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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 151 91
Rank change year-on-year -28 -60 +16
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,605 2,353 6,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 2.39% 3.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 7.90% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 676 1,224 2,139
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% +18.85%
75th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
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 23 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 23 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 1,216 £65,000 - 135
England -142 797 £75,000 -3.23% 178
Scotland +49 744 £60,000 -9.09% 18
Work from Home -122 412 £72,500 +3.57% 130
London -98 374 £90,000 +2.86% 82
South East +5 148 £70,000 - 33
North of England -92 134 £75,000 +11.11% 31
South West -7 112 £65,000 - 14
North West -90 97 £70,000 +3.70% 24
Midlands -140 33 £57,500 -4.17% 10
West Midlands -89 30 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Yorkshire -2 26 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Wales -9 23 £44,250 -31.92% 4
East of England -42 15 £50,000 -28.57% 5
North East -11 11 £55,000 -0.22% 4
Northern Ireland -34 7 £95,000 +90.00% 20
East Midlands -48 2 - - 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
1 117 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.11%) FileNet
3 57 (3.55%) Apache
4 41 (2.55%) Confluence
4 41 (2.55%) OpenStack
5 37 (2.31%) Cloud Foundry
6 28 (1.74%) WebLogic
7 25 (1.56%) JBoss
7 25 (1.56%) Tomcat
8 22 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
9 21 (1.31%) GemFire
10 20 (1.25%) Camunda
11 16 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.44%) Apache Pig
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.12%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.12%) JCAPS
14 2 (0.12%) nginx
14 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.062%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Adaptiv
2 1 (0.062%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 861 (53.64%) AWS
2 264 (16.45%) Azure
3 147 (9.16%) Amazon S3
4 139 (8.66%) Serverless
5 121 (7.54%) GCP
6 117 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
7 85 (5.30%) GitHub
8 79 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (3.68%) OpenShift
11 38 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (2.18%) SaaS
13 30 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (1.87%) BlazeMeter
14 28 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (1.50%) Datadog
16 18 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (1.06%) IBM Cloud
18 12 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
18 12 (0.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.81%) AMQP
2 17 (1.06%) Kerberos
3 9 (0.56%) Internet
4 6 (0.37%) FTP
5 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.19%) SSH
6 2 (0.12%) HTTP
6 2 (0.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (19.88%) NoSQL
2 227 (14.14%) Relational Database
3 182 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
4 160 (9.97%) Apache Cassandra
5 132 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
6 121 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 116 (7.23%) Big Data
8 96 (5.98%) Hadoop
9 94 (5.86%) MySQL
10 62 (3.86%) RDBMS
11 54 (3.36%) SQL Server
12 52 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.37%) CockroachDB
14 36 (2.24%) Apache Hive
15 28 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
16 27 (1.68%) DB2
17 26 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (1.37%) Hazelcast
20 21 (1.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 292 (18.19%) JUnit
2 286 (17.82%) Jenkins
3 225 (14.02%) Git
4 144 (8.97%) Maven
5 106 (6.60%) Jasmine
6 103 (6.42%) Selenium
7 96 (5.98%) Cypress.io
8 65 (4.05%) Mockito
9 64 (3.99%) JIRA
10 63 (3.93%) Protractor
11 60 (3.74%) Karma Test Runner
11 60 (3.74%) WebDriver
12 59 (3.68%) Cucumber
13 56 (3.49%) Gradle
14 48 (2.99%) GitLab
15 33 (2.06%) IntelliJ
15 33 (2.06%) Postman
16 31 (1.93%) CircleCI
17 21 (1.31%) Jaeger
18 20 (1.25%) Travis CI
General
1 915 (57.01%) Finance
2 726 (45.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 689 (42.93%) Law
4 324 (20.19%) Banking
5 239 (14.89%) Marketing
6 197 (12.27%) Legal
7 193 (12.02%) Social Skills
8 182 (11.34%) Investment Banking
9 97 (6.04%) Public Sector
10 85 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
11 77 (4.80%) Financial Institution
12 60 (3.74%) Private Banking
13 37 (2.31%) Games
14 32 (1.99%) Aerospace
15 31 (1.93%) Front Office
16 30 (1.87%) Police
17 28 (1.74%) Retail
18 22 (1.37%) Prime Brokerage
19 15 (0.93%) Publishing
20 12 (0.75%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 796 (49.60%) Software Engineer
2 586 (36.51%) Java Engineer
3 521 (32.46%) Java Software Engineer
4 479 (29.84%) Developer
5 426 (26.54%) Java Developer
6 343 (21.37%) Lead
7 309 (19.25%) Senior
8 240 (14.95%) Full Stack Engineer
9 222 (13.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 208 (12.96%) Lead Software Engineer
11 154 (9.60%) Lead Java Engineer
12 142 (8.85%) Senior Developer
13 131 (8.16%) Senior Java Developer
14 108 (6.73%) Full Stack Developer
15 89 (5.55%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 83 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
17 68 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
18 57 (3.55%) Engineering Manager
19 56 (3.49%) Software Engineering Manager
20 46 (2.87%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 883 (55.02%) Spring Boot
2 548 (34.14%) AngularJS
3 537 (33.46%) React
4 425 (26.48%) Kafka
5 388 (24.17%) Hibernate
6 317 (19.75%) J2EE
7 300 (18.69%) REST
8 280 (17.45%) HTML
9 274 (17.07%) Node.js
10 271 (16.88%) CSS
11 238 (14.83%) JSON
12 198 (12.34%) RESTful
13 194 (12.09%) JMS
14 176 (10.97%) Web Services
15 157 (9.78%) jQuery
16 151 (9.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 127 (7.91%) GraphQL
18 122 (7.60%) JPA
19 118 (7.35%) XML
20 108 (6.73%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 420 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 223 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 123 (7.66%) Data Structures
4 109 (6.79%) Public Cloud
5 67 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (4.11%) Distributed Applications
7 63 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 52 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 50 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
11 45 (2.80%) Legacy Code
12 43 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 37 (2.31%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.62%) Private Cloud
15 21 (1.31%) Replication
16 19 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.06%) Blockchain
18 16 (1.00%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.87%) Client/Server
19 14 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.42%) Linux
2 66 (4.11%) Unix
3 28 (1.74%) CentOS
3 28 (1.74%) Debian
3 28 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (1.74%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.56%) Windows
5 4 (0.25%) AIX
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (71.78%) Agile
2 1,019 (63.49%) Software Engineering
3 799 (49.78%) CI/CD
4 685 (42.68%) SDLC
5 663 (41.31%) Microservices
6 483 (30.09%) Operational Stability
7 442 (27.54%) Full Stack Development
8 419 (26.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 411 (25.61%) Machine Learning
10 332 (20.69%) Community of Practice
10 332 (20.69%) TDD
11 293 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 283 (17.63%) DevOps
13 268 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
14 239 (14.89%) Computer Science
15 238 (14.83%) Visualisation
16 233 (14.52%) Decision-Making
17 220 (13.71%) Risk Management
18 199 (12.40%) BDD
19 182 (11.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,583 (98.63%) Java
2 590 (36.76%) SQL
3 481 (29.97%) JavaScript
4 265 (16.51%) Python
5 252 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 66 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 49 (3.05%) Kotlin
8 41 (2.55%) Groovy
9 34 (2.12%) C#
10 32 (1.99%) Ruby
11 29 (1.81%) PHP
12 25 (1.56%) Scala
13 18 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.81%) Go
15 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.56%) Perl
17 7 (0.44%) Rust
18 6 (0.37%) C++
19 5 (0.31%) C
19 5 (0.31%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 186 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 158 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 151 (9.41%) Degree
4 114 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 41 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.68%) AWS Certification
8 14 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.31%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.19%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.12%) ACCA
13 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.062%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.92%) QA
2 53 (3.30%) SLA
3 34 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.62%) GDPR
5 5 (0.31%) SEPA
6 4 (0.25%) MiFID
7 2 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.062%) Data Quality
System Software
1 334 (20.81%) Docker
2 31 (1.93%) Hyper-V
3 23 (1.43%) HDFS
4 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 501 (31.21%) Kubernetes
2 215 (13.40%) Terraform
3 100 (6.23%) Ansible
4 73 (4.55%) Grafana
5 51 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.12%) Kibana
7 28 (1.74%) Puppet
8 27 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.62%) OpenSSO
10 21 (1.31%) HAProxy
10 21 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (1.31%) Zipkin
11 7 (0.44%) Graphite
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Rancher
13 1 (0.062%) Consul
13 1 (0.062%) Kiali
13 1 (0.062%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.062%) Packer
Vendors
1 287 (17.88%) Oracle
2 110 (6.85%) Google
3 83 (5.17%) Splunk
4 80 (4.98%) Dynatrace
5 46 (2.87%) SaltStack
6 45 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.55%) WSO2
8 29 (1.81%) Databricks
9 26 (1.62%) Remedy
10 20 (1.25%) IBM
10 20 (1.25%) Pega
11 16 (1.00%) Cloudera
11 16 (1.00%) Sybase
12 10 (0.62%) Microsoft
13 9 (0.56%) TOWER Software
14 6 (0.37%) Confluent
14 6 (0.37%) ION Trading
15 5 (0.31%) Micro Focus
15 5 (0.31%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.25%) Reuters