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 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 130 36 33
Rank change year-on-year -94 -3 +46
Permanent jobs citing Spring 16 164 468
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.45% 6.58% 9.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 41.52% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 33
10th Percentile - £63,750 £42,850
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +36.36% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,751 £69,750
90th Percentile £102,750 £100,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%

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 228 395 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.41% 15.86% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 157 125 490
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,050 £37,618
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -1.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,500 £94,511 £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 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
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in Scotland

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 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
Glasgow -42 15 £65,000 -14.75% 24
Edinburgh -7 1 £105,000 +55.56% 12
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) GitHub
2 8 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 5 (31.25%) AWS
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
5 3 (18.75%) Datadog
5 3 (18.75%) dbt
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) Maven
3 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (18.75%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 11 (68.75%) Kafka
3 9 (56.25%) Hibernate
3 9 (56.25%) JPA
3 9 (56.25%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
5 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) HTML5
5 2 (12.50%) React
6 1 (6.25%) CSS3
6 1 (6.25%) JDBC
6 1 (6.25%) JMS
6 1 (6.25%) RESTful
6 1 (6.25%) Sass
6 1 (6.25%) SAX
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (50.00%) Data Analytics
4 8 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (50.00%) Microservices
5 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Chaos Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Community of Practice
6 3 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) GitOps
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Release Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Secrets Management
6 3 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Argo
2 3 (18.75%) Grafana
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk