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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 205 150
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 -46
Permanent jobs citing Spring 184 246 443
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.60% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 6.05% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 116 103 380
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £92,500 £89,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +3.35% -0.56%
75th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £109,375 £127,500 £116,450
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 2,717 4,068 5,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.33% 26.47% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,520 4,903
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,125 £123,875 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +24 14 £100,000 -6.98% 19
South London -1 11 £62,600 -7.26% 5
West London -1 1 £82,500 - 1
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 (6.52%) JBoss
2 11 (5.98%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.63%) Liferay
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.54%) Camunda
6 1 (0.54%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 102 (55.43%) AWS
2 27 (14.67%) Amazon EKS
3 26 (14.13%) Serverless
4 25 (13.59%) SaaS
5 19 (10.33%) Azure
6 16 (8.70%) GCP
7 15 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (5.43%) OpenShift
11 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.80%) GitHub
13 6 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.72%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (2.72%) Apigee
14 5 (2.72%) CloudFront
14 5 (2.72%) Figma
15 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (1.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.76%) PostgreSQL
1 29 (15.76%) Relational Database
2 25 (13.59%) RDBMS
3 23 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 21 (11.41%) MongoDB
5 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.72%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.72%) Redis
9 4 (2.17%) MySQL
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.63%) Apache Ignite
11 2 (1.09%) Tick Data
12 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.54%) Big Data
12 1 (0.54%) Flink
12 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.41%) Git
3 17 (9.24%) GitLab
4 16 (8.70%) JUnit
5 11 (5.98%) Mockito
6 10 (5.43%) JIRA
6 10 (5.43%) JMeter
7 9 (4.89%) Cypress.io
8 8 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.26%) Gradle
9 6 (3.26%) Maven
10 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.72%) Vite
11 4 (2.17%) Postman
12 3 (1.63%) Selenium
13 2 (1.09%) Subversion
14 1 (0.54%) MLflow
14 1 (0.54%) NUnit
14 1 (0.54%) SpecFlow
14 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (30.98%) Finance
2 56 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.78%) Financial Institution
5 17 (9.24%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.52%) Front Office
8 10 (5.43%) Billing
9 9 (4.89%) Banking
10 6 (3.26%) Games
11 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Law
12 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (42.93%) Developer
2 60 (32.61%) Java Developer
3 57 (30.98%) Senior
4 54 (29.35%) Java Engineer
5 41 (22.28%) Software Engineer
6 31 (16.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 29 (15.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 23 (12.50%) Architect
8 23 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
9 22 (11.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (9.24%) Lead
11 16 (8.70%) Senior Developer
12 15 (8.15%) Senior Java Developer
13 12 (6.52%) Senior Architect
14 9 (4.89%) Angular Developer
14 9 (4.89%) Backend Developer
14 9 (4.89%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 9 (4.89%) Kafka Developer
14 9 (4.89%) Kafka Engineer
14 9 (4.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (71.74%) Spring Boot
2 46 (25.00%) Kafka
3 43 (23.37%) REST
4 38 (20.65%) React
5 34 (18.48%) Hibernate
6 24 (13.04%) AngularJS
7 22 (11.96%) GraphQL
8 21 (11.41%) HTML
9 20 (10.87%) JSON
10 19 (10.33%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (10.33%) XML
11 18 (9.78%) RESTful
12 17 (9.24%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (9.24%) SOAP
13 16 (8.70%) Node.js
13 16 (8.70%) Web Services
14 14 (7.61%) .NET
15 13 (7.07%) Apache Camel
15 13 (7.07%) Next.js
16 12 (6.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 28 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.98%) DataPower
4 10 (5.43%) Virtual Team
5 9 (4.89%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.89%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.89%) Reference Data
5 9 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.26%) e-Learning
6 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.09%) Equities
9 2 (1.09%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.52%) Microservices
2 74 (40.22%) CI/CD
3 65 (35.33%) Agile
4 54 (29.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (28.26%) Software Engineering
6 45 (24.46%) Mentoring
7 44 (23.91%) DevOps
8 42 (22.83%) Event-Driven
9 34 (18.48%) Containerisation
10 32 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (16.30%) TDD
13 28 (15.22%) BDD
13 28 (15.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 27 (14.67%) AI
14 27 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (11.41%) Fintech
17 20 (10.87%) Roadmaps
18 19 (10.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 183 (99.46%) Java
2 43 (23.37%) JavaScript
3 34 (18.48%) SQL
4 28 (15.22%) Python
5 22 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.78%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.43%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.26%) PHP
9 5 (2.72%) Scala
10 4 (2.17%) C#
11 2 (1.09%) Ruby
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
12 1 (0.54%) Go
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
Qualifications
1 32 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.04%) Degree
3 16 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.54%) ISEB
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.26%) QA
System Software
1 53 (28.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 68 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.07%) Kibana
3 5 (2.72%) Terraform
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (5.43%) Dynatrace
1 10 (5.43%) Splunk
2 9 (4.89%) Google
3 8 (4.35%) Solace
4 7 (3.80%) Oracle
5 5 (2.72%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.54%) HP
7 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.54%) OpenText
7 1 (0.54%) Revolut
7 1 (0.54%) Siebel