Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 146 91
Rank change year-on-year -29 -55 +16
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,685 2,494 5,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 2.40% 3.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 7.98% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 712 1,335 2,130
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +9 1,279 £65,000 - 103
England -124 842 £75,000 -5.82% 171
Scotland +42 758 £65,000 -1.52% 12
Work from Home -74 466 £75,000 +7.14% 94
London -78 388 £90,000 +0.74% 82
South East +10 155 £70,000 - 23
North of England -93 145 £75,000 +11.11% 21
South West -12 121 £60,500 -8.68% 19
North West -83 102 £73,750 +11.32% 12
Midlands -125 42 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands -81 36 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Yorkshire -4 31 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Wales +5 29 £44,250 -26.25% 2
Northern Ireland -21 16 £95,000 +90.00% 7
East of England -51 13 £50,000 -28.57% 11
North East -9 12 £55,000 -0.22% 4
East Midlands -62 5 - - 2

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
1 113 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.82%) FileNet
3 53 (3.15%) Apache
3 53 (3.15%) Confluence
4 42 (2.49%) OpenStack
5 41 (2.43%) JBoss
6 39 (2.31%) Red Hat Fuse
7 37 (2.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 31 (1.84%) WebLogic
9 28 (1.66%) Tomcat
10 21 (1.25%) Camunda
10 21 (1.25%) GemFire
11 16 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (0.47%) Apache Pig
13 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
13 3 (0.18%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
14 2 (0.12%) Mule
14 2 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.059%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 880 (52.23%) AWS
2 267 (15.85%) Azure
3 158 (9.38%) Serverless
4 147 (8.72%) Amazon S3
5 121 (7.18%) GCP
6 115 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (5.10%) GitHub
8 80 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
9 62 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (3.15%) OpenShift
11 39 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (2.20%) SaaS
13 30 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
14 28 (1.66%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.42%) Datadog
17 18 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
19 15 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
20 12 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.66%) AMQP
2 17 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 11 (0.65%) Internet
4 5 (0.30%) FTP
5 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) MQTT
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.059%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 324 (19.23%) NoSQL
2 226 (13.41%) Relational Database
3 187 (11.10%) Elasticsearch
4 159 (9.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 131 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
6 125 (7.42%) MongoDB
7 119 (7.06%) Big Data
8 96 (5.70%) MySQL
9 94 (5.58%) Hadoop
10 62 (3.68%) RDBMS
11 52 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
11 52 (3.09%) SQL Server
12 38 (2.26%) CockroachDB
13 37 (2.20%) Apache Hive
14 27 (1.60%) DB2
15 26 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
16 25 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
17 23 (1.36%) Hazelcast
18 22 (1.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 309 (18.34%) Jenkins
2 295 (17.51%) JUnit
3 267 (15.85%) Git
4 152 (9.02%) Maven
5 106 (6.29%) Jasmine
6 103 (6.11%) Selenium
7 97 (5.76%) Cypress.io
8 76 (4.51%) JIRA
9 70 (4.15%) Mockito
10 63 (3.74%) Cucumber
10 63 (3.74%) Gradle
10 63 (3.74%) Protractor
11 60 (3.56%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (3.56%) WebDriver
12 52 (3.09%) IntelliJ
13 51 (3.03%) GitLab
14 37 (2.20%) Postman
15 31 (1.84%) CircleCI
16 21 (1.25%) Jaeger
16 21 (1.25%) Travis CI
General
1 937 (55.61%) Finance
2 730 (43.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 689 (40.89%) Law
4 335 (19.88%) Banking
5 239 (14.18%) Marketing
6 202 (11.99%) Legal
6 202 (11.99%) Social Skills
7 183 (10.86%) Investment Banking
8 116 (6.88%) Public Sector
9 94 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
10 79 (4.69%) Financial Institution
11 60 (3.56%) Private Banking
12 41 (2.43%) Games
12 41 (2.43%) Police
13 31 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.78%) Front Office
15 29 (1.72%) Retail
16 22 (1.31%) Prime Brokerage
17 15 (0.89%) Publishing
18 10 (0.59%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 824 (48.90%) Software Engineer
2 622 (36.91%) Java Engineer
3 554 (32.88%) Java Software Engineer
4 515 (30.56%) Developer
5 462 (27.42%) Java Developer
6 353 (20.95%) Senior
7 344 (20.42%) Lead
8 239 (14.18%) Full Stack Engineer
9 221 (13.12%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 210 (12.46%) Lead Software Engineer
11 164 (9.73%) Senior Developer
