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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 95 113
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 26 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.35% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 4.84% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 8
10th Percentile £450 £336 £516
25th Percentile £488 £413 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £665
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -22.93% +34.34%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £797
90th Percentile £705 £688 £1,016
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +27.78% -21.74% +16.16%

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 551 475 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.63% 27.78% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 329 349
10th Percentile £413 £400 £411
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £675 £708
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.09% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%

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 13 October 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 (11.54%) Confluence
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Apigee
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
1 2 (7.69%) Intranet
2 1 (3.85%) FTP
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Db2
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 3 (11.54%) eggPlant
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) JMeter
3 3 (11.54%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Selenium
4 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.69%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.69%) Maven
4 2 (7.69%) Mockito
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Rational Functional Tester
5 1 (3.85%) SOAtest
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (34.62%) Finance
4 7 (26.92%) Banking
5 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Senior Developer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Integration Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Junior
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Developer in Test
7 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) SOAP
2 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 9 (34.62%) XML
3 8 (30.77%) REST
4 7 (26.92%) HTML
5 5 (19.23%) Spring
5 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
6 4 (15.38%) Middleware
6 4 (15.38%) RESTful
7 3 (11.54%) Ajax
7 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.54%) CSS
7 3 (11.54%) JSON
7 3 (11.54%) XSLT
8 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
8 2 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (7.69%) Kafka
8 2 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Equities
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) DataPower
4 1 (3.85%) Derivative
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) ETL
5 6 (23.08%) Migration
6 5 (19.23%) AI
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) DevOps
6 5 (19.23%) Front End Development
6 5 (19.23%) Scrum
6 5 (19.23%) SDLC
6 5 (19.23%) SOA
6 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
6 5 (19.23%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (15.38%) Microservices
8 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 7 (26.92%) C#
5 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
5 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) C++
7 2 (7.69%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.85%) JCL
8 1 (3.85%) Korn
8 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISEB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Grafana
1 2 (7.69%) HP Fortify
1 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) IBM
4 3 (11.54%) SAP
5 2 (7.69%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow