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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 198 186
Rank change year-on-year -42 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 143 190 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.26% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.79% 4.91% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 121 159
10th Percentile £348 £393 £413
25th Percentile £380 £460 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £602 £630 £675
90th Percentile £683 £788 £825
England median daily rate £500 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £90.13
25th Percentile - - £90.31
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £91.25
75th Percentile - - £92.81
90th Percentile - - £93.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 3,771 3,872 4,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 25.70% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,548 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £361 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -9 20 £500 -14.16% 8
West London -16 4 £413 -17.50% 1
East London +1 3 £520 +15.56%
South London -5 1 £500 +53.85% 1
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 15 (10.49%) Confluence
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.50%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.50%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.80%) CICS
4 4 (2.80%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.40%) Anypoint
5 2 (1.40%) CMS
5 2 (1.40%) Mule
5 2 (1.40%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.70%) Appian
6 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (5.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (3.50%) BusinessWorks
4 3 (2.10%) Workday HCM
5 2 (1.40%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.70%) Shopify
6 1 (0.70%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.70%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.27%) Azure
2 23 (16.08%) PaaS
3 19 (13.29%) AWS
3 19 (13.29%) OCI
4 10 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.29%) GitHub
6 8 (5.59%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.90%) IaaS
8 6 (4.20%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.20%) iPaaS
8 6 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.20%) SaaS
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.50%) Sentry
10 4 (2.80%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.80%) Azure WebJobs
10 4 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) SSL
2 5 (3.50%) HTTP
3 2 (1.40%) DHCP
3 2 (1.40%) DNS
3 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.70%) FTP
4 1 (0.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.29%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.79%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.59%) DB2
3 8 (5.59%) Redis
4 7 (4.90%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.80%) MySQL
6 4 (2.80%) Power BI
7 3 (2.10%) Data Hub
7 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.70%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (20.98%) Git
2 28 (19.58%) Postman
3 23 (16.08%) JIRA
4 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
5 9 (6.29%) Selenium
5 9 (6.29%) SoapUI
6 7 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.20%) JMeter
8 5 (3.50%) Appium
8 5 (3.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.50%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.50%) Eclipse
8 5 (3.50%) JUnit
8 5 (3.50%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.50%) Maven
8 5 (3.50%) Mockito
8 5 (3.50%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.50%) Subversion
8 5 (3.50%) Xcode
General
1 33 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.98%) Public Sector
3 29 (20.28%) Finance
4 15 (10.49%) Banking
5 14 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.40%) Back Office
8 2 (1.40%) Billing
8 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Military
9 1 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 68 (47.55%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Senior
3 16 (11.19%) Senior Developer
4 12 (8.39%) Architect
5 10 (6.99%) Cloud Specialist
5 10 (6.99%) Integration Specialist
5 10 (6.99%) Java Developer
5 10 (6.99%) Oracle Specialist
6 9 (6.29%) Python Developer
7 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow Architect
8 7 (4.90%) Consultant
9 6 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (3.50%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Lead
10 5 (3.50%) Salesforce Developer
10 5 (3.50%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.50%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (51.75%) REST
2 64 (44.76%) SOAP
3 32 (22.38%) JSON
4 26 (18.18%) HTML
5 24 (16.78%) AngularJS
6 20 (13.99%) .NET
6 20 (13.99%) Oracle Fusion
7 19 (13.29%) XML
8 17 (11.89%) CSS
9 15 (10.49%) HTML5
9 15 (10.49%) XSLT
10 14 (9.79%) Spring
11 13 (9.09%) jQuery
11 13 (9.09%) RESTful
12 11 (7.69%) J2EE
12 11 (7.69%) OAuth
13 10 (6.99%) JWT
13 10 (6.99%) LDAP
14 9 (6.29%) Bootstrap
14 9 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.29%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.20%) CMDB
3 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.80%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.40%) DataPower
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.40%) Life Science
7 2 (1.40%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.40%) VSAM
8 1 (0.70%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.20%) Android
1 6 (4.20%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.50%) Unix
3 4 (2.80%) Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Windows
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (48.25%) Agile
2 40 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.78%) DevOps
4 28 (19.58%) Microservices
5 27 (18.88%) Test Automation
6 24 (16.78%) Scrum
7 23 (16.08%) Unit Testing
8 21 (14.69%) ERP
9 18 (12.59%) Integration Patterns
9 18 (12.59%) SDLC
10 17 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (11.19%) CI/CD
12 15 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (10.49%) Design Patterns
13 14 (9.79%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.79%) ITSM
14 13 (9.09%) Analytics
14 13 (9.09%) TDD
14 13 (9.09%) User Experience
15 12 (8.39%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) SQL
2 37 (25.87%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.48%) Java
4 22 (15.38%) Python
5 18 (12.59%) C#
6 9 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.90%) Groovy
7 7 (4.90%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.90%) XPath
8 6 (4.20%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.50%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.50%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.50%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.50%) Swift
10 4 (2.80%) C++
10 4 (2.80%) COBOL
10 4 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.80%) Ruby
10 4 (2.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (31.47%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) Degree
4 7 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.70%) CISA
7 1 (0.70%) CISM
7 1 (0.70%) CISSP
7 1 (0.70%) ISEB
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.70%) OCP
7 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.70%) PMP
7 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.70%) COBIT
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) HL7
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (7.69%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.50%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (2.80%) Ansible
5 2 (1.40%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.70%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.70%) Control-M
6 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.70%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 43 (30.07%) Oracle
2 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.19%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.09%) Splunk
5 9 (6.29%) HP
6 8 (5.59%) BMC
6 8 (5.59%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.59%) Ivanti
6 8 (5.59%) Remedy
7 7 (4.90%) IBM
7 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
8 6 (4.20%) SAP
9 5 (3.50%) BEA
9 5 (3.50%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (3.50%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.50%) TIBCO
10 4 (2.80%) Dataiku
11 3 (2.10%) Axway
11 3 (2.10%) webMethods
11 3 (2.10%) Workday