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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 89 95
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 +50
Contract jobs citing Web Services 22 30 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 1.59% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.57% 6.34% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 17
10th Percentile £450 £415 £458
25th Percentile £488 £425 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £685 £623 £675
90th Percentile £900 £723 £765
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +27.78% -21.74% +4.55%

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 481 473 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.19% 25.08% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 305 321
10th Percentile £413 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £449 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% -5.20%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £713
90th Percentile £778 £762 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £558 £588
% change year-on-year +3.14% -5.11% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 27 July 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 (18.18%) CICS
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Orchestrade
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (18.18%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Apigee
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
1 2 (9.09%) Intranet
2 1 (4.55%) FTP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Db2
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Postman
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Banking
3 8 (36.36%) Finance
4 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) C# Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Workday Developer
5 1 (4.55%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) SOAP
2 8 (36.36%) XML
3 7 (31.82%) JSON
4 6 (27.27%) REST
4 6 (27.27%) RESTful
5 5 (22.73%) XSLT
6 4 (18.18%) .NET
6 4 (18.18%) WSDL
7 3 (13.64%) Ajax
7 3 (13.64%) HTML
7 3 (13.64%) Spring
8 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
8 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (9.09%) Middleware
8 2 (9.09%) OAuth
8 2 (9.09%) React
8 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 2 (9.09%) Spring Security
8 2 (9.09%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) DataPower
1 4 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
1 4 (18.18%) Online Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Equities
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) zOS
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (22.73%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (22.73%) Scrum
3 5 (22.73%) SOA
4 4 (18.18%) AI
4 4 (18.18%) Batch Processing
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) ERP
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) SDLC
6 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) C#
4 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 4 (18.18%) C++
5 4 (18.18%) JCL
5 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
7 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) IBM
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Workday