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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 180 180
Rank change year-on-year -56 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Web Services 174 189 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.49% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.13% 5.71% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 125 157
10th Percentile £376 £363 £450
25th Percentile £413 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £688
90th Percentile £665 £825 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
England median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -7.14%

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 4,218 3,310 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.13% 26.03% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,845 2,320 3,317
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £37.13 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.42% +50.65% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £66.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £83.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -33 19 £599 +11.40% 8
South London -20 4 £500 +53.85% 4
West London -30 3 - - 1
East London -4 1 £625 -0.79%
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 (6.32%) CICS
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.75%) Appian
3 9 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (4.60%) WebLogic
5 7 (4.02%) WebSphere
6 5 (2.87%) Confluence
7 4 (2.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (2.30%) JBoss
8 2 (1.15%) Apache
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.57%) CMS
9 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.57%) IIS
9 1 (0.57%) Mule
9 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.02%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.87%) SAP EWM
3 5 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.57%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.41%) Azure
2 34 (19.54%) AWS
3 29 (16.67%) PaaS
4 23 (13.22%) OCI
5 17 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.62%) GitHub
6 15 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (7.47%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 11 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (6.32%) Serverless
10 10 (5.75%) Azure App Service
10 10 (5.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.17%) Azure WebJobs
11 9 (5.17%) IaaS
11 9 (5.17%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.60%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (4.60%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) DNS
2 3 (1.72%) Firewall
3 2 (1.15%) FTP
3 2 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.22%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.77%) DB2
3 14 (8.05%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.17%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.87%) MySQL
7 5 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (2.87%) SAP HANA
8 4 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.30%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.30%) Power BI
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.72%) Metadata
9 3 (1.72%) SQLite
10 2 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.57%) Big Data
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Git
2 15 (8.62%) Postman
3 13 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.75%) JIRA
5 8 (4.60%) Maven
5 8 (4.60%) MLflow
5 8 (4.60%) Selenium
5 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.02%) JUnit
6 7 (4.02%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.45%) GitLab
8 4 (2.30%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.72%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.72%) JMeter
9 3 (1.72%) jMock
9 3 (1.72%) Mockito
10 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.57%) XPEDITER
General
1 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.26%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.97%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.32%) Banking
6 4 (2.30%) Military
6 4 (2.30%) Retail
7 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.15%) Billing
8 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.15%) Front Office
8 2 (1.15%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (47.13%) Developer
2 23 (13.22%) Senior
3 19 (10.92%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.62%) Architect
5 13 (7.47%) Cloud Specialist
6 12 (6.90%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.32%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (6.32%) Oracle Specialist
8 10 (5.75%) Lead
9 9 (5.17%) Consultant
9 9 (5.17%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.17%) Salesforce Developer
10 8 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Azure Developer
11 7 (4.02%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Mainframe Developer
12 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 6 (3.45%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (50.57%) REST
2 67 (38.51%) SOAP
3 28 (16.09%) XML
4 27 (15.52%) JSON
5 25 (14.37%) RESTful
6 22 (12.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 21 (12.07%) OAuth
7 21 (12.07%) XSLT
8 18 (10.34%) JWT
9 17 (9.77%) .NET
9 17 (9.77%) Spring
10 15 (8.62%) J2EE
11 13 (7.47%) WSDL
12 12 (6.90%) .NET Framework
12 12 (6.90%) CSS
13 11 (6.32%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.32%) HTML
13 11 (6.32%) Pandas
14 10 (5.75%) JMS
15 9 (5.17%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.32%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.17%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.60%) CMDB
6 6 (3.45%) DataPower
7 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.87%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.30%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Linux
2 10 (5.75%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) zOS
4 6 (3.45%) Unix
5 2 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.57%) Android
6 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.01%) Agile
2 37 (21.26%) DevOps
3 29 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (16.09%) Test Automation
5 26 (14.94%) ERP
6 25 (14.37%) Containerisation
6 25 (14.37%) Design Patterns
7 24 (13.79%) Microservices
8 21 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
9 20 (11.49%) AI
9 20 (11.49%) SOA
10 19 (10.92%) Analytics
10 19 (10.92%) Architectural Patterns
10 19 (10.92%) Software Engineering
11 18 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (10.34%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (9.77%) Task Automation
12 17 (9.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.56%) Python
2 37 (21.26%) SQL
3 31 (17.82%) Java
4 22 (12.64%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.49%) C#
6 13 (7.47%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.17%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (4.60%) XPath
9 7 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.45%) ABAP
10 6 (3.45%) Ruby
11 5 (2.87%) JCL
11 5 (2.87%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.72%) C++
13 2 (1.15%) COBOL
13 2 (1.15%) VBA
14 1 (0.57%) Perl
14 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 51 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.75%) Degree
4 8 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.30%) MBA
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.45%) SLA
3 5 (2.87%) QA
4 2 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (10.92%) Docker
2 7 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.72%) Postfix
4 1 (0.57%) NFS
4 1 (0.57%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.57%) Varnish
4 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.02%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (3.45%) Ansible
3 6 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (1.72%) Terraform
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.57%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (25.29%) Oracle
2 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.75%) IBM
3 10 (5.75%) OpenAI
3 10 (5.75%) SAP
4 9 (5.17%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.17%) UiPath
5 8 (4.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.02%) BEA
6 7 (4.02%) TIBCO
7 6 (3.45%) Guidewire
7 6 (3.45%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.87%) Adobe
9 4 (2.30%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.72%) Cognizant
10 3 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.15%) Charles River
11 2 (1.15%) Citrix
11 2 (1.15%) Google