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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 149 91
Rank change year-on-year -37 -58 +18
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1,573 2,254 6,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 2.38% 3.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.30% 8.16% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 663 1,179 2,137
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £110,000
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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +5 1,190 £65,000 - 135
England -154 792 £75,000 -3.23% 189
Scotland +49 721 £60,000 -9.09% 19
Work from Home -130 406 £70,576 -2.65% 116
London -90 369 £90,000 +2.86% 91
South East -8 149 £70,000 - 33
North of England -105 137 £72,500 +7.41% 32
South West -23 109 £65,000 - 20
North West -97 101 £70,000 +3.70% 28
Midlands -134 31 £57,500 -4.17% 8
West Midlands -99 29 £57,500 -4.17% 6
Yorkshire -22 25 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Wales -16 22 £44,250 -23.04% 4
East of England -50 15 £50,000 -28.57% 4
North East -14 11 £55,000 -1.79% 1
Northern Ireland -37 6 £95,000 +90.00% 16
East Midlands -57 1 - - 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
1 112 (7.12%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.23%) FileNet
3 58 (3.69%) Apache
4 42 (2.67%) Confluence
5 37 (2.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 36 (2.29%) OpenStack
7 28 (1.78%) WebLogic
8 27 (1.72%) Tomcat
9 21 (1.34%) GemFire
10 18 (1.14%) Camunda
11 14 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
12 13 (0.83%) JBoss
13 10 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.38%) Apache Pig
15 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.19%) nginx
15 3 (0.19%) WildFly
16 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
16 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.064%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Adaptiv
1 2 (0.13%) Ripple
2 1 (0.064%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 849 (53.97%) AWS
2 258 (16.40%) Azure
3 147 (9.35%) Amazon S3
4 133 (8.46%) Serverless
5 122 (7.76%) GCP
6 110 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
7 88 (5.59%) GitHub
8 73 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
9 64 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (3.75%) OpenShift
11 40 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (2.23%) SaaS
13 32 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
14 28 (1.78%) BlazeMeter
15 25 (1.59%) Datadog
16 18 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
18 13 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
19 12 (0.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.91%) AMQP
2 17 (1.08%) Kerberos
3 9 (0.57%) Internet
4 6 (0.38%) FTP
5 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.19%) MQTT
5 3 (0.19%) SSH
6 2 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (19.52%) NoSQL
2 218 (13.86%) Relational Database
3 181 (11.51%) Elasticsearch
4 159 (10.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 130 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
6 117 (7.44%) MongoDB
7 110 (6.99%) Big Data
8 96 (6.10%) MySQL
9 92 (5.85%) Hadoop
10 61 (3.88%) RDBMS
11 54 (3.43%) SQL Server
12 53 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.42%) CockroachDB
14 31 (1.97%) Apache Hive
15 29 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
16 27 (1.72%) DB2
17 26 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
18 25 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
19 22 (1.40%) Hazelcast
20 20 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 296 (18.82%) JUnit
2 277 (17.61%) Jenkins
3 224 (14.24%) Git
4 144 (9.15%) Maven
5 106 (6.74%) Jasmine
6 104 (6.61%) Selenium
7 96 (6.10%) Cypress.io
8 67 (4.26%) Mockito
9 65 (4.13%) JIRA
10 63 (4.01%) Protractor
11 61 (3.88%) Cucumber
12 60 (3.81%) Karma Test Runner
12 60 (3.81%) WebDriver
13 55 (3.50%) Gradle
14 50 (3.18%) GitLab
15 34 (2.16%) Postman
16 29 (1.84%) CircleCI
17 21 (1.34%) IntelliJ
17 21 (1.34%) Jaeger
17 21 (1.34%) JMeter
General
1 888 (56.45%) Finance
2 706 (44.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 672 (42.72%) Law
4 313 (19.90%) Banking
5 232 (14.75%) Marketing
6 197 (12.52%) Social Skills
7 192 (12.21%) Legal
8 180 (11.44%) Investment Banking
9 88 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
10 80 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 75 (4.77%) Financial Institution
12 54 (3.43%) Private Banking
13 36 (2.29%) Games
14 33 (2.10%) Aerospace
15 31 (1.97%) Front Office
16 30 (1.91%) Police
17 24 (1.53%) Retail
18 22 (1.40%) Prime Brokerage
19 15 (0.95%) Publishing
20 12 (0.76%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 771 (49.01%) Software Engineer
2 564 (35.86%) Java Engineer
3 494 (31.40%) Java Software Engineer
4 470 (29.88%) Developer
5 417 (26.51%) Java Developer
6 340 (21.61%) Lead
7 295 (18.75%) Senior
8 231 (14.69%) Full Stack Engineer
9 213 (13.54%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 206 (13.10%) Lead Software Engineer
11 152 (9.66%) Lead Java Engineer
