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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 168 186
Rank change year-on-year -162 +18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring 277 613 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 2.06% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 12.23% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 181 156 353
10th Percentile £47,930 £43,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,635 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £90,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

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 5,539 5,011 14,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.25% 16.83% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,454 3,151 10,834
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -55 142 £75,000 -11.76% 40
North West -34 92 £67,500 -20.82% 20
South West -40 50 £60,000 -4.00% 22
South East -52 45 £75,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire -14 42 £75,000 +11.11% 16
Midlands -85 26 £57,500 -8.00% 9
West Midlands -52 25 £56,250 -15.09% 4
Wales -32 15 £60,810 +28.54% 10
North East -41 8 £50,000 -31.03% 6
Scotland -98 7 £72,500 -11.62% 13
East of England -33 4 £67,500 -20.59% 5
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 6 (2.17%) Confluence
1 6 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.81%) Apache
2 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 149 (53.79%) AWS
2 85 (30.69%) Serverless
3 51 (18.41%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (17.33%) Azure
5 46 (16.61%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (13.00%) Amazon S3
6 36 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (9.03%) GitHub
9 23 (8.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (8.30%) GCP
10 13 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.33%) Amazon ECR
11 12 (4.33%) Apigee
12 10 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (3.25%) SaaS
14 8 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) AMQP
2 1 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.52%) NoSQL
2 41 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (9.03%) DynamoDB
4 24 (8.66%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.50%) MySQL
6 11 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.81%) Big Data
8 5 (1.81%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.81%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.81%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.08%) Redis
9 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.72%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.72%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.72%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.72%) Power BI
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 57 (20.58%) Jenkins
2 47 (16.97%) Git
3 35 (12.64%) JUnit
4 26 (9.39%) Maven
5 23 (8.30%) GitLab
6 22 (7.94%) Mockito
7 17 (6.14%) JIRA
8 10 (3.61%) Cypress.io
9 9 (3.25%) JMeter
10 7 (2.53%) Gradle
11 6 (2.17%) Selenium
11 6 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.17%) Spock
12 4 (1.44%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
13 3 (1.08%) Postman
14 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.72%) ESLint
14 2 (0.72%) TestNG
14 2 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 43 (15.52%) Finance
2 33 (11.91%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.78%) Banking
5 11 (3.97%) Advertising
6 9 (3.25%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.53%) Tech for Good
8 6 (2.17%) Health Technology
9 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Welsh Language
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (50.90%) Developer
2 104 (37.55%) Java Developer
3 74 (26.71%) Senior
4 65 (23.47%) Java Engineer
5 56 (20.22%) Software Engineer
6 53 (19.13%) Lead
7 46 (16.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 41 (14.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 38 (13.72%) Senior Developer
10 31 (11.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (10.47%) Senior Java Developer
12 24 (8.66%) Lead Developer
12 24 (8.66%) Senior Java Engineer
13 21 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (6.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 17 (6.14%) Lead Java Developer
15 17 (6.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 16 (5.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 13 (4.69%) Lead Java Engineer
18 12 (4.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (74.73%) Spring Boot
2 89 (32.13%) AngularJS
3 83 (29.96%) React
4 69 (24.91%) REST
5 44 (15.88%) Node.js
6 34 (12.27%) RESTful
7 33 (11.91%) Kafka
8 30 (10.83%) Vue
9 26 (9.39%) Hibernate
10 22 (7.94%) JPA
11 20 (7.22%) HTML
12 18 (6.50%) Web Services
13 16 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (5.42%) Spring MVC
15 14 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
16 13 (4.69%) OpenAPI
17 10 (3.61%) Apache Camel
17 10 (3.61%) CSS
17 10 (3.61%) Swagger
17 10 (3.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (11.91%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.89%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.89%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.81%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.36%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.05%) Linux
2 5 (1.81%) CentOS
2 5 (1.81%) Debian
2 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (1.81%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.08%) Android
3 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.72%) AIX
4 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (50.90%) CI/CD
2 133 (48.01%) Full-Stack Development
3 125 (45.13%) Agile
4 115 (41.52%) Microservices
5 103 (37.18%) DevOps
6 75 (27.08%) Software Engineering
7 72 (25.99%) TDD
8 67 (24.19%) Test Automation
9 66 (23.83%) Scrum
10 63 (22.74%) Containerisation
11 54 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (19.13%) Mentoring
13 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 39 (14.08%) AI
16 36 (13.00%) Clean Code
17 34 (12.27%) BDD
18 29 (10.47%) Design Patterns
18 29 (10.47%) SDLC
19 28 (10.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 275 (99.28%) Java
2 66 (23.83%) JavaScript
3 64 (23.10%) SQL
4 50 (18.05%) Python
5 42 (15.16%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.14%) Kotlin
7 14 (5.05%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.33%) Groovy
9 10 (3.61%) Bash
10 9 (3.25%) Ruby
11 8 (2.89%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.53%) C#
13 6 (2.17%) Go
14 4 (1.44%) C++
15 3 (1.08%) Scala
16 2 (0.72%) C
17 1 (0.36%) Natural
17 1 (0.36%) Perl
17 1 (0.36%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.42%) Degree
5 10 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.25%) QA
3 5 (1.81%) WCAG
4 2 (0.72%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 109 (39.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 94 (33.94%) Kubernetes
2 44 (15.88%) Terraform
3 25 (9.03%) Ansible
4 14 (5.05%) Kibana
5 9 (3.25%) Grafana
6 7 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.81%) Puppet
8 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.72%) Packer
8 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (12.27%) Oracle
2 23 (8.30%) Splunk
3 11 (3.97%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.25%) Google
5 5 (1.81%) Microsoft
5 5 (1.81%) Peregrine
5 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.81%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.44%) IBM
6 4 (1.44%) OneLogin
7 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.72%) Pega
8 2 (0.72%) WSO2