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 citing Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 205 201
Rank change year-on-year -97 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Web Services 163 179 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.31% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 4.40% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 122 121
10th Percentile £400 £333 £393
25th Percentile £420 £401 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £688 £630
90th Percentile £725 £695 £744
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

6 months to
1 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,478 4,064 4,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 26.98% 29.76% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 2,776 3,084
10th Percentile £400 £363 £381
25th Percentile £458 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £753 £775 £838
England median daily rate £537 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 19
10th Percentile £35.70 £31.52 £34.08
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.67 £38.38
Median hourly rate £52.75 £52.72 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +17.16% -26.53%
75th Percentile £61.88 £62.19 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.63 £76.00
England median hourly rate £66.07 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.13% -15.38% +13.04%

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 1 November 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 1 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -21 25 £575 +21.05% 2
South London +10 14 £700 -
Web Services
England

Web Services Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SOAP41.7%68
2REST38.7%63
3.NET28.8%47
4XML26.4%43
5RESTful20.2%33
6HTML17.2%28
7AngularJS12.9%21
7Spring12.9%21
9JSON12.3%20
10Spring Boot11.7%19
11CSS10.4%17
11Middleware10.4%17
13Kafka8.6%14
13React8.6%14
15ASP.NET6.1%10
15XSLT6.1%10
17.NET Framework5.5%9
18Hibernate4.9%8
19ActiveMQ4.3%7
19OAuth4.3%7