Spring Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 24 43
Rank change year-on-year -84 +19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Spring 6 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.43% 3.58% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 26.83% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,375
25th Percentile - £50,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £75,938
90th Percentile - - £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 134 41 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.70% 13.36% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 81
10th Percentile £39,250 £46,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £74,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Spring
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Spring

Spring
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
County Antrim -55 6 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Dropwizard
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Workday