Spring Jobs in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 166 178
Rank change year-on-year -68 +12 -19
Permanent jobs citing Spring 492 1,236 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.26% 1.74% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.14% 8.65% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 167 387 514
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,906 £91,934 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

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 5,382 14,288 16,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.77% 20.16% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,502 10,293 9,033
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
North of England +82 175 £80,000 +6.67% 82
North West +32 148 £85,253 +21.79% 48
Midlands +115 91 £60,000 +6.67% 67
Scotland -51 86 £80,000 +28.00% 72
South East +27 78 £66,250 -5.36% 125
East Midlands +81 47 £47,500 - 25
West Midlands +65 44 £65,750 +14.35% 40
East of England +54 25 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South West +30 25 £60,000 -4.00% 60
Yorkshire +59 21 £67,500 -10.00% 12
Northern Ireland +46 12 £55,000 -42.11% 29
North East +37 6 £55,000 - 22
Wales +18 2 £46,154 +4.30% 18
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 176 (35.77%) Confluence
2 14 (2.85%) JBoss
3 13 (2.64%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.63%) Apache
5 8 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.02%) nginx
7 5 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.81%) GemFire
9 2 (0.41%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.20%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 382 (77.64%) AWS
2 326 (66.26%) Azure
3 225 (45.73%) GCP
4 39 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (7.52%) Serverless
6 33 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (1.83%) Apigee
10 9 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (1.42%) AWS KMS
11 7 (1.42%) SaaS
12 6 (1.22%) ChatGPT
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.02%) Route 53
14 3 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 2 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (51.83%) SQL Server
2 68 (13.82%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (9.96%) Relational Database
4 36 (7.32%) NoSQL
5 35 (7.11%) MongoDB
6 27 (5.49%) MySQL
7 21 (4.27%) RDBMS
8 15 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.03%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.63%) Big Data
12 6 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.22%) DB2
12 6 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.02%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.81%) Apache Ignite
14 4 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.81%) InterSystems Cache
14 4 (0.81%) Redis
15 3 (0.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 279 (56.71%) SonarQube
2 277 (56.30%) Maven
3 271 (55.08%) JIRA
4 264 (53.66%) GitLab
5 256 (52.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 251 (51.02%) Bitbucket
6 251 (51.02%) Cucumber
6 251 (51.02%) Selenium
7 77 (15.65%) Git
8 74 (15.04%) Jenkins
9 69 (14.02%) JUnit
10 33 (6.71%) Mockito
11 13 (2.64%) JMeter
12 8 (1.63%) Gradle
13 7 (1.42%) DbUnit
13 7 (1.42%) jMock
14 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.02%) Postman
14 5 (1.02%) TestNG
15 4 (0.81%) Eclipse
General
1 341 (69.31%) Finance
2 300 (60.98%) Banking
3 255 (51.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (19.92%) Retail
5 90 (18.29%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (18.29%) Investment Banking
6 69 (14.02%) Social Skills
7 46 (9.35%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.46%) Law
10 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.22%) Games
12 5 (1.02%) Online Betting
12 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.81%) Front Office
14 3 (0.61%) Advertising
14 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 322 (65.45%) Software Engineer
2 102 (20.73%) Developer
3 89 (18.09%) Java Developer
4 50 (10.16%) Senior
5 49 (9.96%) Java Engineer
6 28 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (4.88%) Lead
7 24 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (3.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (3.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 16 (3.25%) Senior Developer
9 15 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (1.83%) Lead Developer
11 8 (1.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (1.22%) Junior
12 6 (1.22%) Support Engineer
13 5 (1.02%) Java Server Engineer
13 5 (1.02%) Lead Java Developer
13 5 (1.02%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (1.02%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (84.96%) Spring Boot
2 311 (63.21%) React
3 303 (61.59%) Kafka
4 265 (53.86%) HTML
5 263 (53.46%) JPA
6 256 (52.03%) CSS
7 249 (50.61%) Redux
8 214 (43.50%) Hibernate
9 164 (33.33%) REST
10 154 (31.30%) RESTful
11 90 (18.29%) CSS3
11 90 (18.29%) HTML5
11 90 (18.29%) Jest
11 90 (18.29%) Sass
12 59 (11.99%) Web Services
13 40 (8.13%) AngularJS
14 39 (7.93%) Node.js
15 30 (6.10%) Apache Camel
16 26 (5.28%) SOAP
17 24 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 259 (52.64%) Product Ownership
2 257 (52.24%) Enterprise Software
3 48 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.22%) Life Science
7 6 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) Derivative
9 4 (0.81%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.61%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (0.61%) Equities
10 3 (0.61%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.61%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.61%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.41%) IoT
11 2 (0.41%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.30%) Linux
2 14 (2.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.61%) Android
3 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (81.50%) Microservices
2 387 (78.66%) Agile
3 366 (74.39%) Software Engineering
4 351 (71.34%) CI/CD
5 345 (70.12%) DevOps
6 309 (62.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 301 (61.18%) Containerisation
8 299 (60.77%) Test Automation
9 280 (56.91%) SDLC
10 261 (53.05%) TDD
11 254 (51.63%) Front End Development
12 247 (50.20%) Performance Optimisation
13 175 (35.57%) Clean Code
14 173 (35.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 127 (25.81%) Mentoring
16 95 (19.31%) User Experience
17 92 (18.70%) Migration
18 91 (18.50%) Strategic Thinking
19 90 (18.29%) Responsive Web Design
20 69 (14.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 488 (99.19%) Java
2 313 (63.62%) JavaScript
3 305 (61.99%) SQL
4 124 (25.20%) TypeScript
5 43 (8.74%) Python
6 15 (3.05%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.44%) Go
8 6 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.02%) Bash
9 5 (1.02%) C#
9 5 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.41%) ABAP
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) Groovy
11 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 39 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (2.85%) Degree
4 6 (1.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (51.63%) QA
2 93 (18.90%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.64%) SLA
4 2 (0.41%) GDPR
4 2 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 378 (76.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 377 (76.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.49%) Terraform
3 21 (4.27%) Ansible
4 15 (3.05%) Kibana
5 12 (2.44%) Grafana
6 9 (1.83%) Istio
7 7 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 5 (1.02%) Packer
9 3 (0.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 250 (50.81%) Solace
2 19 (3.86%) Splunk
3 18 (3.66%) Dynatrace
4 14 (2.85%) Oracle
5 13 (2.64%) Google
6 8 (1.63%) Sybase
7 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.81%) Bloomberg
9 4 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.81%) SAP
9 4 (0.81%) TIBCO
10 2 (0.41%) Databricks
10 2 (0.41%) IBM
11 1 (0.20%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.20%) BMC
11 1 (0.20%) ServiceNow