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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 190 235
Rank change year-on-year +5 +45 -104
Permanent jobs citing Spring 281 214 260
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.76% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 6.71% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 148 92 139
10th Percentile £56,750 £56,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £90,313 £111,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £113,250 £122,500 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

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 3,515 3,190 4,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.68% 26.30% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,281 2,180 3,572
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 19 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 19 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 +8 29 £100,000 -3.61% 5
West London -11 11 £80,000 +33.33% 7
South London -33 9 £70,000 -15.15% 4
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 14 (4.98%) Camunda
2 12 (4.27%) Confluence
3 5 (1.78%) Apache
3 5 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.07%) JBoss
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (54.80%) AWS
2 89 (31.67%) Azure
3 35 (12.46%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (10.68%) GCP
5 28 (9.96%) GitHub
6 17 (6.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.98%) Serverless
9 13 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (4.63%) Azure Storage
10 11 (3.91%) Lucidchart
11 9 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.49%) Amazon S3
14 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.14%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) DMARC
2 1 (0.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.36%) Broadband
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.36%) LTE
2 1 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.22%) NoSQL
2 44 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (13.88%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.90%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.27%) Redis
6 11 (3.91%) Db2
7 10 (3.56%) DTS
8 7 (2.49%) MySQL
9 5 (1.78%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.71%) Flink
12 2 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.36%) Big Data
13 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (14.95%) GitLab
2 34 (12.10%) Cucumber
3 24 (8.54%) Git
4 20 (7.12%) Jenkins
5 18 (6.41%) JUnit
6 15 (5.34%) Mockito
7 11 (3.91%) Maven
8 10 (3.56%) Gradle
9 8 (2.85%) Selenium
10 7 (2.49%) Claude Code
11 4 (1.42%) Spock
12 3 (1.07%) JIRA
13 2 (0.71%) JMeter
14 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.36%) git-flow
14 1 (0.36%) NetBeans
General
1 126 (44.84%) Finance
2 66 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 52 (18.51%) Banking
4 35 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.19%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.56%) Front Office
7 9 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.14%) Retail
10 5 (1.78%) Billing
10 5 (1.78%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Advertising
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Back Office
13 2 (0.71%) Games
13 2 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.71%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 99 (35.23%) Java Engineer
2 88 (31.32%) Senior
3 75 (26.69%) Developer
4 59 (21.00%) Java Developer
5 40 (14.23%) Software Engineer
6 38 (13.52%) Senior Java Engineer
7 34 (12.10%) Lead
8 30 (10.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (10.32%) Engineering Manager
9 29 (10.32%) Software Engineering Manager
9 29 (10.32%) Software Manager
10 28 (9.96%) Principal Engineer
11 27 (9.61%) Principal Java Engineer
12 22 (7.83%) Architect
13 19 (6.76%) Senior Developer
14 18 (6.41%) Technical Leader
15 16 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 16 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
16 15 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (75.44%) Spring Boot
2 112 (39.86%) Kafka
3 52 (18.51%) RESTful
4 48 (17.08%) REST
5 39 (13.88%) React
6 32 (11.39%) Node.js
7 29 (10.32%) OAuth
8 26 (9.25%) OAuth2
9 25 (8.90%) AngularJS
9 25 (8.90%) Hibernate
10 16 (5.69%) JPA
11 13 (4.63%) Middleware
11 13 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (4.63%) YAML
12 11 (3.91%) JWT
13 10 (3.56%) HTML
13 10 (3.56%) Web Services
14 9 (3.20%) OpenAPI
15 8 (2.85%) Playwright
15 8 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.81%) Cloud Native
2 79 (28.11%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (22.06%) Public Cloud
4 34 (12.10%) Product Ownership
5 32 (11.39%) e-Learning
6 24 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.41%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.56%) EPoS
9 10 (3.56%) iSeries
10 8 (2.85%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.49%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.42%) Blog
13 3 (1.07%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.07%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (63.35%) Microservices
2 162 (57.65%) CI/CD
3 112 (39.86%) Agile
4 109 (38.79%) Event-Driven
5 104 (37.01%) Software Engineering
6 103 (36.65%) Test Automation
7 84 (29.89%) Mentoring
8 75 (26.69%) Containerisation
9 71 (25.27%) DevOps
10 63 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (22.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 56 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
14 53 (18.86%) Roadmaps
15 50 (17.79%) AI
16 46 (16.37%) BDD
17 45 (16.01%) Full-Stack Development
18 43 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
19 40 (14.23%) CQRS
20 38 (13.52%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 275 (97.86%) Java
2 60 (21.35%) SQL
3 32 (11.39%) Python
4 29 (10.32%) TypeScript
5 28 (9.96%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.98%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.56%) RPG
8 6 (2.14%) C#
9 5 (1.78%) C++
10 3 (1.07%) Go
11 2 (0.71%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) Perl
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) ProC
12 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (11.39%) AWS Certification
1 32 (11.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 29 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.83%) Degree
3 22 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.36%) OCP
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.54%) QA
2 7 (2.49%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (22.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (25.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.54%) Terraform
3 4 (1.42%) Ansible
4 3 (1.07%) Grafana
4 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (5.34%) Google
2 13 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.63%) SendGrid
3 12 (4.27%) IBM
3 12 (4.27%) Oracle
4 7 (2.49%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.42%) Solace
5 4 (1.42%) Splunk
6 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.71%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.71%) TikTok
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.36%) SAP
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.36%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.36%) Sybase
8 1 (0.36%) Workday