Spring Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 313 151
Rank change year-on-year -36 -162 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring 172 297 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.80% 2.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.48% 4.13% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 95 160 379
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +5.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,943
90th Percentile £83,250 £87,500 £95,308
UK median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -4.67% +6.27% -5.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,839 7,185 7,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.28% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 4,046 5,721
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spring
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Spring
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
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 Spring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 of England +40 71 £66,250 -1.85% 52
South West -5 39 £62,500 +4.17% 20
Yorkshire +13 37 £68,750 +1.85% 16
South East -37 37 £75,000 +13.21% 43
North West +30 31 £65,000 -13.33% 30
Midlands +40 23 £57,500 +4.55% 9
West Midlands +34 18 £60,000 - 7
North East +6 5 £65,000 +23.81% 6
East Midlands -4 5 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Scotland -35 4 £67,500 -3.57% 7
East of England +8 3 £62,500 -3.85% 8
Wales -6 1 £55,200 -18.22% 6
Spring
UK

Spring
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.98%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.33%) Apache
2 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.33%) JBoss
3 3 (1.74%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.58%) Camunda
5 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 135 (78.49%) AWS
2 57 (33.14%) Serverless
3 47 (27.33%) Amazon ECS
4 35 (20.35%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (19.77%) Amazon S3
6 32 (18.60%) Azure
7 30 (17.44%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (10.47%) GitHub
9 17 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.14%) GCP
11 13 (7.56%) OpenShift
12 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.81%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (5.23%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.23%) Apigee
14 9 (5.23%) SaaS
15 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
16 2 (1.16%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.07%) AMQP
2 5 (2.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (20.35%) Relational Database
3 19 (11.05%) NoSQL
4 14 (8.14%) RDBMS
5 12 (6.98%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.40%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.07%) MySQL
8 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.74%) Big Data
9 3 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.74%) CockroachDB
9 3 (1.74%) DB2
9 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.16%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.58%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (34.88%) Jenkins
2 38 (22.09%) Git
3 36 (20.93%) JUnit
4 22 (12.79%) GitLab
5 21 (12.21%) Mockito
6 19 (11.05%) Maven
7 16 (9.30%) Cypress.io
7 16 (9.30%) JMeter
8 12 (6.98%) Cucumber
8 12 (6.98%) SonarQube
9 9 (5.23%) Selenium
10 8 (4.65%) JIRA
11 7 (4.07%) Gradle
12 4 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.74%) TestNG
14 2 (1.16%) Babel
14 2 (1.16%) Checkstyle
14 2 (1.16%) ESLint
14 2 (1.16%) Gatling
14 2 (1.16%) webpack
General
1 42 (24.42%) Finance
2 32 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.53%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.74%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (1.74%) Games
7 3 (1.74%) Health Technology
7 3 (1.74%) Law
7 3 (1.74%) Legal
7 3 (1.74%) Retail
7 3 (1.74%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.16%) Advertising
8 2 (1.16%) Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Electronics
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 91 (52.91%) Developer
2 74 (43.02%) Java Developer
3 42 (24.42%) Senior
4 39 (22.67%) Software Engineer
5 33 (19.19%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (16.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (15.12%) Senior Developer
8 22 (12.79%) Java Engineer
9 20 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (10.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 17 (9.88%) Lead
12 12 (6.98%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 11 (6.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Software Developer
15 8 (4.65%) Lead Developer
15 8 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
16 6 (3.49%) Lead Java Developer
16 6 (3.49%) Senior Software Developer
17 5 (2.91%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (83.14%) Spring Boot
2 54 (31.40%) React
2 54 (31.40%) REST
3 36 (20.93%) Hibernate
4 32 (18.60%) AngularJS
5 29 (16.86%) Kafka
5 29 (16.86%) Web Services
6 28 (16.28%) Node.js
7 26 (15.12%) HTML
8 20 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (11.63%) RESTful
9 16 (9.30%) Apache Camel
10 15 (8.72%) XML
11 14 (8.14%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (8.14%) Jest
12 13 (7.56%) JSON
13 12 (6.98%) jQuery
13 12 (6.98%) WireMock
14 10 (5.81%) CSS
14 10 (5.81%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.58%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (20.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.74%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) DataPower
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.58%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.40%) Linux
2 3 (1.74%) CentOS
2 3 (1.74%) Debian
2 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.16%) Android
3 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (64.53%) Agile
2 102 (59.30%) CI/CD
3 94 (54.65%) Microservices
4 85 (49.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 77 (44.77%) DevOps
6 59 (34.30%) Software Engineering
7 54 (31.40%) TDD
8 44 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (23.26%) Scrum
10 38 (22.09%) Containerisation
11 34 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (19.19%) Mentoring
13 30 (17.44%) BDD
13 30 (17.44%) SDLC
13 30 (17.44%) Test Automation
14 23 (13.37%) Code Quality
14 23 (13.37%) User Experience
15 20 (11.63%) AI
15 20 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (11.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 169 (98.26%) Java
2 68 (39.53%) JavaScript
3 42 (24.42%) Python
4 36 (20.93%) TypeScript
5 35 (20.35%) SQL
6 13 (7.56%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.98%) Bash
8 9 (5.23%) Groovy
9 6 (3.49%) C#
9 6 (3.49%) Delphi
9 6 (3.49%) Go
10 4 (2.33%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.74%) Scala
12 2 (1.16%) R
13 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) QA
2 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (48.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 92 (53.49%) Kubernetes
2 17 (9.88%) Terraform
3 16 (9.30%) Ansible
4 15 (8.72%) Kibana
5 12 (6.98%) Grafana
6 9 (5.23%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.33%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.74%) Puppet
9 1 (0.58%) Istio
9 1 (0.58%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (11.05%) Oracle
2 18 (10.47%) Splunk
3 12 (6.98%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.65%) Google
5 4 (2.33%) Pega
5 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.33%) WSO2
6 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.16%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.58%) Moogsoft
8 1 (0.58%) SAP