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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 208 175
Rank change year-on-year 0 -33 -81
Permanent jobs citing Spring 202 213 399
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.64% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 6.06% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 129 107 317
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,610 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -5.29% +2.78%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,625 £101,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £122,500
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 2,944 3,516 5,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.86% 27.01% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 2,475 4,749
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,454 £48,725
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 £101,250 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £124,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +10 24 £95,000 -4.04% 20
South London -12 9 £70,000 -15.15%
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 12 (5.94%) JBoss
2 11 (5.45%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.49%) Apache
4 3 (1.49%) Liferay
5 2 (0.99%) Camunda
5 2 (0.99%) Confluence
6 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 90 (44.55%) AWS
2 33 (16.34%) Azure
3 23 (11.39%) SaaS
4 20 (9.90%) GCP
5 17 (8.42%) Serverless
6 16 (7.92%) OpenShift
7 14 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (3.96%) GitHub
10 6 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.48%) dbt
11 5 (2.48%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.49%) Apigee
12 3 (1.49%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.84%) Relational Database
2 26 (12.87%) NoSQL
3 24 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (11.39%) RDBMS
5 12 (5.94%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.96%) Redis
8 6 (2.97%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.48%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.48%) MySQL
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.99%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.50%) Big Data
12 1 (0.50%) Flink
12 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (9.90%) Git
2 18 (8.91%) GitLab
2 18 (8.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.45%) Gradle
3 11 (5.45%) JUnit
4 10 (4.95%) Cucumber
5 7 (3.47%) Maven
6 6 (2.97%) JIRA
6 6 (2.97%) Mockito
7 5 (2.48%) JMeter
7 5 (2.48%) Selenium
8 4 (1.98%) Postman
9 3 (1.49%) Subversion
10 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.50%) git-flow
11 1 (0.50%) MLflow
11 1 (0.50%) NUnit
11 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (30.69%) Finance
2 55 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.39%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (7.92%) Billing
6 15 (7.43%) Financial Institution
7 14 (6.93%) Front Office
8 9 (4.46%) Games
9 5 (2.48%) Banking
9 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.49%) Law
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Advertising
11 2 (0.99%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Aviation
12 1 (0.50%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 91 (45.05%) Developer
2 73 (36.14%) Java Developer
3 64 (31.68%) Senior
4 62 (30.69%) Java Engineer
5 43 (21.29%) Software Engineer
6 29 (14.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 26 (12.87%) Senior Java Engineer
8 25 (12.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (12.38%) Senior Developer
9 24 (11.88%) Architect
10 23 (11.39%) Senior Java Developer
11 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (7.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 13 (6.44%) Lead
13 11 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.45%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.47%) Angular Developer
15 7 (3.47%) Principal Java Engineer
16 6 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (74.26%) Spring Boot
2 48 (23.76%) Kafka
3 47 (23.27%) REST
4 40 (19.80%) React
5 31 (15.35%) Hibernate
6 30 (14.85%) AngularJS
7 18 (8.91%) JSON
8 17 (8.42%) GraphQL
8 17 (8.42%) HTML
8 17 (8.42%) RESTful
8 17 (8.42%) SOAP
9 16 (7.92%) Node.js
9 16 (7.92%) XML
10 15 (7.43%) .NET
10 15 (7.43%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (7.43%) Web Services
11 13 (6.44%) Bootstrap
12 12 (5.94%) CSS
12 12 (5.94%) Middleware
13 10 (4.95%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 55 (27.23%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.87%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.45%) DataPower
4 9 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.46%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.96%) e-Learning
6 6 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.48%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.48%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.49%) Equities
8 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
1 2 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (55.94%) Microservices
2 82 (40.59%) CI/CD
3 71 (35.15%) Agile
4 58 (28.71%) Software Engineering
5 53 (26.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (25.25%) DevOps
7 50 (24.75%) Containerisation
7 50 (24.75%) Mentoring
8 44 (21.78%) Event-Driven
9 43 (21.29%) AI
10 39 (19.31%) Test Automation
11 36 (17.82%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (13.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 28 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (13.37%) Roadmaps
15 26 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (10.89%) Scrum
17 21 (10.40%) BDD
17 21 (10.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 200 (99.01%) Java
2 46 (22.77%) SQL
3 41 (20.30%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.86%) Python
5 19 (9.41%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.42%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.97%) C#
7 6 (2.97%) PHP
8 5 (2.48%) Scala
8 5 (2.48%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.99%) C++
9 2 (0.99%) Go
9 2 (0.99%) Ruby
10 1 (0.50%) Delphi
10 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 34 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 31 (15.35%) Degree
3 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.48%) QA
2 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 53 (26.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (36.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.94%) Terraform
3 7 (3.47%) Grafana
3 7 (3.47%) Kibana
4 6 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (3.96%) Solace
2 7 (3.47%) Google
3 5 (2.48%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.48%) Splunk
4 4 (1.98%) Oracle
5 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.49%) Revolut
6 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) HP
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.50%) OpenText
7 1 (0.50%) Siebel