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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 202 147
Rank change year-on-year +3 -55 -51
Permanent jobs citing Spring 200 251 444
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 1.68% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.27% 6.29% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 127 113 372
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £90,000 £89,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +0.56% +0.18%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £126,500 £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 2,751 3,989 5,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.79% 26.74% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 2,512 4,849
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £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 £107,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 16 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 16 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 +25 22 £100,000 -5.88% 13
South London -2 12 £70,000 -15.15% 6
West London -4 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 (6.00%) JBoss
2 11 (5.50%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.50%) Apache
4 6 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.50%) Liferay
7 2 (1.00%) Confluence
8 1 (0.50%) Camunda
8 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (53.50%) AWS
2 25 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (12.50%) SaaS
2 25 (12.50%) Serverless
3 24 (12.00%) Azure
4 19 (9.50%) GCP
5 14 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (6.00%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.00%) GitHub
10 6 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.50%) Apigee
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.00%) CloudFront
12 4 (2.00%) Figma
13 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 29 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (13.00%) RDBMS
4 24 (12.00%) NoSQL
5 20 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 10 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.50%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.50%) Redis
10 4 (2.00%) MySQL
11 3 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.50%) Apache Ignite
12 2 (1.00%) Tick Data
13 1 (0.50%) Big Data
13 1 (0.50%) Flink
13 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) Jenkins
2 21 (10.50%) Git
3 16 (8.00%) GitLab
4 13 (6.50%) JUnit
5 10 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 10 (5.00%) JIRA
6 9 (4.50%) JMeter
6 9 (4.50%) Mockito
7 7 (3.50%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.50%) Gradle
7 7 (3.50%) Maven
8 4 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.00%) Postman
8 4 (2.00%) Vite
9 3 (1.50%) Selenium
9 3 (1.50%) Subversion
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) NUnit
10 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (33.50%) Finance
2 56 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 19 (9.50%) Telecoms
6 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Billing
7 12 (6.00%) Front Office
8 8 (4.00%) Banking
9 6 (3.00%) Games
10 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.50%) Law
11 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 2 (1.00%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (42.00%) Developer
2 65 (32.50%) Java Developer
3 62 (31.00%) Senior
4 61 (30.50%) Java Engineer
5 46 (23.00%) Software Engineer
6 32 (16.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 31 (15.50%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
9 23 (11.50%) Architect
10 21 (10.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 19 (9.50%) Senior Developer
12 18 (9.00%) Lead
12 18 (9.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.50%) Senior Architect
14 10 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (4.50%) Kafka Engineer
15 9 (4.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
16 8 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
16 8 (4.00%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (73.00%) Spring Boot
2 53 (26.50%) Kafka
3 48 (24.00%) REST
4 39 (19.50%) React
5 34 (17.00%) Hibernate
6 26 (13.00%) AngularJS
7 22 (11.00%) GraphQL
8 20 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
9 19 (9.50%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (9.50%) HTML
9 19 (9.50%) JSON
10 18 (9.00%) XML
11 17 (8.50%) Node.js
11 17 (8.50%) RESTful
11 17 (8.50%) SOAP
11 17 (8.50%) Web Services
12 15 (7.50%) .NET
13 13 (6.50%) Middleware
14 12 (6.00%) Apache Camel
14 12 (6.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (30.50%) Cloud Native
2 34 (17.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.50%) DataPower
4 9 (4.50%) Virtual Team
5 8 (4.00%) e-Learning
5 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.00%) Hedge funds
5 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.00%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.50%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (56.50%) Microservices
2 81 (40.50%) CI/CD
3 76 (38.00%) Agile
4 60 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 56 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (26.50%) Mentoring
7 47 (23.50%) Event-Driven
8 45 (22.50%) DevOps
9 40 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 35 (17.50%) Test Automation
11 34 (17.00%) AI
12 31 (15.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 30 (15.00%) BDD
13 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (14.50%) TDD
15 28 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (12.00%) Fintech
17 23 (11.50%) Roadmaps
18 20 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 198 (99.00%) Java
2 42 (21.00%) JavaScript
3 40 (20.00%) SQL
4 30 (15.00%) Python
5 21 (10.50%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.00%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.50%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.00%) PHP
9 5 (2.50%) C#
9 5 (2.50%) Scala
10 2 (1.00%) Go
10 2 (1.00%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) Delphi
11 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.50%) Degree
3 18 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.50%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.00%) QA
2 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (29.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (39.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.00%) Kibana
3 8 (4.00%) Terraform
4 5 (2.50%) Grafana
5 4 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) Ansible
6 1 (0.50%) Argo
6 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (5.00%) Google
2 9 (4.50%) Dynatrace
2 9 (4.50%) Solace
2 9 (4.50%) Splunk
3 6 (3.00%) Oracle
4 4 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.50%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.50%) Revolut
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) HP
7 1 (0.50%) OpenText
7 1 (0.50%) Siebel