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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 175 190
Rank change year-on-year -101 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 159 207 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.52% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.54% 5.84% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 145 138
10th Percentile £406 £358 £411
25th Percentile £450 £413 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.29%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £745 £750 £825
England median daily rate £523 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -3.85%
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 - - +15.95%

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 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 23 £575 +24.32% 3
South London -8 14 £537 - 5
West London -27 2 - - 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 11 (6.92%) CICS
2 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.52%) Confluence
4 3 (1.89%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) Appian
4 3 (1.89%) IIS
4 3 (1.89%) JBoss
5 2 (1.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.63%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.89%) Orchestrade
3 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.26%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.75%) Azure
2 32 (20.13%) AWS
3 15 (9.43%) Serverless
4 13 (8.18%) PaaS
5 12 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (6.29%) GitHub
7 10 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.66%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (5.03%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.40%) OCI
11 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.77%) SaaS
11 6 (3.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 5 (3.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) HTTP
1 5 (3.14%) SSL
2 4 (2.52%) DNS
3 3 (1.89%) Internet
4 2 (1.26%) Intranet
5 1 (0.63%) DMZ
5 1 (0.63%) Firewall
5 1 (0.63%) FTP
5 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.63%) SAN
5 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.06%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.18%) Db2
4 12 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.29%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.77%) Power BI
8 5 (3.14%) MySQL
8 5 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.89%) Metadata
10 3 (1.89%) SQLite
11 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (1.26%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.26%) SAP HANA
11 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (14.47%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.84%) Git
3 13 (8.18%) JIRA
4 9 (5.66%) GitLab
4 9 (5.66%) Maven
5 8 (5.03%) JUnit
6 7 (4.40%) Ant
7 6 (3.77%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.52%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.52%) jMock
8 4 (2.52%) Mockito
8 4 (2.52%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.52%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.89%) Moq
9 3 (1.89%) Selenium
9 3 (1.89%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.89%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 42 (26.42%) Finance
3 36 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (15.72%) Banking
5 21 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
7 4 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.89%) Automotive
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
8 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (56.60%) Developer
2 25 (15.72%) Senior
3 20 (12.58%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.81%) Architect
5 12 (7.55%) C# Developer
5 12 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.29%) Consultant
7 9 (5.66%) Designer
7 9 (5.66%) Lead
8 8 (5.03%) Salesforce Developer
9 7 (4.40%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.40%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (3.77%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (3.14%) AWS Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (3.14%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (2.52%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (51.57%) REST
2 65 (40.88%) SOAP
3 31 (19.50%) .NET
4 29 (18.24%) RESTful
5 27 (16.98%) XML
6 22 (13.84%) HTML
6 22 (13.84%) Spring
7 19 (11.95%) JSON
8 15 (9.43%) CSS
9 14 (8.81%) AngularJS
10 12 (7.55%) Spring Boot
10 12 (7.55%) XSLT
11 11 (6.92%) .NET Framework
11 11 (6.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (6.92%) Middleware
12 10 (6.29%) React
13 9 (5.66%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (5.66%) OAuth
14 8 (5.03%) ASP.NET
14 8 (5.03%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.81%) CMDB
2 11 (6.92%) Mainframe
2 11 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.40%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.40%) DataPower
5 7 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.77%) Online Banking
7 5 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.14%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.52%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.52%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.89%) Derivative
9 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.06%) Linux
2 10 (6.29%) Unix
2 10 (6.29%) zOS
3 7 (4.40%) Windows
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.22%) Agile
2 43 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 35 (22.01%) DevOps
5 26 (16.35%) ITIL
5 26 (16.35%) Workflow
6 24 (15.09%) Scrum
7 23 (14.47%) AI
7 23 (14.47%) Integration Patterns
8 22 (13.84%) Analytics
8 22 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (13.21%) Microservices
10 20 (12.58%) Data Modelling
10 20 (12.58%) ITSM
10 20 (12.58%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (11.95%) Migration
12 18 (11.32%) Design Patterns
13 17 (10.69%) ERP
13 17 (10.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (35.22%) SQL
2 35 (22.01%) Java
2 35 (22.01%) JavaScript
3 34 (21.38%) Python
4 29 (18.24%) C#
5 13 (8.18%) PL/SQL
6 12 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.92%) Apex Code
8 8 (5.03%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.40%) C++
10 6 (3.77%) JCL
10 6 (3.77%) SOQL
10 6 (3.77%) SOSL
10 6 (3.77%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.77%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.77%) XPath
11 5 (3.14%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (3.14%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.89%) Groovy
13 2 (1.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 43 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.92%) Degree
4 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.89%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.77%) QA
3 4 (2.52%) SLA
4 3 (1.89%) GRC
5 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (10.06%) Docker
2 5 (3.14%) Postfix
3 4 (2.52%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.26%) NFS
4 2 (1.26%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (4.40%) Grafana
2 6 (3.77%) Ansible
2 6 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.52%) Terraform
4 2 (1.26%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.63%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (16.98%) Oracle
2 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.06%) ServiceNow
4 13 (8.18%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.66%) SAP
6 8 (5.03%) IBM
7 6 (3.77%) Pega
8 4 (2.52%) Adobe
8 4 (2.52%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.52%) Intapp
8 4 (2.52%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (2.52%) UiPath
9 3 (1.89%) Citrix
9 3 (1.89%) Google
9 3 (1.89%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.89%) Sybase
10 2 (1.26%) Baan
10 2 (1.26%) Infor
10 2 (1.26%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.26%) Sitecore