Spock Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spock Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spock skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 - 738
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs citing Spock 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% - 0.001%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.041% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
75th Percentile £105,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £100,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Spock falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,421 2,736 6,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 9.58% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,660 1,841 4,643
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Spock
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spock relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Spock job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spock
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spock.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spock

Spock
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spock within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North West - 1 £100,000 - 2
North of England - 1 £100,000 - 2
Spock
UK

Spock
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk