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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 219 195
Rank change year-on-year +24 -24 -94
Permanent jobs citing Spring 228 187 382
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.51% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 5.86% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 132 104 284
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £85,625 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,750 £137,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -4.02%

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 3,235 3,190 5,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.78% 25.83% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,227 2,355 4,698
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £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 £122,500 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +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 16 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 16 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 -5 26 £87,500 -16.67% 12
South London -22 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -18 2 £80,000 - 6
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 7 (3.07%) JBoss
2 6 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.19%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (1.32%) Liferay
6 2 (0.88%) Camunda
6 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 95 (41.67%) AWS
2 46 (20.18%) Azure
3 23 (10.09%) GCP
4 19 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.58%) OpenShift
6 13 (5.70%) Serverless
7 11 (4.82%) SaaS
8 9 (3.95%) GitHub
9 6 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.19%) dbt
10 5 (2.19%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.32%) Anthos
12 3 (1.32%) Apigee
12 3 (1.32%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) AMQP
2 2 (0.88%) DMARC
3 1 (0.44%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.47%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.96%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.58%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.70%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.51%) Redis
7 7 (3.07%) MySQL
8 5 (2.19%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (2.19%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.88%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.88%) DB2
10 2 (0.88%) DTS
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.44%) Flink
11 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.44%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (10.53%) GitLab
2 18 (7.89%) Git
3 16 (7.02%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.70%) Gradle
5 10 (4.39%) Jenkins
6 9 (3.95%) JUnit
7 8 (3.51%) Maven
8 5 (2.19%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.75%) JIRA
9 4 (1.75%) Mockito
9 4 (1.75%) Selenium
10 3 (1.32%) Postman
11 2 (0.88%) JMeter
11 2 (0.88%) Subversion
12 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.44%) git-flow
12 1 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 86 (37.72%) Finance
2 43 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.65%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.02%) Banking
5 16 (7.02%) Billing
6 13 (5.70%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.82%) Front Office
8 10 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.95%) Games
10 4 (1.75%) Advertising
11 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Aviation
12 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.44%) iGaming
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Law
13 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (42.11%) Developer
2 80 (35.09%) Java Developer
3 77 (33.77%) Java Engineer
4 72 (31.58%) Senior
5 38 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 31 (13.60%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (12.72%) Senior Developer
8 28 (12.28%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (11.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 22 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (7.89%) Architect
12 17 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
13 16 (7.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (7.02%) Lead
14 14 (6.14%) Engineering Manager
14 14 (6.14%) Principal Java Engineer
14 14 (6.14%) Software Engineering Manager
14 14 (6.14%) Software Manager
15 12 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (4.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (79.82%) Spring Boot
2 56 (24.56%) Kafka
3 49 (21.49%) REST
4 46 (20.18%) React
5 27 (11.84%) AngularJS
6 26 (11.40%) RESTful
7 24 (10.53%) Hibernate
8 18 (7.89%) Node.js
9 16 (7.02%) Web Services
10 15 (6.58%) HTML
11 13 (5.70%) Bootstrap
11 13 (5.70%) CSS
11 13 (5.70%) JSON
11 13 (5.70%) SOAP
12 12 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.39%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (4.39%) Middleware
13 10 (4.39%) OAuth
13 10 (4.39%) Spring MVC
13 10 (4.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.12%) Cloud Native
2 30 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (12.72%) Public Cloud
4 16 (7.02%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.58%) e-Learning
5 15 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.19%) DataPower
9 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.88%) EPoS
10 2 (0.88%) iSeries
10 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Equities
11 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.44%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.88%) Linux
1 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (55.70%) Microservices
2 94 (41.23%) CI/CD
3 79 (34.65%) Software Engineering
4 71 (31.14%) Agile
5 61 (26.75%) Mentoring
6 56 (24.56%) Containerisation
7 53 (23.25%) DevOps
8 51 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 49 (21.49%) Test Automation
10 48 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
11 42 (18.42%) Event-Driven
12 41 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (17.54%) AI
14 37 (16.23%) Roadmaps
15 35 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (11.40%) BDD
18 23 (10.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 23 (10.09%) Scrum
19 20 (8.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 225 (98.68%) Java
2 46 (20.18%) SQL
3 38 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.77%) Python
5 16 (7.02%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.70%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.63%) PHP
8 5 (2.19%) C++
9 4 (1.75%) Go
10 2 (0.88%) C#
10 2 (0.88%) RPG
10 2 (0.88%) Scala
10 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (14.91%) Degree
2 27 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.95%) QA
2 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 59 (25.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (32.02%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.46%) Terraform
3 5 (2.19%) Grafana
3 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.75%) Ansible
5 2 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (3.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (3.07%) Solace
2 5 (2.19%) Google
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle
4 3 (1.32%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.32%) Revolut
4 3 (1.32%) Splunk
5 2 (0.88%) IBM
5 2 (0.88%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.44%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.44%) TikTok
6 1 (0.44%) Workday