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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 209 195
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 -90
Permanent jobs citing Spring 223 200 381
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 1.58% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 6.12% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 132 114 284
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,188 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £133,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -5.82%

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 3,216 3,266 5,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.86% 25.83% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 2,431 4,714
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £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 £125,000 £130,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -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 11 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 11 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 24 £85,000 -19.05% 10
South London -27 9 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -16 1 £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 9 (4.04%) JBoss
2 7 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.14%) WebSphere
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.35%) Apache
4 3 (1.35%) Confluence
4 3 (1.35%) Liferay
5 2 (0.90%) Camunda
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (40.36%) AWS
2 41 (18.39%) Azure
3 21 (9.42%) GCP
4 18 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.73%) OpenShift
6 14 (6.28%) SaaS
7 11 (4.93%) Serverless
8 8 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (3.59%) GitHub
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.24%) dbt
10 5 (2.24%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.35%) Anthos
11 3 (1.35%) Apigee
11 3 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (1.35%) Stripe
12 2 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.45%) DMARC
2 1 (0.45%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.80%) NoSQL
2 23 (10.31%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.83%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.14%) Redis
7 6 (2.69%) MySQL
8 5 (2.24%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.45%) DB2
11 1 (0.45%) DTS
11 1 (0.45%) Flink
11 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (10.76%) GitLab
2 20 (8.97%) Git
3 15 (6.73%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.83%) Gradle
5 9 (4.04%) Jenkins
6 8 (3.59%) Maven
7 7 (3.14%) JUnit
8 4 (1.79%) Claude Code
8 4 (1.79%) JIRA
8 4 (1.79%) Selenium
9 3 (1.35%) Postman
10 2 (0.90%) Mockito
10 2 (0.90%) Subversion
11 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.45%) git-flow
11 1 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 84 (37.67%) Finance
2 44 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.31%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.17%) Billing
6 15 (6.73%) Banking
7 13 (5.83%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.93%) Front Office
9 10 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (4.04%) Games
11 4 (1.79%) Advertising
12 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Aviation
13 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.45%) iGaming
14 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (43.05%) Developer
2 80 (35.87%) Java Developer
3 76 (34.08%) Java Engineer
4 72 (32.29%) Senior
5 37 (16.59%) Software Engineer
6 30 (13.45%) Senior Java Engineer
7 29 (13.00%) Senior Developer
8 28 (12.56%) Java Software Engineer
8 28 (12.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (8.52%) Architect
11 16 (7.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (6.73%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (6.28%) Lead
14 12 (5.38%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (5.38%) Principal Java Engineer
14 12 (5.38%) Software Engineering Manager
14 12 (5.38%) Software Manager
15 11 (4.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (4.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (78.92%) Spring Boot
2 54 (24.22%) Kafka
3 49 (21.97%) REST
4 46 (20.63%) React
5 26 (11.66%) AngularJS
6 25 (11.21%) Hibernate
6 25 (11.21%) RESTful
7 16 (7.17%) Node.js
7 16 (7.17%) Web Services
8 15 (6.73%) SOAP
9 14 (6.28%) CSS
9 14 (6.28%) HTML
10 13 (5.83%) Bootstrap
10 13 (5.83%) JSON
11 11 (4.93%) Middleware
11 11 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
12 10 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (4.48%) Spring MVC
12 10 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (11.66%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.28%) e-Learning
3 14 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (3.14%) DataPower
6 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) EPoS
9 1 (0.45%) Equities
9 1 (0.45%) iSeries
9 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.45%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.90%) Linux
1 2 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.16%) Microservices
2 90 (40.36%) CI/CD
3 75 (33.63%) Software Engineering
4 66 (29.60%) Agile
5 56 (25.11%) Mentoring
6 53 (23.77%) DevOps
7 52 (23.32%) Containerisation
8 50 (22.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (21.08%) Technical Leadership
10 46 (20.63%) Test Automation
11 43 (19.28%) AI
12 41 (18.39%) Event-Driven
13 40 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (16.59%) Roadmaps
15 27 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.31%) BDD
17 22 (9.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 20 (8.97%) Scrum
19 19 (8.52%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 221 (99.10%) Java
2 48 (21.52%) SQL
3 37 (16.59%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.97%) Python
5 17 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.83%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.69%) PHP
8 5 (2.24%) C++
8 5 (2.24%) Go
9 3 (1.35%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) Korn
11 1 (0.45%) RPG
11 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (14.80%) Degree
2 24 (10.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) QA
2 5 (2.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.24%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (25.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.07%) Terraform
3 5 (2.24%) Grafana
3 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (3.14%) Solace
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.79%) Google
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle
4 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.35%) Revolut
5 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.45%) IBM
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.45%) SendGrid
5 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.45%) Splunk
5 1 (0.45%) Workday