Web Services Contract Job Trends in London

Web Services
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 178 179
Rank change year-on-year -57 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing Web Services 174 190 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.49% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.11% 5.74% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 125 158
10th Percentile £375 £363 £450
25th Percentile £413 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +3.37%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £684
90th Percentile £656 £825 £808
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,231 3,312 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.29% 26.06% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,853 2,321 3,341
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in London

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in London

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -33 18 £550 +2.33% 9
South London -18 4 £500 +53.85% 3
West London -28 3 - - 5
East London -5 1 £625 -0.79%
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (6.32%) CICS
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.75%) Appian
3 9 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (4.60%) WebLogic
5 7 (4.02%) WebSphere
6 5 (2.87%) Confluence
7 4 (2.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (2.30%) JBoss
8 2 (1.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.57%) CMS
9 1 (0.57%) IIS
9 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.57%) Mule
9 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.02%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.87%) SAP EWM
3 5 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.57%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.57%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.41%) Azure
2 34 (19.54%) AWS
3 29 (16.67%) PaaS
4 23 (13.22%) OCI
5 17 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.05%) GitHub
6 14 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (6.32%) Entra ID
9 10 (5.75%) Azure App Service
9 10 (5.75%) Serverless
10 9 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.17%) Azure WebJobs
10 9 (5.17%) IaaS
11 8 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (4.60%) Azure AI
11 8 (4.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) DNS
2 3 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) DHCP
3 2 (1.15%) FTP
3 2 (1.15%) Internet
3 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.77%) DB2
3 15 (8.62%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.17%) Pinecone
5 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
6 5 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.87%) Power BI
6 5 (2.87%) SAP HANA
7 4 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.30%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.72%) Metadata
8 3 (1.72%) SQLite
9 2 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (13.79%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) Postman
3 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.75%) JIRA
5 8 (4.60%) Maven
5 8 (4.60%) MLflow
5 8 (4.60%) Selenium
5 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.02%) JUnit
6 7 (4.02%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.45%) GitLab
8 4 (2.30%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.72%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.72%) JMeter
9 3 (1.72%) jMock
9 3 (1.72%) Mockito
10 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.57%) XPEDITER
General
1 46 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.26%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.97%) Finance
4 20 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.32%) Banking
6 4 (2.30%) Military
6 4 (2.30%) Retail
7 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.15%) Billing
8 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.15%) Front Office
8 2 (1.15%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (47.70%) Developer
2 23 (13.22%) Senior
3 19 (10.92%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.05%) Architect
5 13 (7.47%) Cloud Specialist
5 13 (7.47%) Python Developer
6 11 (6.32%) Integration Specialist
6 11 (6.32%) Oracle Specialist
7 10 (5.75%) Lead
8 9 (5.17%) Consultant
8 9 (5.17%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.17%) Salesforce Developer
9 8 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Azure Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Mainframe Developer
11 6 (3.45%) Senior Python Developer
11 6 (3.45%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (51.15%) REST
2 68 (39.08%) SOAP
3 28 (16.09%) XML
4 27 (15.52%) JSON
5 25 (14.37%) RESTful
6 22 (12.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 21 (12.07%) OAuth
7 21 (12.07%) XSLT
8 18 (10.34%) JWT
9 17 (9.77%) .NET
10 16 (9.20%) Spring
11 15 (8.62%) J2EE
12 13 (7.47%) WSDL
13 12 (6.90%) .NET Framework
13 12 (6.90%) AngularJS
13 12 (6.90%) CSS
13 12 (6.90%) Pandas
14 10 (5.75%) HTML
14 10 (5.75%) JMS
15 9 (5.17%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.32%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.17%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.60%) CMDB
6 6 (3.45%) DataPower
6 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.30%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Linux
2 11 (6.32%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) zOS
4 6 (3.45%) Unix
5 2 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.59%) Agile
2 36 (20.69%) DevOps
3 30 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.94%) ERP
7 25 (14.37%) Design Patterns
8 24 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.79%) Microservices
9 21 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
9 21 (12.07%) SOA
10 20 (11.49%) AI
10 20 (11.49%) Analytics
11 19 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (10.92%) Software Engineering
11 19 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (10.34%) Data Modelling
13 17 (9.77%) Task Automation
13 17 (9.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.56%) Python
2 38 (21.84%) SQL
3 30 (17.24%) Java
4 21 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.49%) C#
6 13 (7.47%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.17%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (4.60%) XPath
9 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.45%) ABAP
10 6 (3.45%) Ruby
11 5 (2.87%) JCL
11 5 (2.87%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.72%) C++
13 2 (1.15%) COBOL
13 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.15%) VBA
14 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 51 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) Degree
3 9 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.30%) MBA
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.57%) ISEB
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.45%) SLA
3 5 (2.87%) QA
4 2 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.34%) Docker
2 7 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Postfix
4 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.57%) NFS
5 1 (0.57%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.02%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (3.45%) Ansible
3 6 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.15%) Terraform
5 1 (0.57%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (25.29%) Oracle
2 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.75%) IBM
3 10 (5.75%) OpenAI
3 10 (5.75%) SAP
4 9 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.17%) UiPath
5 8 (4.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.02%) BEA
6 7 (4.02%) TIBCO
7 6 (3.45%) Guidewire
7 6 (3.45%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.87%) Adobe
8 5 (2.87%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.72%) Cognizant
9 3 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.15%) Charles River
10 2 (1.15%) Citrix
10 2 (1.15%) Google