Software Engineering Contracts in the City of Westminster

Software Engineering
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.27% 2.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 £900 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £1,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% - -
75th Percentile £663 £1,100 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +13.53% -11.92% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

Software Engineering 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 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 86.36% 90.91% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 24
10th Percentile £409 £435 £219
25th Percentile £425 £497 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £636 £806 £650
90th Percentile £691 £956 £850
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the City of Westminster

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in the City of Westminster

Software Engineering
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 Software Engineering 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
Mayfair +4 1 £625 -37.50%
Software Engineering
Central London

Software Engineering
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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python