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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 133 91
Rank change year-on-year -36 -42 +16
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,688 2,742 5,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 2.62% 3.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.03% 8.62% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 729 1,369 2,117
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%

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 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London -13 1,279 £65,000 - 104
England -136 846 £75,000 -6.25% 180
Scotland +44 754 £65,000 -1.52% 15
Work from Home -79 479 £71,538 +2.20% 98
London -86 390 £90,000 - 97
South East +14 152 £70,000 - 18
North of England -118 147 £75,000 +11.11% 22
South West -18 122 £60,500 -6.92% 19
North West -105 102 £72,500 +11.54% 12
Midlands -152 44 £57,500 -4.17% 7
West Midlands -93 38 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Yorkshire -2 32 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Wales +7 30 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Northern Ireland -23 17 £97,500 +95.00% 9
North East -4 13 £55,000 -0.22% 5
East of England -62 13 £50,000 -28.57% 11
East Midlands -85 5 - - 2

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
1 112 (6.64%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.69%) FileNet
3 52 (3.08%) Apache
4 51 (3.02%) Confluence
5 42 (2.49%) OpenStack
6 41 (2.43%) JBoss
7 39 (2.31%) Red Hat Fuse
8 36 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 31 (1.84%) WebLogic
10 29 (1.72%) Tomcat
11 21 (1.24%) Camunda
11 21 (1.24%) GemFire
12 16 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.47%) Apache Pig
14 4 (0.24%) MQSeries
15 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
16 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
16 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 882 (52.25%) AWS
2 273 (16.17%) Azure
3 156 (9.24%) Serverless
4 143 (8.47%) Amazon S3
5 118 (6.99%) GCP
6 112 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (4.80%) GitHub
8 80 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
9 62 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (2.90%) OpenShift
11 39 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (2.25%) SaaS
13 30 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
14 29 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
15 26 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.30%) Datadog
17 18 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (0.89%) IBM Cloud
19 12 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.60%) AMQP
2 17 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 12 (0.71%) Internet
4 5 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.059%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (18.84%) NoSQL
2 223 (13.21%) Relational Database
3 181 (10.72%) Elasticsearch
4 157 (9.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 130 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
6 125 (7.41%) MongoDB
7 120 (7.11%) Big Data
8 97 (5.75%) MySQL
9 93 (5.51%) Hadoop
10 61 (3.61%) RDBMS
11 50 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (2.96%) SQL Server
12 38 (2.25%) CockroachDB
13 37 (2.19%) Apache Hive
14 26 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
16 24 (1.42%) DB2
17 23 (1.36%) Hazelcast
18 22 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 310 (18.36%) Jenkins
2 292 (17.30%) JUnit
3 263 (15.58%) Git
4 152 (9.00%) Maven
5 105 (6.22%) Jasmine
6 102 (6.04%) Selenium
7 96 (5.69%) Cypress.io
8 75 (4.44%) JIRA
9 69 (4.09%) Mockito
10 67 (3.97%) Gradle
11 63 (3.73%) Protractor
12 62 (3.67%) Cucumber
13 60 (3.55%) Karma Test Runner
13 60 (3.55%) WebDriver
14 54 (3.20%) IntelliJ
15 47 (2.78%) GitLab
16 37 (2.19%) Postman
17 31 (1.84%) CircleCI
18 21 (1.24%) Jaeger
18 21 (1.24%) Travis CI
General
1 939 (55.63%) Finance
2 719 (42.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 681 (40.34%) Law
4 338 (20.02%) Banking
5 237 (14.04%) Marketing
6 204 (12.09%) Legal
7 195 (11.55%) Social Skills
8 180 (10.66%) Investment Banking
9 114 (6.75%) Public Sector
10 93 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
11 80 (4.74%) Financial Institution
12 60 (3.55%) Private Banking
13 43 (2.55%) Games
14 41 (2.43%) Police
15 30 (1.78%) Front Office
16 29 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 29 (1.72%) Retail
17 22 (1.30%) Prime Brokerage
18 15 (0.89%) Publishing
19 10 (0.59%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 817 (48.40%) Software Engineer
2 614 (36.37%) Java Engineer
3 550 (32.58%) Java Software Engineer
4 523 (30.98%) Developer
5 468 (27.73%) Java Developer
6 352 (20.85%) Senior
7 345 (20.44%) Lead
8 236 (13.98%) Full Stack Engineer
9 218 (12.91%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 208 (12.32%) Lead Software Engineer
11 164 (9.72%) Senior Developer
12 154 (9.12%) Lead Java Engineer
12 154 (9.12%) Senior Java Developer
13 106 (6.28%) Full Stack Developer
