Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 172 142
Rank change year-on-year -148 -30 -52
Permanent jobs citing Spring 446 1,686 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.71% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 8.01% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 295 722 1,338
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,778 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,979 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -48 379 £72,500 -3.33% 280
UK excluding London -155 255 £67,500 +3.85% 212
London -15 212 £82,500 -8.33% 108
Work from Home -7 186 £70,000 -3.45% 212
South East +40 77 £65,000 -7.14% 35
North of England +3 63 £80,000 +6.67% 57
Scotland -75 43 £79,569 +22.41% 41
North West -33 36 £85,253 +17.59% 40
South West +29 28 £60,000 -0.83% 29
Yorkshire +62 23 £67,500 -10.00% 7
Midlands +38 20 £60,000 +6.67% 32
Northern Ireland +31 12 £55,000 -43.59% 8
West Midlands +26 12 £63,750 +10.87% 20
East of England +55 10 £55,000 +10.00% 10
East Midlands +52 8 £47,500 - 11
North East +44 4 £55,000 - 10
Wales +13 2 £46,154 +4.30% 1

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 26 (5.83%) Confluence
2 18 (4.04%) Tomcat
3 13 (2.91%) Apache
3 13 (2.91%) JBoss
4 12 (2.69%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (2.24%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.79%) nginx
6 8 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.35%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.90%) Alfresco
8 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.90%) GemFire
9 3 (0.67%) Documentum
9 3 (0.67%) Mule
9 3 (0.67%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.67%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.45%) Camunda
10 2 (0.45%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.45%) Solana
11 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 280 (62.78%) AWS
2 120 (26.91%) Azure
3 105 (23.54%) GCP
4 67 (15.02%) Serverless
5 64 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (8.07%) Amazon S3
9 29 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (3.59%) GitHub
12 15 (3.36%) Datadog
13 14 (3.14%) SaaS
14 12 (2.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (2.47%) Apigee
16 9 (2.02%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 8 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (1.79%) Snowflake
18 6 (1.35%) ChatGPT
18 6 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.12%) HTTP
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (14.35%) Relational Database
3 58 (13.00%) NoSQL
4 47 (10.54%) MongoDB
5 46 (10.31%) MySQL
6 33 (7.40%) DynamoDB
7 32 (7.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 27 (6.05%) RDBMS
9 18 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (3.59%) Big Data
11 15 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.79%) DB2
14 7 (1.57%) Redis
15 6 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
16 5 (1.12%) Apache Hive
16 5 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
17 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 124 (27.80%) Git
2 116 (26.01%) Jenkins
3 98 (21.97%) JUnit
4 67 (15.02%) Maven
5 55 (12.33%) Mockito
6 43 (9.64%) JIRA
7 42 (9.42%) GitLab
8 38 (8.52%) SonarQube
9 24 (5.38%) Cucumber
10 18 (4.04%) IntelliJ
10 18 (4.04%) JMeter
11 17 (3.81%) Gradle
12 14 (3.14%) Bitbucket
13 12 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (2.24%) Postman
14 10 (2.24%) Selenium
15 9 (2.02%) Subversion
15 9 (2.02%) TestNG
16 6 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 221 (49.55%) Finance
2 120 (26.91%) Banking
3 112 (25.11%) Social Skills
4 52 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 51 (11.43%) Financial Institution
6 40 (8.97%) Law
7 35 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.36%) Front Office
10 14 (3.14%) Games
11 13 (2.91%) Retail
12 12 (2.69%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.79%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Online Betting
16 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.67%) Advertising
18 2 (0.45%) Electronics
18 2 (0.45%) Publishing
18 2 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 173 (38.79%) Developer
2 156 (34.98%) Software Engineer
3 141 (31.61%) Java Developer
4 113 (25.34%) Senior
