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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 203 197
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -92
Permanent jobs citing Spring 212 213 388
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 1.68% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.69% 6.44% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 129 113 295
10th Percentile £54,750 £56,250 £56,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £106,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £134,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.67% -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 3,171 3,309 5,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.85% 26.04% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,206 2,449 4,728
10th Percentile £52,500 £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 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,250 £130,000 £127,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -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 1 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 1 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 -2 24 £90,000 -13.25% 14
South London -26 9 £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 10 (4.72%) JBoss
2 8 (3.77%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.42%) Apache
5 3 (1.42%) Liferay
6 2 (0.94%) Camunda
6 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 87 (41.04%) AWS
2 39 (18.40%) Azure
3 22 (10.38%) GCP
4 16 (7.55%) OpenShift
5 15 (7.08%) SaaS
6 14 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (4.72%) Serverless
8 6 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.36%) dbt
9 5 (2.36%) GitHub
9 5 (2.36%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.42%) Anthos
10 3 (1.42%) Apigee
10 3 (1.42%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) AMQP
2 1 (0.47%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.15%) NoSQL
2 25 (11.79%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.13%) RDBMS
5 12 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.77%) Redis
7 7 (3.30%) MySQL
7 7 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.89%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.42%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.47%) Flink
11 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.38%) Git
2 19 (8.96%) GitLab
3 13 (6.13%) Gradle
4 12 (5.66%) Cucumber
5 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.77%) JUnit
6 6 (2.83%) Maven
7 5 (2.36%) Selenium
8 3 (1.42%) JIRA
8 3 (1.42%) Postman
8 3 (1.42%) Subversion
9 2 (0.94%) Mockito
10 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) MLflow
General
1 76 (35.85%) Finance
2 41 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.85%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.55%) Billing
6 12 (5.66%) Banking
6 12 (5.66%) Financial Institution
7 11 (5.19%) Front Office
8 9 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.25%) Games
9 4 (1.89%) Advertising
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Aviation
11 2 (0.94%) Law
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) iGaming
12 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (43.87%) Developer
2 78 (36.79%) Java Developer
3 72 (33.96%) Java Engineer
4 69 (32.55%) Senior
5 34 (16.04%) Software Engineer
6 29 (13.68%) Senior Developer
7 27 (12.74%) Senior Java Developer
7 27 (12.74%) Senior Java Engineer
8 26 (12.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 20 (9.43%) Architect
10 17 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (6.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (6.13%) Lead
12 13 (6.13%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.19%) Principal Java Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Engineering Manager
14 10 (4.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (4.72%) Software Engineering Manager
14 10 (4.72%) Software Manager
15 8 (3.77%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (76.42%) Spring Boot
2 49 (23.11%) Kafka
3 46 (21.70%) REST
4 45 (21.23%) React
5 27 (12.74%) AngularJS
6 25 (11.79%) Hibernate
7 22 (10.38%) RESTful
8 16 (7.55%) SOAP
9 15 (7.08%) CSS
9 15 (7.08%) HTML
9 15 (7.08%) Web Services
10 13 (6.13%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.13%) JSON
10 13 (6.13%) Node.js
11 12 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.19%) Middleware
12 11 (5.19%) Spring MVC
13 10 (4.72%) .NET
13 10 (4.72%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (4.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.26%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.91%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.19%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.77%) DataPower
7 8 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.94%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.47%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.47%) Equities
12 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.94%) Linux
1 2 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (53.30%) Microservices
2 86 (40.57%) CI/CD
3 66 (31.13%) Software Engineering
4 63 (29.72%) Agile
5 52 (24.53%) Mentoring
6 51 (24.06%) DevOps
7 48 (22.64%) Containerisation
8 45 (21.23%) Technical Leadership
9 44 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (19.34%) Event-Driven
10 41 (19.34%) Test Automation
11 40 (18.87%) AI
12 36 (16.98%) Roadmaps
13 35 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 20 (9.43%) BDD
17 20 (9.43%) Scrum
18 19 (8.96%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 211 (99.53%) Java
2 48 (22.64%) SQL
3 37 (17.45%) JavaScript
4 19 (8.96%) Python
5 14 (6.60%) Kotlin
6 13 (6.13%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.83%) PHP
8 5 (2.36%) Go
9 4 (1.89%) C#
9 4 (1.89%) C++
10 3 (1.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.47%) Delphi
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (16.04%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.49%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.30%) QA
2 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (32.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.02%) Terraform
3 6 (2.83%) Grafana
4 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.30%) Solace
2 5 (2.36%) Google
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.89%) Oracle
4 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.42%) Revolut
5 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat