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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 198 198
Rank change year-on-year -100 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Web Services 155 188 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.39% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 4.76% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 128 132
10th Percentile £413 £355 £401
25th Percentile £456 £413 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £598
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -11.72% +4.46%
75th Percentile £653 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £821
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 - - +8.33%

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 5,341 3,953 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,551 2,731 3,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -

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 10 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 10 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 -25 25 £575 +35.29% 12
South London 0 14 £700 - 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 10 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.23%) CICS
3 5 (3.23%) Confluence
4 4 (2.58%) IIS
5 2 (1.29%) Apache
5 2 (1.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.65%) Appian
6 1 (0.65%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.65%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.94%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.29%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.65%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.00%) Azure
2 25 (16.13%) AWS
3 11 (7.10%) Serverless
4 10 (6.45%) GitHub
4 10 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.52%) PaaS
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 5 (3.23%) GCP
9 5 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.23%) OCI
10 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.58%) IaaS
10 4 (2.58%) SaaS
11 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) HTTP
1 5 (3.23%) SSL
2 3 (1.94%) DNS
3 2 (1.29%) Internet
3 2 (1.29%) Intranet
4 1 (0.65%) DMZ
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) FTP
4 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.65%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.97%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.87%) Db2
5 6 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.87%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.23%) Power BI
7 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.58%) Tableau
8 3 (1.94%) Metadata
8 3 (1.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.94%) SQLite
9 2 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (18.06%) Git
2 20 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.10%) JIRA
4 10 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.81%) eggPlant
6 8 (5.16%) Selenium
7 6 (3.87%) Ant
7 6 (3.87%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.87%) GitLab
7 6 (3.87%) JMeter
7 6 (3.87%) JUnit
7 6 (3.87%) Postman
7 6 (3.87%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.87%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.23%) LoadRunner
8 5 (3.23%) Maven
9 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.58%) Mockito
9 4 (2.58%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.58%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.39%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (25.16%) Finance
4 28 (18.06%) Public Sector
5 26 (16.77%) Banking
6 5 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.94%) Automotive
8 3 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (56.77%) Developer
2 33 (21.29%) Senior
3 21 (13.55%) Senior Developer
4 14 (9.03%) C# Developer
4 14 (9.03%) Lead
5 12 (7.74%) Architect
5 12 (7.74%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.45%) Consultant
7 9 (5.81%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.52%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (4.52%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Designer
9 6 (3.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (2.58%) Applications Developer
10 4 (2.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (2.58%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.58%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.58%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (39.35%) REST
1 61 (39.35%) SOAP
2 44 (28.39%) .NET
3 35 (22.58%) XML
4 30 (19.35%) HTML
4 30 (19.35%) RESTful
5 18 (11.61%) Spring
6 16 (10.32%) Spring Boot
7 15 (9.68%) AngularJS
7 15 (9.68%) Middleware
8 14 (9.03%) CSS
8 14 (9.03%) JSON
9 12 (7.74%) XSLT
10 11 (7.10%) ASP.NET
11 10 (6.45%) Lightning Web Components
11 10 (6.45%) React
12 9 (5.81%) Kafka
13 8 (5.16%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.87%) Ajax
14 6 (3.87%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.16%) CMDB
3 8 (5.16%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.23%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.58%) DataPower
7 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.58%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.94%) Derivative
8 3 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.32%) Linux
2 14 (9.03%) Unix
3 4 (2.58%) zOS
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (44.52%) Agile
2 55 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 38 (24.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (21.94%) DevOps
6 26 (16.77%) AI
7 25 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (15.48%) SDLC
9 22 (14.19%) Workflow
10 20 (12.90%) Migration
10 20 (12.90%) Scrum
10 20 (12.90%) Test Automation
11 19 (12.26%) Data Modelling
11 19 (12.26%) Software Engineering
12 18 (11.61%) ITIL
12 18 (11.61%) Microservices
13 17 (10.97%) SOA
14 16 (10.32%) OO
14 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.00%) SQL
2 38 (24.52%) Java
2 38 (24.52%) JavaScript
3 36 (23.23%) Python
4 33 (21.29%) C#
5 12 (7.74%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.45%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.81%) VB.NET
8 8 (5.16%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.52%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.87%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.87%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.87%) SOQL
10 6 (3.87%) SOSL
11 5 (3.23%) C++
11 5 (3.23%) XPath
12 4 (2.58%) JCL
13 3 (1.94%) ABAP
13 3 (1.94%) Groovy
14 2 (1.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 41 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.68%) Degree
4 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.58%) ISEB
7 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.94%) MBA
8 2 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.16%) QA
3 3 (1.94%) GRC
4 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (10.32%) Docker
2 4 (2.58%) Postfix
3 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.29%) NFS
3 2 (1.29%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.29%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (4.52%) Grafana
2 5 (3.23%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.58%) Control-M
3 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.29%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (21.94%) Oracle
2 23 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.61%) SAP
4 12 (7.74%) Salesforce
5 11 (7.10%) IBM
6 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.87%) Pega
7 6 (3.87%) UiPath
8 4 (2.58%) Adobe
8 4 (2.58%) Citrix
8 4 (2.58%) Intapp
8 4 (2.58%) Workday
9 3 (1.94%) Google
9 3 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.29%) Baan
10 2 (1.29%) Infor
10 2 (1.29%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.29%) Sitecore