Spring Job Trends

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 292 185
Rank change year-on-year +29 -107 -79
Permanent jobs citing Spring 516 599 980
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.89% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 4.40% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 220 281 804
10th Percentile £52,000 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -0.82% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,490 13,608 14,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.31% 20.20% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,143 8,165 11,666
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the UK

Spring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 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
England +10 401 £72,500 -3.33% 327
UK excluding London +47 299 £62,500 -3.85% 201
London +9 212 £95,000 +13.10% 164
Work from Home +21 119 £65,000 +4.00% 208
Scotland +39 103 £71,250 +22.84% 22
North of England +7 70 £65,000 -3.70% 63
North West +27 50 £65,000 - 40
South East -24 45 £67,500 -3.57% 55
South West +5 41 £62,500 -1.96% 19
Midlands +88 39 £62,500 +4.17% 23
West Midlands +74 32 £63,750 -15.00% 17
Yorkshire +5 16 £65,000 -16.13% 14
East Midlands +30 7 £57,500 -4.17% 6
North East +9 6 £65,000 +23.81% 9
East of England -1 3 £62,500 -7.41% 4
Wales -2 2 £58,850 -12.81% 5
Northern Ireland -3 2 £45,000 -21.74% 9

Spring
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 17 (3.29%) Apache
2 14 (2.71%) Confluence
3 13 (2.52%) JBoss
4 12 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.55%) Camunda
6 8 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.97%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 376 (72.87%) AWS
2 84 (16.28%) Serverless
3 75 (14.53%) Azure
4 61 (11.82%) Amazon EKS
5 55 (10.66%) Amazon ECS
5 55 (10.66%) GCP
6 50 (9.69%) GitHub
7 49 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (8.53%) Amazon S3
10 26 (5.04%) SaaS
11 25 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (4.07%) OpenShift
13 16 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.36%) AWS KMS
16 7 (1.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.36%) AMQP
2 5 (0.97%) HTTP
3 3 (0.58%) Internet
3 3 (0.58%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.29%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (18.60%) Relational Database
3 71 (13.76%) NoSQL
4 63 (12.21%) MongoDB
5 42 (8.14%) RDBMS
6 22 (4.26%) Big Data
7 19 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.68%) DynamoDB
7 19 (3.68%) MySQL
8 16 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 15 (2.91%) Oracle Database
10 14 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
10 14 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.94%) Redis
13 8 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.55%) CockroachDB
13 8 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.55%) KDB
13 8 (1.55%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 101 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 80 (15.50%) Git
3 76 (14.73%) JUnit
4 45 (8.72%) Maven
5 44 (8.53%) Mockito
6 36 (6.98%) GitLab
7 28 (5.43%) JIRA
8 25 (4.84%) JMeter
9 24 (4.65%) Cucumber
10 19 (3.68%) Selenium
11 16 (3.10%) Gradle
12 15 (2.91%) Cypress.io
13 13 (2.52%) Vite
14 10 (1.94%) Subversion
15 9 (1.74%) SonarQube
16 7 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
16 7 (1.36%) DbUnit
16 7 (1.36%) jMock
17 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
17 5 (0.97%) webpack
General
1 297 (57.56%) Finance
2 171 (33.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 164 (31.78%) Law
4 131 (25.39%) Social Skills
5 121 (23.45%) Banking
6 70 (13.57%) Public Sector
7 63 (12.21%) Marketing
8 62 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (7.75%) Financial Institution
10 27 (5.23%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.68%) Legal
12 11 (2.13%) Front Office
13 7 (1.36%) Games
14 5 (0.97%) Electronics
14 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.78%) Advertising
15 4 (0.78%) Private Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.78%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 247 (47.87%) Software Engineer
2 199 (38.57%) Java Engineer
3 190 (36.82%) Developer
4 158 (30.62%) Java Software Engineer
5 148 (28.68%) Java Developer
6 108 (20.93%) Senior
7 82 (15.89%) Lead
8 59 (11.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 57 (11.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (10.08%) Lead Software Engineer
