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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 192 216
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -96
Permanent jobs citing Spring 282 226 281
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.85% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.02% 6.93% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 154 99 160
10th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £50,900
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £113,438
90th Percentile £111,000 £122,500 £143,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -0.73%

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 3,516 3,259 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.07% 26.64% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,321 2,254 3,669
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +9 33 £92,500 -9.76% 19
West London -21 10 £80,000 +33.33% 5
South London -36 9 £70,000 -15.15% 5
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 (4.26%) Camunda
1 12 (4.26%) Confluence
2 7 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.42%) Apache
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.71%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (52.84%) AWS
2 89 (31.56%) Azure
3 33 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (10.64%) GCP
5 27 (9.57%) GitHub
6 17 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.96%) Serverless
9 13 (4.61%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.61%) Azure Storage
10 11 (3.90%) Lucidchart
11 9 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.19%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.13%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) DMARC
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.38%) NoSQL
2 41 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (14.18%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.16%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.26%) Redis
6 11 (3.90%) Db2
7 10 (3.55%) DTS
8 8 (2.84%) MySQL
9 6 (2.13%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.77%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.71%) Flink
12 2 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) Big Data
13 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (14.54%) GitLab
2 31 (10.99%) Cucumber
3 22 (7.80%) Git
4 18 (6.38%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.67%) JUnit
6 13 (4.61%) Mockito
7 11 (3.90%) Gradle
8 9 (3.19%) Maven
9 8 (2.84%) Selenium
10 7 (2.48%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.42%) Spock
12 3 (1.06%) JIRA
13 2 (0.71%) JMeter
14 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.35%) git-flow
14 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
14 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 127 (45.04%) Finance
2 61 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.67%) Banking
4 34 (12.06%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.45%) Financial Institution
6 14 (4.96%) Front Office
7 11 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.48%) Billing
8 7 (2.48%) Retail
9 6 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.42%) Advertising
10 4 (1.42%) Marketing
11 3 (1.06%) Games
11 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Aviation
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 98 (34.75%) Java Engineer
2 87 (30.85%) Senior
3 82 (29.08%) Developer
4 67 (23.76%) Java Developer
5 37 (13.12%) Senior Java Engineer
5 37 (13.12%) Software Engineer
6 34 (12.06%) Lead
7 29 (10.28%) Engineering Manager
7 29 (10.28%) Principal Engineer
7 29 (10.28%) Software Engineering Manager
7 29 (10.28%) Software Manager
8 26 (9.22%) Principal Java Engineer
9 24 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 24 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.09%) Architect
10 20 (7.09%) Senior Java Developer
11 18 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (5.67%) Technical Leader
13 15 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (76.60%) Spring Boot
2 109 (38.65%) Kafka
3 50 (17.73%) REST
4 47 (16.67%) RESTful
5 41 (14.54%) React
6 33 (11.70%) Node.js
7 28 (9.93%) AngularJS
8 27 (9.57%) OAuth
9 24 (8.51%) OAuth2
10 23 (8.16%) Hibernate
11 14 (4.96%) JPA
12 13 (4.61%) Middleware
12 13 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.61%) YAML
13 11 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (3.90%) Web Services
14 10 (3.55%) HTML
14 10 (3.55%) JWT
15 8 (2.84%) Playwright
16 7 (2.48%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 92 (32.62%) Cloud Native
2 72 (25.53%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (21.28%) Public Cloud
4 35 (12.41%) Product Ownership
5 30 (10.64%) e-Learning
6 23 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.55%) EPoS
9 10 (3.55%) iSeries
10 7 (2.48%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.77%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.42%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.71%) Blog
14 2 (0.71%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Linux
1 2 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (63.12%) Microservices
2 165 (58.51%) CI/CD
3 113 (40.07%) Agile
4 103 (36.52%) Software Engineering
4 103 (36.52%) Test Automation
5 101 (35.82%) Event-Driven
6 87 (30.85%) Mentoring
7 80 (28.37%) Containerisation
8 74 (26.24%) DevOps
9 62 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 56 (19.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 56 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (19.86%) Roadmaps
10 56 (19.86%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (19.15%) AI
12 48 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 45 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (14.89%) BDD
15 38 (13.48%) CQRS
16 36 (12.77%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 277 (98.23%) Java
2 62 (21.99%) SQL
3 37 (13.12%) Python
4 32 (11.35%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.55%) Kotlin
6 10 (3.55%) RPG
7 5 (1.77%) C++
8 4 (1.42%) C#
8 4 (1.42%) Go
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) Ruby
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (10.64%) AWS Certification
1 30 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 28 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.87%) Degree
4 21 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) OCP
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.16%) QA
2 7 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.48%) ISO 20022
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (22.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.22%) Terraform
3 5 (1.77%) Grafana
3 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (4.61%) Google
1 13 (4.61%) SendGrid
2 12 (4.26%) IBM
2 12 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.19%) Oracle
4 6 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.77%) Solace
6 4 (1.42%) Splunk
7 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.71%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.71%) TikTok
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase
9 1 (0.35%) Workday