Spring Job Trends in the North of England

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 138 256
Rank change year-on-year -67 +118 -106
Permanent jobs citing Spring 138 188 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 2.30% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.84% 11.76% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 97 43 88
10th Percentile £52,750 £35,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +19.30% +5.56%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,284 £97,900
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,760 1,598 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.89% 19.59% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 847 2,901
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,375 £93,750 £79,600
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 the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Spring job vacancy trend in the North of England

Spring
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in the North of England

Spring
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North West -43 87 £67,500 -20.82% 15
Yorkshire -13 43 £75,000 +11.11% 14
North East -38 8 £50,000 -31.03% 7
Spring
England

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.17%) Apache
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 79 (57.25%) AWS
2 52 (37.68%) Serverless
3 33 (23.91%) Amazon ECS
4 32 (23.19%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (21.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (19.57%) Amazon S3
7 22 (15.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (10.14%) Amazon ECR
8 14 (10.14%) Apigee
9 13 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (9.42%) Azure
10 9 (6.52%) GitHub
11 7 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (5.07%) GCP
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.17%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.45%) ChatGPT
14 2 (1.45%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) AMQP
2 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 23 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.62%) MySQL
6 3 (2.17%) Big Data
6 3 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.45%) Power BI
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.49%) Git
3 15 (10.87%) GitLab
4 9 (6.52%) Cypress.io
4 9 (6.52%) Maven
5 7 (5.07%) JIRA
6 5 (3.62%) JUnit
6 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.90%) Spock
8 2 (1.45%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.72%) Postman
9 1 (0.72%) Selenium
General
1 21 (15.22%) Finance
2 10 (7.25%) Banking
3 9 (6.52%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.62%) Advertising
5 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.90%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.72%) Games
7 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (50.00%) Developer
2 50 (36.23%) Java Developer
3 46 (33.33%) Senior
4 39 (28.26%) Java Engineer
5 33 (23.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 30 (21.74%) Senior Developer
7 26 (18.84%) Lead
7 26 (18.84%) Software Engineer
8 25 (18.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
10 14 (10.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (9.42%) Lead Java Engineer
12 12 (8.70%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (5.80%) Applications Engineer
15 8 (5.80%) Lead Developer
15 8 (5.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 8 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
15 8 (5.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (81.88%) Spring Boot
2 60 (43.48%) AngularJS
3 42 (30.43%) React
4 30 (21.74%) REST
5 26 (18.84%) Node.js
6 20 (14.49%) Vue
7 14 (10.14%) Kafka
7 14 (10.14%) RESTful
8 8 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (5.80%) Gherkin
8 8 (5.80%) Web Services
9 6 (4.35%) OAuth
9 6 (4.35%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.62%) CSS
10 5 (3.62%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.62%) HTML
10 5 (3.62%) Jest
11 4 (2.90%) gRPC
11 4 (2.90%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.90%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) CentOS
1 3 (2.17%) Debian
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
1 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 60 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 57 (41.30%) Microservices
4 51 (36.96%) DevOps
5 50 (36.23%) Agile
6 39 (28.26%) Test Automation
7 35 (25.36%) Scrum
7 35 (25.36%) TDD
8 32 (23.19%) Containerisation
9 31 (22.46%) Software Engineering
10 30 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (21.01%) Mentoring
12 24 (17.39%) Clean Code
12 24 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (13.04%) Design Patterns
15 16 (11.59%) AI
15 16 (11.59%) SDLC
16 15 (10.87%) Architectural Patterns
16 15 (10.87%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 138 (100.00%) Java
2 33 (23.91%) TypeScript
3 28 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 26 (18.84%) SQL
5 19 (13.77%) Python
6 14 (10.14%) Kotlin
7 13 (9.42%) Groovy
8 5 (3.62%) Bash
9 2 (1.45%) C
9 2 (1.45%) C#
9 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.97%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) QA
System Software
1 52 (37.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (26.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.67%) Terraform
3 14 (10.14%) Ansible
4 4 (2.90%) HP Fortify
5 3 (2.17%) Puppet
6 2 (1.45%) Kibana
6 2 (1.45%) Packer
6 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (4.35%) AppDynamics
1 6 (4.35%) Oracle
1 6 (4.35%) Splunk
2 3 (2.17%) Google
2 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.17%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.45%) IBM
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.45%) Pega
3 2 (1.45%) WSO2
4 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace