Web Services Contracts in London

Web Services
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 179 203
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -56
Contract jobs citing Web Services 184 236 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.47% 1.32% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 5.29% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 151 240
10th Percentile £363 £450 £415
25th Percentile £425 £478 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £751
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £57.88
25th Percentile - - £65.88
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +13.97%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in London

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 May 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 +4 35 £544 -9.38% 4
South London +7 7 £325 - 2
West London +8 6 £525 +23.53% 1
East London +10 2 £665 +18.75% 2
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.80%) JBoss
1 7 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.72%) Apache
2 5 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.72%) CMS
2 5 (2.72%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.54%) CICS
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.43%) BASE24
1 10 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.63%) Shopify
4 2 (1.09%) Actimize
4 2 (1.09%) Magento
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (1.09%) SAP BPC
4 2 (1.09%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.54%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.28%) Azure
2 26 (14.13%) AWS
3 12 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.43%) Apple Pay
4 10 (5.43%) Power Automate
5 9 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (4.89%) GitHub
5 9 (4.89%) PowerApps
6 8 (4.35%) Serverless
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.72%) GCP
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.17%) SaaS
10 4 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.63%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) ATM
2 7 (3.80%) HTTP
3 6 (3.26%) SSL
4 5 (2.72%) Firewall
5 3 (1.63%) POP3
5 3 (1.63%) SMTP
6 2 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.09%) SMS
7 1 (0.54%) IPsec
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.59%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.15%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.43%) NonStop SQL
6 9 (4.89%) DB2
6 9 (4.89%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.35%) Big Data
8 7 (3.80%) Power BI
9 6 (3.26%) MySQL
10 5 (2.72%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.17%) MS Access
11 4 (2.17%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.17%) SAP HANA
12 3 (1.63%) OLAP
12 3 (1.63%) OLTP
12 3 (1.63%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) Git
2 15 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.61%) JIRA
4 10 (5.43%) Postman
5 8 (4.35%) SoapUI
6 6 (3.26%) JUnit
6 6 (3.26%) Maven
6 6 (3.26%) REST Assured
7 5 (2.72%) GitLab
7 5 (2.72%) Mockito
8 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.17%) JMeter
8 4 (2.17%) QARun
8 4 (2.17%) WinRunner
9 3 (1.63%) Ant
9 3 (1.63%) Babel
9 3 (1.63%) git-flow
9 3 (1.63%) Selenium
9 3 (1.63%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.63%) webpack
General
1 67 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 59 (32.07%) Finance
3 38 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.33%) Banking
5 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.80%) Retail
7 4 (2.17%) Front Office
7 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.63%) Marketing
8 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Electronics
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Aviation
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.54%) French Language
10 1 (0.54%) German Language
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (47.83%) Developer
2 27 (14.67%) Architect
3 23 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 23 (12.50%) Senior
4 21 (11.41%) C++ Developer
5 20 (10.87%) C++/C# Developer
6 17 (9.24%) Lead
7 15 (8.15%) Senior Developer
8 13 (7.07%) Java Developer
9 12 (6.52%) ServiceNow Architect
9 12 (6.52%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Analyst
10 10 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.43%) ServiceNow Developer
10 10 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.89%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Development Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Software Development Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 7 (3.80%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.35%) REST
2 46 (25.00%) .NET
3 43 (23.37%) SOAP
4 41 (22.28%) HTML
5 40 (21.74%) RESTful
6 33 (17.93%) ASP.NET
6 33 (17.93%) CSS
7 29 (15.76%) AngularJS
8 28 (15.22%) Kafka
9 26 (14.13%) .NET Core
9 26 (14.13%) WCF
10 25 (13.59%) JSON
11 21 (11.41%) Spring
11 21 (11.41%) XML
12 18 (9.78%) React
13 15 (8.15%) Node.js
14 12 (6.52%) Middleware
14 12 (6.52%) Spring Boot
15 9 (4.89%) Bootstrap
15 9 (4.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (9.78%) Legacy Applications
3 15 (8.15%) CMDB
4 6 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.72%) N-Tier
5 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) Social Media
8 2 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.33%) Unix
1 19 (10.33%) Windows
2 10 (5.43%) Linux
3 5 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (41.85%) Agile
2 50 (27.17%) DevOps
3 49 (26.63%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (20.11%) Analytics
5 29 (15.76%) CI/CD
6 22 (11.96%) Microservices
7 20 (10.87%) ITSM
8 19 (10.33%) OO
9 17 (9.24%) CRM
9 17 (9.24%) ITIL
10 16 (8.70%) SDLC
10 16 (8.70%) TDD
10 16 (8.70%) Unit Testing
11 15 (8.15%) OOP
11 15 (8.15%) Scrum
12 14 (7.61%) MVC
12 14 (7.61%) Software Engineering
13 13 (7.07%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (7.07%) Service Management
13 13 (7.07%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.59%) JavaScript
2 53 (28.80%) SQL
3 47 (25.54%) C#
4 40 (21.74%) Java
5 24 (13.04%) Python
6 22 (11.96%) C++
7 15 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 13 (7.07%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.89%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.72%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.72%) Scala
12 4 (2.17%) Groovy
12 4 (2.17%) Perl
13 3 (1.63%) ABAP
14 2 (1.09%) C
14 2 (1.09%) COBOL
14 2 (1.09%) REXX
15 1 (0.54%) JCL
15 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.24%) Degree
4 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.72%) MCPD
6 5 (2.72%) MCSD
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) MCAD
7 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.54%) OCP
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.07%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) ISO 8583
2 10 (5.43%) PSD2
3 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.09%) HL7
4 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.09%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (6.52%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) RACF
3 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 13 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.89%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.17%) Ansible
4 3 (1.63%) Kibana
5 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.09%) Terraform
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.54%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Packer
6 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (24.46%) Oracle
2 33 (17.93%) ServiceNow
3 25 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 18 (9.78%) SAP
5 10 (5.43%) HP
6 8 (4.35%) Splunk
7 6 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.17%) Citrix
8 4 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.17%) IBM
8 4 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.17%) OpenText
8 4 (2.17%) Qualtrics
8 4 (2.17%) Sybase
9 3 (1.63%) Adobe
9 3 (1.63%) Informatica
9 3 (1.63%) Siebel
10 2 (1.09%) Dell
10 2 (1.09%) NCR
10 2 (1.09%) Sun