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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Web Services 16 34 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.70% 1.95% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 7.14% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 25
10th Percentile £450 £425 £470
25th Percentile £488 £481 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% +1.74% +6.58%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £638
90th Percentile £785 £733 £740
Central London median daily rate £599 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +11.40% -6.52% +8.03%

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 435 476 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.90% 27.25% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 299 347
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £693
90th Percentile £763 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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 18 May 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 4 (25.00%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.25%) Orchestrade
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Apigee
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DB2
1 4 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Pricing Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Workday Developer
4 1 (6.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) JSON
1 7 (43.75%) SOAP
2 6 (37.50%) RESTful
3 5 (31.25%) REST
4 4 (25.00%) WSDL
5 3 (18.75%) Spring
5 3 (18.75%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) XSLT
5 3 (18.75%) ZK
6 2 (12.50%) HTML
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth
6 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
6 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
7 1 (6.25%) J2EE
7 1 (6.25%) JAX-RS
7 1 (6.25%) JWT
7 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (6.25%) React
7 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) DataPower
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (25.00%) Online Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (31.25%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (31.25%) SOA
3 4 (25.00%) AI
3 4 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) BDD
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 2 (12.50%) Data Mapping
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) JCL
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Workday