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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 195 137
Rank change year-on-year -8 -58 -34
Permanent jobs citing Spring 179 284 428
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.35% 1.68% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.58% 6.18% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 103 121 386
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £119,000 £142,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.33% - -4.02%

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 2,722 4,592 5,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.59% 27.17% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 2,953 4,691
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £137,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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
South London +23 27 £82,500 +32.00% 6
Central London +42 16 £100,000 -6.98% 9
West London +2 3 £60,000 - 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 7 (3.91%) Apache
1 7 (3.91%) JBoss
1 7 (3.91%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 138 (77.09%) AWS
2 41 (22.91%) Amazon EKS
3 38 (21.23%) Serverless
4 24 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (12.85%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (12.85%) Azure
6 22 (12.29%) SaaS
7 21 (11.73%) GCP
8 15 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.70%) GitHub
10 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.91%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.79%) CloudFront
14 5 (2.79%) Figma
15 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.68%) Amazon MSK
16 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
1 42 (23.46%) Relational Database
2 30 (16.76%) RDBMS
3 25 (13.97%) MongoDB
4 21 (11.73%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.23%) Redis
9 3 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
9 3 (1.68%) Big Data
9 3 (1.68%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.68%) MySQL
10 2 (1.12%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.12%) Tick Data
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.56%) Flink
11 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (20.67%) Jenkins
2 24 (13.41%) JUnit
3 22 (12.29%) Mockito
4 20 (11.17%) Git
4 20 (11.17%) JMeter
5 17 (9.50%) GitLab
6 9 (5.03%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.03%) JIRA
7 7 (3.91%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.91%) Vite
8 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.79%) Maven
9 3 (1.68%) Gradle
9 3 (1.68%) Selenium
9 3 (1.68%) Subversion
10 2 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.56%) MLflow
11 1 (0.56%) Postman
11 1 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 81 (45.25%) Finance
2 66 (36.87%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.32%) Public Sector
4 30 (16.76%) Banking
5 27 (15.08%) Financial Institution
6 20 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (9.50%) Law
9 11 (6.15%) Front Office
10 7 (3.91%) Investment Banking
11 4 (2.23%) Marketing
11 4 (2.23%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.12%) Aviation
13 2 (1.12%) Billing
13 2 (1.12%) Games
13 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Legal
14 1 (0.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (41.90%) Developer
2 61 (34.08%) Java Developer
3 54 (30.17%) Java Engineer
4 51 (28.49%) Senior
5 49 (27.37%) Software Engineer
6 33 (18.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (17.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 30 (16.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 25 (13.97%) Senior Java Engineer
10 24 (13.41%) Lead
11 15 (8.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 14 (7.82%) Kafka Engineer
13 12 (6.70%) Senior Developer
14 11 (6.15%) Architect
14 11 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
15 10 (5.59%) Angular Developer
15 10 (5.59%) Backend Developer
15 10 (5.59%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 10 (5.59%) Kafka Developer
15 10 (5.59%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (69.83%) Spring Boot
2 63 (35.20%) Kafka
3 43 (24.02%) REST
4 39 (21.79%) Hibernate
5 32 (17.88%) React
6 30 (16.76%) ActiveMQ
7 29 (16.20%) AngularJS
8 28 (15.64%) HTML
9 25 (13.97%) Web Services
10 24 (13.41%) RESTful
11 22 (12.29%) GraphQL
11 22 (12.29%) XML
12 21 (11.73%) JSON
13 20 (11.17%) Apache Camel
13 20 (11.17%) jQuery
13 20 (11.17%) WireMock
14 15 (8.38%) Akka
14 15 (8.38%) RxJava
14 15 (8.38%) Spring WebFlux
15 14 (7.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 67 (37.43%) Cloud Native
2 39 (21.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.15%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.59%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.59%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.91%) DataPower
5 7 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.35%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.79%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.68%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.68%) Legacy Code
10 2 (1.12%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (60.89%) Microservices
2 94 (52.51%) CI/CD
3 93 (51.96%) Agile
4 64 (35.75%) Software Engineering
5 51 (28.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 49 (27.37%) TDD
7 44 (24.58%) BDD
8 40 (22.35%) Event-Driven
8 40 (22.35%) SDLC
9 37 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (20.11%) DevOps
10 36 (20.11%) Fintech
11 30 (16.76%) Test Automation
12 29 (16.20%) Containerisation
12 29 (16.20%) Mentoring
13 26 (14.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 24 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (12.29%) AI
15 22 (12.29%) Scrum
15 22 (12.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 178 (99.44%) Java
2 47 (26.26%) JavaScript
3 40 (22.35%) Python
4 28 (15.64%) SQL
4 28 (15.64%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.29%) Shell Script
6 20 (11.17%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.79%) Scala
8 4 (2.23%) C#
9 2 (1.12%) Go
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Delphi
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Korn
10 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.85%) Degree
3 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (7.26%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 10 (5.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.03%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.91%) AWS Certified Developer
8 7 (3.91%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.56%) ISEB
10 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (36.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (48.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.85%) Kibana
3 11 (6.15%) Terraform
4 4 (2.23%) Argo
5 3 (1.68%) Grafana
6 2 (1.12%) Ansible
7 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (11.17%) Dynatrace
1 20 (11.17%) Splunk
2 11 (6.15%) Oracle
3 10 (5.59%) Google
4 6 (3.35%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.79%) Solace
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) OpenText
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.56%) Revolut
7 1 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.56%) Siebel