Computer Science Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Computer Science
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Computer Science skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.22% 2.08% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £563 £613 £763
% change year-on-year -8.16% -19.67% +29.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 46 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 84.44% 95.83% 72.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 37
10th Percentile £357 £440 £258
25th Percentile £450 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +18.81%
75th Percentile £647 £594 £850
90th Percentile £800 £753 £908
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.00
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the City of Westminster

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Computer Science
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 Computer Science within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 23 September 2025. 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
Mayfair - 1 £650 -
Computer Science
Central London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft