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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 199 143
Rank change year-on-year -4 -56 -47
Permanent jobs citing Spring 202 250 445
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 1.68% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 6.28% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 129 113 373
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £89,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.12% -0.37%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £126,500 £120,000
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 2,771 3,981 5,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.82% 26.80% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,988 2,506 4,834
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,898
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 £107,500 £109,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 February 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 February 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 +27 23 £100,000 -5.88% 23
South London -1 12 £70,000 -15.15% 4
West London -8 1 £82,500 -
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 (5.94%) JBoss
2 11 (5.45%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.47%) Apache
4 6 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.49%) Liferay
7 2 (0.99%) Confluence
8 1 (0.50%) Camunda
8 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (52.97%) AWS
2 25 (12.38%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (12.38%) SaaS
2 25 (12.38%) Serverless
3 24 (11.88%) Azure
4 19 (9.41%) GCP
5 14 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (5.94%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.96%) GitHub
10 6 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.48%) Apigee
12 4 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.98%) CloudFront
12 4 (1.98%) Figma
13 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.84%) Relational Database
2 29 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (12.87%) RDBMS
4 24 (11.88%) NoSQL
5 20 (9.90%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.47%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.48%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.48%) Redis
10 4 (1.98%) MySQL
11 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.49%) Apache Ignite
12 2 (0.99%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.50%) Big Data
13 1 (0.50%) Flink
13 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.39%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.40%) Git
3 17 (8.42%) GitLab
4 13 (6.44%) JUnit
5 10 (4.95%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.95%) JIRA
6 9 (4.46%) JMeter
6 9 (4.46%) Mockito
7 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.47%) Gradle
7 7 (3.47%) Maven
8 4 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.98%) Postman
8 4 (1.98%) Vite
9 3 (1.49%) Selenium
9 3 (1.49%) Subversion
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) NUnit
10 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (33.66%) Finance
2 56 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.40%) Financial Institution
5 19 (9.41%) Telecoms
6 17 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.93%) Front Office
8 12 (5.94%) Billing
9 8 (3.96%) Banking
10 6 (2.97%) Games
11 4 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.49%) Law
12 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.99%) Advertising
13 2 (0.99%) Retail
13 2 (0.99%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (42.57%) Developer
2 67 (33.17%) Java Developer
3 62 (30.69%) Senior
4 61 (30.20%) Java Engineer
5 46 (22.77%) Software Engineer
6 32 (15.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 31 (15.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (12.38%) Senior Java Engineer
9 23 (11.39%) Architect
10 21 (10.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 19 (9.41%) Senior Developer
12 18 (8.91%) Lead
12 18 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.45%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (4.46%) Kafka Engineer
15 9 (4.46%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 8 (3.96%) Data Warehouse Developer
16 8 (3.96%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (73.27%) Spring Boot
2 55 (27.23%) Kafka
3 48 (23.76%) REST
4 39 (19.31%) React
5 34 (16.83%) Hibernate
6 26 (12.87%) AngularJS
7 22 (10.89%) GraphQL
8 20 (9.90%) JSON
8 20 (9.90%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (9.41%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (9.41%) HTML
9 19 (9.41%) XML
10 17 (8.42%) Node.js
10 17 (8.42%) RESTful
10 17 (8.42%) SOAP
10 17 (8.42%) Web Services
11 15 (7.43%) .NET
12 13 (6.44%) Middleware
13 12 (5.94%) Apache Camel
13 12 (5.94%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (30.69%) Cloud Native
2 34 (16.83%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.45%) DataPower
4 9 (4.46%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.96%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.96%) Hedge funds
5 8 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.96%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.99%) Equities
10 2 (0.99%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (56.93%) Microservices
2 82 (40.59%) CI/CD
3 76 (37.62%) Agile
4 60 (29.70%) Software Engineering
5 56 (27.72%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (26.24%) Mentoring
7 47 (23.27%) DevOps
7 47 (23.27%) Event-Driven
8 41 (20.30%) Containerisation
9 35 (17.33%) AI
9 35 (17.33%) Test Automation
10 31 (15.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 30 (14.85%) BDD
11 30 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.36%) TDD
13 28 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (11.88%) Fintech
14 24 (11.88%) Roadmaps
15 20 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.01%) Java
2 42 (20.79%) JavaScript
2 42 (20.79%) SQL
3 30 (14.85%) Python
4 21 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 18 (8.91%) Kotlin
6 9 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.97%) PHP
8 5 (2.48%) C#
8 5 (2.48%) Scala
9 2 (0.99%) Go
9 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) Delphi
10 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.86%) Degree
3 18 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.46%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.97%) Accessibility
1 6 (2.97%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (29.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (38.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.94%) Kibana
3 8 (3.96%) Terraform
4 5 (2.48%) Grafana
5 4 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Ansible
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (4.95%) Google
2 9 (4.46%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.46%) Solace
2 9 (4.46%) Splunk
3 6 (2.97%) Oracle
4 4 (1.98%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.49%) Revolut
6 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) HP
7 1 (0.50%) OpenText
7 1 (0.50%) Siebel