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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 179 175
Rank change year-on-year -54 -4 +32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 181 182 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.44% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.30% 5.51% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 121 154
10th Percentile £373 £363 £450
25th Percentile £411 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +2.63%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £659
90th Percentile £660 £825 £788
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 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% +18.18% -17.91%

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 4,213 3,306 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.37% 26.11% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 2,311 3,314
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £718 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 21
10th Percentile £23.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.25 £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 15 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 15 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 18 £550 +2.33% 6
South London -14 3 £500 +53.85% 3
West London -26 3 - - 4
East London -4 1 £625 +11.11%
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 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.52%) Appian
2 10 (5.52%) CICS
3 9 (4.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (4.42%) WebLogic
5 7 (3.87%) WebSphere
6 6 (3.31%) Confluence
7 4 (2.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (2.21%) JBoss
7 4 (2.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (1.10%) Apache
9 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.55%) CMS
9 1 (0.55%) IIS
9 1 (0.55%) Mule
9 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.18%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (3.87%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.76%) SAP EWM
3 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.55%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.55%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.55%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.55%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.65%) Azure
2 35 (19.34%) AWS
3 31 (17.13%) PaaS
4 25 (13.81%) OCI
5 19 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.73%) GitHub
6 14 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (6.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (6.08%) Entra ID
7 11 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
8 10 (5.52%) Azure App Service
8 10 (5.52%) IaaS
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (4.97%) Azure WebJobs
9 9 (4.97%) Serverless
10 8 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (4.42%) Azure AI
10 8 (4.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) DNS
2 3 (1.66%) Firewall
3 2 (1.10%) DHCP
3 2 (1.10%) FTP
3 2 (1.10%) Internet
3 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.26%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.94%) Relational Database
3 16 (8.84%) DB2
4 9 (4.97%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.42%) Power BI
6 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.76%) MySQL
6 5 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.76%) SAP HANA
7 4 (2.21%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.66%) Metadata
8 3 (1.66%) SQLite
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.55%) Big Data
10 1 (0.55%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (14.36%) Git
2 18 (9.94%) Postman
3 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.08%) JIRA
4 10 (5.52%) Selenium
5 8 (4.42%) MLflow
6 7 (3.87%) Maven
6 7 (3.87%) SoapUI
6 7 (3.87%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.31%) JUnit
8 5 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.76%) GitLab
9 4 (2.21%) JMeter
10 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.10%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.10%) jMock
10 2 (1.10%) Mockito
10 2 (1.10%) MSTest
10 2 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.55%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.23%) Finance
4 22 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.63%) Banking
6 4 (2.21%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.21%) Military
6 4 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.10%) Billing
7 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.10%) Front Office
7 2 (1.10%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.55%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.55%) Law
8 1 (0.55%) Legal
8 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (47.51%) Developer
2 26 (14.36%) Senior
3 21 (11.60%) Senior Developer
4 16 (8.84%) Python Developer
5 14 (7.73%) Architect
5 14 (7.73%) Cloud Specialist
6 12 (6.63%) Integration Specialist
6 12 (6.63%) Oracle Specialist
7 10 (5.52%) Lead
8 9 (4.97%) Consultant
8 9 (4.97%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Salesforce Developer
9 8 (4.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Azure Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Python Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.31%) AWS Developer
11 6 (3.31%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (53.04%) REST
2 70 (38.67%) SOAP
3 29 (16.02%) XML
4 28 (15.47%) JSON
5 24 (13.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (13.26%) RESTful
6 22 (12.15%) OAuth
6 22 (12.15%) XSLT
7 19 (10.50%) JWT
8 18 (9.94%) .NET
9 16 (8.84%) Spring
10 15 (8.29%) J2EE
10 15 (8.29%) Pandas
11 13 (7.18%) .NET Framework
12 12 (6.63%) CSS
12 12 (6.63%) NumPy
12 12 (6.63%) WSDL
13 11 (6.08%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.08%) scikit-learn
14 10 (5.52%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.08%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.52%) Mainframe
4 9 (4.97%) Low-Code
5 8 (4.42%) CMDB
6 6 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.76%) DataPower
7 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.76%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.66%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.66%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.63%) Linux
2 11 (6.08%) Windows
3 8 (4.42%) zOS
4 6 (3.31%) Unix
5 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.18%) Agile
2 38 (20.99%) DevOps
3 34 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (17.13%) Test Automation
5 29 (16.02%) Design Patterns
6 28 (15.47%) ERP
7 27 (14.92%) CI/CD
8 25 (13.81%) Microservices
9 23 (12.71%) Analytics
10 22 (12.15%) Containerisation
11 21 (11.60%) Integration Patterns
11 21 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (11.60%) Unit Testing
12 20 (11.05%) AI
12 20 (11.05%) SOA
13 19 (10.50%) Software Engineering
14 18 (9.94%) Architectural Patterns
14 18 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (9.94%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.76%) Python
2 41 (22.65%) SQL
3 30 (16.57%) Java
4 21 (11.60%) C#
4 21 (11.60%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.18%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.97%) Apex Code
6 9 (4.97%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (4.42%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.42%) XPath
8 6 (3.31%) ABAP
8 6 (3.31%) Ruby
9 5 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.21%) JCL
10 4 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.66%) C++
12 2 (1.10%) COBOL
12 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.10%) VBA
13 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (33.15%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Degree
3 9 (4.97%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.21%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.21%) MBA
6 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
8 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.31%) SLA
3 5 (2.76%) QA
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (9.94%) Docker
2 7 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) Postfix
3 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.55%) NFS
4 1 (0.55%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 15 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.87%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (3.31%) Ansible
4 5 (2.76%) Grafana
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.55%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.55%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.55%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.55%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (25.41%) Oracle
2 26 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.08%) SAP
4 10 (5.52%) IBM
4 10 (5.52%) OpenAI
5 9 (4.97%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.97%) UiPath
6 8 (4.42%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.87%) BEA
7 7 (3.87%) TIBCO
8 6 (3.31%) Guidewire
8 6 (3.31%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.76%) Adobe
10 4 (2.21%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.21%) Dataiku
11 3 (1.66%) Cognizant
12 2 (1.10%) Charles River
12 2 (1.10%) Citrix
12 2 (1.10%) Google