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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 27 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.21% 1.38% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.91% 4.97% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 8
10th Percentile £450 £413 £482
25th Percentile £500 £450 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -18.87% +26.19%
75th Percentile £637 £633 £797
90th Percentile £823 £688 £1,016
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +27.78% -21.74% +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 550 483 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.60% 27.81% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 329 350
10th Percentile £416 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £688 £680 £709
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £595
% change year-on-year - -3.36% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -32.80% +62.34% -25.24%

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 23 September 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) CICS
2 2 (7.41%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Apigee
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Internet
1 2 (7.41%) Intranet
2 1 (3.70%) FTP
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Db2
3 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) SonarQube
3 3 (11.11%) eggPlant
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) JMeter
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
3 3 (11.11%) Selenium
4 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.41%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.41%) Maven
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 2 (7.41%) Postman
4 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
4 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.70%) Rational Functional Tester
5 1 (3.70%) SilkTest
5 1 (3.70%) SOAtest
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Banking
4 8 (29.63%) Finance
5 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Legal
6 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Senior Developer
3 5 (18.52%) C# Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Integration Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Junior
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Pricing Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Programme Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) SOAP
2 9 (33.33%) .NET
2 9 (33.33%) XML
3 8 (29.63%) REST
4 7 (25.93%) HTML
5 6 (22.22%) RESTful
6 5 (18.52%) Spring
6 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
7 4 (14.81%) JSON
7 4 (14.81%) Middleware
8 3 (11.11%) Ajax
8 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 3 (11.11%) CSS
8 3 (11.11%) XSLT
9 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
9 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
9 2 (7.41%) WSDL
9 2 (7.41%) XBRL
9 2 (7.41%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) DataPower
3 2 (7.41%) Derivative
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Equities
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.41%) Online Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
3 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (22.22%) SOA
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Front End Development
4 5 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (18.52%) Scrum
4 5 (18.52%) SDLC
4 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
4 5 (18.52%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (14.81%) AI
5 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.81%) ETL
5 4 (14.81%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) C#
3 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
6 4 (14.81%) C++
7 2 (7.41%) JCL
7 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.41%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.70%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) ISEB
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) HP Fortify
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) IBM
4 3 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (7.41%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow