Spring Job Trends in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 95 44
Rank change year-on-year -40 -51 +28
Permanent jobs citing Spring 4 49 230
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% 1.84% 7.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 8.06% 24.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1 32 78
10th Percentile - £46,350 £47,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,109 £50,764
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -0.82% +8.58%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,253 £72,433
90th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £71,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -5.33% +6.27% -5.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 317 608 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.63% 22.80% 31.86%
Number of salaries quoted 120 351 529
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,813 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,945 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Scotland

Spring
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Spring

Spring
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Glasgow +15 4 £67,500 +16.38%
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree