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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 168 187
Rank change year-on-year -90 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Web Services 171 203 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.64% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 6.20% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 142 154
10th Percentile £400 £363 £425
25th Percentile £430 £433 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -2.09% +0.52%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £672
90th Percentile £734 £790 £796
England median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.75 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £52.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 4,312 3,274 4,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.80% 26.47% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 2,295 3,438
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £447 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 28
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.70
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -31 21 £648 +43.89% 6
South London -8 6 - -
West London -26 3 - -
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 (6.43%) CICS
2 10 (5.85%) Appian
3 8 (4.68%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.34%) Confluence
5 4 (2.34%) JBoss
5 4 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.34%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.75%) Apache
6 3 (1.75%) IIS
7 2 (1.17%) CMS
7 2 (1.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.58%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.92%) SAP EWM
2 5 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.75%) Orchestrade
4 2 (1.17%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (1.17%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
5 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.39%) Azure
2 34 (19.88%) AWS
3 16 (9.36%) PaaS
4 15 (8.77%) Serverless
5 12 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.02%) OCI
6 11 (6.43%) GitHub
6 11 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.68%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (4.68%) Azure AI
9 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) DNS
2 3 (1.75%) Firewall
2 3 (1.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) DMZ
3 1 (0.58%) FTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Intranet
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.36%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.60%) Db2
4 11 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.85%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.26%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.51%) SAP HANA
8 5 (2.92%) MySQL
8 5 (2.92%) Power BI
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.75%) Metadata
10 3 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.75%) SQLite
11 2 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.45%) Git
1 23 (13.45%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.85%) JIRA
3 9 (5.26%) GitLab
3 9 (5.26%) Maven
3 9 (5.26%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.68%) JUnit
4 8 (4.68%) MLflow
5 7 (4.09%) Ant
5 7 (4.09%) Postman
6 6 (3.51%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (2.92%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.34%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.34%) jMock
8 4 (2.34%) Mockito
8 4 (2.34%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.34%) Selenium
9 3 (1.75%) Moq
General
1 54 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.22%) Finance
3 28 (16.37%) Public Sector
4 24 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.70%) Banking
6 5 (2.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.34%) Retail
8 3 (1.75%) Automotive
8 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.75%) Legal
8 3 (1.75%) Military
8 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Billing
9 2 (1.17%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (53.80%) Developer
2 28 (16.37%) Senior
3 24 (14.04%) Senior Developer
4 13 (7.60%) Architect
5 12 (7.02%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.43%) Consultant
6 11 (6.43%) Lead
6 11 (6.43%) Salesforce Developer
7 8 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (4.68%) Python Developer
8 7 (4.09%) Azure Developer
8 7 (4.09%) C# Developer
8 7 (4.09%) Cloud Specialist
8 7 (4.09%) Mainframe Developer
9 6 (3.51%) AWS Developer
10 5 (2.92%) Designer
10 5 (2.92%) Integration Specialist
10 5 (2.92%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (2.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (49.71%) REST
2 61 (35.67%) SOAP
3 35 (20.47%) RESTful
4 25 (14.62%) XML
5 24 (14.04%) .NET
6 23 (13.45%) HTML
7 22 (12.87%) JSON
8 20 (11.70%) Spring
9 16 (9.36%) CSS
10 15 (8.77%) OAuth
11 14 (8.19%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (7.60%) XSLT
13 12 (7.02%) JWT
14 11 (6.43%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.43%) Django
14 11 (6.43%) Pandas
15 10 (5.85%) J2EE
15 10 (5.85%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (5.85%) React
15 10 (5.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.43%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.85%) CMDB
3 10 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.68%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.09%) DataPower
5 7 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.51%) Online Banking
6 6 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.34%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.34%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.75%) Derivative
9 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.94%) Linux
2 10 (5.85%) Windows
2 10 (5.85%) zOS
3 9 (5.26%) Unix
4 2 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.65%) Agile
2 42 (24.56%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.47%) DevOps
4 32 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (16.96%) Workflow
6 28 (16.37%) AI
7 26 (15.20%) Data Modelling
8 24 (14.04%) Containerisation
8 24 (14.04%) Microservices
9 23 (13.45%) Integration Patterns
9 23 (13.45%) Test Automation
10 22 (12.87%) Design Patterns
10 22 (12.87%) Validation
11 21 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (11.11%) ITIL
12 19 (11.11%) OO
12 19 (11.11%) Scrum
12 19 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.53%) ERP
13 18 (10.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.82%) SQL
2 45 (26.32%) Python
3 35 (20.47%) Java
4 29 (16.96%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.45%) C#
6 14 (8.19%) Apex Code
7 12 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.68%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.68%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.51%) ABAP
9 6 (3.51%) C++
9 6 (3.51%) JCL
9 6 (3.51%) SOQL
9 6 (3.51%) SOSL
9 6 (3.51%) XPath
10 5 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.75%) Ruby
11 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 44 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.02%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.34%) MBA
8 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.51%) SLA
3 5 (2.92%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.17%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (14.04%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.92%) Postfix
4 2 (1.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.17%) NFS
4 2 (1.17%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.09%) Ansible
2 7 (4.09%) Grafana
3 4 (2.34%) Terraform
4 2 (1.17%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.17%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.58%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (18.71%) Oracle
2 24 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.77%) Salesforce
4 12 (7.02%) SAP
5 11 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.85%) OpenAI
7 9 (5.26%) UiPath
8 8 (4.68%) Automation Anywhere
9 6 (3.51%) Adobe
9 6 (3.51%) Guidewire
9 6 (3.51%) IBM
10 4 (2.34%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.34%) Citrix
10 4 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (2.34%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.75%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.75%) Google
11 3 (1.75%) Sybase
12 2 (1.17%) BEA
12 2 (1.17%) TIBCO