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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 190 174
Rank change year-on-year -39 -16 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 153 176 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.27% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 4.85% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 114 172
10th Percentile £350 £403 £431
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +7.14% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £686 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £90.13
25th Percentile - - £90.31
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £91.25
75th Percentile - - £92.81
90th Percentile - - £93.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 3,804 3,630 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 26.09% 24.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,366 3,514
10th Percentile £363 £380 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.48
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +13.68% -26.92%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -16 17 £525 -9.48% 10
East London -2 2 £538 +8.59% 1
South London -5 1 £500 +53.85% 2
West London -18 1 £350 -30.00% 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 8 (5.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (5.23%) WebLogic
2 7 (4.58%) Appian
2 7 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.58%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.92%) Confluence
4 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.61%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.31%) Anypoint
6 2 (1.31%) CICS
6 2 (1.31%) Mule
6 2 (1.31%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.65%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.65%) IIS
7 1 (0.65%) JBoss
7 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.58%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.61%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.31%) Cloudability
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.65%) Shopify
6 1 (0.65%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.65%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 37 (24.18%) Azure
2 23 (15.03%) OCI
2 23 (15.03%) PaaS
3 20 (13.07%) AWS
4 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.23%) GitHub
5 8 (5.23%) IaaS
5 8 (5.23%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.92%) Azure AI
7 6 (3.92%) iPaaS
7 6 (3.92%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.27%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.27%) Sentry
9 4 (2.61%) Apigee
9 4 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) HTTP
2 2 (1.31%) DHCP
2 2 (1.31%) DNS
2 2 (1.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) FTP
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) SMTP
3 1 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.03%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.23%) DB2
3 8 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.27%) Data Hub
4 5 (3.27%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.27%) Pinecone
5 4 (2.61%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.61%) Power BI
5 4 (2.61%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.96%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.31%) MySQL
7 2 (1.31%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.65%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.65%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (18.95%) Git
2 27 (17.65%) Postman
3 11 (7.19%) JIRA
3 11 (7.19%) Selenium
4 8 (5.23%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.58%) SoapUI
5 7 (4.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.27%) Appium
6 5 (3.27%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (3.27%) JMeter
6 5 (3.27%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (3.27%) MLflow
6 5 (3.27%) XCUITest
7 4 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.61%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.96%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.96%) GitLab
8 3 (1.96%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.31%) XCTest
General
1 40 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Public Sector
3 28 (18.30%) Finance
4 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Banking
5 6 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.96%) Military
7 2 (1.31%) Billing
7 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.31%) Dutch Language
7 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.31%) Front Office
7 2 (1.31%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 75 (49.02%) Developer
2 29 (18.95%) Senior
3 20 (13.07%) Senior Developer
4 14 (9.15%) Python Developer
5 13 (8.50%) Cloud Specialist
6 12 (7.84%) Consultant
6 12 (7.84%) Integration Specialist
6 12 (7.84%) Oracle Specialist
7 10 (6.54%) Java Developer
8 8 (5.23%) Lead
8 8 (5.23%) Senior Python Developer
9 6 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.92%) Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.92%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (3.92%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.92%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.92%) TIBCO Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Cloud Consultant
10 5 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (48.37%) REST
2 56 (36.60%) SOAP
3 23 (15.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (13.73%) JSON
5 20 (13.07%) XML
6 19 (12.42%) .NET
7 16 (10.46%) HTML
7 16 (10.46%) XSLT
8 15 (9.80%) CSS
8 15 (9.80%) OAuth
9 14 (9.15%) JWT
10 12 (7.84%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.19%) RESTful
12 9 (5.88%) J2EE
12 9 (5.88%) NumPy
12 9 (5.88%) Pandas
12 9 (5.88%) Spring
13 8 (5.23%) .NET Framework
13 8 (5.23%) WSDL
13 8 (5.23%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Public Cloud
2 7 (4.58%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.92%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.27%) CMDB
5 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.61%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.31%) Life Science
7 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.31%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.31%) Social Media
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Android
1 6 (3.92%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.27%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.87%) Agile
2 38 (24.84%) Test Automation
3 35 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (15.69%) DevOps
5 23 (15.03%) ERP
6 22 (14.38%) Unit Testing
7 21 (13.73%) CI/CD
8 19 (12.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (11.76%) Design Patterns
10 15 (9.80%) Data Modelling
10 15 (9.80%) Microservices
10 15 (9.80%) SDLC
11 14 (9.15%) AI
11 14 (9.15%) Scrum
11 14 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (8.50%) Containerisation
12 13 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (7.84%) Analytics
13 12 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.18%) SQL
2 33 (21.57%) Python
3 24 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 23 (15.03%) Java
5 17 (11.11%) C#
6 9 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.58%) XPath
9 6 (3.92%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.92%) Ruby
10 5 (3.27%) ABAP
10 5 (3.27%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.27%) Swift
11 4 (2.61%) Groovy
11 4 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.96%) C++
12 3 (1.96%) COBOL
12 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.31%) PHP
13 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.50%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.61%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.65%) CISA
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) ISEB
7 1 (0.65%) MBA
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.65%) PMP
7 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.11%) QA
2 6 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) GRC
4 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (9.80%) Docker
2 9 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.58%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (3.92%) Ansible
4 2 (1.31%) CloudHub
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 47 (30.72%) Oracle
2 19 (12.42%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.54%) SAP
3 10 (6.54%) Splunk
4 8 (5.23%) IBM
5 7 (4.58%) BEA
5 7 (4.58%) Guidewire
5 7 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.58%) TIBCO
6 6 (3.92%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.92%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.92%) UiPath
7 5 (3.27%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (3.27%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.61%) Adobe
8 4 (2.61%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.96%) Axway
9 3 (1.96%) Cognizant
9 3 (1.96%) webMethods