Web Services Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Web Services
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Web Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 110 135
Rank change year-on-year +16 +25 -24
Contract jobs citing Web Services 25 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 0.95% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.77% 3.93% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 20
10th Percentile £413 £487 £443
25th Percentile £469 £525 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +1.94%
75th Percentile £643 £775 £621
90th Percentile £691 £965 £695
Central London median daily rate £475 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -22.45% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £53.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 433 509 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.56% 24.26% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 326 510
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £725
90th Percentile £741 £831 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £38.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% -27.36% +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +62.34% -27.36% +11.58%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the City of London

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the City of London

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Web Services

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (12.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) DB2
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) JMeter
4 1 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (16.00%) webMethods Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Applications Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Junior
5 3 (12.00%) Junior Applications Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Junior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Junior webMethods Developer
6 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
7 1 (4.00%) CRM Developer
7 1 (4.00%) RPG Developer
7 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) REST
2 7 (28.00%) .NET
3 6 (24.00%) HTML
3 6 (24.00%) RESTful
4 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (16.00%) JSON
5 4 (16.00%) ZK
6 3 (12.00%) CSS
6 3 (12.00%) LDAP
6 3 (12.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
6 3 (12.00%) SOAP
6 3 (12.00%) Spring
7 2 (8.00%) Apache Camel
7 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (8.00%) JDBC
7 2 (8.00%) ODBC
7 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (8.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) AS400
1 1 (4.00%) CMDB
1 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) iSeries
1 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) Integration Patterns
3 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) API Management
5 5 (20.00%) B2B
5 5 (20.00%) BDD
5 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) CRM
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) ITIL
6 4 (16.00%) Kanban
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) SDLC
6 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) TDD
7 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (28.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) RPG
6 1 (4.00%) RPG IV
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) COBIT
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (20.00%) Axway
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) webMethods
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.00%) Workday
4 2 (8.00%) BMC
4 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Ivanti
4 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase