WSE Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WSE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WSE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.059% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

WSE 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 418 511 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 24.39% 24.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 308 462
10th Percentile £377 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

WSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WSE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

WSE job vacancy trend in the City of London

WSE
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WSE

WSE
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google