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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 188 223
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 -89
Permanent jobs citing Spring 283 203 259
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.22% 6.03% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 147 81 130
10th Percentile £56,500 £56,250 £47,875
25th Percentile £65,625 £67,500 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -2.94%
75th Percentile £91,250 £111,250 £109,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -0.73%

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 3,922 3,366 5,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.03% 28.23% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 2,286 3,798
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £113,688
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 6 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 6 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 +10 29 £100,000 -2.44% 24
West London -13 11 £80,000 +33.33% 23
South London -36 8 £70,000 -15.15% 4
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 15 (5.30%) Camunda
2 12 (4.24%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) JBoss
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 162 (57.24%) AWS
2 89 (31.45%) Azure
3 39 (13.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (10.25%) GCP
4 29 (10.25%) GitHub
5 17 (6.01%) Azure Service Bus
5 17 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (4.95%) Serverless
7 13 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 13 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (4.59%) Azure Storage
8 11 (3.89%) Lucidchart
9 9 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.59%) DMARC
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.85%) NoSQL
2 45 (15.90%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (12.01%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.19%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.24%) Redis
6 11 (3.89%) Db2
7 10 (3.53%) DTS
8 7 (2.47%) MySQL
9 4 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.06%) Flink
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.35%) Big Data
12 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (16.25%) GitLab
2 39 (13.78%) Cucumber
3 27 (9.54%) Git
4 22 (7.77%) Jenkins
5 21 (7.42%) JUnit
6 17 (6.01%) Mockito
7 13 (4.59%) Maven
8 9 (3.18%) Gradle
9 8 (2.83%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.83%) Selenium
10 4 (1.41%) JIRA
10 4 (1.41%) Spock
11 2 (0.71%) JMeter
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.35%) git-flow
12 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 130 (45.94%) Finance
2 63 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 57 (20.14%) Banking
4 30 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.48%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.18%) Front Office
6 9 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.12%) Retail
9 5 (1.77%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Back Office
10 3 (1.06%) Billing
10 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.71%) Advertising
11 2 (0.71%) Aviation
11 2 (0.71%) Law
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (34.98%) Java Engineer
2 86 (30.39%) Senior
3 72 (25.44%) Developer
4 55 (19.43%) Java Developer
5 42 (14.84%) Software Engineer
6 37 (13.07%) Senior Java Engineer
7 32 (11.31%) Lead
8 31 (10.95%) Engineering Manager
8 31 (10.95%) Software Engineering Manager
8 31 (10.95%) Software Manager
9 30 (10.60%) Principal Engineer
9 30 (10.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 29 (10.25%) Principal Java Engineer
11 22 (7.77%) Architect
12 17 (6.01%) Technical Leader
13 16 (5.65%) Senior Developer
14 15 (5.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (5.30%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (74.56%) Spring Boot
2 120 (42.40%) Kafka
3 51 (18.02%) REST
3 51 (18.02%) RESTful
4 37 (13.07%) React
5 31 (10.95%) Node.js
6 29 (10.25%) OAuth
7 26 (9.19%) Hibernate
7 26 (9.19%) OAuth2
8 22 (7.77%) Terraform
9 21 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 17 (6.01%) JPA
11 14 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.59%) Middleware
12 13 (4.59%) YAML
13 11 (3.89%) JWT
14 10 (3.53%) OpenAPI
14 10 (3.53%) Web Services
15 9 (3.18%) HTML
15 9 (3.18%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 99 (34.98%) Cloud Native
2 84 (29.68%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (24.03%) Public Cloud
4 37 (13.07%) Product Ownership
5 36 (12.72%) e-Learning
6 26 (9.19%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.53%) EPoS
9 10 (3.53%) iSeries
10 8 (2.83%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.41%) Blog
12 3 (1.06%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.06%) Pricing Data
12 3 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Android
1 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (63.25%) Microservices
2 168 (59.36%) CI/CD
3 118 (41.70%) Event-Driven
4 114 (40.28%) Agile
5 109 (38.52%) Software Engineering
6 108 (38.16%) Test Automation
7 83 (29.33%) Mentoring
8 73 (25.80%) DevOps
9 70 (24.73%) Containerisation
10 68 (24.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 62 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (18.73%) Roadmaps
14 52 (18.37%) BDD
15 50 (17.67%) AI
15 50 (17.67%) Technical Leadership
16 44 (15.55%) CQRS
17 41 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
18 40 (14.13%) Architectural Patterns
19 39 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 277 (97.88%) Java
2 62 (21.91%) SQL
3 29 (10.25%) Python
4 28 (9.89%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.95%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.53%) RPG
8 5 (1.77%) C#
9 4 (1.41%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) Go
10 3 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) ProC
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (12.72%) AWS Certification
1 36 (12.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 27 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.07%) Degree
5 11 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.13%) QA
2 7 (2.47%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (21.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (24.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
3 2 (0.71%) Kibana
3 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (5.30%) Google
2 14 (4.95%) IBM
2 14 (4.95%) Oracle
3 13 (4.59%) SendGrid
4 12 (4.24%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.83%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.41%) Splunk
7 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.06%) Solace
8 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.71%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.71%) TikTok
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase
9 1 (0.35%) Workday