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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 192 208
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -72
Permanent jobs citing Spring 299 204 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.74% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.44% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 148 80 122
10th Percentile £57,500 £58,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £74,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £84,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% +1.82%
75th Percentile £96,563 £111,250 £115,750
90th Percentile £115,375 £131,000 £141,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

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 3,928 3,168 5,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.99% 27.01% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 2,143 3,570
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +12 24 £105,000 +5.00% 11
West London -8 14 £80,000 +33.33% 6
South London -31 9 £70,000 -15.15% 2
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 18 (6.02%) Camunda
2 12 (4.01%) Confluence
3 5 (1.67%) Apache
4 4 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.34%) JBoss
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 183 (61.20%) AWS
2 89 (29.77%) Azure
3 49 (16.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 41 (13.71%) GitHub
5 29 (9.70%) GCP
6 20 (6.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 20 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.69%) Serverless
8 16 (5.35%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (5.02%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (5.02%) Azure Storage
9 15 (5.02%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.68%) Lucidchart
12 10 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (3.34%) Anthropic Claude
13 9 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.02%) DMARC
2 1 (0.33%) AMQP
2 1 (0.33%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 52 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.04%) Relational Database
4 26 (8.70%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.68%) Db2
6 10 (3.34%) DTS
7 8 (2.68%) MySQL
8 7 (2.34%) Redis
9 5 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.67%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.67%) Flink
12 2 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.67%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
13 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 57 (19.06%) GitLab
2 49 (16.39%) Cucumber
3 31 (10.37%) Git
4 26 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 22 (7.36%) JUnit
6 19 (6.35%) Mockito
7 16 (5.35%) Maven
8 12 (4.01%) Claude Code
9 8 (2.68%) Gradle
10 4 (1.34%) JIRA
10 4 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.34%) Selenium
10 4 (1.34%) Spock
11 2 (0.67%) JMeter
11 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.33%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 144 (48.16%) Finance
2 66 (22.07%) Banking
3 65 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.03%) Financial Institution
5 25 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Front Office
7 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Retail
9 5 (1.67%) Marketing
10 3 (1.00%) Back Office
10 3 (1.00%) Billing
10 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.67%) Law
11 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 104 (34.78%) Java Engineer
2 91 (30.43%) Senior
3 72 (24.08%) Developer
4 50 (16.72%) Java Developer
5 47 (15.72%) Software Engineer
6 40 (13.38%) Principal Engineer
7 39 (13.04%) Senior Java Engineer
8 36 (12.04%) Lead
8 36 (12.04%) Principal Java Engineer
9 30 (10.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 27 (9.03%) Architect
10 27 (9.03%) Engineering Manager
10 27 (9.03%) Software Engineering Manager
10 27 (9.03%) Software Manager
11 22 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 19 (6.35%) Senior Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Technical Leader
14 15 (5.02%) Java Architect
14 15 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (78.93%) Spring Boot
2 124 (41.47%) Kafka
3 60 (20.07%) REST
4 55 (18.39%) RESTful
5 39 (13.04%) Node.js
5 39 (13.04%) React
6 33 (11.04%) AngularJS
7 30 (10.03%) OAuth
8 28 (9.36%) OAuth2
9 27 (9.03%) Hibernate
10 22 (7.36%) Terraform
11 15 (5.02%) JPA
11 15 (5.02%) YAML
12 14 (4.68%) Middleware
13 13 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
14 11 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.34%) OpenAPI
15 10 (3.34%) Spring Security
16 9 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
16 9 (3.01%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 113 (37.79%) Cloud Native
2 94 (31.44%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (24.75%) Public Cloud
4 46 (15.38%) e-Learning
5 40 (13.38%) Product Ownership
6 35 (11.71%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (3.34%) EPoS
10 10 (3.34%) iSeries
11 7 (2.34%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.34%) Blog
14 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 3 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.00%) Pricing Data
15 2 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Android
1 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (68.90%) Microservices
2 191 (63.88%) CI/CD
3 131 (43.81%) Agile
3 131 (43.81%) Event-Driven
4 123 (41.14%) Software Engineering
5 119 (39.80%) Test Automation
6 83 (27.76%) Mentoring
7 75 (25.08%) DevOps
7 75 (25.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 73 (24.41%) Containerisation
9 69 (23.08%) AI
10 68 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 63 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (20.40%) BDD
13 51 (17.06%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (16.72%) CQRS
14 50 (16.72%) Full-Stack Development
15 47 (15.72%) Roadmaps
16 46 (15.38%) Performance Testing
17 40 (13.38%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 292 (97.66%) Java
2 72 (24.08%) SQL
3 33 (11.04%) TypeScript
4 29 (9.70%) Python
5 23 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.68%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.34%) RPG
8 5 (1.67%) C#
9 3 (1.00%) Scala
10 2 (0.67%) Groovy
10 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) ProC
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (16.72%) AWS Certification
2 46 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 29 (9.70%) Security Cleared
4 25 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.02%) Degree
6 12 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.67%) OCP
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (2.34%) ISO 20022
3 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (23.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (24.08%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.67%) Ansible
3 2 (0.67%) Grafana
3 2 (0.67%) Kibana
3 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 16 (5.35%) Oracle
2 15 (5.02%) Google
2 15 (5.02%) IBM
2 15 (5.02%) SendGrid
3 10 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.34%) Adobe
5 4 (1.34%) Splunk
6 3 (1.00%) Solace
7 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.67%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.67%) TikTok
8 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.33%) Databricks
8 1 (0.33%) Foundry
8 1 (0.33%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.33%) Workday