Developer Contracts in the City of Westminster

Developer
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Developer daily rate in the City of Westminster is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 15 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 34.09% 15.79% 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 34.09% 16.67% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 1
10th Percentile £478 £425 -
25th Percentile £500 £453 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +1.89% +32.50%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £669
90th Percentile £1,098 £866 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 44 36 27
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 94.74% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 19
10th Percentile £400 £222 £195
25th Percentile £478 £368 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £544 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +27.94% -19.05%
75th Percentile £799 £641 £623
90th Percentile £919 £850 £707
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +108.60%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Mayfair 0 13 £650 -18.75%
Westminster - 2 - - 3
Developer
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 13 (86.67%) Hedge funds
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 4 (26.67%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) React
3 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) Big Data
4 3 (20.00%) Kafka
4 3 (20.00%) Systematic Trading
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Web Development
5 2 (13.33%) XPath
5 2 (13.33%) MiFID
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Kanban

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 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (26.67%) React
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) CSS3
3 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) HTML5
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) PySpark
4 1 (6.67%) SciPy
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Hedge funds
2 5 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (6.67%) Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) Equities
4 1 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Systematic Trading
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Backtesting
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (13.33%) Kanban
4 2 (13.33%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
4 2 (13.33%) UX Design
4 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Web Development
5 1 (6.67%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) XPath
4 2 (13.33%) XQuery
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) Perl
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (13.33%) MiFID
2 1 (6.67%) EMIR
2 1 (6.67%) FATCA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase