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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 202 227
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 -91
Permanent jobs citing Spring 286 206 266
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.72% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.09% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 149 81 131
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +9.09% -1.20%
75th Percentile £91,250 £111,250 £112,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £147,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -4.04%

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 3,889 3,382 5,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.73% 28.23% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,501 2,292 3,770
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,000 £63,813
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 £113,750
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 12 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 12 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 +10 29 £100,000 -3.61% 31
West London -6 12 £80,000 +33.33% 22
South London -32 8 £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 (4.90%) Camunda
2 12 (4.20%) Confluence
3 5 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.40%) JBoss
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 165 (57.69%) AWS
2 87 (30.42%) Azure
3 42 (14.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 29 (10.14%) GitHub
5 27 (9.44%) GCP
6 18 (6.29%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (5.24%) Serverless
9 14 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (4.55%) Azure Storage
11 11 (3.85%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.15%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.55%) DMARC
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) LTE
2 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (21.33%) NoSQL
2 44 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.85%) Db2
5 11 (3.85%) Redis
6 10 (3.50%) DTS
7 6 (2.10%) MySQL
8 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.05%) Flink
10 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
10 2 (0.70%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.70%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.35%) Big Data
11 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (17.13%) GitLab
2 41 (14.34%) Cucumber
3 26 (9.09%) Git
4 23 (8.04%) Jenkins
5 19 (6.64%) JUnit
6 16 (5.59%) Mockito
7 14 (4.90%) Maven
8 9 (3.15%) Gradle
9 8 (2.80%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.80%) Selenium
10 4 (1.40%) JIRA
10 4 (1.40%) Spock
11 2 (0.70%) JMeter
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.35%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 135 (47.20%) Finance
2 63 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 60 (20.98%) Banking
4 28 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.74%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.15%) Front Office
7 8 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.10%) Retail
9 5 (1.75%) Marketing
10 3 (1.05%) Back Office
10 3 (1.05%) Billing
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.70%) Advertising
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (35.31%) Java Engineer
2 87 (30.42%) Senior
3 70 (24.48%) Developer
4 52 (18.18%) Java Developer
5 43 (15.03%) Software Engineer
6 38 (13.29%) Senior Java Engineer
7 34 (11.89%) Lead
8 32 (11.19%) Engineering Manager
8 32 (11.19%) Software Engineering Manager
8 32 (11.19%) Software Manager
9 31 (10.84%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (10.49%) Principal Java Engineer
10 30 (10.49%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (7.69%) Architect
12 18 (6.29%) Technical Leader
13 16 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.59%) Senior Developer
14 15 (5.24%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (75.17%) Spring Boot
2 121 (42.31%) Kafka
3 51 (17.83%) REST
4 50 (17.48%) RESTful
5 37 (12.94%) React
6 31 (10.84%) Node.js
7 29 (10.14%) OAuth
8 26 (9.09%) OAuth2
9 24 (8.39%) Hibernate
10 21 (7.34%) AngularJS
11 20 (6.99%) Terraform
12 15 (5.24%) JPA
13 13 (4.55%) Middleware
13 13 (4.55%) YAML
14 11 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.50%) JWT
15 10 (3.50%) Web Services
16 9 (3.15%) Jakarta EE
16 9 (3.15%) OpenAPI
16 9 (3.15%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 102 (35.66%) Cloud Native
2 87 (30.42%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (24.83%) Public Cloud
4 38 (13.29%) e-Learning
4 38 (13.29%) Product Ownership
5 27 (9.44%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.50%) EPoS
8 10 (3.50%) iSeries
9 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.45%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.40%) Blog
12 3 (1.05%) Credit Risk
12 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.05%) Pricing Data
12 3 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Android
1 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.64%) Microservices
2 172 (60.14%) CI/CD
3 121 (42.31%) Event-Driven
4 116 (40.56%) Agile
5 113 (39.51%) Software Engineering
6 112 (39.16%) Test Automation
7 84 (29.37%) Mentoring
8 73 (25.52%) DevOps
9 69 (24.13%) Containerisation
9 69 (24.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 63 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (18.88%) BDD
13 53 (18.53%) Roadmaps
14 52 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (17.83%) AI
16 46 (16.08%) CQRS
17 41 (14.34%) Architectural Patterns
17 41 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (14.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 280 (97.90%) Java
2 63 (22.03%) SQL
3 29 (10.14%) Python
3 29 (10.14%) TypeScript
4 22 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.90%) Kotlin
6 10 (3.50%) RPG
7 5 (1.75%) C#
8 4 (1.40%) C++
9 3 (1.05%) Go
9 3 (1.05%) Scala
10 2 (0.70%) Groovy
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) ProC
11 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (13.29%) AWS Certification
1 38 (13.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 25 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.99%) Degree
5 11 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.74%) QA
2 7 (2.45%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) WCAG
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (21.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.75%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) Grafana
3 2 (0.70%) Kibana
3 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 15 (5.24%) Google
2 14 (4.90%) IBM
2 14 (4.90%) Oracle
3 13 (4.55%) SendGrid
4 12 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.40%) Splunk
7 3 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.05%) Solace
8 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.70%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.70%) TikTok
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.35%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.35%) Sybase
9 1 (0.35%) Workday