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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 196 218
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -82
Permanent jobs citing Spring 294 210 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.78% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.46% 6.38% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 150 85 134
10th Percentile £59,750 £56,250 £42,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £94,688 £111,250 £111,688
90th Percentile £115,125 £140,000 £146,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% 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 3,941 3,294 5,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.52% 27.98% 28.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 2,224 3,697
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £64,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -2.94% +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% -7.14%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +12 28 £100,000 -2.44% 41
West London -4 13 £80,000 +33.33% 23
South London -32 8 £70,000 -15.15% 2
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 15 (5.10%) Camunda
2 12 (4.08%) Confluence
3 5 (1.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.36%) JBoss
5 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (58.16%) AWS
2 89 (30.27%) Azure
3 44 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (10.88%) GitHub
5 28 (9.52%) GCP
6 19 (6.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.10%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (5.10%) Serverless
9 14 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (4.76%) Azure Storage
10 11 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.74%) Lucidchart
11 10 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.76%) DMARC
2 1 (0.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) LTE
2 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (21.09%) NoSQL
2 44 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 27 (9.18%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.74%) Db2
6 10 (3.40%) DTS
6 10 (3.40%) Redis
7 6 (2.04%) MySQL
8 4 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.36%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.02%) Flink
10 2 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.68%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.68%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (17.35%) GitLab
2 43 (14.63%) Cucumber
3 26 (8.84%) Git
4 24 (8.16%) Jenkins
5 20 (6.80%) JUnit
6 17 (5.78%) Mockito
7 15 (5.10%) Maven
8 10 (3.40%) Claude Code
9 9 (3.06%) Gradle
10 7 (2.38%) Selenium
11 4 (1.36%) JIRA
11 4 (1.36%) Spock
12 2 (0.68%) JMeter
13 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.34%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.34%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (47.96%) Finance
2 65 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.43%) Banking
4 27 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.84%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.06%) Front Office
7 8 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.04%) Retail
9 5 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.02%) Back Office
10 3 (1.02%) Billing
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.68%) Advertising
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (35.03%) Java Engineer
2 90 (30.61%) Senior
3 71 (24.15%) Developer
4 52 (17.69%) Java Developer
5 44 (14.97%) Software Engineer
6 38 (12.93%) Senior Java Engineer
7 36 (12.24%) Principal Engineer
8 35 (11.90%) Lead
9 33 (11.22%) Principal Java Engineer
10 32 (10.88%) Engineering Manager
10 32 (10.88%) Software Engineering Manager
10 32 (10.88%) Software Manager
11 30 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (7.82%) Architect
13 18 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (6.12%) Technical Leader
14 17 (5.78%) Senior Developer
15 14 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
16 13 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (4.08%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (76.19%) Spring Boot
2 125 (42.52%) Kafka
3 53 (18.03%) REST
4 52 (17.69%) RESTful
5 38 (12.93%) React
6 32 (10.88%) Node.js
7 30 (10.20%) OAuth
8 27 (9.18%) OAuth2
9 24 (8.16%) AngularJS
9 24 (8.16%) Hibernate
10 22 (7.48%) Terraform
11 15 (5.10%) JPA
12 14 (4.76%) Middleware
12 14 (4.76%) YAML
13 11 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (3.40%) JWT
14 10 (3.40%) Spring Security
14 10 (3.40%) Web Services
15 9 (3.06%) HTML
15 9 (3.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 105 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 90 (30.61%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (24.83%) Public Cloud
4 40 (13.61%) e-Learning
5 39 (13.27%) Product Ownership
6 29 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.40%) EPoS
9 10 (3.40%) iSeries
10 8 (2.72%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.38%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.36%) Blog
12 4 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 3 (1.02%) Credit Risk
13 3 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.02%) Pricing Data
14 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Android
1 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (64.29%) Microservices
2 179 (60.88%) CI/CD
3 126 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 120 (40.82%) Agile
5 119 (40.48%) Software Engineering
6 114 (38.78%) Test Automation
7 85 (28.91%) Mentoring
8 73 (24.83%) DevOps
9 71 (24.15%) Containerisation
9 71 (24.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 64 (21.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 64 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (19.39%) BDD
12 55 (18.71%) AI
12 55 (18.71%) Technical Leadership
13 54 (18.37%) Roadmaps
14 47 (15.99%) CQRS
15 44 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (13.61%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 288 (97.96%) Java
2 66 (22.45%) SQL
3 30 (10.20%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.86%) Python
5 22 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.40%) RPG
8 5 (1.70%) C#
9 4 (1.36%) C++
10 3 (1.02%) Go
10 3 (1.02%) Scala
11 2 (0.68%) Groovy
11 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) Bash
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) ProC
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (13.61%) AWS Certification
1 40 (13.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 27 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.80%) Degree
5 12 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) OCP
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.50%) QA
2 8 (2.72%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.68%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (22.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.68%) Grafana
3 2 (0.68%) Kibana
3 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) Argo
4 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (5.10%) Google
1 15 (5.10%) IBM
1 15 (5.10%) Oracle
2 14 (4.76%) SendGrid
3 13 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.36%) Splunk
6 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.02%) Solace
7 2 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.68%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.68%) TikTok
8 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.34%) Databricks
8 1 (0.34%) Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase
8 1 (0.34%) Workday