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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 201 144
Rank change year-on-year +1 -57 -51
Permanent jobs citing Spring 209 245 449
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.30% 1.69% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.37% 6.28% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 133 113 369
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%

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 2,834 3,900 5,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.63% 26.85% 26.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,030 2,524 4,811
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,951 £49,898
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 £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £123,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 February 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 February 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 +19 25 £100,000 -6.98% 11
South London +2 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London -13 1 £82,500 - 1
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 12 (5.74%) JBoss
2 11 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 8 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.35%) Apache
4 7 (3.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.96%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) Camunda
7 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 104 (49.76%) AWS
2 27 (12.92%) Azure
3 25 (11.96%) SaaS
4 23 (11.00%) Serverless
5 22 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (10.05%) GCP
7 15 (7.18%) OpenShift
8 12 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (4.31%) GitHub
12 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (2.39%) Apigee
14 5 (2.39%) dbt
14 5 (2.39%) Snowflake
15 4 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (1.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.27%) Relational Database
2 28 (13.40%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (12.44%) RDBMS
4 25 (11.96%) NoSQL
5 19 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.39%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.39%) Redis
10 4 (1.91%) MySQL
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.44%) Apache Ignite
12 2 (0.96%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.48%) Big Data
13 1 (0.48%) Flink
13 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Git
1 22 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.61%) GitLab
3 12 (5.74%) JUnit
4 10 (4.78%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.31%) Gradle
5 9 (4.31%) JIRA
6 8 (3.83%) JMeter
6 8 (3.83%) Mockito
7 7 (3.35%) Maven
8 6 (2.87%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.91%) Postman
10 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.44%) Selenium
10 3 (1.44%) Subversion
10 3 (1.44%) Vite
11 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.48%) NUnit
11 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (32.54%) Finance
2 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 21 (10.05%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.18%) Billing
8 14 (6.70%) Front Office
9 8 (3.83%) Games
10 7 (3.35%) Banking
11 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.44%) Law
12 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Advertising
13 2 (0.96%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (42.11%) Developer
2 69 (33.01%) Java Developer
2 69 (33.01%) Senior
3 66 (31.58%) Java Engineer
4 49 (23.44%) Software Engineer
5 34 (16.27%) Java Software Engineer
6 28 (13.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (13.40%) Senior Java Engineer
7 24 (11.48%) Architect
7 24 (11.48%) Senior Developer
8 22 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
9 18 (8.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 18 (8.61%) Lead
10 15 (7.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (5.26%) Senior Architect
12 10 (4.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Kafka Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 7 (3.35%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (75.60%) Spring Boot
2 55 (26.32%) Kafka
3 49 (23.44%) REST
4 40 (19.14%) React
5 33 (15.79%) Hibernate
6 28 (13.40%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.57%) GraphQL
7 20 (9.57%) JSON
8 19 (9.09%) HTML
8 19 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
8 19 (9.09%) XML
9 18 (8.61%) RESTful
10 17 (8.13%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (8.13%) Node.js
10 17 (8.13%) SOAP
10 17 (8.13%) Web Services
11 15 (7.18%) .NET
12 13 (6.22%) Middleware
13 12 (5.74%) Bootstrap
14 11 (5.26%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 62 (29.67%) Cloud Native
2 33 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.26%) DataPower
4 8 (3.83%) e-Learning
4 8 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.83%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.83%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.87%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.87%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.44%) Equities
8 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.48%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (57.42%) Microservices
2 87 (41.63%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.80%) Agile
4 65 (31.10%) Software Engineering
5 57 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 50 (23.92%) DevOps
8 48 (22.97%) Containerisation
8 48 (22.97%) Event-Driven
9 41 (19.62%) AI
10 37 (17.70%) Test Automation
11 33 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (14.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 28 (13.40%) BDD
13 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (12.92%) TDD
15 25 (11.96%) Roadmaps
16 23 (11.00%) Fintech
16 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 207 (99.04%) Java
2 46 (22.01%) SQL
3 44 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 33 (15.79%) Python
5 20 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.09%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.87%) C#
8 6 (2.87%) PHP
9 5 (2.39%) Scala
10 2 (0.96%) Go
10 2 (0.96%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Delphi
11 1 (0.48%) Korn
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.35%) Degree
3 21 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.74%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) QA
2 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 61 (29.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 83 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.26%) Kibana
2 11 (5.26%) Terraform
3 7 (3.35%) Grafana
4 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Ansible
5 1 (0.48%) Argo
5 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (4.78%) Google
1 10 (4.78%) Solace
2 8 (3.83%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.83%) Splunk
3 4 (1.91%) Oracle
4 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.44%) Revolut
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.48%) HP
6 1 (0.48%) OpenText
6 1 (0.48%) Siebel