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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 193 212
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -95
Permanent jobs citing Spring 254 230 355
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.88% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.49% 7.08% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 98 246
10th Percentile £56,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £66,563 £66,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.07% -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 3,393 3,248 6,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.57% 26.59% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,308 2,256 4,765
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £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 £111,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 28 June 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 June 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 +2 30 £90,000 -12.20% 4
South London -22 10 £70,000 -15.15% 1
West London - 7 £80,000 - 8
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 10 (3.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.97%) JBoss
4 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.18%) Camunda
6 2 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Liferay
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (48.03%) AWS
2 74 (29.13%) Azure
3 28 (11.02%) GitHub
4 26 (10.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (10.24%) GCP
5 17 (6.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.12%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (5.12%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.12%) Serverless
8 11 (4.33%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.15%) Lucidchart
10 7 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.36%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (2.36%) SaaS
12 5 (1.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.12%) DMARC
2 2 (0.79%) AMQP
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.17%) NoSQL
2 31 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.09%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.54%) MySQL
5 9 (3.54%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.15%) Db2
6 8 (3.15%) Redis
7 7 (2.76%) DTS
8 5 (1.97%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.39%) Big Data
11 1 (0.39%) Flink
11 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (13.39%) GitLab
2 23 (9.06%) Cucumber
3 21 (8.27%) Git
4 15 (5.91%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.12%) Gradle
6 12 (4.72%) JUnit
7 11 (4.33%) Maven
8 7 (2.76%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.76%) Mockito
9 4 (1.57%) JIRA
9 4 (1.57%) Selenium
10 3 (1.18%) Spock
11 2 (0.79%) JMeter
11 2 (0.79%) Postman
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.39%) git-flow
12 1 (0.39%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 105 (41.34%) Finance
2 48 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.24%) Banking
5 16 (6.30%) Financial Institution
6 15 (5.91%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.72%) Billing
8 11 (4.33%) Front Office
9 8 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.97%) Games
10 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.79%) Aviation
12 2 (0.79%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Law
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (34.65%) Developer
2 85 (33.46%) Java Engineer
3 72 (28.35%) Java Developer
4 71 (27.95%) Senior
5 32 (12.60%) Software Engineer
6 30 (11.81%) Senior Java Engineer
7 28 (11.02%) Lead
8 27 (10.63%) Senior Developer
9 26 (10.24%) Architect
9 26 (10.24%) Engineering Manager
9 26 (10.24%) Software Engineering Manager
9 26 (10.24%) Software Manager
10 24 (9.45%) Senior Java Developer
11 23 (9.06%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (7.87%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (7.87%) Principal Java Engineer
13 19 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (6.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (4.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (79.53%) Spring Boot
2 75 (29.53%) Kafka
3 49 (19.29%) REST
4 45 (17.72%) React
5 39 (15.35%) RESTful
6 34 (13.39%) Node.js
7 29 (11.42%) AngularJS
8 20 (7.87%) Hibernate
8 20 (7.87%) OAuth
9 15 (5.91%) OAuth2
10 14 (5.51%) Middleware
11 13 (5.12%) HTML
11 13 (5.12%) Web Services
11 13 (5.12%) YAML
12 11 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.94%) CSS
13 10 (3.94%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (3.94%) SOAP
14 9 (3.54%) Bootstrap
14 9 (3.54%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (31.50%) Cloud Native
2 49 (19.29%) Public Cloud
3 40 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (11.02%) Product Ownership
5 22 (8.66%) e-Learning
6 19 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.76%) EPoS
9 7 (2.76%) iSeries
10 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.18%) DataPower
10 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.39%) Equities
12 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.79%) Linux
1 2 (0.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.42%) Microservices
2 132 (51.97%) CI/CD
3 89 (35.04%) Agile
4 88 (34.65%) Software Engineering
5 84 (33.07%) Test Automation
6 77 (30.31%) Containerisation
7 74 (29.13%) Mentoring
8 72 (28.35%) Event-Driven
9 66 (25.98%) DevOps
10 58 (22.83%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (20.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (19.69%) Roadmaps
13 46 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
16 42 (16.54%) AI
17 36 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 33 (12.99%) BDD
19 30 (11.81%) Architectural Patterns
20 28 (11.02%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 249 (98.03%) Java
2 48 (18.90%) SQL
3 34 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 24 (9.45%) Python
5 22 (8.66%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.54%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.76%) RPG
8 5 (1.97%) C++
9 4 (1.57%) Go
10 3 (1.18%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) C#
11 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.42%) Degree
3 23 (9.06%) AWS Certification
3 23 (9.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 23 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.27%) QA
2 7 (2.76%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (25.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.48%) Terraform
3 5 (1.97%) Grafana
3 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.18%) Ansible
5 2 (0.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.12%) SendGrid
2 9 (3.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.76%) IBM
3 7 (2.76%) Solace
4 6 (2.36%) Oracle
5 5 (1.97%) Google
6 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.18%) Revolut
6 3 (1.18%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.79%) TikTok
8 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.39%) Sybase
8 1 (0.39%) Workday