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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 187 217
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -99
Permanent jobs citing Spring 259 233 362
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.91% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 7.15% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 149 100 252
10th Percentile £57,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,188 £66,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £106,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +0.69% -1.69% -4.84%

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 3,391 3,259 6,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.65% 26.77% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,306 2,257 4,807
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £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 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 30 £90,000 -12.20% 3
South London -20 10 £70,000 -15.15% 1
West London - 6 £80,000 - 8
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 (3.47%) Confluence
2 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.32%) JBoss
4 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.54%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.77%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.77%) Camunda
6 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Liferay
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (46.33%) AWS
2 73 (28.19%) Azure
3 27 (10.42%) GCP
3 27 (10.42%) GitHub
4 25 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (6.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (5.02%) Serverless
8 12 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (4.63%) Azure Storage
9 11 (4.25%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.70%) Lucidchart
10 7 (2.70%) SaaS
11 6 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.32%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.63%) DMARC
2 2 (0.77%) AMQP
3 1 (0.39%) Internet
3 1 (0.39%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.90%) NoSQL
2 30 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.65%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.95%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.47%) MySQL
5 9 (3.47%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.09%) Redis
7 7 (2.70%) Db2
8 6 (2.32%) DTS
9 5 (1.93%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.39%) Big Data
12 1 (0.39%) Flink
12 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (12.74%) GitLab
2 22 (8.49%) Cucumber
3 21 (8.11%) Git
4 15 (5.79%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.02%) Gradle
6 12 (4.63%) JUnit
7 11 (4.25%) Maven
8 7 (2.70%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.70%) Mockito
9 5 (1.93%) JIRA
10 4 (1.54%) Selenium
11 3 (1.16%) Postman
11 3 (1.16%) Spock
12 2 (0.77%) JMeter
12 2 (0.77%) Subversion
13 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.39%) git-flow
13 1 (0.39%) NetBeans
General
1 105 (40.54%) Finance
2 48 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.04%) Banking
5 18 (6.95%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.18%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.02%) Billing
8 11 (4.25%) Front Office
9 8 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.70%) Games
11 5 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.54%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Aviation
13 2 (0.77%) Retail
13 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.39%) iGaming
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Law
14 1 (0.39%) Marketing
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (35.14%) Developer
2 86 (33.20%) Java Engineer
3 75 (28.96%) Java Developer
4 74 (28.57%) Senior
5 34 (13.13%) Software Engineer
6 32 (12.36%) Senior Java Engineer
7 28 (10.81%) Senior Developer
8 27 (10.42%) Architect
8 27 (10.42%) Lead
9 26 (10.04%) Engineering Manager
9 26 (10.04%) Software Engineering Manager
9 26 (10.04%) Software Manager
10 25 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 22 (8.49%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (8.49%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (7.34%) Principal Java Engineer
13 18 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.63%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (79.92%) Spring Boot
2 74 (28.57%) Kafka
3 50 (19.31%) REST
4 47 (18.15%) React
5 39 (15.06%) RESTful
6 33 (12.74%) Node.js
7 30 (11.58%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 20 (7.72%) OAuth
10 14 (5.41%) HTML
10 14 (5.41%) OAuth2
10 14 (5.41%) Web Services
11 13 (5.02%) Middleware
12 12 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.63%) YAML
13 11 (4.25%) CSS
13 11 (4.25%) JSON
14 10 (3.86%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.86%) SOAP
14 10 (3.86%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 79 (30.50%) Cloud Native
2 48 (18.53%) Public Cloud
3 39 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (10.81%) Product Ownership
5 21 (8.11%) e-Learning
6 19 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.32%) EPoS
9 6 (2.32%) iSeries
10 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.16%) DataPower
10 3 (1.16%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.39%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.39%) Culture of Ownership
12 1 (0.39%) Equities
12 1 (0.39%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.77%) Linux
1 2 (0.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (60.23%) Microservices
2 132 (50.97%) CI/CD
3 91 (35.14%) Software Engineering
4 88 (33.98%) Agile
5 82 (31.66%) Test Automation
6 76 (29.34%) Containerisation
7 75 (28.96%) Mentoring
8 69 (26.64%) Event-Driven
9 67 (25.87%) DevOps
10 58 (22.39%) Technical Leadership
11 52 (20.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (19.31%) Roadmaps
13 49 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (16.22%) AI
16 35 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 32 (12.36%) BDD
18 29 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
19 27 (10.42%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 254 (98.07%) Java
2 49 (18.92%) SQL
3 35 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 24 (9.27%) Python
5 22 (8.49%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.86%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.32%) RPG
8 5 (1.93%) C++
9 4 (1.54%) Go
9 4 (1.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.77%) C#
10 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.39%) Perl
11 1 (0.39%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (11.58%) Degree
3 23 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.49%) AWS Certification
4 22 (8.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.72%) QA
2 7 (2.70%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (25.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (28.96%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.34%) Terraform
3 5 (1.93%) Grafana
3 5 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.16%) Ansible
5 2 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (4.63%) SendGrid
2 9 (3.47%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.70%) Solace
4 6 (2.32%) Google
4 6 (2.32%) IBM
4 6 (2.32%) Oracle
5 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.16%) Revolut
5 3 (1.16%) Splunk
6 2 (0.77%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.77%) TikTok
7 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase
7 1 (0.39%) Workday