Web Services Contracts in Central London

Web Services
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 96 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 +42 -14
Contract jobs citing Web Services 39 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.97% 1.54% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 6.70% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 26
10th Percentile £362 £470 £296
25th Percentile £419 £496 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £532
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +8.03% -3.23%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £666
90th Percentile £728 £740 £776
London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Web Services 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 511 552 1,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.86% 23.00% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 389 674
10th Percentile £406 £411 £419
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £763 £800 £820
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Central London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Central London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Central London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Central London

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 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
City of London +5 34 £585 +1.74% 9
West End of London - 1 £250 -
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Web Services
London

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.69%) Apache
1 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Actimize
1 2 (5.13%) SAP BPC
1 2 (5.13%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 2 (5.13%) SAP CRM
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) BASE24
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) npm
3 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.13%) Yarn
4 1 (2.56%) Apple Pay
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) ATM
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.38%) Big Data
3 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.26%) DB2
6 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.69%) OLAP
6 3 (7.69%) OLTP
6 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 3 (7.69%) Redis
6 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.69%) SAP BW
6 3 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (7.69%) SAP HANA
7 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.13%) DataStage
8 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
4 3 (7.69%) Maven
4 3 (7.69%) Mockito
4 3 (7.69%) Postman
4 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 3 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.69%) Subversion
4 3 (7.69%) Xcode
4 3 (7.69%) XCTest
5 2 (5.13%) Ant
5 2 (5.13%) Babel
5 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.13%) webpack
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Front Office
5 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) CRM Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Principal Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Junior Applications Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) React Developer
6 2 (5.13%) SAP CRM Developer
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) HTML
2 11 (28.21%) CSS
3 10 (25.64%) REST
3 10 (25.64%) RESTful
4 9 (23.08%) React
4 9 (23.08%) SOAP
5 8 (20.51%) .NET
5 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
5 8 (20.51%) Spring
6 5 (12.82%) CSS3
6 5 (12.82%) Hibernate
6 5 (12.82%) HTML5
6 5 (12.82%) Material-UI
7 4 (10.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (10.26%) JSON
7 4 (10.26%) Kafka
7 4 (10.26%) XML
8 3 (7.69%) Bootstrap
8 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) CMDB
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) AS400
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) iSeries
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Unix
2 5 (12.82%) Linux
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (15.38%) Analytics
5 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 6 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 6 (15.38%) SDLC
6 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (12.82%) Data Management
6 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
6 5 (12.82%) ITSM
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.82%) Microservices
6 5 (12.82%) SOLID
6 5 (12.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 11 (28.21%) Python
4 9 (23.08%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 5 (12.82%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
8 3 (7.69%) Groovy
8 3 (7.69%) Perl
8 3 (7.69%) Scala
9 2 (5.13%) ABAP
9 2 (5.13%) C++
9 2 (5.13%) COBOL
10 1 (2.56%) Bicep
10 1 (2.56%) C
10 1 (2.56%) JCL
10 1 (2.56%) RPG
10 1 (2.56%) RPG IV
10 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.56%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle
2 7 (17.95%) ServiceNow
3 5 (12.82%) SAP
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 4 (10.26%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.69%) Sybase
6 2 (5.13%) Axway
6 2 (5.13%) Informatica
6 2 (5.13%) webMethods
7 1 (2.56%) HP
7 1 (2.56%) IBM