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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 85 95
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing Web Services 16 31 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.80% 1.72% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 6.55% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 24
10th Percentile £387 £425 £454
25th Percentile £413 £497 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +1.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £628
90th Percentile £673 £731 £714
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.28% -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 450 473 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.38% 26.31% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 298 342
10th Percentile £363 £406 £400
25th Percentile £459 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £699
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £569
% change year-on-year -2.65% -0.66% -9.00%
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 4 March 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 2 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.25%) SAP MDG
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Apigee
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) OCI
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (18.75%) Selenium
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Law
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Developer in Test
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) PHP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior PHP Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) webMethods Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Workday Developer
3 1 (6.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) JSON
3 5 (31.25%) SOAP
4 4 (25.00%) HTML
4 4 (25.00%) ZK
5 3 (18.75%) CSS
5 3 (18.75%) RESTful
6 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
6 2 (12.50%) OAuth
6 2 (12.50%) Playwright
6 2 (12.50%) WSDL
6 2 (12.50%) XML
6 2 (12.50%) XSLT
7 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (6.25%) HTML5
7 1 (6.25%) IDoc
7 1 (6.25%) JWT
7 1 (6.25%) Laravel
7 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) DataPower
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) Online Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) BDD
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) ERP
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) SOA
6 2 (12.50%) AI
6 2 (12.50%) Batch Processing
6 2 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) JCL
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) ABAP
5 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) PHP
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Axway
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) webMethods
3 1 (6.25%) Workday