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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 199 193
Rank change year-on-year -95 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 160 180 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.35% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 4.55% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 124 134
10th Percentile £406 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £578
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -8.66% +0.70%
75th Percentile £625 £695 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
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 5,284 3,952 4,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.57% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,554 2,715 3,353
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £451 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £704
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.61 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.87 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +21.04% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.88 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 28 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 28 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 -21 29 £575 +21.05% 11
South London +1 15 £700 - 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 10 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.00%) Confluence
2 8 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (2.50%) CICS
3 4 (2.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.25%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Appian
5 1 (0.63%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.63%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.88%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.25%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.25%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
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 MDG
4 1 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.50%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) AWS
3 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.50%) GitHub
5 9 (5.63%) GCP
5 9 (5.63%) Serverless
6 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.75%) Power Automate
7 6 (3.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.13%) PaaS
8 5 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.50%) AtomSphere
9 4 (2.50%) Boomi
9 4 (2.50%) IaaS
9 4 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.75%) SSL
2 5 (3.13%) HTTP
3 2 (1.25%) DNS
3 2 (1.25%) Internet
3 2 (1.25%) Intranet
4 1 (0.63%) Broadband
4 1 (0.63%) DMZ
4 1 (0.63%) FTP
4 1 (0.63%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.63%) SAN
4 1 (0.63%) SSH
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.88%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 7 (4.38%) Power BI
7 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.75%) Db2
7 6 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.13%) MySQL
9 4 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.50%) Tableau
10 3 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (19.38%) Git
2 22 (13.75%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.38%) JIRA
4 12 (7.50%) SonarQube
5 11 (6.88%) JUnit
6 9 (5.63%) eggPlant
7 8 (5.00%) Maven
8 7 (4.38%) Mockito
8 7 (4.38%) Selenium
9 6 (3.75%) Ant
9 6 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.75%) Eclipse
9 6 (3.75%) JMeter
9 6 (3.75%) Postman
9 6 (3.75%) SoapUI
9 6 (3.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (3.13%) LoadRunner
10 5 (3.13%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.50%) GitLab
11 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 48 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (30.00%) Finance
3 27 (16.88%) Banking
4 24 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.88%) Automotive
7 3 (1.88%) Legal
7 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (56.88%) Developer
2 33 (20.63%) Senior
3 20 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 15 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 14 (8.75%) C# Developer
6 13 (8.13%) Architect
7 12 (7.50%) Lead
8 10 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 10 (6.25%) Consultant
9 7 (4.38%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (3.13%) Applications Developer
12 4 (2.50%) Python Developer
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (2.50%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.50%) Technical Leader
12 4 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (42.50%) SOAP
2 58 (36.25%) REST
3 47 (29.38%) .NET
4 39 (24.38%) XML
5 33 (20.63%) HTML
6 31 (19.38%) RESTful
7 20 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 19 (11.88%) Spring
9 17 (10.63%) CSS
9 17 (10.63%) Spring Boot
10 16 (10.00%) JSON
11 15 (9.38%) Middleware
12 14 (8.75%) React
13 12 (7.50%) XSLT
14 11 (6.88%) ASP.NET
14 11 (6.88%) Kafka
15 10 (6.25%) .NET Framework
16 7 (4.38%) Lightning Web Components
16 7 (4.38%) Terraform
17 6 (3.75%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.75%) CMDB
5 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.50%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Replication
8 3 (1.88%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.88%) DataPower
8 3 (1.88%) Derivative
8 3 (1.88%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.88%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.75%) Linux
2 16 (10.00%) Unix
3 3 (1.88%) zOS
4 2 (1.25%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.00%) Agile
2 55 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (26.88%) CI/CD
5 32 (20.00%) DevOps
6 31 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (17.50%) AI
8 25 (15.63%) Scrum
8 25 (15.63%) SDLC
9 24 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 23 (14.38%) Migration
11 22 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 20 (12.50%) Validation
13 18 (11.25%) ERP
13 18 (11.25%) OO
13 18 (11.25%) Workflow
14 17 (10.63%) Microservices
15 16 (10.00%) Analytics
15 16 (10.00%) Front End Development
15 16 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.25%) SQL
2 42 (26.25%) Java
2 42 (26.25%) JavaScript
3 38 (23.75%) Python
4 36 (22.50%) C#
5 11 (6.88%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 9 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.63%) VB.NET
8 8 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.38%) Apex Code
10 6 (3.75%) SOQL
10 6 (3.75%) SOSL
11 5 (3.13%) C++
11 5 (3.13%) Groovy
11 5 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.13%) XPath
12 4 (2.50%) ABAP
13 3 (1.88%) Bash
13 3 (1.88%) JCL
Qualifications
1 40 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.63%) Degree
4 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.50%) ISEB
6 4 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.50%) PMP
7 2 (1.25%) CISSP
7 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.63%) QA
3 3 (1.88%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) HL7
5 1 (0.63%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (11.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Postfix
3 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.25%) NFS
4 2 (1.25%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.13%) Grafana
1 5 (3.13%) HP Fortify
1 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Control-M
3 2 (1.25%) Ansible
3 2 (1.25%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Oracle
2 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.63%) SAP
4 11 (6.88%) IBM
4 11 (6.88%) UiPath
5 10 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.38%) Google
8 5 (3.13%) Pega
9 4 (2.50%) Citrix
9 4 (2.50%) Intapp
9 4 (2.50%) Planview
9 4 (2.50%) Workday
10 3 (1.88%) Adobe
10 3 (1.88%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.25%) Baan
11 2 (1.25%) Infor
11 2 (1.25%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.25%) Sybase