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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 98 109
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Web Services 24 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.12% 1.48% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.30% 5.36% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 7
10th Percentile £454 £345 £514
25th Percentile £513 £413 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.48% +17.17%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £819
90th Percentile £704 £685 £1,068
Central London median daily rate £575 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +21.05% -14.41% +12.12%

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.

6 months to
20 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 558 466 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.10% 27.57% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 322 349
10th Percentile £413 £400 £411
25th Percentile £475 £471 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £768 £774 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £594
% change year-on-year - -3.16% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%

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 20 October 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 table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SOAP41.7%10
2.NET37.5%9
3XML33.3%8
4HTML29.2%7
4REST29.2%7
6Middleware20.8%5
6Spring20.8%5
6Spring Boot20.8%5
9Ajax12.5%3
9AngularJS12.5%3
9CSS12.5%3
9RESTful12.5%3
13.NET Core8.3%2
13.NET Framework8.3%2
13ActiveMQ8.3%2
13ADO.NET8.3%2
13ASP.NET8.3%2
13ASP.NET Web Forms8.3%2
13Hibernate8.3%2
13JPA8.3%2