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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 197 229
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 -98
Permanent jobs citing Spring 282 207 258
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.71% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.04% 5.98% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 149 86 137
10th Percentile £57,000 £56,250 £50,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £88,750 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +6.63% -4.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £126,250 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +3.45% -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 4,006 3,461 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.69% 28.66% 27.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,604 2,370 3,974
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £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 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £119,625 £132,500 £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 22 August 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 August 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 +16 29 £100,000 -3.61% 8
West London -10 11 £80,000 +33.33% 15
South London -35 9 £70,000 -15.15% 2
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 (5.32%) Camunda
2 12 (4.26%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.06%) JBoss
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
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 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (55.67%) AWS
2 91 (32.27%) Azure
3 35 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (10.64%) GCP
5 29 (10.28%) GitHub
6 17 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.32%) Serverless
8 13 (4.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (4.61%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (4.61%) Azure Storage
9 11 (3.90%) Lucidchart
10 9 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.84%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) 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 55 (19.50%) NoSQL
2 45 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (13.12%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.22%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.26%) Redis
6 11 (3.90%) Db2
7 10 (3.55%) DTS
8 7 (2.48%) MySQL
9 5 (1.77%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.71%) Flink
11 2 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.71%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.71%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (15.25%) GitLab
2 35 (12.41%) Cucumber
3 25 (8.87%) Git
4 21 (7.45%) Jenkins
5 19 (6.74%) JUnit
6 16 (5.67%) Mockito
7 12 (4.26%) Maven
8 11 (3.90%) Gradle
9 8 (2.84%) Selenium
10 7 (2.48%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.42%) Spock
12 3 (1.06%) JIRA
13 2 (0.71%) JMeter
14 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.35%) git-flow
14 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 126 (44.68%) Finance
2 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.79%) Banking
4 35 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.16%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.55%) Front Office
7 9 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.13%) Retail
10 5 (1.77%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Billing
12 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Games
13 2 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
13 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (34.75%) Java Engineer
2 87 (30.85%) Senior
3 76 (26.95%) Developer
4 59 (20.92%) Java Developer
5 41 (14.54%) Software Engineer
6 37 (13.12%) Senior Java Engineer
7 33 (11.70%) Lead
8 30 (10.64%) Engineering Manager
8 30 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (10.64%) Software Engineering Manager
8 30 (10.64%) Software Manager
9 28 (9.93%) Principal Engineer
10 27 (9.57%) Principal Java Engineer
11 21 (7.45%) Architect
12 19 (6.74%) Senior Developer
13 17 (6.03%) Technical Leader
14 16 (5.67%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.32%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (75.18%) Spring Boot
2 114 (40.43%) Kafka
3 52 (18.44%) RESTful
4 49 (17.38%) REST
5 39 (13.83%) React
6 32 (11.35%) Node.js
7 29 (10.28%) OAuth
8 26 (9.22%) Hibernate
8 26 (9.22%) OAuth2
9 24 (8.51%) AngularJS
10 23 (8.16%) Terraform
11 17 (6.03%) JPA
12 14 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (4.61%) Middleware
13 13 (4.61%) YAML
14 11 (3.90%) JWT
15 10 (3.55%) HTML
15 10 (3.55%) OpenAPI
15 10 (3.55%) Web Services
16 9 (3.19%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.69%) Cloud Native
2 79 (28.01%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (22.34%) Public Cloud
4 35 (12.41%) Product Ownership
5 32 (11.35%) e-Learning
6 24 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.55%) EPoS
9 10 (3.55%) iSeries
10 8 (2.84%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.84%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.42%) 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
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
2 1 (0.35%) Android
2 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (63.12%) Microservices
2 163 (57.80%) CI/CD
3 112 (39.72%) Agile
4 111 (39.36%) Event-Driven
5 105 (37.23%) Software Engineering
6 104 (36.88%) Test Automation
7 84 (29.79%) Mentoring
8 74 (26.24%) Containerisation
9 73 (25.89%) DevOps
10 63 (22.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 62 (21.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
14 53 (18.79%) Roadmaps
15 51 (18.09%) AI
16 47 (16.67%) BDD
17 45 (15.96%) Full-Stack Development
18 42 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (14.18%) CQRS
20 38 (13.48%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 276 (97.87%) Java
2 59 (20.92%) SQL
3 32 (11.35%) Python
4 29 (10.28%) TypeScript
5 27 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.32%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.55%) RPG
8 6 (2.13%) C#
9 5 (1.77%) 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 32 (11.35%) AWS Certification
1 32 (11.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 29 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.16%) Degree
3 23 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) OCP
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.87%) QA
2 7 (2.48%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (21.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.42%) Ansible
3 3 (1.06%) Grafana
3 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.32%) Google
2 13 (4.61%) IBM
2 13 (4.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.61%) Oracle
2 13 (4.61%) SendGrid
3 8 (2.84%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.42%) Solace
4 4 (1.42%) Splunk
5 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.71%) OneLogin
6 2 (0.71%) TikTok
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.35%) SAP
7 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.35%) Sybase
7 1 (0.35%) Workday