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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 181 186
Rank change year-on-year -43 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 175 185 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.42% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.32% 5.42% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 125 148
10th Percentile £350 £363 £450
25th Percentile £403 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +1.74% -
75th Percentile £620 £735 £666
90th Percentile £650 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%

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 4,053 3,414 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.27% 26.15% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,763 2,338 3,363
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £27.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.40%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -25.05%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -28 18 £525 -6.00% 4
West London -15 4 £350 -30.00% 1
South London -15 3 £500 +53.85%
East London 0 2 £538 +8.59% 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 12 (6.86%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.71%) Appian
4 8 (4.57%) CICS
4 8 (4.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (4.57%) WebLogic
5 7 (4.00%) Confluence
5 7 (4.00%) WebSphere
6 4 (2.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (2.29%) JBoss
6 4 (2.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.57%) Apache
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.57%) IIS
7 1 (0.57%) Mule
7 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.43%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.00%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.29%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.14%) Cloudability
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.57%) Shopify
6 1 (0.57%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
6 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.14%) Azure
2 28 (16.00%) AWS
2 28 (16.00%) PaaS
3 23 (13.14%) OCI
4 16 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.00%) GitHub
5 14 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.43%) Entra ID
7 10 (5.71%) Azure App Service
7 10 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.14%) Azure AI
8 9 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (5.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (5.14%) Azure WebJobs
8 9 (5.14%) IaaS
9 8 (4.57%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.57%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) DHCP
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) Internet
2 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) FTP
3 1 (0.57%) SMTP
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.71%) Relational Database
3 15 (8.57%) DB2
4 9 (5.14%) Pinecone
5 7 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.43%) MySQL
7 5 (2.86%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.86%) Power BI
8 4 (2.29%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.29%) SAP HANA
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.14%) Redis
11 1 (0.57%) Big Data
11 1 (0.57%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (17.14%) Git
2 22 (12.57%) Postman
3 13 (7.43%) JIRA
4 11 (6.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.29%) Selenium
5 8 (4.57%) Maven
5 8 (4.57%) MLflow
5 8 (4.57%) SoapUI
5 8 (4.57%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.00%) JUnit
7 5 (2.86%) JMeter
8 4 (2.29%) GitLab
9 3 (1.71%) Mockito
9 3 (1.71%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.14%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (1.14%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.14%) MSTest
10 2 (1.14%) XCUITest
General
1 48 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.71%) Finance
3 35 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.43%) Banking
6 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.29%) Military
7 4 (2.29%) Retail
8 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.14%) Billing
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.14%) Front Office
9 2 (1.14%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 84 (48.00%) Developer
2 25 (14.29%) Senior
3 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.57%) Cloud Specialist
4 15 (8.57%) Python Developer
5 13 (7.43%) Integration Specialist
5 13 (7.43%) Oracle Specialist
6 11 (6.29%) Consultant
7 10 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Analyst
9 8 (4.57%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Azure Developer
9 8 (4.57%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Architect
10 7 (4.00%) Lead
10 7 (4.00%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.43%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (52.57%) REST
2 67 (38.29%) SOAP
3 29 (16.57%) JSON
4 26 (14.86%) XML
5 23 (13.14%) .NET
5 23 (13.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (12.00%) OAuth
6 21 (12.00%) RESTful
7 20 (11.43%) XSLT
8 19 (10.86%) JWT
9 16 (9.14%) CSS
9 16 (9.14%) J2EE
9 16 (9.14%) Spring
10 15 (8.57%) AngularJS
11 13 (7.43%) .NET Framework
11 13 (7.43%) HTML
12 12 (6.86%) NumPy
12 12 (6.86%) Pandas
13 11 (6.29%) scikit-learn
13 11 (6.29%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.14%) Low-Code
4 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.57%) Mainframe
5 6 (3.43%) CMDB
5 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.29%) DataPower
7 4 (2.29%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.14%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.86%) Linux
1 12 (6.86%) Windows
2 7 (4.00%) zOS
3 6 (3.43%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) Android
4 3 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (34.86%) Agile
2 40 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (20.57%) Test Automation
4 30 (17.14%) DevOps
5 27 (15.43%) ERP
6 26 (14.86%) CI/CD
7 22 (12.57%) AI
7 22 (12.57%) Design Patterns
7 22 (12.57%) Unit Testing
8 20 (11.43%) Analytics
8 20 (11.43%) Microservices
9 18 (10.29%) Containerisation
9 18 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (10.29%) Task Automation
10 17 (9.71%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (9.71%) Scrum
11 16 (9.14%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.14%) OO
11 16 (9.14%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (8.57%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.43%) Python
2 39 (22.29%) SQL
3 26 (14.86%) Java
4 25 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.14%) C#
6 15 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.14%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (4.57%) XPath
9 7 (4.00%) Apex Code
9 7 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.43%) Ruby
11 5 (2.86%) ABAP
11 5 (2.86%) C++
12 3 (1.71%) JCL
12 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.71%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.14%) COBOL
13 2 (1.14%) PHP
13 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 41 (23.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) Degree
4 5 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.29%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.57%) CISA
7 1 (0.57%) CISM
7 1 (0.57%) CISSP
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) ISEB
7 1 (0.57%) MBA
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PMP
7 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.43%) QA
2 9 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.43%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (10.86%) Docker
2 10 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.00%) Ansible
2 7 (4.00%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (1.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (26.29%) Oracle
2 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.29%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.71%) IBM
4 10 (5.71%) SAP
5 9 (5.14%) UiPath
6 8 (4.57%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.57%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.00%) BEA
7 7 (4.00%) Guidewire
7 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.00%) TIBCO
8 6 (3.43%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.29%) Adobe
9 4 (2.29%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.29%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.71%) Cognizant
10 3 (1.71%) Splunk
11 2 (1.14%) Citrix
11 2 (1.14%) Jaspersoft