5 90 (20.18%) Java Engineer
6 52 (11.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 49 (10.99%) Java Software Engineer
8 46 (10.31%) Senior Developer
9 42 (9.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (8.52%) Senior Java Developer
11 36 (8.07%) Lead
12 22 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 20 (4.48%) Senior Java Engineer
14 19 (4.26%) Java Pricing Developer
14 19 (4.26%) Pricing Developer
15 18 (4.04%) AWS Developer
16 16 (3.59%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 15 (3.36%) AWS DevOps
18 14 (3.14%) DevOps Developer
18 14 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (69.73%) Spring Boot
2 118 (26.46%) React
3 114 (25.56%) Kafka
4 104 (23.32%) REST
5 95 (21.30%) AngularJS
6 83 (18.61%) Hibernate
6 83 (18.61%) RESTful
7 70 (15.70%) Node.js
8 65 (14.57%) Web Services
9 39 (8.74%) HTML
10 38 (8.52%) ActiveMQ
11 37 (8.30%) Apache Camel
12 27 (6.05%) SOAP
13 26 (5.83%) J2EE
13 26 (5.83%) WireMock
14 23 (5.16%) Akka
14 23 (5.16%) CSS
14 23 (5.16%) JSON
15 21 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (8.30%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (4.93%) Credit Derivative
5 21 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.91%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.24%) Derivative
9 9 (2.02%) Life Science
10 8 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.79%) Mobile Games
11 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.57%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.90%) Equities
14 4 (0.90%) Fixed Income
14 4 (0.90%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 51 (11.43%) Linux
2 21 (4.71%) Unix
3 3 (0.67%) Android
3 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (57.40%) Agile
2 248 (55.61%) Microservices
3 231 (51.79%) Software Engineering
4 184 (41.26%) CI/CD
5 170 (38.12%) DevOps
6 146 (32.74%) TDD
7 101 (22.65%) SDLC
8 95 (21.30%) Mentoring
9 90 (20.18%) BDD
10 85 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
11 84 (18.83%) Test Automation
12 83 (18.61%) Containerisation
12 83 (18.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 73 (16.37%) Scrum
14 61 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (13.23%) Code Quality
16 55 (12.33%) Computer Science
17 54 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
18 48 (10.76%) Multithreading
19 45 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 432 (96.86%) Java
2 106 (23.77%) SQL
3 99 (22.20%) JavaScript
4 77 (17.26%) Python
5 42 (9.42%) TypeScript
6 25 (5.61%) Go
6 25 (5.61%) Shell Script
7 14 (3.14%) C++
8 13 (2.91%) C#
9 7 (1.57%) Rust
10 6 (1.35%) Bash
10 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.67%) ABAP
11 3 (0.67%) XQuery
12 2 (0.45%) Groovy
12 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.45%) Ruby
12 2 (0.45%) Scala
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 61 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.95%) Degree
4 12 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.22%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.22%) OCP
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.26%) QA
2 13 (2.91%) SLA
3 7 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) GDPR
5 3 (0.67%) SEPA
6 2 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 220 (49.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Postfix
3 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 242 (54.26%) Kubernetes
2 53 (11.88%) Terraform
3 38 (8.52%) Ansible
4 22 (4.93%) Kibana
5 17 (3.81%) Grafana
6 13 (2.91%) Istio
6 13 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.79%) Argo
7 8 (1.79%) Kustomize
7 8 (1.79%) Packer
8 4 (0.90%) Oozie
9 3 (0.67%) Control-M
10 1 (0.22%) Kiali
Vendors
1 30 (6.73%) Oracle
1 30 (6.73%) Splunk
2 26 (5.83%) Google
3 24 (5.38%) Dynatrace
4 18 (4.04%) IBM
5 10 (2.24%) Sybase
6 9 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.79%) Solace
8 7 (1.57%) New Relic
9 5 (1.12%) SAP
10 4 (0.90%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.67%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.45%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.45%) Databricks
12 2 (0.45%) Informatica
12 2 (0.45%) Mercator
12 2 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.45%) YouTube
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft