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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 193 142
Rank change year-on-year -11 -51 -41
Permanent jobs citing Spring 199 290 425
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.53% 1.65% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 6.11% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 95 122 386
10th Percentile £58,000 £49,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £69,375 £61,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -2.86%
75th Percentile £107,500 £119,688 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,400 £142,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £72,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -3.23%

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 2,878 4,746 5,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.09% 27.07% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 3,046 4,744
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,903 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £101,185
90th Percentile £136,250 £138,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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
South London +24 29 £82,500 +32.00% 8
Central London +38 16 £100,000 -4.76% 6
West London +3 3 £60,000 - 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 9 (4.52%) JBoss
2 8 (4.02%) Apache
3 6 (3.02%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) Confluence
5 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 159 (79.90%) AWS
2 43 (21.61%) Amazon EKS
2 43 (21.61%) Serverless
3 27 (13.57%) Amazon ECS
3 27 (13.57%) Azure
4 26 (13.07%) GCP
5 24 (12.06%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (10.55%) SaaS
7 18 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (9.05%) GitHub
8 10 (5.03%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.02%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (2.51%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.51%) Figma
13 3 (1.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (24.12%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (23.62%) Relational Database
3 31 (15.58%) MongoDB
4 28 (14.07%) NoSQL
4 28 (14.07%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.52%) Big Data
6 7 (3.52%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.02%) Redis
7 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.01%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.51%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.51%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.51%) MySQL
10 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.01%) OLAP
10 2 (1.01%) OLTP
10 2 (1.01%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 40 (20.10%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.07%) JUnit
3 25 (12.56%) Git
4 24 (12.06%) Mockito
5 20 (10.05%) JMeter
6 17 (8.54%) GitLab
7 11 (5.53%) Vite
8 10 (5.03%) JIRA
9 9 (4.52%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.52%) Cucumber
11 6 (3.02%) Maven
12 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
13 4 (2.01%) CircleCI
13 4 (2.01%) Subversion
14 3 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (1.51%) Gradle
14 3 (1.51%) Selenium
15 2 (1.01%) Postman
15 2 (1.01%) Spinnaker
16 1 (0.50%) Storybook
General
1 106 (53.27%) Finance
2 71 (35.68%) Social Skills
3 49 (24.62%) Banking
4 44 (22.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (20.60%) Law
6 32 (16.08%) Public Sector
7 27 (13.57%) Financial Institution
8 20 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (6.53%) Marketing
10 11 (5.53%) Front Office
10 11 (5.53%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.01%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.51%) Legal
12 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.01%) Aviation
13 2 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.01%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (37.69%) Developer
2 72 (36.18%) Software Engineer
3 64 (32.16%) Java Engineer
4 58 (29.15%) Java Developer
5 51 (25.63%) Senior
6 42 (21.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 41 (20.60%) Lead
8 33 (16.58%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (15.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 29 (14.57%) Senior Java Engineer
11 24 (12.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (7.54%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (7.04%) Kafka Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) Backend Developer
14 12 (6.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 12 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (5.03%) Angular Developer
15 10 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (5.03%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 10 (5.03%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (66.33%) Spring Boot
2 81 (40.70%) Kafka
3 43 (21.61%) REST
4 41 (20.60%) Hibernate
5 40 (20.10%) React
6 39 (19.60%) RESTful
7 32 (16.08%) Web Services
8 30 (15.08%) ActiveMQ
8 30 (15.08%) AngularJS
9 29 (14.57%) HTML
10 22 (11.06%) Apache Camel
10 22 (11.06%) GraphQL
10 22 (11.06%) XML
11 20 (10.05%) jQuery
11 20 (10.05%) JSON
11 20 (10.05%) WireMock
12 17 (8.54%) Node.js
13 15 (7.54%) Akka
13 15 (7.54%) RxJava
13 15 (7.54%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 86 (43.22%) Cloud Native
2 50 (25.13%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.03%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.03%) Virtual Team
4 11 (5.53%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.03%) Distributed Applications
5 10 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 10 (5.03%) Reference Data
5 10 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.02%) Derivative
7 7 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (3.02%) DataPower
8 6 (3.02%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.02%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (59.80%) Microservices
2 116 (58.29%) Agile
3 111 (55.78%) CI/CD
4 87 (43.72%) Software Engineering
5 58 (29.15%) SDLC
6 54 (27.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (26.13%) TDD
8 47 (23.62%) BDD
9 45 (22.61%) Fintech
10 42 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (20.60%) Event-Driven
12 39 (19.60%) DevOps
13 33 (16.58%) Test Automation
14 29 (14.57%) AI
14 29 (14.57%) Containerisation
15 28 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (14.07%) Mentoring
16 26 (13.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 25 (12.56%) Workflow
18 24 (12.06%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 198 (99.50%) Java
2 48 (24.12%) JavaScript
3 44 (22.11%) Python
4 38 (19.10%) TypeScript
5 32 (16.08%) SQL
6 28 (14.07%) Kotlin
7 23 (11.56%) Shell Script
8 9 (4.52%) Scala
9 4 (2.01%) C#
9 4 (2.01%) Groovy
10 3 (1.51%) Go
10 3 (1.51%) Ruby
11 2 (1.01%) C++
11 2 (1.01%) Rust
12 1 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 35 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.06%) Degree
3 14 (7.04%) AWS Certification
3 14 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.03%) QA
2 8 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.01%) SLA
4 2 (1.01%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (35.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (52.26%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.56%) Kibana
3 15 (7.54%) Terraform
4 9 (4.52%) Argo
5 4 (2.01%) Ansible
6 3 (1.51%) Grafana
7 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (10.55%) Dynatrace
1 21 (10.55%) Splunk
2 19 (9.55%) Oracle
3 12 (6.03%) Google
4 6 (3.02%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.51%) Solace
6 3 (1.51%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.51%) SAP
7 2 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) HP
8 1 (0.50%) OpenText
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Revolut
8 1 (0.50%) Siebel