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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 32 84
Rank change year-on-year -31 +52 +9
Permanent jobs citing Spring 121 729 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.03% 10.70% 3.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.27% 32.20% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18 61 81
10th Percentile £63,750 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £73,092 £42,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,626 £60,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.71% -9.09% +1.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £121,989 £91,934 £89,852
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% -5.90% +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 428 2,264 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.26% 33.22% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 225 639 680
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year - -4.38% +9.13%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,199 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,500 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +6 58 £90,000 +106.90% 28
Lanarkshire - 18 - -
Edinburgh +8 17 £80,000 +20.30% 14
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 14
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 (40.50%) Confluence
2 4 (3.31%) Camunda
2 4 (3.31%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.65%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.65%) NetWeaver
Cloud Services
1 84 (69.42%) AWS
2 64 (52.89%) Azure
2 64 (52.89%) GCP
3 7 (5.79%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.96%) Serverless
5 5 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.48%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.65%) Apigee
8 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.65%) GitHub
8 2 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.65%) SaaS
9 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (42.15%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.40%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.92%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.13%) DB2
7 5 (4.13%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.31%) Big Data
8 4 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.31%) KDB
8 4 (3.31%) Kdb+
8 4 (3.31%) MySQL
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.65%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.65%) HBase
9 2 (1.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (48.76%) Maven
2 51 (42.15%) GitLab
2 51 (42.15%) SonarQube
2 51 (42.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 50 (41.32%) JIRA
4 49 (40.50%) Bitbucket
4 49 (40.50%) Cucumber
4 49 (40.50%) Selenium
5 12 (9.92%) Jenkins
5 12 (9.92%) JUnit
6 8 (6.61%) Git
7 5 (4.13%) Gradle
8 2 (1.65%) Mockito
9 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 107 (88.43%) Finance
2 94 (77.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 80 (66.12%) Banking
4 42 (34.71%) Law
5 20 (16.53%) Marketing
6 16 (13.22%) Social Skills
7 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.96%) Legal
9 4 (3.31%) Games
10 2 (1.65%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 102 (84.30%) Software Engineer
2 40 (33.06%) Java Engineer
3 36 (29.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 17 (14.05%) Developer
5 17 (14.05%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.92%) Lead
6 12 (9.92%) Lead Software Engineer
6 12 (9.92%) Senior
7 8 (6.61%) Lead Java Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Java Software Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (78.51%) Spring Boot
2 78 (64.46%) Kafka
3 77 (63.64%) React
4 60 (49.59%) Hibernate
5 55 (45.45%) JPA
6 53 (43.80%) CSS
7 52 (42.98%) HTML
8 50 (41.32%) Redux
9 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
10 14 (11.57%) REST
11 13 (10.74%) RESTful
12 4 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (3.31%) JDBC
12 4 (3.31%) OpenAPI
12 4 (3.31%) Swagger
12 4 (3.31%) Web Services
12 4 (3.31%) WSDL
13 3 (2.48%) J2EE
14 2 (1.65%) .NET
14 2 (1.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 53 (43.80%) Enterprise Software
2 50 (41.32%) Product Ownership
3 23 (19.01%) Algorithms
4 17 (14.05%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.96%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.65%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.65%) Derivative
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.65%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Equities
10 1 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Linux
1 5 (4.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (90.91%) Agile
2 109 (90.08%) Software Engineering
3 100 (82.64%) CI/CD
4 94 (77.69%) SDLC
5 74 (61.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (60.33%) Microservices
7 72 (59.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (55.37%) DevOps
9 61 (50.41%) TDD
9 61 (50.41%) Test Automation
10 57 (47.11%) Front End Development
11 56 (46.28%) Containerisation
12 53 (43.80%) Clean Code
13 49 (40.50%) Performance Optimisation
14 40 (33.06%) Operational Stability
15 32 (26.45%) Artificial Intelligence
16 29 (23.97%) Machine Learning
17 28 (23.14%) Community of Practice
18 21 (17.36%) Visualisation
19 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 120 (99.17%) Java
2 79 (65.29%) SQL
3 61 (50.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.61%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.79%) Python
6 6 (4.96%) C#
7 2 (1.65%) ABAP
7 2 (1.65%) Go
7 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (1.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (44.63%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (52.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 79 (65.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Terraform
3 4 (3.31%) Grafana
4 2 (1.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (40.50%) Solace
2 15 (12.40%) Oracle
3 7 (5.79%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.79%) Splunk
4 4 (3.31%) Databricks
4 4 (3.31%) Sybase
5 2 (1.65%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.65%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) IBM