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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 224 169
Rank change year-on-year +26 -55 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring 75 57 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 0.63% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.84% 3.64% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 39 35 98
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,471 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,075 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £75,500 £87,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £81,500 £93,778 £97,577
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%

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 1,097 1,566 2,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.18% 17.22% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 900 929 1,684
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Yorkshire +5 38 £68,750 +1.85% 7
North West +26 34 £65,000 -18.75% 23
North East +8 5 £65,000 +23.81% 5
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 11 (14.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.00%) Apache
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.67%) JBoss
3 2 (2.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 58 (77.33%) AWS
2 29 (38.67%) Serverless
3 23 (30.67%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (25.33%) Azure
5 18 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (22.67%) Amazon S3
7 15 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (16.00%) GCP
9 11 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (12.00%) Apigee
10 9 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (5.33%) GitHub
12 4 (5.33%) OpenShift
13 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 1 (1.33%) Amazon Cognito
15 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) AMQP
2 4 (5.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (17.33%) Relational Database
3 10 (13.33%) DynamoDB
3 10 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (37.33%) Jenkins
2 23 (30.67%) Git
3 12 (16.00%) GitLab
4 11 (14.67%) Cypress.io
5 10 (13.33%) Maven
5 10 (13.33%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.00%) JUnit
7 4 (5.33%) JIRA
8 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.67%) Selenium
9 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.33%) Babel
9 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.33%) webpack
General
1 21 (28.00%) Finance
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Billing
6 2 (2.67%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Games
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (53.33%) Developer
2 31 (41.33%) Java Developer
3 25 (33.33%) Senior
4 15 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 15 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (16.00%) Lead
5 12 (16.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (9.33%) Java Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Technical Leader
11 3 (4.00%) Backend Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
12 2 (2.67%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (88.00%) Spring Boot
2 26 (34.67%) AngularJS
3 24 (32.00%) Node.js
3 24 (32.00%) REST
4 20 (26.67%) React
5 16 (21.33%) Kafka
6 13 (17.33%) Web Services
7 12 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (16.00%) Hibernate
8 10 (13.33%) Jest
9 9 (12.00%) Gherkin
9 9 (12.00%) RESTful
10 7 (9.33%) gRPC
10 7 (9.33%) Mustache
11 6 (8.00%) CSS
11 6 (8.00%) HTML
12 5 (6.67%) Micronaut
13 4 (5.33%) Apache Camel
13 4 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (5.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) DataPower
4 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) CentOS
1 3 (4.00%) Debian
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
1 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (66.67%) Agile
2 43 (57.33%) Microservices
3 42 (56.00%) DevOps
4 41 (54.67%) CI/CD
5 33 (44.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (34.67%) Scrum
6 26 (34.67%) TDD
7 25 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 23 (30.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (29.33%) Containerisation
10 18 (24.00%) Mentoring
11 17 (22.67%) Code Quality
11 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (18.67%) SDLC
13 13 (17.33%) BDD
14 12 (16.00%) Clean Code
14 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
15 10 (13.33%) AI
15 10 (13.33%) Kanban
15 10 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (41.33%) JavaScript
3 20 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 12 (16.00%) Python
5 10 (13.33%) SQL
6 8 (10.67%) Bash
6 8 (10.67%) Groovy
7 5 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.00%) C#
8 3 (4.00%) Scala
9 2 (2.67%) R
10 1 (1.33%) Delphi
10 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (56.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.67%) Ansible
3 9 (12.00%) HP Fortify
3 9 (12.00%) Terraform
4 3 (4.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.67%) Grafana
6 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Google
1 4 (5.33%) Pega
1 4 (5.33%) WSO2
2 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.33%) IBM
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.33%) Moogsoft
4 1 (1.33%) SAP
4 1 (1.33%) Splunk