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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 207 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 -65 -45
Permanent jobs citing Spring 207 248 450
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.31% 1.68% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 6.23% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 132 111 374
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £72,500 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,500 £88,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +4.82% -0.47%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,875 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%

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 2,785 3,981 5,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.62% 26.91% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,000 2,538 4,837
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,205 £50,000
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 £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +34 24 £100,000 -6.98% 11
South London +2 12 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -12 1 £82,500 -
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 (5.80%) JBoss
2 11 (5.31%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.38%) Apache
3 7 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.45%) Liferay
6 2 (0.97%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) Camunda
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 106 (51.21%) AWS
2 25 (12.08%) SaaS
3 24 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (11.59%) Azure
3 24 (11.59%) Serverless
4 19 (9.18%) GCP
5 14 (6.76%) OpenShift
6 13 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.86%) GitHub
11 6 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.42%) Apigee
13 4 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.93%) dbt
13 4 (1.93%) Figma
13 4 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.43%) Relational Database
2 28 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (13.04%) RDBMS
4 24 (11.59%) NoSQL
5 19 (9.18%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.83%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.38%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.42%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.42%) Redis
9 4 (1.93%) MySQL
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (0.97%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.48%) Big Data
12 1 (0.48%) Flink
12 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.63%) Git
1 22 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.21%) GitLab
3 13 (6.28%) JUnit
4 10 (4.83%) Cucumber
4 10 (4.83%) JIRA
5 9 (4.35%) JMeter
5 9 (4.35%) Mockito
6 7 (3.38%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.38%) Gradle
6 7 (3.38%) Maven
7 4 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.93%) Postman
7 4 (1.93%) Vite
8 3 (1.45%) Selenium
8 3 (1.45%) Subversion
9 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.48%) NUnit
9 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (33.33%) Finance
2 57 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.14%) Financial Institution
4 21 (10.14%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.76%) Billing
6 14 (6.76%) Front Office
7 8 (3.86%) Banking
8 7 (3.38%) Games
9 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.45%) Law
10 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Advertising
11 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (42.51%) Developer
2 69 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 67 (32.37%) Senior
4 63 (30.43%) Java Engineer
5 47 (22.71%) Software Engineer
6 33 (15.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 30 (14.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (12.56%) Senior Java Engineer
9 24 (11.59%) Architect
10 23 (11.11%) Senior Developer
11 21 (10.14%) Senior Java Developer
12 20 (9.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 19 (9.18%) Lead
14 11 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (5.31%) Senior Architect
15 9 (4.35%) Kafka Engineer
15 9 (4.35%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 8 (3.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 7 (3.38%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (74.40%) Spring Boot
2 56 (27.05%) Kafka
3 50 (24.15%) REST
4 39 (18.84%) React
5 34 (16.43%) Hibernate
6 28 (13.53%) AngularJS
7 21 (10.14%) GraphQL
7 21 (10.14%) JSON
8 20 (9.66%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (9.66%) XML
9 19 (9.18%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (9.18%) HTML
10 17 (8.21%) RESTful
10 17 (8.21%) SOAP
10 17 (8.21%) Web Services
11 16 (7.73%) Node.js
12 15 (7.25%) .NET
13 13 (6.28%) Middleware
14 12 (5.80%) Apache Camel
14 12 (5.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (29.95%) Cloud Native
2 34 (16.43%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.31%) DataPower
4 9 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.86%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.86%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.38%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.38%) Reference Data
6 7 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.45%) Equities
9 3 (1.45%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.97%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.45%) Linux
2 2 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (57.49%) Microservices
2 84 (40.58%) CI/CD
3 78 (37.68%) Agile
4 63 (30.43%) Software Engineering
5 56 (27.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (26.57%) Mentoring
7 48 (23.19%) DevOps
8 47 (22.71%) Event-Driven
9 44 (21.26%) Containerisation
10 37 (17.87%) AI
11 35 (16.91%) Test Automation
12 32 (15.46%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (14.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 30 (14.49%) BDD
14 30 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (14.01%) TDD
16 28 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (12.08%) Fintech
17 25 (12.08%) Roadmaps
18 20 (9.66%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 205 (99.03%) Java
2 44 (21.26%) SQL
3 43 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 31 (14.98%) Python
5 20 (9.66%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.70%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.90%) PHP
9 5 (2.42%) C#
9 5 (2.42%) Scala
10 2 (0.97%) Go
10 2 (0.97%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) Delphi
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.01%) Degree
3 18 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.28%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.90%) Accessibility
1 6 (2.90%) QA
2 4 (1.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (28.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.80%) Kibana
3 9 (4.35%) Terraform
4 6 (2.90%) Grafana
5 5 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (4.83%) Google
2 9 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.35%) Solace
2 9 (4.35%) Splunk
3 5 (2.42%) Oracle
4 3 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.45%) Revolut
5 2 (0.97%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.48%) HP
6 1 (0.48%) OpenText
6 1 (0.48%) Siebel