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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 203 185
Rank change year-on-year -11 -18 -85
Permanent jobs citing Spring 209 217 380
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 1.69% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 6.45% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 127 116 292
10th Percentile £54,500 £56,250 £57,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,938 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -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 3,133 3,362 5,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.95% 26.12% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 2,480 4,718
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,454 £47,500
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 £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £128,750 £127,500 £126,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -2 23 £90,000 -11.76% 14
South London -25 9 £70,000 -15.15% 3
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 11 (5.26%) JBoss
2 9 (4.31%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.44%) Apache
5 3 (1.44%) Liferay
6 2 (0.96%) Camunda
6 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 86 (41.15%) AWS
2 39 (18.66%) Azure
3 22 (10.53%) GCP
4 16 (7.66%) OpenShift
4 16 (7.66%) SaaS
5 13 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (4.78%) Serverless
7 6 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.39%) dbt
8 5 (2.39%) GitHub
8 5 (2.39%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.44%) Anthos
10 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.44%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) AMQP
2 1 (0.48%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.35%) NoSQL
2 27 (12.92%) Relational Database
3 17 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.18%) RDBMS
5 12 (5.74%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.31%) Redis
7 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.35%) MySQL
9 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.91%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.91%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.48%) Flink
11 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.00%) Git
2 18 (8.61%) GitLab
3 12 (5.74%) Gradle
4 11 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.31%) JUnit
6 6 (2.87%) Maven
7 5 (2.39%) Selenium
8 3 (1.44%) JIRA
8 3 (1.44%) Mockito
8 3 (1.44%) Postman
8 3 (1.44%) Subversion
9 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) MLflow
General
1 73 (34.93%) Finance
2 45 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.00%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.66%) Billing
6 11 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.26%) Banking
6 11 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.26%) Front Office
7 9 (4.31%) Games
8 4 (1.91%) Advertising
8 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.44%) Law
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Aviation
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) iGaming
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (44.02%) Developer
2 77 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 68 (32.54%) Java Engineer
3 68 (32.54%) Senior
4 34 (16.27%) Software Engineer
5 28 (13.40%) Senior Developer
6 26 (12.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 26 (12.44%) Senior Java Engineer
7 25 (11.96%) Java Software Engineer
8 22 (10.53%) Architect
9 19 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (6.22%) Lead
12 12 (5.74%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.78%) Principal Java Engineer
13 10 (4.78%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (4.31%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.31%) Software Engineering Manager
14 9 (4.31%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (75.12%) Spring Boot
2 50 (23.92%) Kafka
3 45 (21.53%) REST
4 43 (20.57%) React
5 27 (12.92%) AngularJS
5 27 (12.92%) Hibernate
6 21 (10.05%) RESTful
7 16 (7.66%) HTML
7 16 (7.66%) SOAP
8 15 (7.18%) CSS
8 15 (7.18%) Web Services
9 14 (6.70%) JSON
10 13 (6.22%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.22%) Node.js
11 12 (5.74%) .NET
11 12 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (5.26%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.26%) Middleware
12 11 (5.26%) Spring MVC
12 11 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.92%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.78%) e-Learning
7 9 (4.31%) DataPower
8 7 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.39%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.48%) Equities
14 1 (0.48%) Hedge funds
14 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.48%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.48%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
1 2 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (54.55%) Microservices
2 85 (40.67%) CI/CD
3 65 (31.10%) Agile
4 64 (30.62%) Software Engineering
5 51 (24.40%) DevOps
5 51 (24.40%) Mentoring
6 49 (23.44%) Containerisation
7 46 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (21.53%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (20.10%) Event-Driven
10 40 (19.14%) AI
10 40 (19.14%) Test Automation
11 35 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (16.75%) Roadmaps
12 32 (15.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (11.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 20 (9.57%) BDD
15 20 (9.57%) Scrum
15 20 (9.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 208 (99.52%) Java
2 48 (22.97%) SQL
3 37 (17.70%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.61%) Python
5 14 (6.70%) Kotlin
6 13 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.87%) PHP
8 5 (2.39%) C#
8 5 (2.39%) Go
9 4 (1.91%) C++
9 4 (1.91%) Scala
10 1 (0.48%) Delphi
10 1 (0.48%) Korn
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (16.75%) Degree
2 26 (12.44%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.35%) QA
2 5 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.91%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 55 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (33.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.13%) Terraform
3 6 (2.87%) Grafana
4 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (2.87%) Google
1 6 (2.87%) Solace
2 5 (2.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle
3 3 (1.44%) Revolut
4 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.48%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.48%) Splunk