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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 188 195
Rank change year-on-year -103 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 156 191 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.43% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.96% 4.88% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 129 134
10th Percentile £413 £346 £408
25th Percentile £463 £413 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £598
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -11.30% +4.18%
75th Percentile £652 £695 £675
90th Percentile £750 £700 £814
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 5,271 3,910 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.21% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 2,722 3,484
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £451 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £814 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
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% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 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 1 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 -26 24 £575 +27.78% 13
South London -5 14 £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 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.21%) CICS
4 4 (2.56%) IIS
5 3 (1.92%) Confluence
6 2 (1.28%) Apache
6 2 (1.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.64%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.64%) Appian
7 1 (0.64%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.64%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.64%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.92%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.28%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.64%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.64%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.87%) Azure
2 23 (14.74%) AWS
3 11 (7.05%) Serverless
4 10 (6.41%) GitHub
4 10 (6.41%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.49%) PaaS
8 6 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.85%) OCI
8 6 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 5 (3.21%) GCP
9 5 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.56%) IaaS
10 4 (2.56%) SaaS
11 3 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.92%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) HTTP
1 5 (3.21%) SSL
2 3 (1.92%) DNS
3 2 (1.28%) Internet
3 2 (1.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.64%) DMZ
4 1 (0.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.64%) FTP
4 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.64%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.85%) Db2
5 6 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.21%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.21%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.21%) Power BI
7 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.56%) Tableau
8 3 (1.92%) Metadata
8 3 (1.92%) MySQL
8 3 (1.92%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.92%) SQLite
9 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.28%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (17.31%) Git
2 18 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.13%) eggPlant
3 8 (5.13%) JIRA
3 8 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 7 (4.49%) Selenium
5 6 (3.85%) Ant
5 6 (3.85%) Eclipse
5 6 (3.85%) GitLab
5 6 (3.85%) JMeter
5 6 (3.85%) Postman
5 6 (3.85%) SoapUI
5 6 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.21%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.56%) JUnit
7 4 (2.56%) Maven
7 4 (2.56%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.28%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.72%) Finance
4 26 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 24 (15.38%) Banking
6 5 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.21%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.92%) Automotive
8 3 (1.92%) Legal
8 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (55.13%) Developer
2 31 (19.87%) Senior
3 19 (12.18%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.97%) Architect
4 14 (8.97%) C# Developer
5 12 (7.69%) Lead
6 11 (7.05%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.77%) .NET Developer
7 9 (5.77%) Consultant
8 8 (5.13%) Designer
9 7 (4.49%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.49%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.85%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (2.56%) AWS Developer
11 4 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (2.56%) Integration Developer
11 4 (2.56%) ITSM Consultant
11 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (41.67%) REST
2 64 (41.03%) SOAP
3 43 (27.56%) .NET
4 35 (22.44%) XML
5 30 (19.23%) HTML
6 28 (17.95%) RESTful
7 17 (10.90%) Spring
8 15 (9.62%) CSS
9 14 (8.97%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.97%) JSON
9 14 (8.97%) Middleware
9 14 (8.97%) Spring Boot
10 12 (7.69%) XSLT
11 11 (7.05%) ASP.NET
12 10 (6.41%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (6.41%) React
13 9 (5.77%) Kafka
14 8 (5.13%) .NET Framework
15 7 (4.49%) Oracle Fusion
16 6 (3.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.69%) CMDB
2 10 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.21%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.56%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.56%) DataPower
8 4 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.56%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.92%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.92%) Derivative
9 3 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.90%) Linux
2 15 (9.62%) Unix
3 4 (2.56%) zOS
4 2 (1.28%) Windows
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.31%) Agile
2 52 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 34 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (21.15%) DevOps
6 26 (16.67%) AI
7 24 (15.38%) Workflow
8 22 (14.10%) ITIL
8 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.82%) Migration
9 20 (12.82%) SDLC
10 19 (12.18%) Data Modelling
10 19 (12.18%) Integration Patterns
10 19 (12.18%) Software Engineering
11 18 (11.54%) ITSM
11 18 (11.54%) Scrum
12 17 (10.90%) Design Patterns
12 17 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (10.90%) Test Automation
13 16 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 62 (39.74%) SQL
2 39 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 38 (24.36%) Java
4 37 (23.72%) Python
5 32 (20.51%) C#
6 13 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 10 (6.41%) Apex Code
8 9 (5.77%) VB.NET
9 8 (5.13%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.85%) SOQL
10 6 (3.85%) SOSL
11 5 (3.21%) C++
11 5 (3.21%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.21%) XPath
12 4 (2.56%) JCL
13 3 (1.92%) ABAP
13 3 (1.92%) Groovy
14 2 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (31.41%) Security Cleared
2 44 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.62%) Degree
4 8 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.56%) ISEB
6 4 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.92%) MBA
8 2 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (1.92%) GRC
4 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) HL7
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (8.97%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Postfix
3 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.28%) NFS
3 2 (1.28%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.28%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.21%) Grafana
1 5 (3.21%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.56%) Control-M
2 4 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (21.15%) Oracle
2 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.26%) SAP
4 14 (8.97%) ServiceNow
5 12 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 11 (7.05%) IBM
7 6 (3.85%) Pega
8 5 (3.21%) UiPath
9 4 (2.56%) Adobe
9 4 (2.56%) Citrix
9 4 (2.56%) Intapp
9 4 (2.56%) Workday
10 3 (1.92%) Google
10 3 (1.92%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.28%) Baan
11 2 (1.28%) Infor
11 2 (1.28%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.28%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.28%) Sybase