12 138 (8.77%) Senior Developer
13 128 (8.14%) Senior Java Developer
14 103 (6.55%) Full Stack Developer
15 82 (5.21%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 72 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 57 (3.62%) Senior Java Engineer
18 55 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
19 54 (3.43%) Software Engineering Manager
20 45 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 867 (55.12%) Spring Boot
2 532 (33.82%) React
3 520 (33.06%) AngularJS
4 417 (26.51%) Kafka
5 377 (23.97%) Hibernate
6 312 (19.83%) J2EE
7 283 (17.99%) HTML
8 279 (17.74%) REST
9 273 (17.36%) CSS
10 269 (17.10%) Node.js
11 221 (14.05%) JSON
12 191 (12.14%) JMS
13 189 (12.02%) RESTful
14 162 (10.30%) Web Services
15 158 (10.04%) jQuery
16 151 (9.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 127 (8.07%) GraphQL
18 108 (6.87%) JPA
18 108 (6.87%) Spring Integration
19 99 (6.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 411 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 217 (13.80%) Algorithms
3 121 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 103 (6.55%) Public Cloud
5 66 (4.20%) Distributed Applications
6 65 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
7 64 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
8 53 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 52 (3.31%) Management Information System
10 51 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (2.73%) Legacy Code
12 37 (2.35%) Product Ownership
13 25 (1.59%) Private Cloud
14 21 (1.34%) Replication
15 18 (1.14%) Blockchain
16 16 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.02%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.89%) e-Learning
17 14 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.70%) Linux
2 65 (4.13%) Unix
3 29 (1.84%) CentOS
3 29 (1.84%) Debian
3 29 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (1.84%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.57%) Windows
5 4 (0.25%) AIX
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (71.27%) Agile
2 994 (63.19%) Software Engineering
3 786 (49.97%) CI/CD
4 669 (42.53%) SDLC
5 650 (41.32%) Microservices
6 467 (29.69%) Operational Stability
7 432 (27.46%) Full Stack Development
8 410 (26.06%) Artificial Intelligence
9 400 (25.43%) Machine Learning
10 327 (20.79%) Community of Practice
11 324 (20.60%) TDD
12 284 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 281 (17.86%) DevOps
14 260 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
15 236 (15.00%) Computer Science
16 231 (14.69%) Visualisation
17 224 (14.24%) Decision-Making
18 214 (13.60%) Risk Management
19 193 (12.27%) BDD
20 174 (11.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1,550 (98.54%) Java
2 564 (35.86%) SQL
3 475 (30.20%) JavaScript
4 257 (16.34%) Python
5 249 (15.83%) TypeScript
6 65 (4.13%) Shell Script
7 45 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 41 (2.61%) Groovy
9 34 (2.16%) C#
10 30 (1.91%) Ruby
11 29 (1.84%) PHP
12 26 (1.65%) Scala
13 18 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.83%) Go
15 10 (0.64%) Perl
15 10 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.57%) Rust
17 5 (0.32%) C
17 5 (0.32%) COBOL
17 5 (0.32%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 168 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 148 (9.41%) Degree
3 142 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 114 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 41 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.32%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.19%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.13%) ACCA
13 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.064%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.02%) QA
2 51 (3.24%) SLA
3 34 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.64%) GDPR
5 4 (0.25%) MiFID
5 4 (0.25%) SEPA
6 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
System Software
1 328 (20.85%) Docker
2 25 (1.59%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.27%) HDFS
4 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 492 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 214 (13.60%) Terraform
3 94 (5.98%) Ansible
4 71 (4.51%) Grafana
5 51 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.23%) Kibana
7 30 (1.91%) Puppet
8 27 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.65%) OpenSSO
10 21 (1.34%) HAProxy
10 21 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 21 (1.34%) Zipkin
11 7 (0.45%) Graphite
12 2 (0.13%) Control-M
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
13 1 (0.064%) Consul
13 1 (0.064%) Kiali
Vendors
1 282 (17.93%) Oracle
2 109 (6.93%) Google
3 82 (5.21%) Splunk
4 79 (5.02%) Dynatrace
5 47 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 47 (2.99%) SaltStack
6 36 (2.29%) WSO2
7 27 (1.72%) Databricks
8 26 (1.65%) Remedy
9 19 (1.21%) IBM
10 18 (1.14%) Pega
11 17 (1.08%) Sybase
12 14 (0.89%) Cloudera
13 12 (0.76%) Microsoft
14 9 (0.57%) TOWER Software
15 6 (0.38%) Confluent
15 6 (0.38%) ION Trading
16 5 (0.32%) Micro Focus
16 5 (0.32%) MuleSoft
17 4 (0.25%) Reuters