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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 214 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 -72 -42
Permanent jobs citing Spring 182 242 421
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 1.56% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.83% 5.88% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 111 98 369
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,500 £115,000
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 2,664 4,115 5,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.66% 26.56% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,912 2,542 4,485
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,100
25th Percentile £63,625 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £81,725 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +2.16% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.34%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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
South London +9 15 £62,600 -7.26% 4
Central London +26 14 £100,000 -6.98% 13
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 11 (6.04%) JBoss
2 10 (5.49%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.65%) Liferay
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 109 (59.89%) AWS
2 31 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (15.38%) Serverless
4 25 (13.74%) SaaS
5 21 (11.54%) Azure
6 19 (10.44%) GCP
7 15 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.95%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.85%) GitHub
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.75%) Apigee
12 5 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.75%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.75%) Figma
13 4 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.03%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (16.48%) Relational Database
3 25 (13.74%) RDBMS
4 23 (12.64%) MongoDB
5 21 (11.54%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.95%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.30%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.75%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.75%) Redis
10 3 (1.65%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.65%) MySQL
11 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.10%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.55%) Big Data
12 1 (0.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 29 (15.93%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.99%) Git
3 17 (9.34%) JUnit
4 14 (7.69%) GitLab
4 14 (7.69%) Mockito
5 13 (7.14%) JMeter
6 10 (5.49%) JIRA
7 9 (4.95%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.30%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.75%) Gradle
9 5 (2.75%) Vite
10 4 (2.20%) Maven
10 4 (2.20%) Postman
11 3 (1.65%) Selenium
12 2 (1.10%) Subversion
13 1 (0.55%) MLflow
13 1 (0.55%) NUnit
13 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.52%) Finance
3 29 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.99%) Financial Institution
5 16 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.69%) Banking
6 14 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 13 (7.14%) Front Office
8 7 (3.85%) Billing
9 6 (3.30%) Games
10 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Law
11 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (43.41%) Developer
2 61 (33.52%) Java Developer
3 55 (30.22%) Senior
4 49 (26.92%) Java Engineer
5 38 (20.88%) Software Engineer
6 34 (18.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
8 25 (13.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 22 (12.09%) Architect
9 22 (12.09%) Senior Java Engineer
10 17 (9.34%) Lead
11 15 (8.24%) Senior Developer
12 14 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (6.04%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 11 (6.04%) Senior Architect
14 10 (5.49%) Angular Developer
14 10 (5.49%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 10 (5.49%) Kafka Developer
14 10 (5.49%) Kafka Engineer
15 9 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (70.88%) Spring Boot
2 49 (26.92%) Kafka
3 41 (22.53%) REST
4 36 (19.78%) Hibernate
4 36 (19.78%) React
5 25 (13.74%) HTML
6 24 (13.19%) AngularJS
7 23 (12.64%) ActiveMQ
7 23 (12.64%) GraphQL
8 21 (11.54%) JSON
8 21 (11.54%) RESTful
9 19 (10.44%) XML
10 17 (9.34%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (9.34%) Web Services
11 16 (8.79%) Apache Camel
12 14 (7.69%) jQuery
12 14 (7.69%) Node.js
12 14 (7.69%) SOAP
13 13 (7.14%) .NET
13 13 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 55 (30.22%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.04%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.49%) DataPower
4 10 (5.49%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.49%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.49%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.20%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.10%) Equities
8 2 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.10%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (57.14%) Microservices
2 77 (42.31%) CI/CD
3 66 (36.26%) Agile
4 57 (31.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (26.92%) Software Engineering
6 44 (24.18%) DevOps
7 41 (22.53%) Event-Driven
8 39 (21.43%) Mentoring
9 35 (19.23%) TDD
10 34 (18.68%) Containerisation
11 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (16.48%) BDD
12 30 (16.48%) Test Automation
13 27 (14.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 25 (13.74%) AI
15 24 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (13.19%) SDLC
15 24 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (12.64%) Fintech
17 19 (10.44%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 181 (99.45%) Java
2 44 (24.18%) JavaScript
3 31 (17.03%) Python
4 29 (15.93%) SQL
5 23 (12.64%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.89%) Kotlin
7 13 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.30%) PHP
9 5 (2.75%) Scala
10 4 (2.20%) C#
11 2 (1.10%) Ruby
12 1 (0.55%) Delphi
12 1 (0.55%) Go
12 1 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.29%) Degree
3 16 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 7 (3.85%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.55%) ISEB
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 7 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 56 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (37.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.79%) Kibana
3 5 (2.75%) Terraform
4 3 (1.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) Argo
5 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.14%) Dynatrace
1 13 (7.14%) Splunk
2 9 (4.95%) Google
3 7 (3.85%) Oracle
3 7 (3.85%) Solace
4 5 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.55%) Databricks
6 1 (0.55%) HP
6 1 (0.55%) OpenText
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.55%) Siebel