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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 175 179
Rank change year-on-year -62 +4 +20
Contract jobs citing Web Services 178 180 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.43% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.27% 5.47% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 117 152
10th Percentile £371 £363 £448
25th Percentile £410 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.84% -1.41%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £638
90th Percentile £652 £825 £773
England median daily rate £525 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year -1.43% -26.55% +33.58%

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 4,171 3,291 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.69% 26.07% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 2,299 3,344
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 £660 £713 £691
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £545
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 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 1 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 -34 15 £550 +2.33% 7
South London -16 3 £500 +53.85%
West London -24 3 - - 1
East London +1 2 £538 +8.59% 1
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 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.62%) Appian
3 9 (5.06%) CICS
4 8 (4.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (4.49%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.93%) Confluence
5 7 (3.93%) WebSphere
6 4 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (2.25%) JBoss
6 4 (2.25%) Jupyter
7 2 (1.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.56%) Mule
8 1 (0.56%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (3.93%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.81%) SAP EWM
3 5 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.56%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.56%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.60%) Azure
2 33 (18.54%) AWS
3 31 (17.42%) PaaS
4 25 (14.04%) OCI
5 18 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.87%) GitHub
6 14 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (6.18%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (6.18%) Entra ID
8 10 (5.62%) Azure App Service
8 10 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.62%) IaaS
8 10 (5.62%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.06%) Azure AI
9 9 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (5.06%) Azure WebJobs
10 8 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.49%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) DNS
2 3 (1.69%) Firewall
3 2 (1.12%) DHCP
3 2 (1.12%) Internet
3 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) FTP
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.48%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.11%) Relational Database
3 16 (8.99%) DB2
4 9 (5.06%) Pinecone
5 7 (3.93%) Power BI
6 5 (2.81%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.81%) MySQL
6 5 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.81%) SAP HANA
7 4 (2.25%) Data Hub
7 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.69%) Metadata
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (1.12%) SQLite
10 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (15.73%) Git
2 19 (10.67%) Postman
3 12 (6.74%) JIRA
4 11 (6.18%) Selenium
5 10 (5.62%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.49%) MLflow
7 7 (3.93%) Maven
7 7 (3.93%) SoapUI
7 7 (3.93%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.37%) GitLab
8 6 (3.37%) JUnit
9 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.25%) JMeter
11 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.12%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.12%) jMock
11 2 (1.12%) Mockito
11 2 (1.12%) MSTest
11 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.56%) Charles Proxy
General
1 43 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.47%) Public Sector
3 34 (19.10%) Finance
4 21 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.18%) Banking
6 4 (2.25%) Military
6 4 (2.25%) Retail
7 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Billing
8 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.12%) Front Office
8 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.56%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (46.07%) Developer
2 25 (14.04%) Senior
3 20 (11.24%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.43%) Python Developer
5 14 (7.87%) Cloud Specialist
6 13 (7.30%) Architect
7 12 (6.74%) Integration Specialist
7 12 (6.74%) Oracle Specialist
8 10 (5.62%) Lead
8 10 (5.62%) Salesforce Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Consultant
10 8 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Python Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Azure Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.37%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 6 (3.37%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (53.37%) REST
2 70 (39.33%) SOAP
3 27 (15.17%) JSON
3 27 (15.17%) XML
4 24 (13.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (13.48%) RESTful
5 22 (12.36%) OAuth
6 20 (11.24%) XSLT
7 19 (10.67%) JWT
8 18 (10.11%) .NET
9 15 (8.43%) J2EE
9 15 (8.43%) Spring
10 14 (7.87%) Pandas
11 13 (7.30%) .NET Framework
12 12 (6.74%) CSS
12 12 (6.74%) NumPy
12 12 (6.74%) WSDL
13 11 (6.18%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.18%) scikit-learn
14 10 (5.62%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.18%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.06%) Low-Code
3 9 (5.06%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.49%) CMDB
5 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.81%) DataPower
6 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.81%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.69%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.74%) Linux
2 11 (6.18%) Windows
3 8 (4.49%) zOS
4 6 (3.37%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Android
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.78%) Agile
2 37 (20.79%) DevOps
3 35 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (18.54%) Test Automation
5 28 (15.73%) Design Patterns
6 27 (15.17%) CI/CD
6 27 (15.17%) ERP
7 24 (13.48%) Microservices
8 22 (12.36%) Analytics
9 21 (11.80%) AI
9 21 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (11.80%) Unit Testing
10 20 (11.24%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.24%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (10.67%) SOA
12 18 (10.11%) Architectural Patterns
12 18 (10.11%) Data Modelling
12 18 (10.11%) Workflow
13 17 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (9.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.60%) Python
2 39 (21.91%) SQL
3 25 (14.04%) Java
4 21 (11.80%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.24%) C#
6 13 (7.30%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.62%) Apex Code
8 9 (5.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (4.49%) XPath
10 7 (3.93%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.37%) ABAP
11 6 (3.37%) Ruby
12 5 (2.81%) PL/SQL
13 4 (2.25%) JCL
13 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) C++
14 2 (1.12%) COBOL
14 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.12%) VBA
15 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 54 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) Degree
4 9 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.25%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.25%) MBA
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) ISEB
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMP
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.37%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) SLA
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.11%) Docker
2 7 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Postfix
3 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.56%) NFS
4 1 (0.56%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.93%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (3.37%) Ansible
4 4 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.56%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (25.28%) Oracle
2 26 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.18%) SAP
4 10 (5.62%) IBM
4 10 (5.62%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.62%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.06%) UiPath
6 8 (4.49%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.93%) BEA
7 7 (3.93%) MuleSoft
7 7 (3.93%) TIBCO
8 6 (3.37%) Guidewire
9 5 (2.81%) Adobe
10 4 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.25%) Dataiku
11 3 (1.69%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.12%) Charles River
12 2 (1.12%) Google
12 2 (1.12%) VMware