.53%) OpenAPI
14 10 (3.53%) Web Services
15 9 (3.18%) HTML
15 9 (3.18%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 98 (34.63%) Cloud Native
2 81 (28.62%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (23.32%) Public Cloud
4 37 (13.07%) Product Ownership
5 34 (12.01%) e-Learning
6 26 (9.19%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.53%) EPoS
9 10 (3.53%) iSeries
10 8 (2.83%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.41%) Blog
12 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Pricing Data
12 3 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Android
1 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (63.25%) Microservices
2 164 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 115 (40.64%) Event-Driven
4 113 (39.93%) Agile
5 107 (37.81%) Software Engineering
6 105 (37.10%) Test Automation
7 83 (29.33%) Mentoring
8 74 (26.15%) DevOps
9 71 (25.09%) Containerisation
10 66 (23.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 60 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (18.73%) Roadmaps
13 53 (18.73%) Technical Leadership
14 49 (17.31%) AI
14 49 (17.31%) BDD
15 42 (14.84%) CQRS
15 42 (14.84%) Full-Stack Development
16 39 (13.78%) Architectural Patterns
16 39 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 277 (97.88%) Java
2 60 (21.20%) SQL
3 29 (10.25%) Python
4 28 (9.89%) TypeScript
5 24 (8.48%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.95%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.53%) RPG
8 5 (1.77%) C#
9 4 (1.41%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) ProC
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (12.01%) AWS Certification
1 34 (12.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 28 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.42%) Degree
5 11 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.13%) QA
2 7 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (21.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
3 2 (0.71%) Kibana
3 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (5.30%) Google
2 14 (4.95%) IBM
2 14 (4.95%) Oracle
3 13 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.59%) SendGrid
4 8 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.41%) Splunk
6 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.06%) Solace
7 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.71%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.71%) TikTok
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.35%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.35%) SAP
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.35%) Sybase
8 1 (0.35%) Workday