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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 204 177
Rank change year-on-year -8 -27 -81
Permanent jobs citing Spring 203 213 394
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.66% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.68% 6.13% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 130 109 315
10th Percentile £54,875 £60,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,610 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -2.66% -
75th Percentile £92,188 £118,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £129,000 £125,000
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 3,038 3,475 5,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.71% 27.07% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,147 2,498 4,755
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,317 £47,675
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 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +6 25 £90,000 -15.29% 20
South London -15 8 £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 (5.91%) JBoss
2 11 (5.42%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.48%) Apache
5 3 (1.48%) Liferay
6 2 (0.99%) Camunda
6 2 (0.99%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.84%) AWS
2 36 (17.73%) Azure
3 21 (10.34%) GCP
3 21 (10.34%) SaaS
4 16 (7.88%) OpenShift
5 13 (6.40%) Serverless
6 11 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (3.45%) GitHub
9 6 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.46%) dbt
10 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.48%) Anthos
11 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.48%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 28 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.85%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.43%) Redis
7 8 (3.94%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.96%) MySQL
9 5 (2.46%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.48%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.49%) Flink
12 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.49%) Tableau
12 1 (0.49%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (10.34%) Git
2 15 (7.39%) GitLab
3 13 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.91%) Gradle
5 10 (4.93%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.93%) JUnit
6 6 (2.96%) JIRA
6 6 (2.96%) Maven
6 6 (2.96%) Selenium
7 5 (2.46%) Mockito
8 4 (1.97%) JMeter
8 4 (1.97%) Postman
9 3 (1.48%) Subversion
10 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.49%) git-flow
11 1 (0.49%) MLflow
11 1 (0.49%) NUnit
11 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (32.02%) Finance
2 51 (25.12%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.33%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.88%) Billing
6 14 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 13 (6.40%) Front Office
8 9 (4.43%) Banking
8 9 (4.43%) Games
9 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.48%) Advertising
10 3 (1.48%) Law
10 3 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.99%) Aviation
11 2 (0.99%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) iGaming
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (43.84%) Developer
2 73 (35.96%) Java Developer
3 65 (32.02%) Senior
4 63 (31.03%) Java Engineer
5 43 (21.18%) Software Engineer
6 29 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 26 (12.81%) Senior Developer
8 25 (12.32%) Senior Java Engineer
9 24 (11.82%) Architect
9 24 (11.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 23 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (7.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (5.91%) Lead
13 11 (5.42%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.42%) Senior Architect
14 10 (4.93%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (3.45%) Principal Java Engineer
16 6 (2.96%) Angular Developer
16 6 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (72.91%) Spring Boot
2 47 (23.15%) Kafka
3 46 (22.66%) REST
4 43 (21.18%) React
5 30 (14.78%) AngularJS
5 30 (14.78%) Hibernate
6 19 (9.36%) RESTful
7 17 (8.37%) HTML
7 17 (8.37%) JSON
7 17 (8.37%) SOAP
8 15 (7.39%) .NET
8 15 (7.39%) GraphQL
8 15 (7.39%) Web Services
8 15 (7.39%) XML
9 14 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (6.40%) Bootstrap
10 13 (6.40%) CSS
10 13 (6.40%) Node.js
11 12 (5.91%) Middleware
12 10 (4.93%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.62%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.91%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.42%) DataPower
5 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.94%) e-Learning
7 7 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.48%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.99%) Equities
13 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
1 2 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (54.68%) Microservices
2 85 (41.87%) CI/CD
3 68 (33.50%) Agile
4 62 (30.54%) Software Engineering
5 52 (25.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 51 (25.12%) DevOps
7 49 (24.14%) Mentoring
8 47 (23.15%) Containerisation
9 45 (22.17%) Event-Driven
10 42 (20.69%) AI
11 40 (19.70%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (18.72%) Test Automation
13 32 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (15.27%) Roadmaps
15 28 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 27 (13.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 25 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (9.85%) Integration Patterns
18 20 (9.85%) TDD
19 19 (9.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.01%) Java
2 48 (23.65%) SQL
3 38 (18.72%) JavaScript
4 23 (11.33%) Python
5 17 (8.37%) Kotlin
5 17 (8.37%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.96%) C#
6 6 (2.96%) PHP
7 5 (2.46%) Scala
8 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.48%) C++
9 3 (1.48%) Go
10 2 (0.99%) Ruby
11 1 (0.49%) Delphi
11 1 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (16.26%) Degree
2 31 (15.27%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.49%) ISEB
8 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.46%) QA
2 3 (1.48%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 51 (25.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.90%) Terraform
3 6 (2.96%) Grafana
3 6 (2.96%) Kibana
4 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Argo
5 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (3.45%) Google
1 7 (3.45%) Solace
2 4 (1.97%) Dynatrace
2 4 (1.97%) Splunk
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.48%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.48%) Revolut
4 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) OpenText
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Siebel