12 156 (9.26%) Lead Java Engineer
13 154 (9.14%) Senior Java Developer
14 107 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
15 102 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
16 89 (5.28%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 84 (4.99%) Senior Java Engineer
18 56 (3.32%) Engineering Manager
18 56 (3.32%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 55 (3.26%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 899 (53.35%) Spring Boot
2 569 (33.77%) AngularJS
3 557 (33.06%) React
4 438 (25.99%) Kafka
5 411 (24.39%) Hibernate
6 340 (20.18%) J2EE
7 319 (18.93%) REST
8 271 (16.08%) HTML
9 268 (15.91%) Node.js
10 261 (15.49%) CSS
11 258 (15.31%) JSON
12 234 (13.89%) RESTful
13 196 (11.63%) JMS
14 192 (11.39%) Web Services
15 159 (9.44%) jQuery
16 151 (8.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 138 (8.19%) JPA
18 134 (7.95%) XML
19 127 (7.54%) GraphQL
20 107 (6.35%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 412 (24.45%) Cloud Native
2 222 (13.18%) Algorithms
3 124 (7.36%) Data Structures
4 108 (6.41%) Public Cloud
5 68 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
7 62 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
9 52 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 52 (3.09%) Onboarding
10 45 (2.67%) Legacy Code
11 44 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 39 (2.31%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.54%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.25%) Blockchain
14 21 (1.25%) Replication
15 18 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.89%) Client/Server
17 15 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.15%) Linux
2 68 (4.04%) Unix
3 25 (1.48%) CentOS
3 25 (1.48%) Debian
3 25 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (1.48%) Ubuntu
4 12 (0.71%) Windows
5 4 (0.24%) AIX
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (70.15%) Agile
2 1,039 (61.66%) Software Engineering
3 796 (47.24%) CI/CD
4 692 (41.07%) SDLC
5 689 (40.89%) Microservices
6 483 (28.66%) Operational Stability
7 446 (26.47%) Full Stack Development
8 418 (24.81%) Artificial Intelligence
9 411 (24.39%) Machine Learning
10 344 (20.42%) TDD
11 332 (19.70%) Community of Practice
12 319 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
13 294 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 287 (17.03%) DevOps
15 247 (14.66%) Computer Science
16 239 (14.18%) Visualisation
17 233 (13.83%) Decision-Making
18 218 (12.94%) Risk Management
19 209 (12.40%) Mentoring
20 205 (12.17%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1,663 (98.69%) Java
2 604 (35.85%) SQL
3 487 (28.90%) JavaScript
4 280 (16.62%) Python
5 255 (15.13%) TypeScript
6 70 (4.15%) Shell Script
7 55 (3.26%) C#
8 52 (3.09%) Ruby
9 49 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 40 (2.37%) Groovy
11 29 (1.72%) PHP
12 24 (1.42%) Scala
13 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.83%) Go
14 14 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.47%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) C++
16 7 (0.42%) Rust
17 5 (0.30%) Bash
17 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 213 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 188 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.26%) Degree
4 119 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 35 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.30%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.18%) Sun Certification
13 1 (0.059%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.059%) OCP
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.75%) QA
2 56 (3.32%) SLA
3 33 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.59%) GDPR
5 7 (0.42%) SEPA
6 3 (0.18%) MiFID
7 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.059%) Data Quality
System Software
1 354 (21.01%) Docker
2 31 (1.84%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.42%) HDFS
4 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.059%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 520 (30.86%) Kubernetes
2 212 (12.58%) Terraform
3 100 (5.93%) Ansible
4 72 (4.27%) Grafana
5 50 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.96%) Kibana
7 29 (1.72%) OpenSSO
7 29 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.48%) Puppet
9 21 (1.25%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.25%) Zipkin
10 7 (0.42%) Graphite
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.059%) Kiali
12 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 287 (17.03%) Oracle
2 113 (6.71%) Google
3 83 (4.93%) Splunk
4 78 (4.63%) Dynatrace
5 43 (2.55%) SaltStack
6 42 (2.49%) WSO2
7 40 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 30 (1.78%) Databricks
9 29 (1.72%) Remedy
10 20 (1.19%) Pega
11 19 (1.13%) IBM
12 16 (0.95%) Cloudera
13 15 (0.89%) Sybase
14 10 (0.59%) Microsoft
15 9 (0.53%) TOWER Software
16 7 (0.42%) Atlassian
17 6 (0.36%) Confluent
17 6 (0.36%) ION Trading
18 5 (0.30%) Micro Focus
19 4 (0.24%) Vertica