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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 180 210
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 -96
Permanent jobs citing Spring 256 232 357
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.89% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.52% 7.07% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 149 100 246
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,938 £66,750
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 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £74,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.07% -3.33% -2.00%

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 3,406 3,282 6,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.52% 26.74% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,324 2,282 4,748
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 £106,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,500 £138,750
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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +6 31 £90,000 -12.20% 21
South London -25 10 £70,000 -15.15% 2
West London -6 8 £80,000 +33.33% 9
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 11 (4.30%) Confluence
2 7 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.95%) Camunda
3 5 (1.95%) JBoss
4 4 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Liferay
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (3.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (47.66%) AWS
2 77 (30.08%) Azure
3 28 (10.94%) GitHub
4 27 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (10.16%) GCP
6 17 (6.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (5.08%) Azure Storage
9 12 (4.69%) Serverless
10 11 (4.30%) OpenShift
11 9 (3.52%) Lucidchart
12 6 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.34%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.95%) dbt
13 5 (1.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) DMARC
2 1 (0.39%) AMQP
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.45%) NoSQL
2 34 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.77%) Relational Database
4 18 (7.03%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.52%) Db2
5 9 (3.52%) MySQL
5 9 (3.52%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.13%) DTS
6 8 (3.13%) Redis
7 5 (1.95%) NonStop SQL
8 3 (1.17%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.39%) Big Data
10 1 (0.39%) Flink
10 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (13.67%) GitLab
2 24 (9.38%) Cucumber
3 21 (8.20%) Git
4 15 (5.86%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.08%) Gradle
5 13 (5.08%) JUnit
6 11 (4.30%) Maven
7 8 (3.13%) Mockito
8 7 (2.73%) Claude Code
9 4 (1.56%) JIRA
9 4 (1.56%) Selenium
10 3 (1.17%) Spock
11 2 (0.78%) JMeter
11 2 (0.78%) Postman
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.39%) git-flow
12 1 (0.39%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 106 (41.41%) Finance
2 48 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.16%) Banking
5 16 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.47%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.30%) Billing
7 11 (4.30%) Front Office
8 8 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Games
9 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.56%) Advertising
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.39%) iGaming
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Marketing
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (33.98%) Developer
2 86 (33.59%) Java Engineer
3 71 (27.73%) Java Developer
3 71 (27.73%) Senior
4 32 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 30 (11.72%) Senior Java Engineer
6 29 (11.33%) Lead
7 27 (10.55%) Senior Developer
8 26 (10.16%) Architect
8 26 (10.16%) Engineering Manager
8 26 (10.16%) Software Engineering Manager
8 26 (10.16%) Software Manager
9 24 (9.38%) Principal Engineer
9 24 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
10 21 (8.20%) Principal Java Engineer
11 20 (7.81%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (7.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (6.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (4.30%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (79.69%) Spring Boot
2 76 (29.69%) Kafka
3 50 (19.53%) REST
4 44 (17.19%) React
5 39 (15.23%) RESTful
6 34 (13.28%) Node.js
7 29 (11.33%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.59%) OAuth
9 21 (8.20%) Hibernate
10 17 (6.64%) OAuth2
11 15 (5.86%) Middleware
12 13 (5.08%) HTML
12 13 (5.08%) YAML
13 12 (4.69%) Web Services
14 10 (3.91%) CSS
14 10 (3.91%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.52%) Bootstrap
15 9 (3.52%) SOAP
16 8 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 81 (31.64%) Cloud Native
2 50 (19.53%) Public Cloud
3 42 (16.41%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (10.94%) Product Ownership
5 23 (8.98%) e-Learning
6 20 (7.81%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (3.13%) EPoS
9 8 (3.13%) iSeries
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) DataPower
10 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) Linux
1 2 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (62.50%) Microservices
2 134 (52.34%) CI/CD
3 92 (35.94%) Agile
4 88 (34.38%) Software Engineering
5 85 (33.20%) Test Automation
6 77 (30.08%) Containerisation
7 75 (29.30%) Mentoring
8 74 (28.91%) Event-Driven
9 67 (26.17%) DevOps
10 58 (22.66%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (19.92%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (19.53%) Roadmaps
13 46 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (17.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (17.19%) AI
14 44 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (14.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 34 (13.28%) BDD
17 32 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
18 30 (11.72%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 251 (98.05%) Java
2 50 (19.53%) SQL
3 34 (13.28%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.16%) Python
5 22 (8.59%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.52%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.13%) RPG
8 5 (1.95%) C++
9 4 (1.56%) Go
10 3 (1.17%) PHP
11 2 (0.78%) C#
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) Groovy
12 1 (0.39%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (12.11%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.33%) Degree
3 24 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 24 (9.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 23 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.20%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (25.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (28.52%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.42%) Terraform
3 5 (1.95%) Grafana
3 5 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.17%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.08%) SendGrid
2 9 (3.52%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.13%) IBM
4 7 (2.73%) Google
4 7 (2.73%) Solace
5 6 (2.34%) Oracle
6 5 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.17%) Revolut
7 3 (1.17%) Splunk
8 2 (0.78%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.78%) TikTok
9 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.39%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.39%) Sybase
9 1 (0.39%) Workday