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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 189 227
Rank change year-on-year +3 +38 -110
Permanent jobs citing Spring 278 228 285
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.86% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.89% 6.96% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 155 100 168
10th Percentile £56,000 £56,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,188 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £123,250 £139,000
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 3,524 3,276 4,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.14% 26.67% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,341 2,275 3,740
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 £112,500
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 1 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 1 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 +12 35 £90,000 -12.20% 9
West London -17 10 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South London -40 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 (4.68%) Confluence
2 11 (3.96%) Camunda
3 7 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.72%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 147 (52.88%) AWS
2 89 (32.01%) Azure
3 32 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (10.43%) GCP
5 27 (9.71%) GitHub
6 17 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.40%) Serverless
8 13 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (4.68%) Azure Storage
9 11 (3.96%) Lucidchart
10 9 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.24%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.52%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.16%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.68%) DMARC
2 1 (0.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.36%) LTE
2 1 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.91%) NoSQL
2 42 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (12.95%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.63%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.32%) Redis
6 11 (3.96%) Db2
7 10 (3.60%) DTS
8 8 (2.88%) MySQL
9 6 (2.16%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.80%) NonStop SQL
11 4 (1.44%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.72%) Flink
12 2 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.36%) Big Data
13 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 39 (14.03%) GitLab
2 29 (10.43%) Cucumber
3 23 (8.27%) Git
4 18 (6.47%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.76%) JUnit
6 13 (4.68%) Mockito
7 11 (3.96%) Gradle
8 9 (3.24%) Maven
9 8 (2.88%) Selenium
10 7 (2.52%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.44%) JIRA
11 4 (1.44%) Spock
12 2 (0.72%) JMeter
13 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.36%) git-flow
13 1 (0.36%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 126 (45.32%) Finance
2 58 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.11%) Banking
4 34 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.55%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.04%) Front Office
7 11 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.52%) Billing
8 7 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.52%) Retail
9 6 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.44%) Advertising
11 3 (1.08%) Games
11 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Law
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (34.53%) Java Engineer
2 85 (30.58%) Developer
3 81 (29.14%) Senior
4 69 (24.82%) Java Developer
5 35 (12.59%) Senior Java Engineer
6 34 (12.23%) Lead
6 34 (12.23%) Software Engineer
7 28 (10.07%) Engineering Manager
7 28 (10.07%) Software Engineering Manager
7 28 (10.07%) Software Manager
8 27 (9.71%) Principal Engineer
9 24 (8.63%) Principal Java Engineer
9 24 (8.63%) Senior Developer
10 21 (7.55%) Architect
11 20 (7.19%) Senior Java Developer
12 19 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (5.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (77.34%) Spring Boot
2 103 (37.05%) Kafka
3 50 (17.99%) REST
4 47 (16.91%) RESTful
5 40 (14.39%) React
6 34 (12.23%) Node.js
7 29 (10.43%) AngularJS
8 27 (9.71%) OAuth
9 24 (8.63%) Hibernate
9 24 (8.63%) OAuth2
10 14 (5.04%) JPA
10 14 (5.04%) Middleware
11 13 (4.68%) YAML
12 12 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.96%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (3.96%) Web Services
14 10 (3.60%) HTML
14 10 (3.60%) JWT
15 8 (2.88%) Akka
15 8 (2.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 91 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 68 (24.46%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (20.50%) Public Cloud
4 34 (12.23%) Product Ownership
5 28 (10.07%) e-Learning
6 22 (7.91%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.60%) EPoS
9 10 (3.60%) iSeries
10 5 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.44%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.72%) Equities
13 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.72%) Linux
1 2 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (62.95%) Microservices
2 160 (57.55%) CI/CD
3 112 (40.29%) Agile
4 98 (35.25%) Software Engineering
4 98 (35.25%) Test Automation
5 96 (34.53%) Event-Driven
6 83 (29.86%) Mentoring
7 80 (28.78%) Containerisation
8 74 (26.62%) DevOps
9 59 (21.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (19.78%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (19.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 54 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (19.06%) Roadmaps
13 50 (17.99%) AI
14 47 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
15 45 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (14.75%) BDD
17 36 (12.95%) API Design
17 36 (12.95%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 272 (97.84%) Java
2 60 (21.58%) SQL
3 36 (12.95%) Python
4 31 (11.15%) JavaScript
5 28 (10.07%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.60%) RPG
7 8 (2.88%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.80%) C++
9 4 (1.44%) C#
9 4 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) Perl
11 1 (0.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.43%) AWS Certification
1 29 (10.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 28 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.71%) Degree
4 21 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) OCP
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.27%) QA
2 7 (2.52%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (23.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (27.34%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.99%) Terraform
3 5 (1.80%) Grafana
3 5 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.44%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (5.04%) Google
2 13 (4.68%) SendGrid
3 12 (4.32%) IBM
3 12 (4.32%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.24%) Oracle
5 8 (2.88%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.80%) Solace
7 4 (1.44%) Splunk
8 3 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.72%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.72%) Revolut
9 2 (0.72%) TikTok
10 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.36%) SAP
10 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.36%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.36%) Sybase
10 1 (0.36%) Workday