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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 198 228
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 -88
Permanent jobs citing Spring 299 210 280
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.78% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.59% 6.43% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 152 86 131
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £69,375 £68,750 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £96,563 £111,250 £111,125
90th Percentile £116,125 £140,000 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £71,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.53% -4.33% -

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 3,937 3,266 5,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.33% 27.69% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,204 3,665
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,375 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +14 27 £102,500 +1.23% 46
West London +4 14 £80,000 +33.33% 18
South London -31 8 £70,000 -15.15% 2
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 16 (5.35%) Camunda
2 12 (4.01%) Confluence
3 5 (1.67%) Apache
4 4 (1.34%) JBoss
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 176 (58.86%) AWS
2 92 (30.77%) Azure
3 47 (15.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (11.71%) GitHub
5 29 (9.70%) GCP
6 20 (6.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (5.35%) Serverless
9 15 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (5.02%) Azure Storage
10 12 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.68%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (3.68%) Lucidchart
12 9 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.02%) DMARC
2 1 (0.33%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) LTE
2 1 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.74%) NoSQL
2 44 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.04%) Relational Database
4 28 (9.36%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.68%) Db2
6 10 (3.34%) DTS
7 9 (3.01%) Redis
8 6 (2.01%) MySQL
9 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.34%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.67%) Flink
11 2 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.67%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 53 (17.73%) GitLab
2 45 (15.05%) Cucumber
3 26 (8.70%) Git
4 24 (8.03%) Jenkins
5 21 (7.02%) JUnit
6 18 (6.02%) Mockito
7 15 (5.02%) Maven
8 12 (4.01%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.68%) Gradle
10 6 (2.01%) Selenium
11 4 (1.34%) Spock
12 3 (1.00%) JIRA
13 2 (0.67%) JMeter
13 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.33%) NetBeans
14 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 144 (48.16%) Finance
2 65 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 64 (21.40%) Banking
4 27 (9.03%) Financial Institution
4 27 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.01%) Front Office
6 8 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.01%) Retail
8 5 (1.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.00%) Back Office
9 3 (1.00%) Billing
9 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.67%) Law
10 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (35.45%) Java Engineer
2 93 (31.10%) Senior
3 73 (24.41%) Developer
4 52 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 45 (15.05%) Software Engineer
6 39 (13.04%) Senior Java Engineer
7 38 (12.71%) Principal Engineer
8 36 (12.04%) Lead
9 34 (11.37%) Principal Java Engineer
10 30 (10.03%) Engineering Manager
10 30 (10.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (10.03%) Software Engineering Manager
10 30 (10.03%) Software Manager
11 24 (8.03%) Architect
12 20 (6.69%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Senior Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Technical Leader
14 14 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.35%) Java Architect
15 13 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (77.59%) Spring Boot
2 127 (42.47%) Kafka
3 55 (18.39%) REST
4 54 (18.06%) RESTful
5 38 (12.71%) React
6 34 (11.37%) Node.js
7 31 (10.37%) OAuth
8 28 (9.36%) OAuth2
9 25 (8.36%) Hibernate
10 24 (8.03%) AngularJS
11 23 (7.69%) Terraform
12 15 (5.02%) JPA
12 15 (5.02%) YAML
13 14 (4.68%) Middleware
14 11 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.34%) JWT
15 10 (3.34%) Spring Security
16 9 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
16 9 (3.01%) OpenAPI
16 9 (3.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 110 (36.79%) Cloud Native
2 93 (31.10%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (24.41%) Public Cloud
4 42 (14.05%) e-Learning
5 38 (12.71%) Product Ownership
6 32 (10.70%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.34%) EPoS
9 10 (3.34%) iSeries
10 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.34%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.34%) Blog
14 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.00%) Pricing Data
15 2 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Android
1 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (66.22%) Microservices
2 182 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 129 (43.14%) Event-Driven
4 124 (41.47%) Agile
5 120 (40.13%) Software Engineering
6 115 (38.46%) Test Automation
7 86 (28.76%) Mentoring
8 75 (25.08%) DevOps
9 74 (24.75%) Containerisation
10 72 (24.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 67 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 63 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (20.07%) BDD
14 59 (19.73%) AI
15 54 (18.06%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (17.39%) Roadmaps
17 48 (16.05%) CQRS
18 47 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
19 42 (14.05%) Performance Testing
20 40 (13.38%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 292 (97.66%) Java
2 67 (22.41%) SQL
3 31 (10.37%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.70%) Python
5 21 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.68%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.34%) RPG
8 5 (1.67%) C#
9 3 (1.00%) C++
9 3 (1.00%) Go
9 3 (1.00%) Scala
10 2 (0.67%) Groovy
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) ProC
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (14.05%) AWS Certification
1 42 (14.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 27 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.35%) Degree
5 12 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) OCP
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.70%) QA
2 8 (2.68%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 70 (23.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (24.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.67%) Ansible
3 2 (0.67%) Grafana
3 2 (0.67%) Kibana
3 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (5.02%) Google
1 15 (5.02%) IBM
1 15 (5.02%) Oracle
1 15 (5.02%) SendGrid
2 14 (4.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.68%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.34%) Splunk
5 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.00%) Solace
6 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.67%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.67%) TikTok
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.33%) Sybase
7 1 (0.33%) Workday