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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 183 152
Rank change year-on-year -57 -31 -61
Permanent jobs citing Spring 745 1,577 2,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.52% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.79% 7.35% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 268 662 1,189
10th Percentile £47,161 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -5.90% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,778 £91,934 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £116,250 £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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +47 594 £72,500 -3.33% 378
UK excluding London -40 555 £67,500 +3.85% 274
Work from Home +101 416 £70,000 -0.82% 286
London -7 202 £82,500 -8.33% 190
North of England +68 186 £85,000 +17.24% 63
North West +35 162 £85,253 +21.79% 39
Scotland -30 124 £80,000 +33.33% 55
Midlands +130 98 £62,500 +8.70% 50
South East +12 80 £67,500 -3.57% 40
West Midlands +78 51 £67,500 +17.39% 37
East Midlands +89 47 £47,500 - 13
South West +36 31 £62,500 -3.85% 23
East of England +56 21 £82,500 +65.00% 3
Yorkshire +50 19 £67,500 -10.00% 11
Northern Ireland +49 14 £55,000 -42.11% 28
North East +44 5 £72,500 +31.82% 13
Wales +22 3 £47,307 +6.91% 7

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
1 189 (25.37%) Confluence
2 16 (2.15%) JBoss
3 15 (2.01%) Apache
4 14 (1.88%) Red Hat Fuse
5 13 (1.74%) Tomcat
6 11 (1.48%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.07%) nginx
8 6 (0.81%) Camunda
8 6 (0.81%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.54%) GemFire
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) Mule
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.27%) Alfresco
12 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.27%) Ethereum
12 2 (0.27%) NetWeaver
12 2 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 556 (74.63%) AWS
2 350 (46.98%) Azure
3 250 (33.56%) GCP
4 74 (9.93%) Serverless
5 60 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
6 55 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
7 54 (7.25%) Amazon S3
8 41 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (3.76%) GitHub
12 15 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (1.88%) Datadog
14 12 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (1.48%) Apigee
15 11 (1.48%) AWS KMS
16 10 (1.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 10 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.34%) Route 53
16 10 (1.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.94%) HTTP
2 4 (0.54%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) Network Security
3 2 (0.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.13%) AMQP
4 1 (0.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) Firewall
4 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (35.57%) SQL Server
2 120 (16.11%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 62 (8.32%) MongoDB
5 44 (5.91%) MySQL
6 30 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (3.62%) RDBMS
8 25 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 24 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.95%) Big Data
11 17 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.34%) DB2
14 10 (1.34%) Redis
15 9 (1.21%) InterSystems Cache
16 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.94%) Apache Hive
18 6 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 325 (43.62%) Maven
2 297 (39.87%) JIRA
3 292 (39.19%) SonarQube
4 286 (38.39%) GitLab
5 277 (37.18%) Cucumber
6 263 (35.30%) Selenium
7 261 (35.03%) Bitbucket
8 258 (34.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 137 (18.39%) Git
10 130 (17.45%) Jenkins
11 113 (15.17%) JUnit
12 61 (8.19%) Mockito
13 16 (2.15%) IntelliJ
14 15 (2.01%) Gradle
15 13 (1.74%) JMeter
16 11 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (1.48%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.48%) jMock
16 11 (1.48%) Postman
17 9 (1.21%) TestNG
General
1 517 (69.40%) Finance
2 368 (49.40%) Banking
3 350 (46.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (17.18%) Social Skills
5 108 (14.50%) Investment Banking
6 98 (13.15%) Retail
7 97 (13.02%) Law
8 90 (12.08%) Corporate Banking
9 67 (8.99%) Public Sector
10 57 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (4.56%) Marketing
12 32 (4.30%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.88%) Front Office
13 14 (1.88%) Games
13 14 (1.88%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.07%) Legal
