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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 180 192
Rank change year-on-year -115 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing Web Services 157 188 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.42% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 4.86% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 135
10th Percentile £413 £355 £408
25th Percentile £463 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £595
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -11.34% +3.48%
75th Percentile £652 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £810
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -3.79%
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 - - +8.33%

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 5,275 3,870 4,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.29% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 2,683 3,447
10th Percentile £400 £369 £384
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -28 25 £575 +35.29% 14
South London 0 14 £700 - 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 10 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.18%) CICS
3 5 (3.18%) Confluence
4 4 (2.55%) IIS
5 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 2 (1.27%) CMS
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.64%) Appian
6 1 (0.64%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.64%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.91%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.27%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.64%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.64%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.75%) Azure
2 25 (15.92%) AWS
3 11 (7.01%) Serverless
4 10 (6.37%) GitHub
4 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.46%) PaaS
8 6 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.82%) OCI
8 6 (3.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 5 (3.18%) GCP
9 5 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.55%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.55%) IaaS
10 4 (2.55%) SaaS
11 3 (1.91%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.91%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) HTTP
1 5 (3.18%) SSL
2 3 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) Internet
3 2 (1.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.64%) DMZ
4 1 (0.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.64%) FTP
4 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.64%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.65%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.83%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.82%) Db2
5 6 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.18%) Power BI
7 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.55%) Tableau
8 3 (1.91%) Metadata
8 3 (1.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.91%) SQLite
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.27%) MySQL
9 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (17.83%) Git
2 20 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.37%) JIRA
3 10 (6.37%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.10%) eggPlant
5 7 (4.46%) Selenium
6 6 (3.82%) Ant
6 6 (3.82%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.82%) GitLab
6 6 (3.82%) JMeter
6 6 (3.82%) JUnit
6 6 (3.82%) Postman
6 6 (3.82%) SoapUI
6 6 (3.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.18%) LoadRunner
7 5 (3.18%) Maven
8 4 (2.55%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.55%) Mockito
8 4 (2.55%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.55%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.57%) Finance
4 28 (17.83%) Public Sector
5 24 (15.29%) Banking
6 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.91%) Automotive
8 3 (1.91%) Legal
8 3 (1.91%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (56.05%) Developer
2 33 (21.02%) Senior
3 21 (13.38%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.92%) Architect
4 14 (8.92%) C# Developer
4 14 (8.92%) Lead
5 12 (7.64%) Java Developer
6 9 (5.73%) .NET Developer
6 9 (5.73%) Consultant
7 8 (5.10%) Designer
8 7 (4.46%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (4.46%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.82%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (2.55%) AWS Developer
10 4 (2.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (2.55%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow Developer
10 4 (2.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (42.04%) SOAP
2 65 (41.40%) REST
3 43 (27.39%) .NET
4 35 (22.29%) XML
5 30 (19.11%) HTML
5 30 (19.11%) RESTful
6 18 (11.46%) Spring
7 16 (10.19%) Spring Boot
8 15 (9.55%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.92%) CSS
9 14 (8.92%) JSON
9 14 (8.92%) Middleware
10 12 (7.64%) XSLT
11 11 (7.01%) ASP.NET
12 10 (6.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (6.37%) React
13 9 (5.73%) Kafka
14 8 (5.10%) .NET Framework
15 7 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
16 6 (3.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.64%) CMDB
2 10 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.10%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.18%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.55%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.55%) DataPower
8 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.55%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.91%) Derivative
9 3 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.27%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.19%) Linux
2 14 (8.92%) Unix
3 4 (2.55%) zOS
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
4 1 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.68%) Agile
2 53 (33.76%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
4 36 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (21.02%) DevOps
6 26 (16.56%) AI
7 24 (15.29%) Workflow
8 22 (14.01%) SDLC
8 22 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.38%) ITIL
10 20 (12.74%) Migration
11 19 (12.10%) Data Modelling
11 19 (12.10%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (12.10%) Scrum
11 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
12 18 (11.46%) ITSM
12 18 (11.46%) Microservices
12 18 (11.46%) Test Automation
13 17 (10.83%) Design Patterns
13 17 (10.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 61 (38.85%) SQL
2 38 (24.20%) Java
2 38 (24.20%) JavaScript
3 36 (22.93%) Python
4 32 (20.38%) C#
5 13 (8.28%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.37%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.73%) VB.NET
8 8 (5.10%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.82%) SOQL
10 6 (3.82%) SOSL
11 5 (3.18%) C++
11 5 (3.18%) XPath
12 4 (2.55%) JCL
13 3 (1.91%) ABAP
13 3 (1.91%) Groovy
14 2 (1.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 44 (28.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) Degree
4 8 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.55%) ISEB
6 4 (2.55%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.91%) MBA
8 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.10%) QA
3 3 (1.91%) GRC
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) HL7
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (10.19%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Postfix
3 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.27%) NFS
3 2 (1.27%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.27%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (4.46%) Grafana
2 5 (3.18%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.55%) Control-M
3 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.27%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) Oracle
2 23 (14.65%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.19%) SAP
4 14 (8.92%) ServiceNow
5 12 (7.64%) Salesforce
6 11 (7.01%) IBM
7 6 (3.82%) Pega
8 5 (3.18%) UiPath
9 4 (2.55%) Adobe
9 4 (2.55%) Citrix
9 4 (2.55%) Intapp
9 4 (2.55%) Workday
10 3 (1.91%) Google
10 3 (1.91%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.27%) Baan
11 2 (1.27%) Infor
11 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.27%) Sybase