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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 203 191
Rank change year-on-year -89 -12 +4
Contract jobs citing Web Services 166 171 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 4.30% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 114 136
10th Percentile £410 £337 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £563
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -9.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £695 £644
90th Percentile £737 £699 £806
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
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 - - +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 5,350 3,973 4,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.44% 29.65% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 2,715 3,295
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £788 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 24
10th Percentile £30.40 £31.77 £23.91
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.56 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £73.80
England median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -25 28 £575 +27.78% 14
South London -4 15 £700 - 2
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.82%) Confluence
2 8 (4.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.41%) IIS
4 3 (1.81%) CICS
5 2 (1.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.60%) Appian
6 1 (0.60%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.81%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.20%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.20%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.60%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.29%) Azure
2 31 (18.67%) AWS
3 12 (7.23%) GCP
3 12 (7.23%) GitHub
3 12 (7.23%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.42%) Serverless
5 6 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.61%) iPaaS
5 6 (3.61%) Power Automate
5 6 (3.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 6 (3.61%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (3.01%) AtomSphere
6 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.01%) Boomi
6 5 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (2.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.61%) SSL
2 5 (3.01%) HTTP
3 2 (1.20%) Internet
3 2 (1.20%) Intranet
4 1 (0.60%) Broadband
4 1 (0.60%) DMZ
4 1 (0.60%) DNS
4 1 (0.60%) Firewall
4 1 (0.60%) FTP
4 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.60%) SAN
4 1 (0.60%) SSH
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.67%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.65%) Relational Database
3 18 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.63%) Oracle Database
5 9 (5.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (4.22%) MySQL
7 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.61%) Db2
7 6 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.61%) Power BI
8 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.41%) Tableau
10 3 (1.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (20.48%) Git
2 25 (15.06%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.84%) JIRA
4 15 (9.04%) SonarQube
5 13 (7.83%) JUnit
6 11 (6.63%) Maven
7 9 (5.42%) eggPlant
7 9 (5.42%) Mockito
8 8 (4.82%) Cucumber
9 7 (4.22%) Selenium
10 6 (3.61%) Ant
10 6 (3.61%) Eclipse
10 6 (3.61%) JMeter
10 6 (3.61%) Postman
10 6 (3.61%) SoapUI
10 6 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (3.01%) Gradle
11 5 (3.01%) LoadRunner
11 5 (3.01%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 70 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 52 (31.33%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (31.33%) Finance
3 28 (16.87%) Banking
4 26 (15.66%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.01%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.81%) Automotive
7 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (57.23%) Developer
2 35 (21.08%) Senior
3 21 (12.65%) Senior Developer
4 17 (10.24%) Java Developer
5 14 (8.43%) C# Developer
6 13 (7.83%) Architect
7 12 (7.23%) Lead
8 11 (6.63%) Consultant
9 10 (6.02%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.22%) Applications Developer
10 7 (4.22%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Senior C# Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.01%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Automation Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Integration Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (42.77%) SOAP
2 63 (37.95%) REST
3 50 (30.12%) .NET
4 42 (25.30%) XML
5 35 (21.08%) HTML
6 32 (19.28%) RESTful
7 21 (12.65%) AngularJS
7 21 (12.65%) Spring
8 19 (11.45%) CSS
8 19 (11.45%) Spring Boot
9 17 (10.24%) JSON
10 15 (9.04%) Middleware
11 14 (8.43%) React
12 13 (7.83%) Kafka
13 12 (7.23%) XSLT
14 11 (6.63%) ASP.NET
15 10 (6.02%) .NET Framework
16 8 (4.82%) ActiveMQ
16 8 (4.82%) Terraform
16 8 (4.82%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.43%) Cloud Native
1 14 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.61%) CMDB
4 6 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.01%) Replication
6 4 (2.41%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.81%) DataPower
7 3 (1.81%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.81%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.46%) Linux
2 18 (10.84%) Unix
3 3 (1.81%) Mac OS X
3 3 (1.81%) zOS
4 2 (1.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (47.59%) Agile
2 61 (36.75%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (29.52%) CI/CD
4 46 (27.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (22.89%) DevOps
6 33 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (18.07%) AI
8 29 (17.47%) Test Automation
9 28 (16.87%) Scrum
9 28 (16.87%) SDLC
10 24 (14.46%) Data Modelling
11 23 (13.86%) Migration
12 20 (12.05%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (12.05%) Validation
13 19 (11.45%) ERP
13 19 (11.45%) OO
14 18 (10.84%) Containerisation
14 18 (10.84%) Microservices
14 18 (10.84%) Workflow
15 17 (10.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (41.57%) SQL
2 45 (27.11%) JavaScript
3 43 (25.90%) Java
4 38 (22.89%) C#
4 38 (22.89%) Python
5 11 (6.63%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.02%) T-SQL
7 9 (5.42%) VB.NET
8 8 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.82%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.22%) Apex Code
9 7 (4.22%) Groovy
10 6 (3.61%) SOQL
10 6 (3.61%) SOSL
11 5 (3.01%) ABAP
11 5 (3.01%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.01%) XPath
12 4 (2.41%) Bash
12 4 (2.41%) C++
13 3 (1.81%) JCL
Qualifications
1 43 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.05%) Degree
4 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.01%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.41%) ISEB
8 4 (2.41%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.41%) PMP
9 2 (1.20%) CISSP
9 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.60%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.42%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (13.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.81%) Postfix
3 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.60%) NFS
4 1 (0.60%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.60%) Varnish
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.01%) Grafana
2 5 (3.01%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.41%) Control-M
4 3 (1.81%) Ansible
5 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (24.70%) Oracle
2 26 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.84%) SAP
4 14 (8.43%) UiPath
5 11 (6.63%) IBM
5 11 (6.63%) Salesforce
6 10 (6.02%) Google
7 8 (4.82%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.01%) Pega
9 4 (2.41%) Citrix
9 4 (2.41%) Intapp
9 4 (2.41%) Planview
9 4 (2.41%) Workday
10 3 (1.81%) Adobe
10 3 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.20%) Baan
11 2 (1.20%) Infor
11 2 (1.20%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.20%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.20%) Sybase