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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 191 184
Rank change year-on-year -52 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Web Services 148 189 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.25% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 4.86% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 121 160
10th Percentile £343 £393 £413
25th Percentile £380 £460 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +3.60% -3.48%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £675
90th Percentile £680 £825 £825
England median daily rate £510 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -6.64% -0.68% -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 3,728 3,886 4,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 25.64% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,520 2,536 3,734
10th Percentile £359 £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 £705 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -13.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

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 15 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 15 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 -7 22 £500 -14.16% 4
West London -14 5 £475 -5.00% 1
East London +2 3 £520 +15.56% 1
South London -8 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 19 (12.84%) Confluence
2 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.38%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.38%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.70%) CICS
4 4 (2.70%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.03%) CMS
6 2 (1.35%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.35%) Mule
6 2 (1.35%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (6.08%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (4.05%) Workday HCM
4 5 (3.38%) BusinessWorks
5 4 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.35%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.68%) Shopify
7 1 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.68%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.70%) Azure
2 25 (16.89%) PaaS
3 19 (12.84%) AWS
4 18 (12.16%) OCI
5 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.08%) GitHub
7 9 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.05%) IaaS
9 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
9 6 (4.05%) SaaS
10 5 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.38%) Sentry
11 4 (2.70%) Azure App Service
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.70%) Azure WebJobs
11 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.78%) SSL
2 5 (3.38%) HTTP
3 2 (1.35%) DHCP
3 2 (1.35%) DNS
3 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) FTP
4 1 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.46%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.08%) Redis
4 8 (5.41%) DB2
5 7 (4.73%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.70%) MySQL
7 4 (2.70%) Power BI
8 3 (2.03%) Data Hub
8 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.68%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (20.27%) Git
2 27 (18.24%) JIRA
2 27 (18.24%) Postman
3 10 (6.76%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.08%) Selenium
5 8 (5.41%) SoapUI
6 7 (4.73%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.05%) JMeter
8 5 (3.38%) Appium
8 5 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.38%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.38%) Eclipse
8 5 (3.38%) JUnit
8 5 (3.38%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.38%) Maven
8 5 (3.38%) Mockito
8 5 (3.38%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.38%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.38%) Subversion
8 5 (3.38%) Xcode
General
1 33 (22.30%) Finance
2 32 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.59%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.14%) Banking
5 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Back Office
8 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Billing
9 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (46.62%) Developer
2 33 (22.30%) Senior
3 19 (12.84%) Architect
4 17 (11.49%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.78%) ServiceNow Architect
6 11 (7.43%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Cloud Specialist
7 9 (6.08%) Integration Specialist
7 9 (6.08%) Oracle Specialist
7 9 (6.08%) Python Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Architect
9 7 (4.73%) Consultant
10 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
10 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.38%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.38%) Analyst
11 5 (3.38%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.38%) Lead
11 5 (3.38%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (52.03%) REST
2 67 (45.27%) SOAP
3 35 (23.65%) JSON
4 30 (20.27%) HTML
5 28 (18.92%) AngularJS
6 24 (16.22%) .NET
7 20 (13.51%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (12.84%) HTML5
9 18 (12.16%) XML
10 17 (11.49%) CSS
10 17 (11.49%) jQuery
11 15 (10.14%) RESTful
12 14 (9.46%) LDAP
12 14 (9.46%) Spring
12 14 (9.46%) XSLT
13 13 (8.78%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (8.11%) Apache Camel
14 12 (8.11%) JDBC
14 12 (8.11%) ODBC
14 12 (8.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.73%) CMDB
3 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.70%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.03%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.35%) DataPower
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Life Science
7 2 (1.35%) VSAM
8 1 (0.68%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.68%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Android
1 6 (4.05%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.70%) Linux
4 3 (2.03%) Windows
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (48.65%) Agile
2 40 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (25.00%) DevOps
4 33 (22.30%) Microservices
5 28 (18.92%) Scrum
6 25 (16.89%) Test Automation
7 22 (14.86%) Integration Patterns
7 22 (14.86%) Unit Testing
8 21 (14.19%) ITSM
9 20 (13.51%) ERP
9 20 (13.51%) SDLC
10 17 (11.49%) Computer Science
10 17 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (10.14%) CI/CD
11 15 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (10.14%) Design Patterns
12 14 (9.46%) User Experience
13 13 (8.78%) Analytics
13 13 (8.78%) TDD
14 12 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.38%) JavaScript
2 37 (25.00%) SQL
3 26 (17.57%) Java
4 22 (14.86%) Python
5 18 (12.16%) C#
6 10 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.73%) Groovy
7 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.73%) XPath
8 6 (4.05%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.38%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.38%) Ruby
9 5 (3.38%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.38%) Swift
10 4 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.70%) C++
10 4 (2.70%) COBOL
10 4 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.16%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) CISA
7 1 (0.68%) CISM
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) ISEB
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) PMP
7 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.49%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) COBIT
3 4 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (6.76%) Docker
2 7 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.38%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (1.35%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.68%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.68%) Control-M
6 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.68%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 42 (28.38%) Oracle
2 23 (15.54%) ServiceNow
3 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.78%) HP
4 13 (8.78%) Splunk
5 12 (8.11%) BMC
5 12 (8.11%) Ivanti
5 12 (8.11%) Remedy
6 9 (6.08%) Salesforce
7 8 (5.41%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.73%) IBM
9 6 (4.05%) SAP
9 6 (4.05%) Workday
10 5 (3.38%) BEA
10 5 (3.38%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (3.38%) MuleSoft
10 5 (3.38%) TIBCO
11 4 (2.70%) Dataiku
12 3 (2.03%) Databricks
12 3 (2.03%) webMethods