Spring Job Trends in Wales

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 62 96
Rank change year-on-year -24 +34 -6
Permanent jobs citing Spring 31 2 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.33% 0.29% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.34% 2.38% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28 2 15
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,875 -
25th Percentile £47,930 £43,438 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,750 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% +23.56% -9.57%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,938 £50,000
90th Percentile - £62,625 £56,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 169 84 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.27% 12.23% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 148 77 283
10th Percentile £39,221 £49,164 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +20.48% +10.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Wales

Spring
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Wales over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in Wales

Spring
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
West Wales - 23 £70,000 - 7
South Wales -36 8 £70,000 +30.23% 10
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (93.55%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Serverless
3 16 (51.61%) Azure
4 14 (45.16%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (32.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (32.26%) GCP
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) NoSQL
2 6 (19.35%) MySQL
2 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.23%) Adabas
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 7 (22.58%) JUnit
3 6 (19.35%) Selenium
4 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
5 4 (12.90%) GitLab
6 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (9.68%) Newman
6 3 (9.68%) Postman
6 3 (9.68%) REST Assured
6 3 (9.68%) TestRail
6 3 (9.68%) Zephyr
7 1 (3.23%) Gradle
7 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.23%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (3.23%) Maven
7 1 (3.23%) Mocha
7 1 (3.23%) RSpec
General
1 21 (67.74%) Public Sector
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Welsh Language
7 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 11 (35.48%) Lead
3 9 (29.03%) Java Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Senior
4 7 (22.58%) Software Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Test Leader
8 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (3.23%) React Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (51.61%) Ruby on Rails
3 15 (48.39%) React
4 13 (41.94%) Kafka
4 13 (41.94%) Node.js
5 9 (29.03%) JPA
5 9 (29.03%) RESTful
6 8 (25.81%) Hibernate
7 7 (22.58%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (19.35%) HTML
8 6 (19.35%) HTML5
8 6 (19.35%) Serverless Framework
9 5 (16.13%) AWS CDK
9 5 (16.13%) AWS SAM
9 5 (16.13%) CSS
9 5 (16.13%) CSS3
9 5 (16.13%) Jest
9 5 (16.13%) REST
10 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
10 3 (9.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 23 (74.19%) Cloud Native
2 12 (38.71%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (38.71%) Mainframe
3 8 (25.81%) Product Ownership
4 7 (22.58%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (12.90%) Virtual Team
7 3 (9.68%) Driving Licence
7 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (6.45%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (93.55%) Agile
1 29 (93.55%) CI/CD
2 20 (64.52%) DevOps
2 20 (64.52%) Microservices
2 20 (64.52%) Scrum
2 20 (64.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 17 (54.84%) Observability
4 15 (48.39%) Software Engineering
5 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (41.94%) Event-Driven
6 13 (41.94%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (38.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (38.71%) Kanban
8 9 (29.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (29.03%) Roadmaps
8 9 (29.03%) TDD
8 9 (29.03%) Technology Roadmap
9 8 (25.81%) API Design
9 8 (25.81%) Community of Practice
9 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (51.61%) Ruby
3 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) Natural
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
1 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.68%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Accessibility
1 11 (35.48%) WCAG
2 4 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (54.84%) Kubernetes
2 16 (51.61%) Terraform
3 4 (12.90%) Grafana
3 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) OneLogin
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Splunk