14 100 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 87 (5.15%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 82 (4.86%) Senior Java Engineer
17 55 (3.26%) Engineering Manager
18 54 (3.20%) Architect
18 54 (3.20%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 905 (53.61%) Spring Boot
2 572 (33.89%) AngularJS
3 558 (33.06%) React
4 446 (26.42%) Kafka
5 408 (24.17%) Hibernate
6 336 (19.91%) J2EE
7 324 (19.19%) REST
8 265 (15.70%) HTML
8 265 (15.70%) Node.js
9 258 (15.28%) JSON
10 255 (15.11%) CSS
11 231 (13.68%) RESTful
12 195 (11.55%) JMS
13 188 (11.14%) Web Services
14 158 (9.36%) jQuery
15 150 (8.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 139 (8.23%) JPA
17 134 (7.94%) XML
18 125 (7.41%) GraphQL
19 103 (6.10%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 402 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 220 (13.03%) Algorithms
3 123 (7.29%) Data Structures
4 105 (6.22%) Public Cloud
5 68 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (3.91%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
9 51 (3.02%) Management Information System
9 51 (3.02%) Onboarding
10 44 (2.61%) Legacy Code
11 42 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (2.31%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.48%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.24%) Blockchain
14 21 (1.24%) Replication
15 18 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.95%) Reference Data
16 16 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.89%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.21%) Linux
2 67 (3.97%) Unix
3 24 (1.42%) CentOS
3 24 (1.42%) Debian
3 24 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 13 (0.77%) Windows
5 4 (0.24%) AIX
5 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (69.67%) Agile
2 1,032 (61.14%) Software Engineering
3 789 (46.74%) CI/CD
4 698 (41.35%) Microservices
5 690 (40.88%) SDLC
6 479 (28.38%) Operational Stability
7 448 (26.54%) Full Stack Development
8 414 (24.53%) Artificial Intelligence
9 409 (24.23%) Machine Learning
10 342 (20.26%) TDD
11 330 (19.55%) Community of Practice
12 318 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
13 288 (17.06%) DevOps
14 287 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 245 (14.51%) Computer Science
16 237 (14.04%) Visualisation
17 230 (13.63%) Decision-Making
18 214 (12.68%) Risk Management
19 205 (12.14%) Mentoring
20 204 (12.09%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,664 (98.58%) Java
2 607 (35.96%) SQL
3 490 (29.03%) JavaScript
4 286 (16.94%) Python
5 261 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 70 (4.15%) Shell Script
7 54 (3.20%) C#
8 52 (3.08%) Ruby
9 49 (2.90%) Kotlin
10 40 (2.37%) Groovy
11 29 (1.72%) PHP
12 22 (1.30%) Scala
13 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.89%) Go
14 15 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.47%) Perl
16 7 (0.41%) C++
16 7 (0.41%) Rust
17 5 (0.30%) COBOL
17 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 213 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 188 (11.14%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.24%) Degree
4 120 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 34 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.30%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.18%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.12%) OCP
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.059%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.68%) QA
2 56 (3.32%) SLA
3 32 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 12 (0.71%) SEPA
5 10 (0.59%) GDPR
6 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.18%) MiFID
7 1 (0.059%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 364 (21.56%) Docker
2 31 (1.84%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.42%) HDFS
4 1 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.059%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 521 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 209 (12.38%) Terraform
3 100 (5.92%) Ansible
4 72 (4.27%) Grafana
5 48 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.95%) Kibana
7 29 (1.72%) OpenSSO
7 29 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.42%) Puppet
9 21 (1.24%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.24%) Zipkin
10 7 (0.41%) Graphite
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.059%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.059%) Packer
Vendors
1 279 (16.53%) Oracle
2 112 (6.64%) Google
3 83 (4.92%) Splunk
4 75 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 42 (2.49%) SaltStack
5 42 (2.49%) WSO2
6 37 (2.19%) Red Hat
7 30 (1.78%) Databricks
8 29 (1.72%) Remedy
9 20 (1.18%) Pega
10 16 (0.95%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.95%) IBM
11 13 (0.77%) Sybase
12 9 (0.53%) Microsoft
12 9 (0.53%) TOWER Software
13 7 (0.41%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.36%) Confluent
14 6 (0.36%) ION Trading
15 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus
16 4 (0.24%) TIBCO