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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 90 143
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 -26
Contract jobs citing Web Services 28 36 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.57% 1.69% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.21% 7.13% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 26 20
10th Percentile £414 £472 £446
25th Percentile £425 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.21% +9.14%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £678
90th Percentile £730 £738 £794
Central London median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.21% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £53.00

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 451 505 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.35% 23.70% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 348 588
10th Percentile £404 £411 £425
25th Percentile £453 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £738
90th Percentile £763 £791 £827
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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 2 July 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 (10.71%) Apache
1 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (7.14%) SAP BPC
1 2 (7.14%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 2 (7.14%) SAP CRM
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.14%) npm
2 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 2 (7.14%) PaaS
2 2 (7.14%) Yarn
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Big Data
3 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
4 4 (14.29%) DB2
5 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
5 3 (10.71%) OLAP
5 3 (10.71%) OLTP
5 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.71%) SAP BW
5 3 (10.71%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (10.71%) SAP HANA
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Ant
1 2 (7.14%) Babel
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
1 2 (7.14%) webpack
2 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.57%) JMeter
2 1 (3.57%) Selenium
2 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Applications Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Junior
4 3 (10.71%) Junior Applications Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Junior Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (7.14%) CRM Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.14%) Junior webMethods Developer
5 2 (7.14%) React Developer
5 2 (7.14%) SAP CRM Developer
5 2 (7.14%) SAP Developer
5 2 (7.14%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) RESTful
2 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) REST
3 5 (17.86%) CSS
3 5 (17.86%) HTML
3 5 (17.86%) React
3 5 (17.86%) Spring
4 4 (14.29%) SOAP
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.71%) JSON
5 3 (10.71%) Node.js
6 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (7.14%) CSS3
6 2 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (7.14%) Material-UI
6 2 (7.14%) Redux
6 2 (7.14%) SAP BSP
6 2 (7.14%) Semantic UI
6 2 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) CMDB
1 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) AS400
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.57%) iSeries
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Agile
2 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Fintech
3 5 (17.86%) SDLC
4 4 (14.29%) Analytics
4 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (14.29%) CRM
4 4 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 4 (14.29%) ITIL
4 4 (14.29%) ITSM
4 4 (14.29%) Observability
4 4 (14.29%) OO
4 4 (14.29%) OOP
4 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 4 (14.29%) Service Management
4 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) Java
4 5 (17.86%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Perl
5 3 (10.71%) Scala
5 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.14%) ABAP
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.57%) Bicep
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) RPG
7 1 (3.57%) RPG IV
7 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) COBIT
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) Axway
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Sybase
3 3 (10.71%) webMethods
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.14%) Workday
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk