Developer Contracts in the City of Westminster

Developer
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Developer daily rate in the City of Westminster is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.36% 34.09% 16.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% 34.09% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 6
10th Percentile - £478 £425
25th Percentile £409 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.23% -3.70% +12.27%
75th Percentile £597 £850 £850
90th Percentile £636 £1,098 £866
Central London median daily rate £585 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +6.36% -15.38% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of Westminster with a recognized job title 40 44 35
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 100.00% 97.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 27
10th Percentile £400 £400 £222
25th Percentile £411 £478 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% +22.22%
75th Percentile £621 £799 £644
90th Percentile £675 £919 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in the City of Westminster.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in the City of Westminster

Developer
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 Developer within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Paddington - 3 £409 -
Mayfair -2 2 £588 -9.62% 2
Developer
Central London

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of Westminster region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Headless CMS
2 2 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Vue
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) CMS
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering

Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
1 2 (40.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Next.js
1 3 (60.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Vue
3 1 (20.00%) gRPC
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) Polars
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow