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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 201 139
Rank change year-on-year +7 -62 -37
Permanent jobs citing Spring 178 243 403
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.28% 1.57% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.76% 5.92% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 109 96 353
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £112,250
England median annual salary £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -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 2,632 4,108 4,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.91% 26.57% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 2,528 4,301
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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
South London +11 17 £76,250 +12.96% 5
Central London +38 13 £100,000 -6.98% 17
West London -3 1 £82,500 - 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 9 (5.06%) JBoss
2 8 (4.49%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.93%) Apache
4 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.69%) Liferay
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) Camunda
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 111 (62.36%) AWS
2 31 (17.42%) Amazon EKS
3 30 (16.85%) Serverless
4 23 (12.92%) SaaS
5 21 (11.80%) Azure
6 20 (11.24%) GCP
7 15 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.06%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.49%) GitHub
10 5 (2.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.81%) Apigee
10 5 (2.81%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.81%) Figma
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.98%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (16.85%) Relational Database
3 25 (14.04%) RDBMS
4 24 (13.48%) MongoDB
5 20 (11.24%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.37%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.81%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.81%) Redis
10 3 (1.69%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.69%) MySQL
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.12%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.56%) Big Data
12 1 (0.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.24%) Git
3 16 (8.99%) JUnit
4 14 (7.87%) GitLab
4 14 (7.87%) Mockito
5 13 (7.30%) JMeter
6 10 (5.62%) JIRA
7 9 (5.06%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.81%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.81%) Vite
9 4 (2.25%) Gradle
9 4 (2.25%) Postman
10 3 (1.69%) Maven
10 3 (1.69%) Selenium
11 2 (1.12%) Subversion
12 1 (0.56%) NUnit
12 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.56%) Storybook
12 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 60 (33.71%) Finance
3 29 (16.29%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.80%) Financial Institution
5 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (8.43%) Banking
7 14 (7.87%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.74%) Front Office
9 7 (3.93%) Billing
10 4 (2.25%) Games
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Law
12 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (44.94%) Developer
2 61 (34.27%) Java Developer
3 52 (29.21%) Senior
4 48 (26.97%) Java Engineer
5 38 (21.35%) Software Engineer
6 34 (19.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (14.61%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (14.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 22 (12.36%) Senior Java Engineer
10 20 (11.24%) Architect
11 17 (9.55%) Lead
12 14 (7.87%) Senior Developer
13 13 (7.30%) Senior Java Developer
14 12 (6.74%) Kafka Engineer
15 11 (6.18%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 10 (5.62%) Angular Developer
16 10 (5.62%) Data Warehouse Developer
16 10 (5.62%) Kafka Developer
17 9 (5.06%) Backend Developer
17 9 (5.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (71.35%) Spring Boot
2 50 (28.09%) Kafka
3 39 (21.91%) REST
4 34 (19.10%) Hibernate
4 34 (19.10%) React
5 27 (15.17%) AngularJS
6 25 (14.04%) HTML
7 23 (12.92%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (11.80%) GraphQL
9 20 (11.24%) JSON
9 20 (11.24%) RESTful
10 18 (10.11%) XML
11 17 (9.55%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (9.55%) Web Services
12 16 (8.99%) Apache Camel
13 14 (7.87%) jQuery
13 14 (7.87%) Node.js
14 13 (7.30%) Next.js
14 13 (7.30%) WireMock
15 12 (6.74%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 52 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 27 (15.17%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.18%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.62%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.62%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.49%) DataPower
6 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.69%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.69%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.12%) Equities
10 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (56.74%) Microservices
2 75 (42.13%) CI/CD
3 70 (39.33%) Agile
4 56 (31.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (27.53%) Software Engineering
6 43 (24.16%) DevOps
7 39 (21.91%) Mentoring
8 38 (21.35%) Event-Driven
8 38 (21.35%) TDD
9 36 (20.22%) Containerisation
10 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (17.42%) BDD
12 29 (16.29%) Test Automation
13 25 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (14.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 25 (14.04%) Fintech
13 25 (14.04%) SDLC
14 23 (12.92%) AI
15 22 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (10.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 177 (99.44%) Java
2 46 (25.84%) JavaScript
3 33 (18.54%) Python
4 26 (14.61%) SQL
5 24 (13.48%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.55%) Kotlin
7 13 (7.30%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.37%) PHP
9 5 (2.81%) Scala
10 4 (2.25%) C#
11 2 (1.12%) Ruby
12 1 (0.56%) Delphi
12 1 (0.56%) Go
12 1 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.61%) Degree
3 16 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.62%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.49%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) ISEB
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
1 8 (4.49%) QA
System Software
1 58 (32.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (39.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.99%) Kibana
3 4 (2.25%) Terraform
4 3 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.30%) Dynatrace
1 13 (7.30%) Splunk
2 10 (5.62%) Google
3 9 (5.06%) Oracle
4 6 (3.37%) Atlassian
4 6 (3.37%) Solace
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) HP
6 1 (0.56%) OpenText
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) Siebel