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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 187 217
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 -104
Permanent jobs citing Spring 265 230 317
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.87% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.70% 6.94% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 150 105 199
10th Percentile £59,750 £55,500 £51,200
25th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £137,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -0.73%

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 3,440 3,316 5,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.23% 26.89% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 2,303 4,094
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £83,490
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% +4.36%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +9 34 £90,000 -12.20% 8
West London -10 10 £80,000 +33.33% 3
South London -32 10 £70,000 -15.15% 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 13 (4.91%) Confluence
2 10 (3.77%) Camunda
3 7 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.13%) JBoss
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (4.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (51.32%) AWS
2 85 (32.08%) Azure
3 32 (12.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 27 (10.19%) GitHub
5 25 (9.43%) GCP
6 17 (6.42%) Azure Service Bus
7 15 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.66%) Serverless
8 13 (4.91%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (4.91%) Azure Storage
9 11 (4.15%) Lucidchart
9 11 (4.15%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (2.26%) Vertex AI
14 5 (1.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.91%) DMARC
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 38 (14.34%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.92%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.15%) Db2
5 11 (4.15%) Redis
6 10 (3.77%) DTS
7 9 (3.40%) MySQL
8 8 (3.02%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.89%) NonStop SQL
10 4 (1.51%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.38%) Big Data
12 1 (0.38%) Flink
12 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (14.72%) GitLab
2 29 (10.94%) Cucumber
3 21 (7.92%) Git
4 17 (6.42%) Jenkins
5 16 (6.04%) JUnit
6 12 (4.53%) Gradle
6 12 (4.53%) Mockito
7 8 (3.02%) Maven
8 7 (2.64%) Claude Code
8 7 (2.64%) Selenium
9 4 (1.51%) JIRA
9 4 (1.51%) Spock
10 2 (0.75%) JMeter
11 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.38%) git-flow
11 1 (0.38%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 121 (45.66%) Finance
2 49 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.96%) Banking
4 32 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.79%) Financial Institution
6 15 (5.66%) Front Office
7 10 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.40%) Billing
9 8 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.89%) Retail
12 4 (1.51%) Advertising
13 3 (1.13%) Games
13 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Aviation
14 2 (0.75%) Law
14 2 (0.75%) Marketing
14 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.38%) iGaming
15 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (34.72%) Java Engineer
2 83 (31.32%) Developer
3 71 (26.79%) Senior
4 69 (26.04%) Java Developer
5 34 (12.83%) Lead
6 33 (12.45%) Senior Java Engineer
7 28 (10.57%) Engineering Manager
7 28 (10.57%) Software Engineering Manager
7 28 (10.57%) Software Manager
8 27 (10.19%) Software Engineer
9 26 (9.81%) Principal Engineer
10 24 (9.06%) Senior Developer
11 23 (8.68%) Principal Java Engineer
12 22 (8.30%) Architect
13 21 (7.92%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (6.04%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (5.66%) Technical Leader
16 12 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (79.62%) Spring Boot
2 92 (34.72%) Kafka
3 48 (18.11%) REST
4 42 (15.85%) RESTful
5 38 (14.34%) React
6 34 (12.83%) Node.js
7 31 (11.70%) AngularJS
8 24 (9.06%) OAuth
9 23 (8.68%) Hibernate
10 21 (7.92%) OAuth2
11 15 (5.66%) Middleware
12 13 (4.91%) YAML
13 11 (4.15%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (4.15%) JPA
13 11 (4.15%) Web Services
14 10 (3.77%) HTML
14 10 (3.77%) JWT
15 9 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (3.02%) Akka
16 8 (3.02%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 88 (33.21%) Cloud Native
2 61 (23.02%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (21.51%) Public Cloud
4 32 (12.08%) Product Ownership
5 28 (10.57%) e-Learning
6 22 (8.30%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (3.77%) EPoS
9 10 (3.77%) iSeries
10 4 (1.51%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.75%) Equities
12 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 1 (0.38%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) Linux
1 2 (0.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (63.40%) Microservices
2 152 (57.36%) CI/CD
3 110 (41.51%) Agile
4 95 (35.85%) Test Automation
5 89 (33.58%) Software Engineering
6 86 (32.45%) Event-Driven
7 80 (30.19%) Mentoring
8 78 (29.43%) Containerisation
9 71 (26.79%) DevOps
10 57 (21.51%) Technical Leadership
11 54 (20.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (19.25%) Roadmaps
13 49 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
14 48 (18.11%) AI
15 47 (17.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 45 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
17 44 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (15.09%) BDD
19 36 (13.58%) Architectural Patterns
20 35 (13.21%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 259 (97.74%) Java
2 58 (21.89%) SQL
3 33 (12.45%) Python
4 31 (11.70%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.77%) RPG
7 6 (2.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.89%) C++
9 4 (1.51%) Go
10 3 (1.13%) C#
11 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) Ruby
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.94%) AWS Certification
1 29 (10.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 28 (10.57%) Degree
2 28 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 21 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.38%) OCP
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.92%) QA
2 7 (2.64%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (22.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.92%) Terraform
3 5 (1.89%) Grafana
3 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.13%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (4.91%) SendGrid
2 12 (4.53%) Google
2 12 (4.53%) IBM
3 11 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.40%) Oracle
5 8 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.26%) Solace
7 4 (1.51%) Splunk
8 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.75%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.75%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.75%) Revolut
9 2 (0.75%) TikTok
10 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.38%) Sybase
10 1 (0.38%) Workday