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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +44
Contract jobs citing Web Services 14 31 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.71% 1.70% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 6.49% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 22
10th Percentile £379 £425 £463
25th Percentile £413 £497 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +1.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £634
90th Percentile £680 £731 £721
Central London median daily rate £501 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.88% -6.52% +9.52%

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 443 478 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.36% 26.19% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 302 343
10th Percentile £363 £408 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Web Services job vacancy trend 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 25 February 2026.

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 & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CICS
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.14%) SAP MDG
1 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.14%) Apigee
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) OCI
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) JMeter
3 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) webMethods Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Workday Developer
3 1 (7.14%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) JSON
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) SOAP
3 4 (28.57%) ZK
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 2 (14.29%) Gherkin
5 2 (14.29%) OAuth
5 2 (14.29%) Playwright
5 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) XML
5 2 (14.29%) XSLT
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) HTML5
6 1 (7.14%) IDoc
6 1 (7.14%) JWT
6 1 (7.14%) Laravel
6 1 (7.14%) LDAP
6 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (7.14%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) DataPower
2 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Online Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) BDD
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (28.57%) Kanban
4 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) ERP
6 2 (14.29%) API Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) SDET
6 2 (14.29%) SOA
6 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) ABAP
4 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) JCL
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Axway
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) webMethods
3 1 (7.14%) Workday