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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 208 141
Rank change year-on-year +25 -67 -40
Permanent jobs citing Spring 204 262 461
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.72% 1.51% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 5.57% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 79 116 423
10th Percentile £58,500 £40,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £71,000 £61,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £84,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +2.42% -2.94%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £132,000 £127,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 2,879 4,704 6,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.27% 27.04% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 3,013 5,193
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £142,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 +42 34 £95,000 -
Central London +41 16 £100,000 -6.98% 37
West London - 3 £60,000 - 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 8 (3.92%) JBoss
2 6 (2.94%) Apache
3 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.47%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.98%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 170 (83.33%) AWS
2 50 (24.51%) Serverless
3 47 (23.04%) Amazon EKS
4 32 (15.69%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (14.22%) Azure
5 29 (14.22%) GCP
6 28 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (9.31%) GitHub
9 15 (7.35%) SaaS
10 12 (5.88%) Amazon S3
11 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
14 5 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.45%) CloudFront
14 5 (2.45%) Figma
14 5 (2.45%) OpenShift
15 3 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (25.98%) PostgreSQL
1 53 (25.98%) Relational Database
2 32 (15.69%) MongoDB
2 32 (15.69%) NoSQL
3 28 (13.73%) RDBMS
4 9 (4.41%) Big Data
4 9 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.43%) Redis
5 7 (3.43%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.96%) CockroachDB
8 3 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.47%) OLAP
8 3 (1.47%) OLTP
9 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.98%) MySQL
9 2 (0.98%) Power BI
9 2 (0.98%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 46 (22.55%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.67%) JUnit
3 28 (13.73%) Mockito
4 26 (12.75%) Git
5 21 (10.29%) JMeter
6 16 (7.84%) GitLab
7 13 (6.37%) Vite
8 11 (5.39%) JIRA
9 9 (4.41%) Cypress.io
10 8 (3.92%) Maven
11 7 (3.43%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.45%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.45%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.96%) Subversion
14 3 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (1.47%) Gradle
14 3 (1.47%) Spinnaker
15 2 (0.98%) IntelliJ
15 2 (0.98%) Postman
15 2 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 120 (58.82%) Finance
2 63 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 60 (29.41%) Banking
4 58 (28.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (26.96%) Law
6 34 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 27 (13.24%) Financial Institution
8 20 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (8.82%) Marketing
10 13 (6.37%) Investment Banking
11 10 (4.90%) Front Office
12 4 (1.96%) Legal
12 4 (1.96%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.47%) Aviation
13 3 (1.47%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.98%) Electronics
14 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (42.65%) Software Engineer
2 72 (35.29%) Developer
3 66 (32.35%) Java Engineer
4 58 (28.43%) Java Developer
5 50 (24.51%) Java Software Engineer
5 50 (24.51%) Senior
6 49 (24.02%) Lead
7 31 (15.20%) Lead Software Engineer
7 31 (15.20%) Senior Java Engineer
8 28 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (12.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 18 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (8.33%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 14 (6.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 13 (6.37%) Kafka Engineer
14 10 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (4.90%) Backend Developer
15 9 (4.41%) Angular Developer
15 9 (4.41%) Kafka Developer
15 9 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (69.12%) Spring Boot
2 89 (43.63%) Kafka
3 47 (23.04%) REST
3 47 (23.04%) RESTful
4 41 (20.10%) React
5 39 (19.12%) Web Services
6 35 (17.16%) Hibernate
7 33 (16.18%) ActiveMQ
8 32 (15.69%) AngularJS
9 29 (14.22%) HTML
10 26 (12.75%) Apache Camel
11 21 (10.29%) jQuery
11 21 (10.29%) WireMock
11 21 (10.29%) XML
12 19 (9.31%) JSON
12 19 (9.31%) Node.js
13 17 (8.33%) GraphQL
14 16 (7.84%) Akka
14 16 (7.84%) Jest
14 16 (7.84%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 88 (43.14%) Cloud Native
2 56 (27.45%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (7.84%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.37%) Distributed Applications
4 13 (6.37%) Virtual Team
5 12 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 11 (5.39%) Derivative
7 10 (4.90%) Hedge funds
8 9 (4.41%) Reference Data
8 9 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.92%) Equity Derivative
9 8 (3.92%) Product Ownership
10 7 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
12 5 (2.45%) Mobile Banking
12 5 (2.45%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (64.22%) Agile
2 119 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 119 (58.33%) Microservices
3 105 (51.47%) Software Engineering
4 72 (35.29%) SDLC
5 57 (27.94%) TDD
6 51 (25.00%) BDD
7 50 (24.51%) Fintech
8 48 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (20.10%) DevOps
9 41 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 31 (15.20%) Test Automation
12 30 (14.71%) Community of Practice
12 30 (14.71%) Scrum
13 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.22%) Operational Stability
14 28 (13.73%) AI
14 28 (13.73%) Machine Learning
14 28 (13.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 202 (99.02%) Java
2 48 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 44 (21.57%) Python
4 42 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 33 (16.18%) SQL
6 31 (15.20%) Kotlin
7 24 (11.76%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.90%) Scala
9 6 (2.94%) C++
10 5 (2.45%) Groovy
11 4 (1.96%) Go
11 4 (1.96%) Rust
12 2 (0.98%) C#
12 2 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.78%) Degree
3 15 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 13 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.41%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.43%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.49%) ISEB
10 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.90%) QA
2 8 (3.92%) SLA
3 7 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.47%) GDPR
4 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (38.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 118 (57.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.76%) Kibana
3 20 (9.80%) Terraform
4 12 (5.88%) Argo
5 10 (4.90%) Ansible
6 3 (1.47%) Grafana
7 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (10.78%) Dynatrace
1 22 (10.78%) Splunk
2 21 (10.29%) Oracle
3 13 (6.37%) Google
4 6 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.45%) Solace
6 4 (1.96%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.47%) SAP
8 2 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.98%) IBM
9 1 (0.49%) Databricks
9 1 (0.49%) HP
9 1 (0.49%) Informatica
9 1 (0.49%) OpenText
9 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.49%) Revolut
9 1 (0.49%) Siebel
9 1 (0.49%) WSO2