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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 213 206
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 -103
Permanent jobs citing Spring 238 189 369
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.57% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 6.13% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 136 97 273
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £85,625 £111,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 3,287 3,085 5,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.77% 25.69% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,263 2,218 4,674
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £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 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,359 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.21% +10.60% -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 May 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 May 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 27 £88,750 -15.48% 11
South London -26 11 £70,000 -15.15%
West London - 2 £80,000 - 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 7 (2.94%) JBoss
2 6 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.10%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.68%) Confluence
5 3 (1.26%) Liferay
6 2 (0.84%) Camunda
6 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (42.86%) AWS
2 51 (21.43%) Azure
3 24 (10.08%) GCP
4 21 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 13 (5.46%) Serverless
7 12 (5.04%) GitHub
8 11 (4.62%) SaaS
9 6 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.10%) dbt
10 5 (2.10%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (2.10%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.26%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) AMQP
1 3 (1.26%) DMARC
2 1 (0.42%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.13%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.50%) Relational Database
3 22 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.46%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.78%) Redis
7 8 (3.36%) MySQL
8 5 (2.10%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (2.10%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.84%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.84%) DB2
10 2 (0.84%) DTS
10 2 (0.84%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.42%) Flink
11 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (10.92%) GitLab
2 19 (7.98%) Git
3 18 (7.56%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.46%) Gradle
5 11 (4.62%) Jenkins
6 10 (4.20%) JUnit
7 9 (3.78%) Maven
8 6 (2.52%) Claude Code
9 5 (2.10%) Mockito
10 4 (1.68%) JIRA
10 4 (1.68%) Selenium
11 3 (1.26%) Postman
12 2 (0.84%) JMeter
12 2 (0.84%) Subversion
13 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.42%) git-flow
13 1 (0.42%) MLflow
13 1 (0.42%) Spock
General
1 93 (39.08%) Finance
2 45 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.03%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.24%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.56%) Banking
6 16 (6.72%) Billing
7 14 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.62%) Front Office
9 10 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (3.36%) Games
11 4 (1.68%) Advertising
12 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Aviation
13 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.42%) iGaming
14 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Law
14 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 99 (41.60%) Developer
2 81 (34.03%) Java Developer
3 78 (32.77%) Java Engineer
4 77 (32.35%) Senior
5 38 (15.97%) Software Engineer
6 32 (13.45%) Senior Java Engineer
7 31 (13.03%) Senior Developer
8 28 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (10.92%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 19 (7.98%) Architect
12 18 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
13 17 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
13 17 (7.14%) Lead
13 17 (7.14%) Software Engineering Manager
13 17 (7.14%) Software Manager
14 16 (6.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (6.30%) Principal Java Engineer
16 12 (5.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 11 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (79.83%) Spring Boot
2 58 (24.37%) Kafka
3 50 (21.01%) REST
4 48 (20.17%) React
5 29 (12.18%) AngularJS
6 28 (11.76%) RESTful
7 24 (10.08%) Hibernate
8 19 (7.98%) Node.js
9 16 (6.72%) Web Services
10 15 (6.30%) HTML
11 13 (5.46%) Bootstrap
11 13 (5.46%) CSS
11 13 (5.46%) JSON
11 13 (5.46%) SOAP
12 12 (5.04%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.62%) OAuth
14 10 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
14 10 (4.20%) Middleware
14 10 (4.20%) Spring MVC
14 10 (4.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 33 (13.87%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (7.98%) Product Ownership
5 17 (7.14%) e-Learning
6 16 (6.72%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.10%) DataPower
10 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.84%) EPoS
11 2 (0.84%) iSeries
11 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.42%) Equities
12 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.84%) Linux
1 2 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (56.72%) Microservices
2 102 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 82 (34.45%) Software Engineering
4 76 (31.93%) Agile
5 64 (26.89%) Mentoring
6 58 (24.37%) Containerisation
7 55 (23.11%) DevOps
7 55 (23.11%) Test Automation
8 54 (22.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 51 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (19.75%) Event-Driven
11 42 (17.65%) AI
11 42 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (16.81%) Roadmaps
13 37 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (12.18%) BDD
16 26 (10.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 24 (10.08%) Scrum
18 22 (9.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 234 (98.32%) Java
2 49 (20.59%) SQL
3 39 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 21 (8.82%) Python
5 18 (7.56%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.46%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.52%) PHP
8 5 (2.10%) C++
9 4 (1.68%) Go
10 2 (0.84%) C#
10 2 (0.84%) RPG
10 2 (0.84%) Scala
10 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (14.29%) Degree
2 30 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.56%) AWS Certification
4 18 (7.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.20%) QA
2 5 (2.10%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 61 (25.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (31.51%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (2.10%) Grafana
3 5 (2.10%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.68%) Ansible
5 2 (0.84%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (3.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.94%) Solace
3 6 (2.52%) Google
4 4 (1.68%) Oracle
5 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.26%) Revolut
5 3 (1.26%) SendGrid
5 3 (1.26%) Splunk
6 2 (0.84%) IBM
6 2 (0.84%) TikTok
7 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.42%) Workday