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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 102 97
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +45
Contract jobs citing Web Services 24 27 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.02% 1.44% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 5.76% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile £450 £418 £459
25th Percentile £513 £472 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -8.51% +6.82%
75th Percentile £671 £633 £666
90th Percentile £881 £688 £768
Central London median daily rate £575 £475 £588
% change year-on-year +21.05% -19.15% +6.82%

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 485 469 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.65% 25.07% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 301 337
10th Percentile £414 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £738 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% -8.33% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%

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 17 August 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 (16.67%) CICS
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) IIS
4 1 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Apigee
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Internet
1 2 (8.33%) Intranet
2 1 (4.17%) FTP
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Db2
1 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) eggPlant
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.33%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) JMeter
4 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (8.33%) Postman
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.17%) HP UFT
5 1 (4.17%) Rational Functional Tester
5 1 (4.17%) SilkTest
5 1 (4.17%) SOAtest
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
3 9 (37.50%) Finance
4 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) C# Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) SOAP
2 9 (37.50%) XML
3 7 (29.17%) .NET
4 6 (25.00%) HTML
4 6 (25.00%) RESTful
5 5 (20.83%) JSON
5 5 (20.83%) REST
6 4 (16.67%) Spring
6 4 (16.67%) WSDL
7 3 (12.50%) Ajax
7 3 (12.50%) Middleware
7 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 3 (12.50%) XSLT
8 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
8 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
8 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (8.33%) Kafka
8 2 (8.33%) React
8 2 (8.33%) Spring Security
8 2 (8.33%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) DataPower
1 4 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 4 (16.67%) Online Banking
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Derivative
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Equities
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Unix
2 4 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (33.33%) SOA
2 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (20.83%) AI
3 5 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (20.83%) Scrum
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
4 4 (16.67%) Batch Processing
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 3 (12.50%) OO
5 3 (12.50%) OOP
5 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
5 3 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) SQL
2 12 (50.00%) Java
3 11 (45.83%) Python
4 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (25.00%) C#
6 4 (16.67%) C++
6 4 (16.67%) JCL
6 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 2 (8.33%) VB.NET
9 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
9 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) ISEB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) HP Fortify
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) IBM
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (8.33%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow