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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 97 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 17 25 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 1.32% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.18% 5.10% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 17
10th Percentile £404 £519 £433
25th Percentile £428 £545 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +18.18% -5.71%
75th Percentile £659 £706 £613
90th Percentile £694 £775 £659
Central London median daily rate £525 £583 £495
% change year-on-year -9.87% +17.68% -3.41%

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 407 490 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.66% 25.94% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 299 394
10th Percentile £363 £407 £402
25th Percentile £450 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £598
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.09% -0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £750 £825 £818
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -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 12 January 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Apigee
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 3 (17.65%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) JMeter
4 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) webMethods Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Developer in Test
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SAP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) HTML
3 5 (29.41%) ZK
4 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 4 (23.53%) JSON
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML5
5 3 (17.65%) LDAP
5 3 (17.65%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) Apache Camel
6 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
6 2 (11.76%) JDBC
6 2 (11.76%) jQuery
6 2 (11.76%) ODBC
6 2 (11.76%) Playwright
6 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (11.76%) SAML
7 1 (5.88%) DOM
7 1 (5.88%) IDoc
7 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Scrum
2 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
3 6 (35.29%) BDD
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (29.41%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (29.41%) Kanban
4 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
4 5 (29.41%) TDD
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) API Management
6 3 (17.65%) B2B
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) ITSM
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) ABAP
5 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Axway
2 3 (17.65%) webMethods
3 2 (11.76%) BMC
3 2 (11.76%) HP
3 2 (11.76%) Ivanti
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Remedy
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk