Spring Jobs in the South East

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 233 254 246
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 -56
Permanent jobs citing Spring 80 148 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.84% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.96% 4.66% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30 89 82
10th Percentile £37,125 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £75,125 £91,250 £92,375
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,343 3,173 4,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.94% 18.09% 28.70%
Number of salaries quoted 871 2,511 2,710
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring in the South East.

Salary trend for Spring in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Spring in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South East 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
Thames Valley +52 60 £70,000 -6.67% 131
Berkshire +21 44 £70,000 -15.15% 90
Buckinghamshire +26 10 £61,250 -12.50% 29
Hampshire +45 6 £55,000 -21.43% 40
Oxfordshire +39 6 £70,000 +7.69% 13
Surrey +30 5 £65,000 +18.18% 33
West Sussex +38 3 £75,000 +7.14% 16
Middlesex - 2 - -
Kent +35 1 - - 22
East Sussex +27 1 - - 11
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (18.75%) JBoss
2 14 (17.50%) Red Hat Fuse
3 13 (16.25%) Confluence
4 6 (7.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.25%) Apache
6 1 (1.25%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 63 (78.75%) AWS
2 35 (43.75%) Amazon EKS
3 33 (41.25%) Amazon ECS
3 33 (41.25%) Serverless
4 20 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (16.25%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (15.00%) Azure
7 11 (13.75%) GCP
8 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
9 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.25%) Route 53
10 2 (2.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Broadband
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (43.75%) Relational Database
3 14 (17.50%) RDBMS
4 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.75%) Big Data
8 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.25%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (1.25%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.25%) MySQL
10 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (61.25%) Jenkins
2 42 (52.50%) JUnit
3 30 (37.50%) Git
4 23 (28.75%) Mockito
5 16 (20.00%) Maven
6 15 (18.75%) SonarQube
7 13 (16.25%) JIRA
7 13 (16.25%) JMeter
8 11 (13.75%) GitLab
9 8 (10.00%) Bitbucket
9 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
9 8 (10.00%) Selenium
9 8 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (7.50%) DbUnit
10 6 (7.50%) jMock
11 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (1.25%) Gradle
12 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (1.25%) Spock
12 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (46.25%) Public Sector
2 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (11.25%) Banking
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.25%) Front Office
8 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (66.25%) Developer
1 53 (66.25%) Java Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Software Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Java Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Graduate
9 2 (2.50%) Graduate Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Graduate Java Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Junior
10 1 (1.25%) Project Manager
10 1 (1.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (82.50%) Spring Boot
2 44 (55.00%) Web Services
3 38 (47.50%) REST
4 34 (42.50%) Hibernate
5 28 (35.00%) RESTful
6 27 (33.75%) Apache Camel
7 24 (30.00%) Kafka
8 23 (28.75%) React
9 22 (27.50%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (27.50%) SOAP
10 21 (26.25%) HTML
11 16 (20.00%) JPA
12 14 (17.50%) J2EE
13 13 (16.25%) jQuery
13 13 (16.25%) WireMock
14 11 (13.75%) Node.js
15 10 (12.50%) AngularJS
16 9 (11.25%) JSON
16 9 (11.25%) Redux
17 8 (10.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (46.25%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) BBC
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Derivative
6 1 (1.25%) Equities
6 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (80.00%) Microservices
2 61 (76.25%) Agile
3 54 (67.50%) TDD
4 41 (51.25%) CI/CD
5 39 (48.75%) Scrum
6 36 (45.00%) BDD
7 31 (38.75%) DevOps
8 30 (37.50%) Kanban
9 24 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (25.00%) Containerisation
11 18 (22.50%) SDLC
12 17 (21.25%) Test Automation
13 16 (20.00%) Software Engineering
14 13 (16.25%) Process Management
14 13 (16.25%) Workflow
15 11 (13.75%) Clean Code
16 10 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
17 9 (11.25%) Collaborative Working
17 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (10.00%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 80 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
3 21 (26.25%) SQL
4 17 (21.25%) Python
5 13 (16.25%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) C#
8 1 (1.25%) C++
8 1 (1.25%) Groovy
8 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 29 (36.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) SLA
2 10 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (71.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 52 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.75%) Ansible
3 13 (16.25%) Kibana
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Splunk
2 13 (16.25%) Dynatrace
3 9 (11.25%) Solace
4 5 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.75%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) TIBCO