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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 101 128
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 -20
Contract jobs citing Web Services 25 20 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.47% 0.95% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.01% 3.91% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 16
10th Percentile £345 £514 £429
25th Percentile £413 £530 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +17.17% -3.88%
75th Percentile £650 £819 £566
90th Percentile £685 £1,068 £654
Central London median daily rate £475 £535 £495
% change year-on-year -11.21% +8.08% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £53.00

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 416 511 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.44% 24.36% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 303 466
10th Percentile £385 £401 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £713
90th Percentile £744 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £608
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.23% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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 30 October 2025.

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 (12.00%) Confluence
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (12.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
3 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Selenium
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
4 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (20.00%) webMethods Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior
5 2 (8.00%) Junior Applications Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Junior webMethods Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) REST
2 8 (32.00%) HTML
3 7 (28.00%) .NET
4 5 (20.00%) CSS
4 5 (20.00%) JSON
5 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (16.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (16.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) SOAP
5 4 (16.00%) ZK
6 3 (12.00%) HTML5
6 3 (12.00%) LDAP
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
7 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
7 2 (8.00%) JDBC
7 2 (8.00%) jQuery
7 2 (8.00%) ODBC
7 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (8.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) CMDB
2 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) Integration Patterns
3 7 (28.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (24.00%) BDD
4 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
4 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.00%) API Management
5 5 (20.00%) B2B
5 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) ITSM
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) CRM
6 4 (16.00%) Kanban
6 4 (16.00%) OO
6 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) TDD
7 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (12.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP
6 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) COBIT
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Axway
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 5 (20.00%) webMethods
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Workday
4 2 (8.00%) BMC
4 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.00%) HP
4 2 (8.00%) Ivanti
4 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk