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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 154 92
Rank change year-on-year -28 -62 +16
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,631 2,380 6,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.63% 2.40% 3.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.73% 7.94% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 689 1,242 2,120
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% +16.47%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,250 £120,000 £108,750
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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 18 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 18 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 +6 1,234 £65,000 - 155
England -140 812 £75,000 -4.02% 202
Scotland +49 750 £60,000 -9.09% 20
Work from Home -99 433 £73,750 +5.36% 127
London -92 380 £90,000 +2.86% 105
South East +8 150 £70,000 - 59
North of England -93 136 £75,000 +11.11% 26
South West -15 113 £63,750 +2.00% 13
North West -91 98 £70,000 +3.70% 18
Midlands -133 37 £56,250 -6.25% 8
West Midlands -83 33 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Yorkshire -3 27 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Wales -5 24 £44,250 -31.92% 5
East of England -55 15 £50,000 -28.57% 8
North East -11 11 £55,000 -0.22% 3
Northern Ireland -35 9 £95,000 +90.00% 16
East Midlands -50 3 - - 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
1 115 (7.05%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.01%) FileNet
3 55 (3.37%) Apache
4 54 (3.31%) Confluence
5 41 (2.51%) OpenStack
6 37 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 28 (1.72%) WebLogic
8 27 (1.66%) Tomcat
9 24 (1.47%) JBoss
10 22 (1.35%) Red Hat Fuse
11 21 (1.29%) Camunda
11 21 (1.29%) GemFire
12 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
13 8 (0.49%) Apache Pig
14 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.18%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.18%) MQSeries
15 2 (0.12%) GlassFish
15 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
15 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.061%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 871 (53.40%) AWS
2 267 (16.37%) Azure
3 147 (9.01%) Amazon S3
4 140 (8.58%) Serverless
5 121 (7.42%) GCP
6 116 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (5.27%) GitHub
8 79 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (3.56%) OpenShift
11 38 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (2.27%) SaaS
13 30 (1.84%) BlazeMeter
14 29 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 24 (1.47%) Datadog
17 18 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (1.10%) IBM Cloud
18 14 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (0.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.84%) AMQP
2 17 (1.04%) Kerberos
3 10 (0.61%) Internet
4 6 (0.37%) FTP
5 3 (0.18%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) MQTT
6 2 (0.12%) SSH
7 1 (0.061%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (19.68%) NoSQL
2 227 (13.92%) Relational Database
3 182 (11.16%) Elasticsearch
4 159 (9.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 132 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
6 123 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 117 (7.17%) Big Data
8 96 (5.89%) Hadoop
8 96 (5.89%) MySQL
9 62 (3.80%) RDBMS
10 54 (3.31%) SQL Server
11 52 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (2.33%) CockroachDB
13 37 (2.27%) Apache Hive
14 27 (1.66%) Cloudera CDH
14 27 (1.66%) DB2
15 26 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
16 25 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (1.35%) Hazelcast
17 22 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 301 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 292 (17.90%) JUnit
3 240 (14.71%) Git
4 147 (9.01%) Maven
5 106 (6.50%) Jasmine
6 104 (6.38%) Selenium
7 97 (5.95%) Cypress.io
8 76 (4.66%) JIRA
9 66 (4.05%) Mockito
10 63 (3.86%) Protractor
11 60 (3.68%) Cucumber
11 60 (3.68%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (3.68%) WebDriver
12 59 (3.62%) Gradle
13 49 (3.00%) GitLab
14 34 (2.08%) IntelliJ
14 34 (2.08%) Postman
15 31 (1.90%) CircleCI
16 21 (1.29%) Jaeger
17 20 (1.23%) Travis CI
General
1 925 (56.71%) Finance
2 727 (44.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 690 (42.31%) Law
4 327 (20.05%) Banking
5 239 (14.65%) Marketing
6 198 (12.14%) Legal
6 198 (12.14%) Social Skills
7 181 (11.10%) Investment Banking
8 99 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 87 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
10 78 (4.78%) Financial Institution
11 60 (3.68%) Private Banking
12 42 (2.58%) Police
13 38 (2.33%) Games
14 32 (1.96%) Aerospace
15 30 (1.84%) Front Office
16 28 (1.72%) Retail
17 22 (1.35%) Prime Brokerage
18 15 (0.92%) Publishing
19 12 (0.74%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 795 (48.74%) Software Engineer
2 589 (36.11%) Java Engineer
3 522 (32.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 499 (30.59%) Developer
5 443 (27.16%) Java Developer
6 345 (21.15%) Lead
7 323 (19.80%) Senior
8 240 (14.71%) Full Stack Engineer
9 222 (13.61%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 209 (12.81%) Lead Software Engineer
11 156 (9.56%) Senior Developer
12 155 (9.50%) Lead Java Engineer
13 145 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
14 109 (6.68%) Full Stack Developer
15 89 (5.46%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 83 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
17 68 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
18 57 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
19 56 (3.43%) Software Engineering Manager
20 46 (2.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 891 (54.63%) Spring Boot
2 552 (33.84%) AngularJS
3 540 (33.11%) React
4 429 (26.30%) Kafka
5 390 (23.91%) Hibernate
6 320 (19.62%) J2EE
7 301 (18.45%) REST
8 283 (17.35%) HTML
9 275 (16.86%) Node.js
10 273 (16.74%) CSS
11 239 (14.65%) JSON
12 211 (12.94%) RESTful
13 195 (11.96%) JMS
14 176 (10.79%) Web Services
15 158 (9.69%) jQuery
16 151 (9.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 127 (7.79%) GraphQL
18 119 (7.30%) JPA
19 117 (7.17%) XML
20 108 (6.62%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 419 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 222 (13.61%) Algorithms
3 123 (7.54%) Data Structures
4 109 (6.68%) Public Cloud
5 67 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (4.05%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (3.31%) Onboarding
9 52 (3.19%) Management Information System
10 51 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 45 (2.76%) Legacy Code
13 38 (2.33%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.59%) Private Cloud
15 21 (1.29%) Replication
16 19 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.10%) Blockchain
18 16 (0.98%) Virtual Team
19 15 (0.92%) Client/Server
20 14 (0.86%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.35%) Linux
2 65 (3.99%) Unix
3 27 (1.66%) CentOS
3 27 (1.66%) Debian
3 27 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 11 (0.67%) Windows
5 4 (0.25%) AIX
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,157 (70.94%) Agile
2 1,018 (62.42%) Software Engineering
3 800 (49.05%) CI/CD
4 686 (42.06%) SDLC
5 666 (40.83%) Microservices
6 483 (29.61%) Operational Stability
7 447 (27.41%) Full Stack Development
8 419 (25.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 411 (25.20%) Machine Learning
10 339 (20.78%) TDD
11 332 (20.36%) Community of Practice
12 294 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 286 (17.54%) DevOps
14 278 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
15 241 (14.78%) Computer Science
16 239 (14.65%) Visualisation
17 233 (14.29%) Decision-Making
18 220 (13.49%) Risk Management
19 203 (12.45%) BDD
20 182 (11.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,609 (98.65%) Java
2 598 (36.66%) SQL
3 488 (29.92%) JavaScript
4 263 (16.13%) Python
5 256 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 66 (4.05%) Shell Script
7 50 (3.07%) Kotlin
8 41 (2.51%) Groovy
9 36 (2.21%) C#
10 32 (1.96%) Ruby
11 29 (1.78%) PHP
12 25 (1.53%) Scala
13 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.80%) Go
15 11 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.49%) Perl
17 7 (0.43%) C++
17 7 (0.43%) Rust
18 5 (0.31%) C
18 5 (0.31%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 196 (12.02%) Security Cleared
2 171 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 153 (9.38%) Degree
4 114 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.51%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 27 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 14 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.31%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.18%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.12%) ACCA
12 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.061%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.90%) QA
2 53 (3.25%) SLA
3 34 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.61%) GDPR
5 6 (0.37%) SEPA
6 4 (0.25%) MiFID
7 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
System Software
1 342 (20.97%) Docker
2 31 (1.90%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.47%) HDFS
4 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 505 (30.96%) Kubernetes
2 214 (13.12%) Terraform
3 100 (6.13%) Ansible
4 72 (4.41%) Grafana
5 51 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.02%) Kibana
7 27 (1.66%) Puppet
7 27 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.59%) OpenSSO
9 21 (1.29%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.29%) Zipkin
10 7 (0.43%) Graphite
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.061%) Consul
12 1 (0.061%) Kiali
12 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.061%) Packer
Vendors
1 287 (17.60%) Oracle
2 111 (6.81%) Google
3 82 (5.03%) Splunk
4 80 (4.90%) Dynatrace
5 45 (2.76%) SaltStack
6 43 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.51%) WSO2
8 29 (1.78%) Databricks
9 26 (1.59%) Remedy
10 21 (1.29%) IBM
11 20 (1.23%) Pega
12 16 (0.98%) Cloudera
12 16 (0.98%) Sybase
13 10 (0.61%) Microsoft
14 9 (0.55%) TOWER Software
15 6 (0.37%) Confluent
15 6 (0.37%) ION Trading
16 5 (0.31%) Atlassian
16 5 (0.31%) Micro Focus
16 5 (0.31%) MuleSoft