Spring Jobs in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 34 83
Rank change year-on-year -17 +49 -14
Permanent jobs citing Spring 166 559 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.13% 8.98% 3.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 36.17% 30.33% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14 43 68
10th Percentile £63,750 £39,650 £43,450
25th Percentile £68,750 £44,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,155 £55,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.10% -16.67% +1.54%
75th Percentile £98,444 £69,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £109,785 £71,250 £77,904
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +3.45%

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 459 1,843 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.19% 29.60% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 183 592 605
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,934 £45,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +3.08%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Scotland

Spring
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring in Scotland.

Salary trend for Spring in Scotland

Spring
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring in Scotland

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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 18 July 2025. 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 +8 107 £76,250 +41.20% 15
Lanarkshire - 18 - - 6
Edinburgh +14 11 £78,810 +26.10% 13
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (29.52%) Confluence
2 8 (4.82%) Camunda
2 8 (4.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.20%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 106 (63.86%) AWS
2 62 (37.35%) Azure
3 59 (35.54%) GCP
4 9 (5.42%) Amazon S3
4 9 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (5.42%) Serverless
5 8 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (2.41%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.20%) Apigee
8 2 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) HTTP
1 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (14.46%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.45%) Relational Database
4 16 (9.64%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (6.02%) RDBMS
7 9 (5.42%) Big Data
7 9 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (4.82%) KDB
8 8 (4.82%) Kdb+
9 7 (4.22%) Oracle Database
10 6 (3.61%) DB2
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (3.01%) Apache Hive
11 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.01%) HBase
11 5 (3.01%) MySQL
12 4 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 69 (41.57%) Maven
2 51 (30.72%) GitLab
2 51 (30.72%) SonarQube
2 51 (30.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (30.12%) JIRA
3 50 (30.12%) Selenium
4 49 (29.52%) Bitbucket
4 49 (29.52%) Cucumber
5 19 (11.45%) Jenkins
6 18 (10.84%) JUnit
7 14 (8.43%) Git
8 8 (4.82%) Gradle
9 4 (2.41%) Subversion
10 2 (1.20%) Mockito
11 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.60%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.60%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.60%) Protractor
11 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 152 (91.57%) Finance
2 142 (85.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 102 (61.45%) Banking
4 90 (54.22%) Law
5 42 (25.30%) Marketing
6 24 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (13.25%) Social Skills
8 13 (7.83%) Investment Banking
9 12 (7.23%) Legal
10 5 (3.01%) Games
11 4 (2.41%) Private Banking
12 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.60%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 148 (89.16%) Software Engineer
2 81 (48.80%) Java Engineer
3 79 (47.59%) Java Software Engineer
4 37 (22.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 37 (22.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 28 (16.87%) Developer
5 28 (16.87%) Java Developer
6 20 (12.05%) Lead
6 20 (12.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (9.64%) Lead Java Engineer
8 14 (8.43%) Senior
9 13 (7.83%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 13 (7.83%) Java Software Developer
9 13 (7.83%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.82%) AWS Software Engineer
13 7 (4.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (71.69%) Spring Boot
2 103 (62.05%) Kafka
3 99 (59.64%) React
4 65 (39.16%) Hibernate
5 61 (36.75%) JPA
6 55 (33.13%) CSS
6 55 (33.13%) HTML
7 49 (29.52%) Redux
8 32 (19.28%) AngularJS
9 23 (13.86%) RESTful
10 22 (13.25%) REST
11 9 (5.42%) Web Services
12 8 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (4.82%) JDBC
12 8 (4.82%) OpenAPI
12 8 (4.82%) Swagger
12 8 (4.82%) WSDL
13 6 (3.61%) J2EE
14 5 (3.01%) jQuery
15 4 (2.41%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 55 (33.13%) Enterprise Software
2 50 (30.12%) Product Ownership
3 45 (27.11%) Algorithms
4 28 (16.87%) Cloud Native
5 11 (6.63%) Reference Data
6 6 (3.61%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.41%) Credit Risk
8 4 (2.41%) Derivative
8 4 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.41%) Equities
8 4 (2.41%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.60%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.82%) Unix
2 5 (3.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (93.98%) Agile
2 153 (92.17%) Software Engineering
3 138 (83.13%) CI/CD
4 137 (82.53%) SDLC
5 97 (58.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 92 (55.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (48.19%) Operational Stability
8 76 (45.78%) Microservices
9 67 (40.36%) TDD
10 66 (39.76%) DevOps
10 66 (39.76%) Test Automation
11 60 (36.14%) Front End Development
12 59 (35.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 59 (35.54%) Community of Practice
13 58 (34.94%) Containerisation
14 57 (34.34%) Machine Learning
15 55 (33.13%) Clean Code
16 49 (29.52%) Performance Optimisation
17 43 (25.90%) Visualisation
18 33 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) Java
2 99 (59.64%) SQL
3 69 (41.57%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.82%) C#
6 7 (4.22%) Python
7 5 (3.01%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.41%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.20%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Go
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (2.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (31.33%) QA
System Software
1 62 (37.35%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 88 (53.01%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.43%) Terraform
3 4 (2.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (29.52%) Solace
2 32 (19.28%) Oracle
3 12 (7.23%) Dynatrace
3 12 (7.23%) Splunk
4 5 (3.01%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.01%) Databricks
4 5 (3.01%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.41%) Sybase
6 2 (1.20%) IBM
6 2 (1.20%) SAP