Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Spring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Spring over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 138 114 88
Rank change year-on-year -24 -26 +9
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,309 3,786 4,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 3.08% 3.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 9.49% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 781 1,868 2,521
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,950 39,876 49,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.46% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,888 24,229 32,106
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Salary trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -46 967 £75,000 -4.02% 239
UK excluding London -9 810 £65,000 - 174
Work from Home +16 659 £70,576 +0.82% 202
London -34 441 £85,000 -5.56% 115
North of England -30 183 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Scotland -1 164 £70,288 +10.08% 16
South East +24 140 £70,000 -6.67% 51
South West -13 122 £62,500 -10.71% 30
North West -17 117 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Wales +71 83 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Midlands -45 68 £57,500 -4.17% 19
Yorkshire -20 53 £65,351 +18.82% 13
Northern Ireland +16 43 £87,500 +76.77% 12
West Midlands -13 42 £57,500 -4.17% 15
East Midlands -34 26 £55,000 - 4
North East +44 13 £60,000 +27.66% 4
East of England +34 10 £81,250 +12.85% 10

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 96 (7.33%) JBoss
2 95 (7.26%) Red Hat Fuse
3 81 (6.19%) WebLogic
4 37 (2.83%) Tomcat
5 30 (2.29%) Apache Spark
6 24 (1.83%) IIS
7 23 (1.76%) Confluence
8 17 (1.30%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.99%) Apache
9 13 (0.99%) Jetty
10 9 (0.69%) Camunda
11 5 (0.38%) Mule
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.31%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.31%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.23%) Apache Pig
13 3 (0.23%) nginx
14 2 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.076%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 511 (39.04%) AWS
2 230 (17.57%) Serverless
3 194 (14.82%) Azure
4 63 (4.81%) GCP
5 49 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
7 40 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (2.90%) GitHub
9 33 (2.52%) SaaS
10 28 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 25 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.45%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (0.69%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (0.53%) Amazon Kinesis
17 7 (0.53%) AWS IoT
17 7 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.44%) Internet
2 14 (1.07%) AMQP
3 9 (0.69%) HTTP
4 6 (0.46%) SSH
5 2 (0.15%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (0.15%) Intranet
5 2 (0.15%) PBX
5 2 (0.15%) VoIP
6 1 (0.076%) ATM
6 1 (0.076%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.076%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 103 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (7.72%) Relational Database
4 96 (7.33%) Elasticsearch
5 88 (6.72%) MongoDB
6 86 (6.57%) SQL Server
7 63 (4.81%) Big Data
8 60 (4.58%) MySQL
9 33 (2.52%) Hadoop
9 33 (2.52%) RDBMS
10 26 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 26 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
10 26 (1.99%) Redis
11 24 (1.83%) JasperReports
12 11 (0.84%) Apache Hive
12 11 (0.84%) Flink
13 8 (0.61%) Hazelcast
13 8 (0.61%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 333 (25.44%) Git
2 178 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 161 (12.30%) Maven
4 113 (8.63%) IntelliJ
5 94 (7.18%) JIRA
6 85 (6.49%) JUnit
7 84 (6.42%) Gradle
8 70 (5.35%) GitLab
9 63 (4.81%) Cucumber
10 48 (3.67%) Selenium
11 39 (2.98%) Bitbucket
12 34 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (1.76%) Mockito
14 19 (1.45%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.84%) Subversion
16 11 (0.84%) WebDriver
17 10 (0.76%) Eclipse
18 9 (0.69%) Jasmine
19 8 (0.61%) Artifactory
General
1 323 (24.68%) Finance
2 181 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 159 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 152 (11.61%) Banking
5 136 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
6 120 (9.17%) Police
7 84 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (4.28%) Law
9 48 (3.67%) Legal
10 47 (3.59%) Games
11 41 (3.13%) Retail
12 24 (1.83%) Tech for Good
13 22 (1.68%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.45%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.38%) Marketing
16 15 (1.15%) Retail Banking
17 14 (1.07%) Back Office
18 12 (0.92%) Private Banking
19 8 (0.61%) Front Office
20 4 (0.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 582 (44.46%) Developer
2 496 (37.89%) Java Developer
3 373 (28.50%) Software Engineer
4 355 (27.12%) Senior
5 344 (26.28%) Java Engineer
6 277 (21.16%) Java Software Engineer
7 174 (13.29%) Senior Developer
8 129 (9.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 119 (9.09%) Lead
10 106 (8.10%) Architect