11 50 (9.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 49 (9.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 48 (9.30%) Senior Java Engineer
14 40 (7.75%) Senior Developer
15 36 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (6.20%) Software Developer
17 30 (5.81%) Senior Java Developer
18 26 (5.04%) Backend Developer
18 26 (5.04%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 24 (4.65%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (69.38%) Spring Boot
2 197 (38.18%) Kafka
3 154 (29.84%) React
4 120 (23.26%) RESTful
5 109 (21.12%) REST
6 96 (18.60%) AngularJS
7 93 (18.02%) Hibernate
8 72 (13.95%) Web Services
9 51 (9.88%) HTML
10 45 (8.72%) ActiveMQ
11 42 (8.14%) Node.js
12 35 (6.78%) JPA
13 30 (5.81%) Apache Camel
14 29 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (5.43%) CSS
15 28 (5.43%) jQuery
15 28 (5.43%) SOAP
16 24 (4.65%) JSON
17 23 (4.46%) JMS
17 23 (4.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (31.98%) Cloud Native
2 83 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (11.43%) Algorithms
4 31 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (4.84%) Reference Data
6 22 (4.26%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.68%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.29%) Distributed Applications
8 17 (3.29%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.91%) Derivative
11 14 (2.71%) Data Structures
11 14 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.71%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.33%) Management Information System
13 11 (2.13%) Hedge funds
14 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
15 8 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
15 8 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.62%) Linux
2 8 (1.55%) Unix
3 2 (0.39%) CentOS
3 2 (0.39%) Debian
3 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (68.60%) Agile
2 314 (60.85%) CI/CD
3 298 (57.75%) Software Engineering
4 262 (50.78%) Microservices
5 180 (34.88%) SDLC
6 157 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 143 (27.71%) TDD
8 137 (26.55%) DevOps
9 115 (22.29%) Operational Stability
10 112 (21.71%) AI
11 111 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (19.96%) Machine Learning
13 102 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (18.60%) Community of Practice
15 95 (18.41%) Containerisation
16 85 (16.47%) BDD
17 83 (16.09%) Test Automation
18 79 (15.31%) Event-Driven
18 79 (15.31%) Mentoring
18 79 (15.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 513 (99.42%) Java
2 125 (24.22%) SQL
3 123 (23.84%) JavaScript
4 89 (17.25%) Python
5 78 (15.12%) TypeScript
6 38 (7.36%) Kotlin
7 28 (5.43%) Shell Script
8 18 (3.49%) C#
9 14 (2.71%) Scala
10 12 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.55%) Delphi
12 7 (1.36%) Groovy
13 6 (1.16%) C++
13 6 (1.16%) Go
14 5 (0.97%) Rust
15 4 (0.78%) C
15 4 (0.78%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.58%) Ruby
17 2 (0.39%) Bash
18 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.14%) Degree
3 40 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 21 (4.07%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
9 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.19%) ISEB
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.07%) QA
2 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.16%) SLA
4 2 (0.39%) GDPR
4 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 179 (34.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.97%) HDFS
3 3 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 257 (49.81%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.50%) Terraform
3 28 (5.43%) Kibana
4 19 (3.68%) Ansible
5 16 (3.10%) Grafana
6 12 (2.33%) Argo
7 4 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
10 1 (0.19%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 87 (16.86%) Oracle
2 40 (7.75%) Splunk
3 32 (6.20%) Dynatrace
4 20 (3.88%) Google
5 14 (2.71%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.94%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.55%) Databricks
8 6 (1.16%) IBM
8 6 (1.16%) SAP
9 5 (0.97%) Cloudera
9 5 (0.97%) Solace
10 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.78%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.78%) Moogsoft
10 4 (0.78%) Pega
10 4 (0.78%) WSO2
11 3 (0.58%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.58%) Sybase
12 2 (0.39%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.39%) SaltStack