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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 194 224
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 -86
Permanent jobs citing Spring 303 211 277
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.79% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 6.47% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 153 87 130
10th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £116,000 £140,000 £145,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -1.69% -1.67%

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 3,966 3,262 5,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.30% 27.62% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,507 2,202 3,637
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,275 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £116,750 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%

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 October 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 October 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 +6 27 £102,500 +2.50% 43
West London -1 14 £80,000 +33.33% 18
South London -33 8 £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 16 (5.28%) Camunda
2 12 (3.96%) Confluence
3 5 (1.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.32%) JBoss
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 179 (59.08%) AWS
2 91 (30.03%) Azure
3 49 (16.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 37 (12.21%) GitHub
5 29 (9.57%) GCP
6 20 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (5.28%) Serverless
9 15 (4.95%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (4.95%) Azure Storage
10 13 (4.29%) Amazon S3
10 13 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
11 12 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.63%) Lucidchart
13 10 (3.30%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.95%) DMARC
2 1 (0.33%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) LTE
2 1 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (20.79%) NoSQL
2 47 (15.51%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 28 (9.24%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.63%) Db2
6 10 (3.30%) DTS
7 8 (2.64%) Redis
8 7 (2.31%) MySQL
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.66%) Flink
11 2 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 55 (18.15%) GitLab
2 47 (15.51%) Cucumber
3 27 (8.91%) Git
4 24 (7.92%) Jenkins
5 21 (6.93%) JUnit
6 18 (5.94%) Mockito
7 16 (5.28%) Maven
8 12 (3.96%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.64%) Gradle
10 5 (1.65%) Selenium
11 4 (1.32%) Spock
12 3 (0.99%) JIRA
13 2 (0.66%) JMeter
13 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.33%) NetBeans
14 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 148 (48.84%) Finance
2 64 (21.12%) Banking
2 64 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.24%) Financial Institution
4 27 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.97%) Front Office
6 8 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.98%) Retail
8 5 (1.65%) Marketing
9 3 (0.99%) Back Office
9 3 (0.99%) Billing
9 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.99%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.66%) Law
10 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (35.31%) Java Engineer
2 94 (31.02%) Senior
3 75 (24.75%) Developer
4 54 (17.82%) Java Developer
5 46 (15.18%) Software Engineer
6 40 (13.20%) Senior Java Engineer
7 39 (12.87%) Principal Engineer
8 36 (11.88%) Lead
9 35 (11.55%) Principal Java Engineer
10 30 (9.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (9.57%) Engineering Manager
11 29 (9.57%) Software Engineering Manager
11 29 (9.57%) Software Manager
12 24 (7.92%) Architect
13 21 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (5.94%) Senior Developer
14 18 (5.94%) Technical Leader
15 14 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
16 13 (4.29%) Java Architect
16 13 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (77.89%) Spring Boot
2 129 (42.57%) Kafka
3 56 (18.48%) REST
4 54 (17.82%) RESTful
5 38 (12.54%) React
6 36 (11.88%) Node.js
7 31 (10.23%) OAuth
8 28 (9.24%) AngularJS
8 28 (9.24%) OAuth2
9 26 (8.58%) Hibernate
10 23 (7.59%) Terraform
11 15 (4.95%) JPA
11 15 (4.95%) YAML
12 14 (4.62%) Middleware
13 11 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (3.30%) JWT
14 10 (3.30%) Spring Security
15 9 (2.97%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (2.97%) OpenAPI
15 9 (2.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (36.96%) Cloud Native
2 95 (31.35%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (24.42%) Public Cloud
4 44 (14.52%) e-Learning
5 38 (12.54%) Product Ownership
6 33 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (6.27%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.30%) EPoS
9 10 (3.30%) iSeries
9 10 (3.30%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.31%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.32%) Blog
13 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.99%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Android
1 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (66.67%) Microservices
2 186 (61.39%) CI/CD
3 130 (42.90%) Event-Driven
4 127 (41.91%) Agile
5 122 (40.26%) Software Engineering
6 117 (38.61%) Test Automation
7 86 (28.38%) Mentoring
8 75 (24.75%) DevOps
9 74 (24.42%) Containerisation
10 72 (23.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 68 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (20.46%) AI
13 62 (20.46%) BDD
14 52 (17.16%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (16.50%) Roadmaps
16 49 (16.17%) CQRS
17 48 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
18 44 (14.52%) Performance Testing
19 40 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 296 (97.69%) Java
2 70 (23.10%) SQL
3 30 (9.90%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.57%) Python
5 22 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.62%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.30%) RPG
8 5 (1.65%) C#
9 3 (0.99%) Go
9 3 (0.99%) Scala
10 2 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) Groovy
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) ProC
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (15.18%) AWS Certification
2 44 (14.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 28 (9.24%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.92%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.27%) Degree
6 13 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.33%) OCP
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.58%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 70 (23.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (24.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.65%) Ansible
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
3 2 (0.66%) Kibana
3 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (4.95%) Google
1 15 (4.95%) IBM
1 15 (4.95%) Oracle
1 15 (4.95%) SendGrid
2 14 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.64%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.32%) Splunk
5 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.99%) Solace
6 2 (0.66%) Adobe
6 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.66%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.66%) TikTok
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) SAP
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.33%) Sybase
7 1 (0.33%) Workday