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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 194 203
Rank change year-on-year -110 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Web Services 164 180 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.34% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.06% 4.52% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 124 134
10th Percentile £410 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £593
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -10.97% +3.04%
75th Percentile £644 £695 £675
90th Percentile £742 £700 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
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 - - +12.01%

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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -22 30 £575 +21.05% 16
South London +2 15 £700 - 3
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 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.88%) Confluence
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.05%) CICS
4 4 (2.44%) IIS
5 2 (1.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) Appian
6 1 (0.61%) CMS
6 1 (0.61%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.61%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.83%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.22%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.22%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.61%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.95%) Azure
2 32 (19.51%) AWS
3 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.71%) GitHub
4 11 (6.71%) Serverless
5 9 (5.49%) GCP
6 8 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.66%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 5 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.05%) PaaS
9 5 (3.05%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (2.44%) AtomSphere
10 4 (2.44%) Boomi
10 4 (2.44%) IaaS
10 4 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) SSL
2 5 (3.05%) HTTP
3 2 (1.22%) DNS
3 2 (1.22%) Internet
3 2 (1.22%) Intranet
4 1 (0.61%) Broadband
4 1 (0.61%) DMZ
4 1 (0.61%) FTP
4 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.61%) SAN
4 1 (0.61%) SSH
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 21 (12.80%) Relational Database
3 15 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (4.88%) Oracle Database
5 8 (4.88%) Power BI
6 7 (4.27%) Db2
6 7 (4.27%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.44%) MySQL
8 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.44%) Tableau
9 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.22%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 29 (17.68%) Git
2 22 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.15%) JIRA
4 12 (7.32%) SonarQube
5 11 (6.71%) JUnit
6 9 (5.49%) eggPlant
7 8 (4.88%) Maven
8 7 (4.27%) Mockito
8 7 (4.27%) Selenium
9 6 (3.66%) Ant
9 6 (3.66%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.66%) Eclipse
9 6 (3.66%) JMeter
9 6 (3.66%) Postman
9 6 (3.66%) SoapUI
9 6 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (3.05%) GitLab
10 5 (3.05%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.05%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 49 (29.88%) Finance
3 48 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (17.07%) Banking
5 25 (15.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.83%) Automotive
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
8 3 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (55.49%) Developer
2 34 (20.73%) Senior
3 21 (12.80%) Senior Developer
4 15 (9.15%) Architect
4 15 (9.15%) Java Developer
5 14 (8.54%) C# Developer
6 12 (7.32%) Lead
7 10 (6.10%) .NET Developer
7 10 (6.10%) Consultant
8 7 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (3.05%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.05%) Salesforce Developer
10 5 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.44%) Designer
11 4 (2.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (2.44%) ITSM Consultant
11 4 (2.44%) Programme Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (41.46%) SOAP
2 61 (37.20%) REST
3 46 (28.05%) .NET
4 38 (23.17%) XML
5 34 (20.73%) RESTful
6 32 (19.51%) HTML
7 19 (11.59%) AngularJS
7 19 (11.59%) Spring
8 17 (10.37%) Spring Boot
9 16 (9.76%) CSS
9 16 (9.76%) JSON
10 15 (9.15%) Middleware
11 13 (7.93%) React
12 12 (7.32%) XSLT
13 11 (6.71%) ASP.NET
13 11 (6.71%) Kafka
14 9 (5.49%) .NET Framework
15 8 (4.88%) Lightning Web Components
16 7 (4.27%) Terraform
16 7 (4.27%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.71%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.66%) CMDB
6 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.05%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.44%) DataPower
8 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.44%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.44%) Replication
9 3 (1.83%) Derivative
9 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.20%) Linux
2 16 (9.76%) Unix
3 4 (2.44%) zOS
4 2 (1.22%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (45.73%) Agile
2 56 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 44 (26.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (21.95%) DevOps
5 31 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (17.68%) AI
7 25 (15.24%) Scrum
8 24 (14.63%) SDLC
8 24 (14.63%) Test Automation
9 23 (14.02%) Migration
10 22 (13.41%) Data Modelling
11 20 (12.20%) Microservices
11 20 (12.20%) Software Engineering
11 20 (12.20%) Validation
12 18 (10.98%) ERP
12 18 (10.98%) Workflow
13 17 (10.37%) OO
13 17 (10.37%) SOA
14 16 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (40.24%) SQL
2 42 (25.61%) Java
3 41 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 39 (23.78%) Python
5 35 (21.34%) C#
6 11 (6.71%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.49%) T-SQL
7 9 (5.49%) VB.NET
8 8 (4.88%) Apex Code
8 8 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.88%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.66%) SOQL
9 6 (3.66%) SOSL
10 5 (3.05%) C++
10 5 (3.05%) Groovy
10 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.05%) XPath
11 4 (2.44%) ABAP
11 4 (2.44%) JCL
12 2 (1.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.20%) Degree
4 7 (4.27%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.44%) ISEB
7 4 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.44%) PMP
8 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.83%) MBA
9 2 (1.22%) CISSP
9 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.49%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) GRC
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (10.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Postfix
3 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.22%) NFS
4 2 (1.22%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (3.66%) Grafana
2 5 (3.05%) HP Fortify
2 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.44%) Control-M
4 2 (1.22%) Ansible
4 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (21.34%) Oracle
2 25 (15.24%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.37%) SAP
4 11 (6.71%) IBM
4 11 (6.71%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.71%) UiPath
5 8 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.27%) Google
7 5 (3.05%) Pega
8 4 (2.44%) Citrix
8 4 (2.44%) Intapp
8 4 (2.44%) Planview
8 4 (2.44%) Workday
9 3 (1.83%) Adobe
9 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.22%) Baan
10 2 (1.22%) Infor
10 2 (1.22%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.22%) Sybase