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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 192 223
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 -90
Permanent jobs citing Spring 305 206 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.75% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.78% 6.39% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 151 84 123
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £93,750 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +12.64% +0.88%
75th Percentile £95,625 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,000 £144,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

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 3,920 3,224 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.06% 27.35% 29.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,467 2,167 3,578
10th Percentile £52,300 £52,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £112,500
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% -3.70%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +18 25 £105,000 +5.00% 47
West London -6 14 £80,000 +33.33% 8
South London -31 8 £70,000 -15.15% 6
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 17 (5.57%) Camunda
2 12 (3.93%) Confluence
3 5 (1.64%) Apache
4 4 (1.31%) JBoss
5 3 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 181 (59.34%) AWS
2 90 (29.51%) Azure
3 50 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 39 (12.79%) GitHub
5 29 (9.51%) GCP
6 20 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (5.25%) Serverless
9 15 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (4.92%) Azure Storage
10 14 (4.59%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.59%) GitHub Copilot
11 12 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (3.61%) Lucidchart
13 10 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.92%) DMARC
2 1 (0.33%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) LTE
2 1 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.31%) NoSQL
2 48 (15.74%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.82%) Relational Database
4 28 (9.18%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.61%) Db2
6 10 (3.28%) DTS
7 8 (2.62%) Redis
8 7 (2.30%) MySQL
9 4 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.66%) Flink
11 2 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.66%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 57 (18.69%) GitLab
2 49 (16.07%) Cucumber
3 27 (8.85%) Git
4 24 (7.87%) Jenkins
5 22 (7.21%) JUnit
6 19 (6.23%) Mockito
7 16 (5.25%) Maven
8 12 (3.93%) Claude Code
9 9 (2.95%) Gradle
10 5 (1.64%) Selenium
11 4 (1.31%) Spock
12 3 (0.98%) JIRA
12 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.66%) JMeter
13 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.33%) NetBeans
14 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 148 (48.52%) Finance
2 65 (21.31%) Banking
2 65 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.51%) Financial Institution
4 27 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.62%) Front Office
5 8 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.97%) Retail
7 5 (1.64%) Marketing
8 3 (0.98%) Back Office
8 3 (0.98%) Billing
8 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 3 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.98%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (0.66%) Law
9 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (35.08%) Java Engineer
2 93 (30.49%) Senior
3 76 (24.92%) Developer
4 54 (17.70%) Java Developer
5 46 (15.08%) Software Engineer
6 41 (13.44%) Principal Engineer
7 40 (13.11%) Senior Java Engineer
8 37 (12.13%) Principal Java Engineer
9 36 (11.80%) Lead
10 30 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 29 (9.51%) Engineering Manager
11 29 (9.51%) Software Engineering Manager
11 29 (9.51%) Software Manager
12 25 (8.20%) Architect
13 24 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (5.90%) Senior Developer
14 18 (5.90%) Technical Leader
15 14 (4.59%) Java Architect
15 14 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (78.69%) Spring Boot
2 129 (42.30%) Kafka
3 58 (19.02%) REST
4 55 (18.03%) RESTful
5 38 (12.46%) React
6 37 (12.13%) Node.js
7 32 (10.49%) AngularJS
8 31 (10.16%) OAuth
9 28 (9.18%) OAuth2
10 26 (8.52%) Hibernate
11 21 (6.89%) Terraform
12 15 (4.92%) JPA
12 15 (4.92%) YAML
13 14 (4.59%) Middleware
14 11 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.28%) Jakarta EE
15 10 (3.28%) JWT
15 10 (3.28%) Spring Security
16 9 (2.95%) OpenAPI
16 9 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 114 (37.38%) Cloud Native
2 97 (31.80%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (24.92%) Public Cloud
4 46 (15.08%) e-Learning
5 40 (13.11%) Product Ownership
6 36 (11.80%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (6.23%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.61%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.28%) EPoS
9 10 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.28%) iSeries
10 7 (2.30%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.31%) Blog
13 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.98%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Android
1 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (67.87%) Microservices
2 191 (62.62%) CI/CD
3 130 (42.62%) Event-Driven
4 128 (41.97%) Agile
5 124 (40.66%) Software Engineering
6 120 (39.34%) Test Automation
7 86 (28.20%) Mentoring
8 76 (24.92%) DevOps
9 74 (24.26%) Containerisation
10 73 (23.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 69 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (21.31%) AI
13 64 (20.98%) BDD
13 64 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (16.72%) CQRS
16 50 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
16 50 (16.39%) Roadmaps
17 46 (15.08%) Performance Testing
18 41 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 298 (97.70%) Java
2 70 (22.95%) SQL
3 31 (10.16%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.51%) Python
5 21 (6.89%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.93%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.28%) RPG
8 5 (1.64%) C#
9 3 (0.98%) Scala
10 2 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.66%) Go
10 2 (0.66%) Groovy
10 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) ProC
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (16.07%) AWS Certification
2 46 (15.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 28 (9.18%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.90%) Degree
6 12 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.33%) OCP
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.52%) QA
2 7 (2.30%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (23.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (23.93%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.64%) Ansible
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
3 2 (0.66%) Kibana
3 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (4.92%) Google
1 15 (4.92%) IBM
1 15 (4.92%) SendGrid
2 14 (4.59%) Oracle
3 12 (3.93%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.62%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.31%) Splunk
6 3 (0.98%) Adobe
6 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
6 3 (0.98%) Solace
7 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.66%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.66%) TikTok
8 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) Databricks
8 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.33%) SAP
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Sybase
8 1 (0.33%) Workday