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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 270 150
Rank change year-on-year +29 -120 -5
Permanent jobs citing Spring 134 180 493
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 1.10% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.97% 3.56% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 117 99 415
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,046 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +1.31% +0.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £92,217
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,596 £105,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%

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 2,697 5,056 6,682
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.94% 30.89% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 3,221 5,733
10th Percentile £40,634 £41,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 13 January 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 11 (8.21%) JBoss
1 11 (8.21%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.24%) Apache
2 3 (2.24%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 94 (70.15%) AWS
2 29 (21.64%) Serverless
3 25 (18.66%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (17.16%) Amazon S3
5 22 (16.42%) Azure
6 21 (15.67%) Amazon ECS
7 18 (13.43%) SaaS
8 17 (12.69%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (11.94%) GCP
10 15 (11.19%) GitHub
11 14 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (8.21%) OpenShift
13 7 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon MSK
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.73%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECR
15 4 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (27.61%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.42%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.99%) MySQL
8 3 (2.24%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.75%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.75%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.90%) Git
3 17 (12.69%) GitLab
4 12 (8.96%) Cucumber
4 12 (8.96%) JUnit
5 10 (7.46%) Cypress.io
6 9 (6.72%) Selenium
7 6 (4.48%) Maven
8 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.24%) JMeter
9 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.49%) Babel
10 2 (1.49%) Gradle
10 2 (1.49%) Mockito
10 2 (1.49%) webpack
11 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.75%) MLflow
11 1 (0.75%) Storybook
General
1 46 (34.33%) Finance
2 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.72%) Financial Institution
5 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Games
6 5 (3.73%) Law
7 4 (2.99%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.99%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (35.82%) Developer
2 45 (33.58%) Software Engineer
3 44 (32.84%) Senior
4 38 (28.36%) Java Developer
5 26 (19.40%) Java Engineer
6 21 (15.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) Lead
8 15 (11.19%) Architect
9 13 (9.70%) Senior Developer
9 13 (9.70%) Senior Java Engineer
10 12 (8.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (6.72%) Lead Developer
13 9 (6.72%) Senior Architect
13 9 (6.72%) Software Developer
14 8 (5.97%) Lead Java Developer
14 8 (5.97%) Senior Software Developer
15 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
16 6 (4.48%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (78.36%) Spring Boot
2 46 (34.33%) React
3 28 (20.90%) REST
4 24 (17.91%) Hibernate
5 23 (17.16%) Kafka
6 17 (12.69%) Node.js
6 17 (12.69%) RESTful
7 15 (11.19%) .NET
7 15 (11.19%) AngularJS
7 15 (11.19%) SOAP
8 13 (9.70%) GraphQL
8 13 (9.70%) Middleware
9 11 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (7.46%) Jest
11 9 (6.72%) CSS
11 9 (6.72%) HTML
11 9 (6.72%) Web Services
12 8 (5.97%) Django
12 8 (5.97%) Flask
12 8 (5.97%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 44 (32.84%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.21%) DataPower
4 8 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.73%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.49%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) Android
1 4 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (53.73%) CI/CD
2 68 (50.75%) Microservices
3 65 (48.51%) DevOps
4 61 (45.52%) Software Engineering
5 55 (41.04%) Agile
6 52 (38.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (25.37%) Mentoring
8 32 (23.88%) AI
8 32 (23.88%) Event-Driven
9 31 (23.13%) Containerisation
10 28 (20.90%) Collaborative Culture
10 28 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (17.91%) TDD
11 24 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
12 20 (14.93%) User Experience
13 18 (13.43%) BDD
13 18 (13.43%) SOA
14 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (11.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 132 (98.51%) Java
2 30 (22.39%) JavaScript
3 28 (20.90%) SQL
4 26 (19.40%) TypeScript
5 24 (17.91%) Python
6 8 (5.97%) C#
6 8 (5.97%) Delphi
6 8 (5.97%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.24%) Bash
7 3 (2.24%) Groovy
8 2 (1.49%) R
8 2 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.75%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) QA
2 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (36.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (44.78%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.19%) Terraform
3 10 (7.46%) Ansible
3 10 (7.46%) Grafana
4 6 (4.48%) Kibana
5 4 (2.99%) HP Fortify
6 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (6.72%) Oracle
2 7 (5.22%) Google
3 3 (2.24%) Solace
4 2 (1.49%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) Databricks
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.75%) Pega
5 1 (0.75%) Splunk
5 1 (0.75%) WSO2