Web Services Contracts in the City of London

Web Services
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 92 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +52 -16
Contract jobs citing Web Services 31 35 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 1.60% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.43% 7.26% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 26
10th Percentile £425 £470 £296
25th Percentile £481 £538 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +10.14% -0.95%
75th Percentile £675 £640 £675
90th Percentile £733 £740 £794
Central London median daily rate £544 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -9.38% +11.21% -1.91%

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 482 482 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.45% 21.99% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 343 668
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the City of London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the City of London

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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the City of London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the City of London

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) Apache
1 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Actimize
1 2 (6.45%) SAP BPC
2 1 (3.23%) BASE24
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 1 (3.23%) SAP CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) npm
3 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.45%) Yarn
4 1 (3.23%) Apple Pay
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) ATM
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (19.35%) Big Data
2 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
2 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.90%) DB2
5 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
5 3 (9.68%) OLAP
5 3 (9.68%) OLTP
5 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.68%) SAP BW
5 3 (9.68%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (9.68%) SAP HANA
6 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.45%) DataStage
7 1 (3.23%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Ant
2 2 (6.45%) Babel
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.45%) webpack
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) JMeter
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) React Developer
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (3.23%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 10 (32.26%) RESTful
3 9 (29.03%) React
4 8 (25.81%) .NET
4 8 (25.81%) CSS
5 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.13%) REST
5 5 (16.13%) Spring
6 4 (12.90%) GraphQL
6 4 (12.90%) SOAP
7 3 (9.68%) JSON
7 3 (9.68%) XML
8 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.45%) CSS3
8 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
8 2 (6.45%) HTML5
8 2 (6.45%) Redux
8 2 (6.45%) Semantic UI
8 2 (6.45%) WPF
8 2 (6.45%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) CMDB
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) AS400
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) iSeries
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Unix
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (16.13%) Fintech
6 5 (16.13%) ITSM
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) SOLID
7 4 (12.90%) Clean Code
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Management
7 4 (12.90%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (12.90%) Service Management
7 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (9.68%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) JavaScript
2 10 (32.26%) Python
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) Java
5 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.90%) C#
7 3 (9.68%) Perl
7 3 (9.68%) Scala
7 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.45%) C++
8 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.23%) ABAP
9 1 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (3.23%) C
9 1 (3.23%) COBOL
9 1 (3.23%) RPG
9 1 (3.23%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO 8583
1 1 (3.23%) PSD2
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.23%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Ansible
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.90%) SAP
4 3 (9.68%) Sybase
5 2 (6.45%) Informatica
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Axway
6 1 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.23%) webMethods