Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 18 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
18 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 100 82 73
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spring 927 390 298
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.20% 3.73% 4.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.45% 7.58% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 670 369 237
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,443 5,145 3,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.98% 49.27% 47.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,804 4,652 3,061
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% - +4.76%

Spring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spring
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spring
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 18 January 2022.

Spring salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 18 January 2022, Spring job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Spring.

1 860 (92.77%) Java
2 480 (51.78%) Spring Boot
3 477 (51.46%) Agile Software Development
4 472 (50.92%) Microservices
5 395 (42.61%) AWS
6 350 (37.76%) Docker
7 320 (34.52%) Software Engineering
8 318 (34.30%) Kubernetes
9 296 (31.93%) DevOps
10 274 (29.56%) SQL
11 252 (27.18%) REST
12 241 (26.00%) Kafka
13 239 (25.78%) JavaScript
14 233 (25.13%) React
15 227 (24.49%) Azure
16 212 (22.87%) Jenkins
17 198 (21.36%) NoSQL
18 197 (21.25%) PostgreSQL
19 195 (21.04%) Git (software)
20 192 (20.71%) Social Skills
21 182 (19.63%) TDD
22 179 (19.31%) Relational Database
23 173 (18.66%) Scrum
24 171 (18.45%) Kotlin
25 167 (18.02%) RESTful
26 166 (17.91%) Hibernate
27 163 (17.58%) MySQL
27 163 (17.58%) Oracle
28 157 (16.94%) Finance
29 156 (16.83%) Web Services

