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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 186 195
Rank change year-on-year -112 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Web Services 153 184 217
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.37% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 4.67% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 124 136
10th Percentile £413 £352 £404
25th Percentile £459 £413 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £652 £692 £675
90th Percentile £750 £699 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
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 5,309 3,943 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.31% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,541 2,726 3,483
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £711
90th Percentile £763 £820 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

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 13 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 13 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 -30 25 £575 +27.78% 11
South London 0 14 £700 - 1
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 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.27%) CICS
4 4 (2.61%) Confluence
4 4 (2.61%) IIS
5 2 (1.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) Appian
6 1 (0.65%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.65%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.65%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.96%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.31%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.65%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.92%) Azure
2 26 (16.99%) AWS
3 11 (7.19%) Serverless
4 10 (6.54%) GitHub
4 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (3.92%) GCP
7 6 (3.92%) PaaS
7 6 (3.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 5 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.61%) IaaS
9 4 (2.61%) OCI
9 4 (2.61%) SaaS
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) HTTP
1 5 (3.27%) SSL
2 3 (1.96%) DNS
3 2 (1.31%) Internet
3 2 (1.31%) Intranet
4 1 (0.65%) DMZ
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) FTP
4 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.65%) SAN
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.69%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.92%) Db2
5 6 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.92%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.27%) Power BI
7 4 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.61%) Tableau
8 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.96%) MySQL
8 3 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.96%) SQLite
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.31%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Git
2 21 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.19%) SonarQube
4 10 (6.54%) JIRA
5 9 (5.88%) eggPlant
6 7 (4.58%) JUnit
6 7 (4.58%) Selenium
7 6 (3.92%) Ant
7 6 (3.92%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.92%) JMeter
7 6 (3.92%) Maven
7 6 (3.92%) Postman
7 6 (3.92%) SoapUI
7 6 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (3.27%) GitLab
8 5 (3.27%) LoadRunner
8 5 (3.27%) Mockito
9 4 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.61%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 43 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (25.49%) Finance
4 26 (16.99%) Banking
4 26 (16.99%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.27%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.96%) Automotive
7 3 (1.96%) Legal
7 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (56.86%) Developer
2 33 (21.57%) Senior
3 21 (13.73%) Senior Developer
4 14 (9.15%) C# Developer
5 13 (8.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (8.50%) Lead
6 12 (7.84%) Architect
7 10 (6.54%) Consultant
8 9 (5.88%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.58%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.92%) Designer
10 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.92%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Applications Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Programme Test Manager
11 4 (2.61%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (2.61%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (39.22%) SOAP
2 59 (38.56%) REST
3 44 (28.76%) .NET
4 36 (23.53%) XML
5 31 (20.26%) HTML
5 31 (20.26%) RESTful
6 18 (11.76%) Spring
7 16 (10.46%) AngularJS
7 16 (10.46%) Spring Boot
8 15 (9.80%) CSS
9 14 (9.15%) JSON
9 14 (9.15%) Middleware
10 12 (7.84%) XSLT
11 11 (7.19%) ASP.NET
11 11 (7.19%) React
12 10 (6.54%) Kafka
13 9 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (5.23%) .NET Framework
15 6 (3.92%) Ajax
15 6 (3.92%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.23%) CMDB
4 7 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.27%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.61%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.61%) DataPower
7 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.61%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.96%) Derivative
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 15 (9.80%) Unix
3 4 (2.61%) zOS
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (44.44%) Agile
2 54 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (26.14%) CI/CD
4 38 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (22.22%) DevOps
6 26 (16.99%) AI
7 24 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (15.03%) SDLC
9 20 (13.07%) Migration
9 20 (13.07%) Scrum
9 20 (13.07%) Test Automation
9 20 (13.07%) Workflow
10 19 (12.42%) Microservices
10 19 (12.42%) Software Engineering
11 17 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 17 (11.11%) ITIL
11 17 (11.11%) SOA
12 16 (10.46%) OO
12 16 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (9.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 61 (39.87%) SQL
2 39 (25.49%) Java
3 38 (24.84%) JavaScript
4 36 (23.53%) Python
5 33 (21.57%) C#
6 11 (7.19%) PL/SQL
7 9 (5.88%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.88%) VB.NET
8 8 (5.23%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.58%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.92%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.92%) SOQL
10 6 (3.92%) SOSL
11 5 (3.27%) C++
11 5 (3.27%) XPath
12 4 (2.61%) JCL
13 3 (1.96%) ABAP
13 3 (1.96%) Groovy
14 2 (1.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.46%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.27%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.27%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.61%) ISEB
8 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.96%) MBA
9 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.23%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) GRC
4 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) HL7
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (10.46%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Postfix
3 2 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.31%) NFS
3 2 (1.31%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (4.58%) Grafana
2 5 (3.27%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.61%) Control-M
3 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.31%) Ansible
4 2 (1.31%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (21.57%) Oracle
2 23 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.46%) SAP
4 11 (7.19%) IBM
4 11 (7.19%) Salesforce
5 10 (6.54%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.92%) Pega
6 6 (3.92%) UiPath
7 4 (2.61%) Adobe
7 4 (2.61%) Citrix
7 4 (2.61%) Google
7 4 (2.61%) Intapp
7 4 (2.61%) Workday
8 3 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.31%) Baan
9 2 (1.31%) Infor
9 2 (1.31%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.31%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.31%) Sybase