Spring Job Trends in the South East

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 188 251
Rank change year-on-year -62 +63 +3
Permanent jobs citing Spring 39 83 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.27% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.89% 6.83% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 90
10th Percentile £53,000 £32,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £51,250 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -5.82%

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 1,348 1,216 3,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.38% 15.74% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 869 2,474
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £84,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spring

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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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 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
Thames Valley -28 25 £82,500 +22.22% 3
Berkshire -22 23 £83,750 +34.00% 2
Surrey -13 4 £60,000 -7.69%
Kent -30 3 - -
Buckinghamshire -16 2 £75,000 +42.86% 1
West Sussex -21 2 £75,000 -
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (17.95%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) Camunda
2 1 (2.56%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Amazon EKS
2 16 (41.03%) Serverless
3 15 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (23.08%) Azure
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (12.82%) SaaS
8 4 (10.26%) GCP
9 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) Relational Database
2 15 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (43.59%) Jenkins
2 16 (41.03%) Git
3 10 (25.64%) JUnit
4 8 (20.51%) Mockito
5 4 (10.26%) JMeter
6 3 (7.69%) Gradle
6 3 (7.69%) Maven
7 2 (5.13%) GitLab
8 1 (2.56%) Ant
8 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Health Technology
3 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.26%) Tech for Good
4 2 (5.13%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (64.10%) Developer
2 24 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Real Time Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (74.36%) Spring Boot
2 23 (58.97%) REST
3 17 (43.59%) Web Services
4 15 (38.46%) React
5 11 (28.21%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
6 8 (20.51%) Hibernate
7 7 (17.95%) JPA
7 7 (17.95%) Kafka
7 7 (17.95%) Mustache
7 7 (17.95%) Node.js
7 7 (17.95%) WireMock
8 6 (15.38%) Java EE
9 5 (12.82%) Apache Camel
9 5 (12.82%) HTML
9 5 (12.82%) RESTful
9 5 (12.82%) Spring MVC
10 4 (10.26%) JMS
10 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (10.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Android
1 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) Agile
2 24 (61.54%) TDD
3 22 (56.41%) Microservices
4 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 15 (38.46%) DevOps
6 13 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (33.33%) Scrum
7 11 (28.21%) BDD
8 10 (25.64%) SDLC
9 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (20.51%) Domain-Driven Design
10 7 (17.95%) Kanban
11 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
12 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
12 5 (12.82%) MVC
12 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
12 5 (12.82%) Workflow
13 4 (10.26%) Clean Code
13 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (92.31%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) Python
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.26%) Go
6 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) Perl
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) NCSC
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (56.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (58.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.08%) Ansible
3 8 (20.51%) Kibana
3 8 (20.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) AppDynamics
3 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.26%) IBM
3 4 (10.26%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat