Spring Security Job Trends

Spring Security (Acegi)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spring Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 696 708
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 +267
Permanent jobs citing Spring Security 4 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.006% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.056% 0.026% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £70,375 £38,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,938 £38,750 £59,340
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.50% -25.93% +10.66%
75th Percentile £80,938 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £81,125 £68,000 £78,629
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 £64,724
% change year-on-year - -18.89% +6.10%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Security 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,875 £109,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Spring Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Spring Security job vacancy trend in the UK

Spring Security
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Security

Spring Security
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Security within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +64 4 £76,250 +38.64% 1
Work from Home +66 2 £76,250 +52.50%
UK excluding London +57 2 - - 1
London +55 2 £76,250 +52.50% 1
South West +13 2 - -

Spring Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Checkstyle
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) ESLint
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Gradle
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) Mockito
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) JWT
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk