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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 195 212
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -96
Permanent jobs citing Spring 259 230 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.85% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 6.92% 6.01%
Number of salaries quoted 150 104 217
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,375 £51,150
25th Percentile £67,500 £64,688 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £89,375 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,425 £137,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -4.04%

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 3,420 3,325 5,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.35% 26.72% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,306 2,318 4,388
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,156 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 32 £90,000 -12.20% 8
West London -8 10 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South London -30 10 £70,000 -15.15% 3
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 13 (5.02%) Confluence
2 8 (3.09%) Camunda
3 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.16%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
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 11 (4.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (50.58%) AWS
2 82 (31.66%) Azure
3 30 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (10.42%) GitHub
5 23 (8.88%) GCP
6 17 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.41%) Serverless
9 13 (5.02%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (5.02%) Azure Storage
10 11 (4.25%) Lucidchart
10 11 (4.25%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.32%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.02%) DMARC
2 1 (0.39%) AMQP
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.60%) NoSQL
2 38 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.25%) Db2
5 11 (4.25%) Redis
6 10 (3.86%) DTS
7 9 (3.47%) MySQL
7 9 (3.47%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.93%) NonStop SQL
9 4 (1.54%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
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%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (14.29%) GitLab
2 27 (10.42%) Cucumber
3 20 (7.72%) Git
4 17 (6.56%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.79%) JUnit
6 12 (4.63%) Gradle
7 11 (4.25%) Mockito
8 10 (3.86%) Maven
9 7 (2.70%) Claude Code
9 7 (2.70%) Selenium
10 4 (1.54%) JIRA
11 3 (1.16%) Spock
12 2 (0.77%) JMeter
13 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.39%) git-flow
13 1 (0.39%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 113 (43.63%) Finance
2 45 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.74%) Banking
4 31 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.56%) Financial Institution
6 13 (5.02%) Front Office
7 10 (3.86%) Billing
8 9 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.93%) Retail
11 4 (1.54%) Advertising
12 3 (1.16%) Games
13 2 (0.77%) Aviation
13 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.77%) Marketing
13 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.39%) iGaming
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (35.52%) Java Engineer
2 85 (32.82%) Developer
3 71 (27.41%) Java Developer
4 70 (27.03%) Senior
5 32 (12.36%) Senior Java Engineer
6 31 (11.97%) Lead
7 29 (11.20%) Software Engineer
8 28 (10.81%) Engineering Manager
8 28 (10.81%) Software Engineering Manager
8 28 (10.81%) Software Manager
9 26 (10.04%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (10.04%) Senior Developer
10 23 (8.88%) Principal Java Engineer
10 23 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 21 (8.11%) Architect
12 18 (6.95%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (5.02%) Technical Leader
16 12 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (79.92%) Spring Boot
2 87 (33.59%) Kafka
3 49 (18.92%) REST
4 40 (15.44%) React
4 40 (15.44%) RESTful
5 36 (13.90%) Node.js
6 30 (11.58%) AngularJS
7 23 (8.88%) OAuth
8 22 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 20 (7.72%) OAuth2
10 15 (5.79%) Middleware
11 13 (5.02%) YAML
12 12 (4.63%) Web Services
13 11 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (4.25%) HTML
14 10 (3.86%) JPA
14 10 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.47%) Bootstrap
15 9 (3.47%) JWT
16 8 (3.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 84 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 55 (21.24%) Distributed Systems
2 55 (21.24%) Public Cloud
3 31 (11.97%) Product Ownership
4 26 (10.04%) e-Learning
5 21 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.86%) EPoS
7 10 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (3.86%) iSeries
8 4 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.77%) Equities
10 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.39%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.39%) DataPower
11 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.77%) Linux
1 2 (0.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (62.93%) Microservices
2 142 (54.83%) CI/CD
3 102 (39.38%) Agile
4 92 (35.52%) Test Automation
5 86 (33.20%) Software Engineering
6 82 (31.66%) Event-Driven
7 78 (30.12%) Mentoring
8 76 (29.34%) Containerisation
9 67 (25.87%) DevOps
10 59 (22.78%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 50 (19.31%) Roadmaps
13 47 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (17.37%) AI
14 45 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 44 (16.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 43 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (14.67%) BDD
18 33 (12.74%) Architectural Patterns
18 33 (12.74%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 254 (98.07%) Java
2 56 (21.62%) SQL
3 31 (11.97%) JavaScript
3 31 (11.97%) Python
4 23 (8.88%) TypeScript
5 10 (3.86%) RPG
6 7 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 5 (1.93%) C++
8 4 (1.54%) Go
9 2 (0.77%) C#
9 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.42%) AWS Certification
2 27 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 27 (10.42%) Degree
3 21 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.11%) QA
2 7 (2.70%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (22.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (26.64%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.11%) Terraform
3 5 (1.93%) Grafana
3 5 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.16%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.02%) SendGrid
2 11 (4.25%) IBM
3 10 (3.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.47%) Google
5 8 (3.09%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.70%) Oracle
7 6 (2.32%) Solace
8 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.16%) Revolut
8 3 (1.16%) Splunk
9 2 (0.77%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.77%) TikTok
10 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.39%) Sybase
10 1 (0.39%) Workday