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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 211 204
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 -100
Permanent jobs citing Spring 251 188 366
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.58% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.55% 6.16% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 144 94 269
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £122,425 £137,500
England median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% -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 3,326 3,054 5,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.89% 25.68% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,279 2,189 4,670
10th Percentile £51,370 £50,000 £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 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £133,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -1 28 £88,750 -13.41% 1
South London -24 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 2
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 6 (2.39%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.39%) Confluence
1 6 (2.39%) JBoss
2 5 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.59%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.20%) Camunda
4 3 (1.20%) Liferay
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (43.43%) AWS
2 58 (23.11%) Azure
3 25 (9.96%) GCP
4 22 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (6.37%) GitHub
6 14 (5.58%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.58%) Serverless
7 10 (3.98%) SaaS
8 8 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.79%) Azure Storage
9 7 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.39%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.99%) dbt
11 5 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) DMARC
2 3 (1.20%) AMQP
3 1 (0.40%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.14%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.96%) Relational Database
3 24 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.17%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.78%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.59%) Redis
7 8 (3.19%) MySQL
8 5 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.99%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.59%) DB2
9 4 (1.59%) DTS
10 2 (0.80%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.80%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.40%) Flink
11 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.76%) GitLab
2 20 (7.97%) Git
3 19 (7.57%) Cucumber
4 14 (5.58%) Gradle
5 11 (4.38%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.98%) JUnit
7 9 (3.59%) Maven
8 6 (2.39%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.99%) Mockito
10 4 (1.59%) JIRA
10 4 (1.59%) Selenium
11 3 (1.20%) Postman
12 2 (0.80%) JMeter
12 2 (0.80%) Subversion
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.40%) git-flow
13 1 (0.40%) MLflow
13 1 (0.40%) Spock
General
1 100 (39.84%) Finance
2 44 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.37%) Telecoms
5 20 (7.97%) Banking
6 16 (6.37%) Billing
6 16 (6.37%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.78%) Front Office
8 10 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.19%) Games
10 4 (1.59%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Aviation
12 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.40%) iGaming
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (38.65%) Developer
2 85 (33.86%) Java Engineer
3 80 (31.87%) Java Developer
4 77 (30.68%) Senior
5 40 (15.94%) Software Engineer
6 33 (13.15%) Senior Java Engineer
7 30 (11.95%) Senior Developer
8 27 (10.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 27 (10.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (8.37%) Architect
10 21 (8.37%) Lead
11 20 (7.97%) Engineering Manager
11 20 (7.97%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (7.97%) Software Engineering Manager
11 20 (7.97%) Software Manager
12 19 (7.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (6.77%) Principal Java Engineer
14 13 (5.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (79.68%) Spring Boot
2 64 (25.50%) Kafka
3 51 (20.32%) REST
4 50 (19.92%) React
5 32 (12.75%) RESTful
6 31 (12.35%) AngularJS
7 26 (10.36%) Node.js
8 23 (9.16%) Hibernate
9 16 (6.37%) Web Services
10 15 (5.98%) HTML
10 15 (5.98%) OAuth
11 13 (5.18%) CSS
11 13 (5.18%) JSON
11 13 (5.18%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.78%) Bootstrap
12 12 (4.78%) SOAP
13 11 (4.38%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (4.38%) Middleware
14 10 (3.98%) Spring MVC
14 10 (3.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (26.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (15.14%) Public Cloud
3 36 (14.34%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (8.76%) Product Ownership
5 18 (7.17%) e-Learning
6 17 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) DataPower
9 4 (1.59%) EPoS
9 4 (1.59%) iSeries
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.40%) Equities
12 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.40%) Sports Betting
12 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.80%) Linux
1 2 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (58.17%) Microservices
2 114 (45.42%) CI/CD
3 88 (35.06%) Software Engineering
4 78 (31.08%) Agile
5 69 (27.49%) Mentoring
6 65 (25.90%) Containerisation
6 65 (25.90%) Test Automation
7 59 (23.51%) DevOps
8 57 (22.71%) Event-Driven
9 56 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 52 (20.72%) Technical Leadership
11 46 (18.33%) AI
12 43 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (17.13%) Roadmaps
13 39 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (11.95%) BDD
15 30 (11.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 24 (9.56%) Scrum
17 23 (9.16%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 247 (98.41%) Java
2 50 (19.92%) SQL
3 39 (15.54%) JavaScript
4 22 (8.76%) TypeScript
5 21 (8.37%) Python
6 13 (5.18%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.39%) PHP
8 5 (1.99%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Go
9 4 (1.59%) RPG
10 2 (0.80%) C#
10 2 (0.80%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (13.55%) Degree
2 31 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.57%) AWS Certification
4 19 (7.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.58%) QA
2 6 (2.39%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (24.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (29.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.57%) Terraform
3 5 (1.99%) Grafana
3 5 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.59%) Ansible
5 2 (0.80%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (3.19%) Microsoft
1 8 (3.19%) Solace
2 7 (2.79%) SendGrid
3 6 (2.39%) Google
4 4 (1.59%) IBM
4 4 (1.59%) Oracle
5 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.20%) Revolut
5 3 (1.20%) Splunk
6 2 (0.80%) TikTok
7 1 (0.40%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.40%) Workday