Spring Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Pivotal Spring Framework
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 10.14% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £596 - -
25th Percentile £598 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
Central London median daily rate £528 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +17.22% -28.00% -3.99%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of Westminster

Spring falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 33.33% 21.74% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 12
10th Percentile £513 £406 £451
25th Percentile £584 £409 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £463 £650
Median % change year-on-year +36.22% -28.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £713 £597 £788
90th Percentile £858 £711 £1,058
Central London median daily rate £567 £558 £600
% change year-on-year +1.75% -7.08% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Spring job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 5 £600 -
Paddington - 2 £621 -
Spring
Central London

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Police
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
3 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (42.86%) React
3 3 (42.86%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) Micronaut
4 2 (28.57%) Next.js
4 2 (28.57%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace