Hybrid/Remote Spring Job Trends

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 131 283
Rank change year-on-year -98 +152 -127
Permanent jobs citing Spring 193 415 382
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.00% 2.76% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.62% 9.71% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 138 132 305
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,325 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,778 £91,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £98,474 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,250
% change year-on-year - +3.20% -6.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,433 4,274 8,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.70% 28.46% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 2,878 7,713
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Spring job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Spring salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (2.59%) JBoss
2 4 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.07%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Solr
3 3 (1.55%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.04%) Camunda
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 124 (64.25%) AWS
2 50 (25.91%) Serverless
3 45 (23.32%) Azure
4 27 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (10.36%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.33%) GCP
7 15 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (7.77%) SaaS
8 14 (7.25%) GitHub
9 9 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 9 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.66%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.55%) Stripe
14 2 (1.04%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.07%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.99%) NoSQL
2 24 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.66%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.66%) MySQL
4 7 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.07%) Redis
7 3 (1.55%) Flink
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (12.95%) Git
2 21 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.81%) Maven
4 14 (7.25%) JUnit
5 9 (4.66%) GitLab
5 9 (4.66%) Mockito
6 7 (3.63%) JIRA
7 4 (2.07%) Claude Code
8 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.04%) Gradle
9 2 (1.04%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.52%) git-flow
10 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.52%) Postman
10 1 (0.52%) Selenium
10 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 52 (26.94%) Finance
2 34 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.95%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.40%) Banking
5 11 (5.70%) Tech for Good
6 10 (5.18%) Health Technology
7 8 (4.15%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.63%) Games
8 7 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.04%) Advertising
10 2 (1.04%) Aviation
10 2 (1.04%) Law
10 2 (1.04%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.52%) iGaming
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (42.49%) Developer
2 72 (37.31%) Java Developer
3 51 (26.42%) Senior
4 49 (25.39%) Java Engineer
5 42 (21.76%) Software Engineer
6 32 (16.58%) Lead
7 24 (12.44%) Engineering Manager
7 24 (12.44%) Java Software Engineer
7 24 (12.44%) Software Engineering Manager
7 24 (12.44%) Software Manager
8 22 (11.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 22 (11.40%) Senior Developer
9 19 (9.84%) Senior Java Engineer
10 18 (9.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 16 (8.29%) Lead Developer
12 15 (7.77%) Lead Java Developer
12 15 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (6.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (6.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (62.18%) Spring Boot
2 60 (31.09%) React
3 53 (27.46%) REST
4 37 (19.17%) AngularJS
5 26 (13.47%) Node.js
6 20 (10.36%) Kafka
7 18 (9.33%) RESTful
8 12 (6.22%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (5.70%) Hibernate
10 10 (5.18%) SOAP
10 10 (5.18%) Vue
11 9 (4.66%) React Native
12 8 (4.15%) .NET
13 7 (3.63%) Spring MVC
13 7 (3.63%) XML
14 6 (3.11%) GraphQL
14 6 (3.11%) HTML
14 6 (3.11%) JPA
14 6 (3.11%) JSON
14 6 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.47%) Product Ownership
3 24 (12.44%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.07%) DataPower
6 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) GNSS
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.63%) Android
1 7 (3.63%) Apple iOS
1 7 (3.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) CentOS
2 1 (0.52%) Debian
2 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (58.03%) CI/CD
2 84 (43.52%) Software Engineering
3 77 (39.90%) Agile
4 76 (39.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 70 (36.27%) Microservices
6 65 (33.68%) DevOps
7 60 (31.09%) Test Automation
8 47 (24.35%) Mentoring
8 47 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (23.32%) Containerisation
9 45 (23.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (22.28%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (21.24%) TDD
12 36 (18.65%) Roadmaps
13 35 (18.13%) Scrum
14 33 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (16.58%) AI
16 25 (12.95%) Clean Code
17 21 (10.88%) Event-Driven
18 20 (10.36%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 185 (95.85%) Java
2 38 (19.69%) JavaScript
3 36 (18.65%) SQL
4 23 (11.92%) Python
5 19 (9.84%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.29%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.18%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.63%) Bash
9 6 (3.11%) C#
10 3 (1.55%) Groovy
10 3 (1.55%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.55%) Degree
5 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.63%) QA
2 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 73 (37.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (33.68%) Kubernetes
2 33 (17.10%) Terraform
3 17 (8.81%) Ansible
4 5 (2.59%) Packer
5 2 (1.04%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.04%) Kibana
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (7.25%) Oracle
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.55%) Google
3 3 (1.55%) OpenAI
3 3 (1.55%) Revolut
4 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.52%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.52%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.52%) Splunk