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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 183 183
Rank change year-on-year -55 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 172 189 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.50% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.11% 5.78% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 125 154
10th Percentile £391 £363 £441
25th Percentile £414 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £688
90th Percentile £670 £825 £818
England median daily rate £506 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.91% -2.27% -
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 £62.82 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.92% -10.34%

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 4,183 3,268 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.49% 26.00% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,294 3,338
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -33 19 £550 +1.15% 12
South London -16 4 £500 +53.85% 3
West London -26 3 - - 3
East London -6 1 £625 -6.02% 2
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 (6.40%) CICS
2 10 (5.81%) Appian
3 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (5.23%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (2.91%) WebLogic
6 4 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (2.33%) Confluence
6 4 (2.33%) JBoss
6 4 (2.33%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.16%) Apache
7 2 (1.16%) CMS
8 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.58%) IIS
8 1 (0.58%) Mule
8 1 (0.58%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.98%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.91%) SAP EWM
2 5 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.33%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.58%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.58%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.58%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.09%) Azure
2 35 (20.35%) AWS
3 27 (15.70%) PaaS
4 23 (13.37%) OCI
5 15 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.56%) GitHub
6 13 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.40%) Serverless
9 10 (5.81%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (5.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (5.23%) IaaS
10 9 (5.23%) Power Automate
11 8 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (4.65%) Azure AI
11 8 (4.65%) Azure App Service
11 8 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) FTP
4 1 (0.58%) SSL
4 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.14%) DB2
3 13 (7.56%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.23%) Pinecone
4 9 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.07%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.49%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.91%) MySQL
7 5 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.33%) Data Hub
8 4 (2.33%) Power BI
9 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.74%) Metadata
9 3 (1.74%) SQLite
10 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (14.53%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.72%) Postman
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
5 8 (4.65%) Maven
5 8 (4.65%) MLflow
5 8 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.07%) GitLab
6 7 (4.07%) JUnit
6 7 (4.07%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.49%) Selenium
8 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.74%) Ant
9 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.74%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.74%) jMock
9 3 (1.74%) Mockito
10 2 (1.16%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.16%) Moq
10 2 (1.16%) REST Assured
General
1 47 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.35%) Public Sector
3 33 (19.19%) Finance
4 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.40%) Banking
6 4 (2.33%) Military
6 4 (2.33%) Retail
7 3 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Automotive
8 2 (1.16%) Billing
8 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.16%) Front Office
8 2 (1.16%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Publishing
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (47.09%) Developer
2 25 (14.53%) Senior
3 21 (12.21%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.14%) Architect
5 13 (7.56%) Cloud Specialist
6 12 (6.98%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.40%) Integration Specialist
7 11 (6.40%) Lead
7 11 (6.40%) Oracle Specialist
8 9 (5.23%) Consultant
8 9 (5.23%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.23%) Salesforce Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Azure Developer
10 7 (4.07%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.49%) AWS Developer
11 6 (3.49%) Mainframe Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (50.00%) REST
2 64 (37.21%) SOAP
3 27 (15.70%) JSON
3 27 (15.70%) RESTful
4 25 (14.53%) XML
5 22 (12.79%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (12.21%) OAuth
7 18 (10.47%) .NET
7 18 (10.47%) JWT
7 18 (10.47%) Spring
7 18 (10.47%) XSLT
8 17 (9.88%) HTML
9 15 (8.72%) CSS
10 12 (6.98%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.98%) J2EE
11 11 (6.40%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (6.40%) Pandas
12 10 (5.81%) .NET Framework
12 10 (5.81%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.81%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (6.40%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.81%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.65%) CMDB
4 8 (4.65%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.49%) DataPower
6 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.33%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.33%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.74%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.56%) Linux
2 10 (5.81%) Windows
3 9 (5.23%) zOS
4 6 (3.49%) Unix
5 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.58%) Android
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.33%) Agile
2 37 (21.51%) DevOps
3 34 (19.77%) CI/CD
4 28 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.70%) Containerisation
5 27 (15.70%) Test Automation
6 26 (15.12%) Design Patterns
6 26 (15.12%) ERP
7 25 (14.53%) Microservices
8 21 (12.21%) AI
9 20 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
9 20 (11.63%) Software Engineering
10 19 (11.05%) Architectural Patterns
10 19 (11.05%) Data Modelling
10 19 (11.05%) Workflow
11 18 (10.47%) Analytics
11 18 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (10.47%) Validation
12 16 (9.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.00%) Python
2 39 (22.67%) SQL
3 32 (18.60%) Java
4 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.47%) C#
6 11 (6.40%) Apex Code
6 11 (6.40%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (4.07%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.07%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.49%) ABAP
8 6 (3.49%) Ruby
8 6 (3.49%) XPath
9 5 (2.91%) JCL
9 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.74%) C++
11 2 (1.16%) COBOL
11 2 (1.16%) SOQL
11 2 (1.16%) SOSL
11 2 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 50 (29.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) Degree
4 8 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.33%) MBA
7 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.07%) QA
3 6 (3.49%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.58%) NCSC
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (12.79%) Docker
2 7 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) Postfix
4 1 (0.58%) NFS
4 1 (0.58%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.58%) Varnish
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.49%) Ansible
2 6 (3.49%) Grafana
3 4 (2.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.33%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.58%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.58%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (23.84%) Oracle
2 26 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.40%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.81%) OpenAI
5 9 (5.23%) SAP
5 9 (5.23%) UiPath
6 8 (4.65%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.07%) IBM
8 6 (3.49%) Guidewire
8 6 (3.49%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.91%) Adobe
10 4 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.33%) BEA
10 4 (2.33%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.74%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.16%) Charles River
12 2 (1.16%) Citrix
12 2 (1.16%) Google