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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 195 156
Rank change year-on-year -9 -39 -64
Permanent jobs citing Spring 204 235 425
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.23% 1.71% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 6.33% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 130 117 347
10th Percentile £56,250 £59,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £131,500 £122,500
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 2,864 3,715 5,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.29% 27.11% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,041 2,522 4,815
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
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 £105,000 £109,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £122,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +10 24 £100,000 -6.98% 6
South London -5 10 £70,000 -15.15%
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 (5.88%) JBoss
2 11 (5.39%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.45%) Apache
5 3 (1.47%) Liferay
6 2 (0.98%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) Camunda
7 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 94 (46.08%) AWS
2 27 (13.24%) Azure
3 24 (11.76%) SaaS
4 19 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (9.31%) GCP
4 19 (9.31%) Serverless
5 16 (7.84%) OpenShift
6 10 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.41%) GitHub
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.45%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.45%) Apigee
9 5 (2.45%) dbt
9 5 (2.45%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.47%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.18%) Relational Database
2 26 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (12.25%) RDBMS
4 24 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.84%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.45%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.45%) Redis
10 4 (1.96%) MySQL
11 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.98%) Apache Ignite
12 2 (0.98%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.49%) Big Data
13 1 (0.49%) Flink
13 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (9.80%) Git
1 20 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.82%) GitLab
3 10 (4.90%) Cucumber
3 10 (4.90%) JUnit
4 9 (4.41%) Gradle
5 7 (3.43%) JIRA
5 7 (3.43%) Maven
6 6 (2.94%) JMeter
6 6 (2.94%) Mockito
7 4 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.96%) Postman
8 3 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.47%) Subversion
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.49%) NUnit
9 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.49%) Vite
General
1 65 (31.86%) Finance
2 55 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.27%) Telecoms
5 18 (8.82%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.84%) Billing
8 14 (6.86%) Front Office
9 8 (3.92%) Games
10 7 (3.43%) Banking
11 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.47%) Law
12 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.98%) Advertising
13 2 (0.98%) Retail
13 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (43.63%) Developer
2 71 (34.80%) Java Developer
3 67 (32.84%) Senior
4 63 (30.88%) Java Engineer
5 47 (23.04%) Software Engineer
6 32 (15.69%) Java Software Engineer
7 27 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (13.24%) Senior Java Engineer
8 26 (12.75%) Senior Developer
9 24 (11.76%) Architect
9 24 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 16 (7.84%) Lead
12 15 (7.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.43%) Angular Developer
16 6 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
16 6 (2.94%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 50 (24.51%) Kafka
3 47 (23.04%) REST
4 38 (18.63%) React
5 30 (14.71%) AngularJS
5 30 (14.71%) Hibernate
6 19 (9.31%) GraphQL
7 18 (8.82%) HTML
7 18 (8.82%) JSON
8 17 (8.33%) Node.js
8 17 (8.33%) SOAP
8 17 (8.33%) XML
9 16 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (7.84%) RESTful
10 15 (7.35%) .NET
10 15 (7.35%) Web Services
11 13 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (6.37%) Bootstrap
12 12 (5.88%) CSS
12 12 (5.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.39%) DataPower
4 9 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.92%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.92%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.94%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.94%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.47%) Equities
8 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.98%) Linux
1 2 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (57.35%) Microservices
2 80 (39.22%) CI/CD
3 75 (36.76%) Agile
4 61 (29.90%) Software Engineering
5 55 (26.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (25.98%) Mentoring
7 49 (24.02%) DevOps
8 47 (23.04%) Containerisation
9 44 (21.57%) Event-Driven
10 41 (20.10%) AI
11 36 (17.65%) Test Automation
12 34 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (14.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (11.76%) BDD
17 23 (11.27%) Roadmaps
17 23 (11.27%) TDD
18 22 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
18 22 (10.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 202 (99.02%) Java
2 46 (22.55%) SQL
3 42 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 30 (14.71%) Python
5 19 (9.31%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.82%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.94%) C#
7 6 (2.94%) PHP
7 6 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.45%) Scala
9 2 (0.98%) Go
9 2 (0.98%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) C++
10 1 (0.49%) Delphi
10 1 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.22%) Degree
3 21 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.49%) ISEB
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.45%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.45%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 54 (26.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 77 (37.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.39%) Terraform
3 9 (4.41%) Kibana
4 7 (3.43%) Grafana
5 6 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Ansible
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (4.41%) Google
1 9 (4.41%) Solace
2 6 (2.94%) Dynatrace
2 6 (2.94%) Splunk
3 4 (1.96%) Oracle
4 3 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.47%) Revolut
5 2 (0.98%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.49%) HP
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.49%) OpenText
6 1 (0.49%) Siebel