11 102 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
12 99 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (6.11%) Analyst
13 80 (6.11%) Senior Java Engineer
14 79 (6.04%) Applications Support
14 79 (6.04%) Applications Support Analyst
14 79 (6.04%) Support Analyst
15 69 (5.27%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 55 (4.20%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
16 55 (4.20%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (44.16%) Spring Boot
2 347 (26.51%) React
3 310 (23.68%) REST
4 274 (20.93%) AngularJS
5 262 (20.02%) J2EE
6 251 (19.17%) Hibernate
7 238 (18.18%) Kafka
8 178 (13.60%) XML
9 167 (12.76%) Java EE
10 164 (12.53%) RESTful
11 161 (12.30%) JSON
12 148 (11.31%) Ruby on Rails
13 144 (11.00%) SOAP
14 138 (10.54%) Web Services
15 137 (10.47%) JPA
16 98 (7.49%) Node.js
17 88 (6.72%) XSD
18 83 (6.34%) HTML
19 82 (6.26%) CSS
20 67 (5.12%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
2 56 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
3 41 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.37%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.60%) Blockchain
8 20 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.38%) Robotics
10 15 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.07%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.07%) Reference Data
12 13 (0.99%) Sports Betting
12 13 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (0.84%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.84%) Online Banking
15 10 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.64%) Unix
2 77 (5.88%) Linux
3 40 (3.06%) Windows
4 24 (1.83%) Android
5 13 (0.99%) CentOS
6 6 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.38%) Debian
7 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (45.00%) Agile
2 582 (44.46%) Microservices
3 506 (38.66%) Software Engineering
4 455 (34.76%) Problem-Solving
5 372 (28.42%) Actionable Insight
6 324 (24.75%) Mentoring
7 291 (22.23%) Containerisation
8 251 (19.17%) DevOps
9 230 (17.57%) Unit Testing
10 224 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
11 221 (16.88%) CI/CD
12 204 (15.58%) Design Patterns
13 199 (15.20%) TDD
14 186 (14.21%) Code Quality
15 181 (13.83%) Coaching
16 164 (12.53%) Clean Code
17 153 (11.69%) Full Stack Development
17 153 (11.69%) Scrum
18 150 (11.46%) SDLC
19 120 (9.17%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 1,267 (96.79%) Java
2 298 (22.77%) SQL
3 290 (22.15%) Python
4 230 (17.57%) JavaScript
5 198 (15.13%) C#
6 154 (11.76%) Ruby
7 87 (6.65%) TypeScript
8 67 (5.12%) Shell Script
9 37 (2.83%) PL/SQL
10 32 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 29 (2.22%) PowerShell
12 24 (1.83%) VB.NET
13 19 (1.45%) C++
14 11 (0.84%) C
14 11 (0.84%) Scala
15 10 (0.76%) Go
16 9 (0.69%) Bash
17 4 (0.31%) Groovy
17 4 (0.31%) PHP
18 3 (0.23%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 404 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 359 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 83 (6.34%) Degree
4 59 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.76%) OCP
9 10 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.31%) ISEB
11 4 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.23%) PhD
12 3 (0.23%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.076%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.076%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.076%) OCPJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.34%) SLA
2 44 (3.36%) QA
3 28 (2.14%) SEPA
4 15 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 13 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.076%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.076%) GRC
System Software
1 370 (28.27%) Docker
2 11 (0.84%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.53%) HDFS
4 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
4 2 (0.15%) OpenSIPS
4 2 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.076%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.076%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 308 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 107 (8.17%) Terraform
3 79 (6.04%) OpenSSO
3 79 (6.04%) Single Sign-On
4 54 (4.13%) Ansible
5 24 (1.83%) AirWatch
6 8 (0.61%) Grafana
6 8 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.46%) Puppet
8 4 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.076%) Consul
11 1 (0.076%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 1 (0.076%) Kiali
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 146 (11.15%) Oracle
2 55 (4.20%) Remedy
3 51 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 32 (2.44%) Google
5 17 (1.30%) WSO2
6 15 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.07%) Splunk
8 13 (0.99%) SAP
9 12 (0.92%) IBM
10 11 (0.84%) Confluent
11 9 (0.69%) Informatica
11 9 (0.69%) TIBCO
12 8 (0.61%) Databricks
13 6 (0.46%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.46%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.46%) Solace
14 5 (0.38%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.38%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.31%) HP
15 4 (0.31%) Siebel