14 8 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.81%) Electronics
15 6 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.67%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 449 (60.27%) Software Engineer
2 189 (25.37%) Developer
3 171 (22.95%) Java Engineer
4 150 (20.13%) Java Developer
5 125 (16.78%) Java Software Engineer
6 108 (14.50%) Senior
7 71 (9.53%) Lead
8 51 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 40 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
12 33 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 27 (3.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 21 (2.82%) Lead Developer
15 21 (2.82%) Lead Java Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 20 (2.68%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 581 (77.99%) Spring Boot
2 416 (55.84%) Kafka
3 369 (49.53%) React
4 284 (38.12%) HTML
5 281 (37.72%) JPA
6 273 (36.64%) CSS
7 250 (33.56%) Hibernate
8 249 (33.42%) Redux
9 211 (28.32%) RESTful
10 205 (27.52%) REST
11 100 (13.42%) AngularJS
12 97 (13.02%) HTML5
13 95 (12.75%) CSS3
14 94 (12.62%) Jest
15 90 (12.08%) Sass
16 82 (11.01%) Web Services
17 44 (5.91%) ActiveMQ
18 42 (5.64%) Node.js
19 39 (5.23%) SOAP
20 29 (3.89%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 275 (36.91%) Enterprise Software
2 267 (35.84%) Product Ownership
3 73 (9.80%) Cloud Native
4 67 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (5.64%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.42%) Credit Derivative
6 18 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.88%) Derivative
10 12 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.34%) Life Science
12 9 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.21%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 7 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
15 6 (0.81%) Equities
15 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.32%) Linux
2 23 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 561 (75.30%) Agile
2 529 (71.01%) Software Engineering
3 524 (70.34%) Microservices
4 494 (66.31%) CI/CD
5 428 (57.45%) DevOps
6 384 (51.54%) SDLC
7 349 (46.85%) Containerisation
7 349 (46.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 329 (44.16%) Test Automation
9 324 (43.49%) TDD
10 267 (35.84%) Front End Development
11 261 (35.03%) Performance Optimisation
12 223 (29.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 197 (26.44%) Clean Code
14 160 (21.48%) Mentoring
15 109 (14.63%) User Experience
16 99 (13.29%) Migration
17 96 (12.89%) Strategic Thinking
18 92 (12.35%) Responsive Web Design
19 91 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 734 (98.52%) Java
2 383 (51.41%) SQL
3 351 (47.11%) JavaScript
4 150 (20.13%) TypeScript
5 77 (10.34%) Python
6 20 (2.68%) Shell Script
7 18 (2.42%) Go
8 17 (2.28%) C#
8 17 (2.28%) C++
9 10 (1.34%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.07%) Rust
11 7 (0.94%) Groovy
12 5 (0.67%) Scala
13 4 (0.54%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) Ruby
14 3 (0.40%) XQuery
15 2 (0.27%) ABAP
15 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (9.53%) Security Cleared
2 56 (7.52%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.70%) Degree
4 16 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.13%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (36.11%) QA
2 97 (13.02%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.15%) SLA
4 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.54%) GDPR
6 3 (0.40%) SEPA
7 2 (0.27%) NCSC
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 473 (63.49%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 505 (67.79%) Kubernetes
2 64 (8.59%) Terraform
3 41 (5.50%) Ansible
4 22 (2.95%) Grafana
5 18 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.15%) Kibana
7 12 (1.61%) Istio
8 11 (1.48%) Argo
9 8 (1.07%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.07%) Packer
10 3 (0.40%) Control-M
11 2 (0.27%) Oozie
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 255 (34.23%) Solace
2 62 (8.32%) Oracle
3 34 (4.56%) Splunk
4 27 (3.62%) Google
5 25 (3.36%) Dynatrace
6 21 (2.82%) IBM
7 12 (1.61%) Sybase
8 10 (1.34%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.07%) SAP
11 7 (0.94%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.81%) Databricks
13 5 (0.67%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.67%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (0.67%) Microsoft
13 5 (0.67%) New Relic
14 4 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.54%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.40%) Informatica
15 3 (0.40%) Moogsoft