Spring
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 82 (8.85%) Elasticsearch
2 52 (5.61%) Apache Solr
3 48 (5.18%) Confluence
4 37 (3.99%) Anypoint
4 37 (3.99%) Mule
4 37 (3.99%) Mule ESB
5 36 (3.88%) Tomcat
6 23 (2.48%) Apache Spark
7 21 (2.27%) Apache
8 9 (0.97%) JBoss
9 6 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
9 6 (0.65%) nginx
10 4 (0.43%) CMS
10 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.22%) Kentico
12 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.76%) InVision
1 7 (0.76%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) InDesign
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
1 7 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.22%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 395 (42.61%) AWS
2 227 (24.49%) Azure
3 123 (13.27%) GCP
4 89 (9.60%) Serverless
5 48 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (3.88%) GitHub
6 36 (3.88%) OpenShift
7 31 (3.34%) SaaS
8 26 (2.80%) Datadog
9 17 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (1.29%) PaaS
11 8 (0.86%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.65%) Slack
13 5 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.32%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.32%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.22%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.59%) HTTP
2 3 (0.32%) 5G
2 3 (0.32%) SMS
3 2 (0.22%) Internet
4 1 (0.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.11%) DSL
4 1 (0.11%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.11%) Network Security
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (21.36%) NoSQL
2 197 (21.25%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (19.31%) Relational Database
4 163 (17.58%) MySQL
5 112 (12.08%) MongoDB
6 94 (10.14%) Redis
7 68 (7.34%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 64 (6.90%) Big Data
9 61 (6.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 49 (5.29%) Hadoop
10 49 (5.29%) RDBMS
11 30 (3.24%) SQL Server
12 26 (2.80%) Hazelcast
13 18 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (1.40%) MariaDB
15 11 (1.19%) Flink
16 9 (0.97%) DB2
17 5 (0.54%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.43%) SQL Server 2012
19 3 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 212 (22.87%) Jenkins
2 195 (21.04%) Git (software)
3 105 (11.33%) Maven
4 90 (9.71%) JUnit
5 89 (9.60%) GitLab
6 70 (7.55%) JIRA
7 43 (4.64%) Subversion
8 42 (4.53%) Cucumber
9 39 (4.21%) Selenium
10 36 (3.88%) Gradle
11 26 (2.80%) Mockito
12 24 (2.59%) Eclipse
13 20 (2.16%) JMeter
14 14 (1.51%) Tricentis qTest
15 11 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.97%) Cypress.io
17 8 (0.86%) CircleCI
18 7 (0.76%) JBehave
18 7 (0.76%) PostCSS
18 7 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 192 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 157 (16.94%) Finance
3 109 (11.76%) Retail
4 40 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (3.56%) Marketing
6 29 (3.13%) Publishing
7 28 (3.02%) Banking
8 23 (2.48%) Advertising
8 23 (2.48%) Automotive
8 23 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 17 (1.83%) Electronics
9 17 (1.83%) Games
10 14 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.19%) Law
12 10 (1.08%) Back Office
12 10 (1.08%) Retail Finance
13 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
16 5 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 546 (58.90%) Developer
2 455 (49.08%) Java Developer
3 210 (22.65%) Senior Developer
4 195 (21.04%) Senior Java Developer
5 152 (16.40%) Software Engineer
6 140 (15.10%) Java Engineer
7 85 (9.17%) Java Software Engineer
8 82 (8.85%) Architect
9 70 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 58 (6.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 56 (6.04%) Technical Architect
12 43 (4.64%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 38 (4.10%) Full Stack Developer
14 37 (3.99%) MuleSoft Developer
15 27 (2.91%) JavaScript Developer
16 26 (2.80%) Technical Leader
17 25 (2.70%) Angular Developer
17 25 (2.70%) React Developer
18 24 (2.59%) Cloud Developer
19 23 (2.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (51.78%) Spring Boot
2 252 (27.18%) REST
3 241 (26.00%) Kafka
4 233 (25.13%) React
5 167 (18.02%) RESTful
6 166 (17.91%) Hibernate
7 156 (16.83%) Web Services
8 134 (14.46%) Node.js
9 132 (14.24%) CSS
10 124 (13.38%) HTML
11 97 (10.46%) AngularJS
12 93 (10.03%) XML
13 78 (8.41%) JSON
14 77 (8.31%) GraphQL
15 75 (8.09%) JMS
16 71 (7.66%) SOAP
17 70 (7.55%) Middleware
18 61 (6.58%) HTML5
19 55 (5.93%) Spring MVC
20 54 (5.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 142 (15.32%) Greenfield Project
2 56 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (4.85%) iPad
4 42 (4.53%) Social Media
5 32 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 29 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 23 (2.48%) FMCG
9 22 (2.37%) User Experience
10 19 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.19%) Online Games
11 11 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.86%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.76%) Cloud Native
14 6 (0.65%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (0.54%) Blog
15 5 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.54%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 123 (13.27%) Linux
2 46 (4.96%) Unix
3 9 (0.97%) Android
4 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.32%) Windows
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (51.46%) Agile Software Development
2 472 (50.92%) Microservices
3 320 (34.52%) Software Engineering
4 296 (31.93%) DevOps
5 182 (19.63%) TDD
6 173 (18.66%) Scrum
7 152 (16.40%) Full Stack Development
8 146 (15.75%) Open Source
9 135 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
10 117 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (10.79%) Test Automation
12 91 (9.82%) Fintech
13 90 (9.71%) BDD
14 81 (8.74%) SOA
15 79 (8.52%) OO
16 78 (8.41%) MVC
17 76 (8.20%) Kanban
18 72 (7.77%) Mentoring
19 64 (6.90%) Event-Driven
20 59 (6.36%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 860 (92.77%) Java
2 274 (29.56%) SQL
3 239 (25.78%) JavaScript
4 171 (18.45%) Kotlin
5 145 (15.64%) Java 8
6 84 (9.06%) TypeScript
7 76 (8.20%) Python
8 64 (6.90%) Go
9 57 (6.15%) Java 11
10 36 (3.88%) ES6
11 35 (3.78%) Groovy
12 32 (3.45%) Scala
13 18 (1.94%) C#
14 13 (1.40%) Bash
14 13 (1.40%) C++
14 13 (1.40%) PHP
15 10 (1.08%) Ruby
16 7 (0.76%) C-shell
16 7 (0.76%) ES7
17 4 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 76 (8.20%) Degree
2 33 (3.56%) Security Cleared
3 30 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (0.76%) SANS
6 3 (0.32%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.22%) ISEB
8 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.99%) QA
2 17 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.76%) WCAG
4 4 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
5 3 (0.32%) GDPR
5 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.22%) COREP
6 2 (0.22%) PSD2
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 350 (37.76%) Docker
2 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.11%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.11%) Postfix
3 1 (0.11%) Varnish
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 318 (34.30%) Kubernetes
2 145 (15.64%) Terraform
3 115 (12.41%) Ansible
4 26 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.16%) Kibana
6 18 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
7 15 (1.62%) logstash
8 14 (1.51%) Puppet
9 13 (1.40%) Opscode Chef
10 9 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.32%) Grafana
12 2 (0.22%) Consul
12 2 (0.22%) Oozie
13 1 (0.11%) Mesos
Vendors
1 163 (17.58%) Oracle
2 65 (7.01%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.53%) Google
3 42 (4.53%) Twitter
4 39 (4.21%) MuleSoft
5 9 (0.97%) SAP
6 7 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.65%) Elastic Path
7 6 (0.65%) Guidewire
7 6 (0.65%) YouTube
8 5 (0.54%) Xamarin
9 4 (0.43%) CA
9 4 (0.43%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.32%) Apple
10 3 (0.32%) hybris
10 3 (0.32%) IBM
10 3 (0.32%) Pega
10 3 (0.32%) Solace
10 3 (0.32%) WSO2
11 2 (0.22%) PayPal