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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 198 181
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 146 188 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 1.21% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.93% 4.67% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 157
10th Percentile £332 £393 £408
25th Percentile £362 £467 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £675
90th Percentile £699 £788 £825
England median daily rate £500 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £81.25
25th Percentile - - £84.53
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £91.88
90th Percentile - - £93.00
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 3,717 4,025 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 25.80% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,514 2,632 3,816
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +3 23 £463 -20.26% 4
West London -9 5 £475 -5.00%
East London +2 3 £520 +15.56%
South London -9 1 £500 +53.85% 7
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 20 (13.70%) Confluence
2 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.42%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.42%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.74%) CICS
4 4 (2.74%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.05%) CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.68%) Mule
6 1 (0.68%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (4.11%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.11%) Workday HCM
3 5 (3.42%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (2.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.37%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.68%) Shopify
6 1 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.68%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.77%) Azure
2 21 (14.38%) PaaS
3 19 (13.01%) AWS
4 14 (9.59%) OCI
5 11 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.53%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.16%) GitHub
6 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.79%) SaaS
9 6 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.42%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.42%) Sentry
11 4 (2.74%) Azure App Service
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.74%) Azure WebJobs
11 4 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.90%) SSL
2 5 (3.42%) HTTP
3 2 (1.37%) DHCP
3 2 (1.37%) DNS
3 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) FTP
4 1 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.16%) Redis
5 8 (5.48%) DB2
6 7 (4.79%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.42%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.74%) MySQL
8 4 (2.74%) Power BI
9 3 (2.05%) Data Hub
9 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (22.60%) Git
2 29 (19.86%) JIRA
3 23 (15.75%) Postman
4 12 (8.22%) Jenkins
5 9 (6.16%) Selenium
6 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.79%) JUnit
7 6 (4.11%) JMeter
7 6 (4.11%) Maven
7 6 (4.11%) SoapUI
7 6 (4.11%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.42%) Appium
8 5 (3.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (3.42%) Charles Proxy
8 5 (3.42%) Eclipse
8 5 (3.42%) Katalon Studio
8 5 (3.42%) Mockito
8 5 (3.42%) REST Assured
8 5 (3.42%) Subversion
8 5 (3.42%) Xcode
General
1 34 (23.29%) Finance
2 30 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.18%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.27%) Banking
5 6 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Back Office
7 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.37%) Billing
8 2 (1.37%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (46.58%) Developer
2 33 (22.60%) Senior
3 20 (13.70%) Architect
4 17 (11.64%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.90%) Java Developer
5 13 (8.90%) ServiceNow Architect
6 8 (5.48%) Python Developer
6 8 (5.48%) Senior Architect
7 7 (4.79%) Consultant
8 6 (4.11%) Cloud Specialist
8 6 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.11%) Integration Specialist
8 6 (4.11%) Oracle Specialist
8 6 (4.11%) Senior Python Developer
8 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.42%) .NET Developer
9 5 (3.42%) Analyst
9 5 (3.42%) Lead
9 5 (3.42%) Tester
9 5 (3.42%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (52.74%) REST
2 64 (43.84%) SOAP
3 31 (21.23%) JSON
4 30 (20.55%) HTML
5 28 (19.18%) AngularJS
6 26 (17.81%) .NET
7 19 (13.01%) HTML5
8 17 (11.64%) CSS
8 17 (11.64%) jQuery
9 16 (10.96%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (10.27%) RESTful
10 15 (10.27%) Spring
10 15 (10.27%) XML
11 14 (9.59%) LDAP
12 13 (8.90%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (8.22%) Apache Camel
13 12 (8.22%) JDBC
13 12 (8.22%) ODBC
13 12 (8.22%) SAML
13 12 (8.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.22%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.79%) CMDB
3 6 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.74%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.05%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.37%) DataPower
7 2 (1.37%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Life Science
7 2 (1.37%) PKI
7 2 (1.37%) VSAM
8 1 (0.68%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Android
1 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.42%) Unix
3 4 (2.74%) Linux
3 4 (2.74%) Windows
4 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (48.63%) Agile
2 39 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (24.66%) DevOps
4 33 (22.60%) Microservices
5 29 (19.86%) Scrum
6 25 (17.12%) Test Automation
7 22 (15.07%) Integration Patterns
8 21 (14.38%) ITSM
9 19 (13.01%) Computer Science
9 19 (13.01%) SDLC
9 19 (13.01%) Unit Testing
10 17 (11.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (10.96%) CI/CD
11 16 (10.96%) ERP
12 15 (10.27%) Design Patterns
13 14 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.59%) TDD
13 14 (9.59%) User Experience
14 13 (8.90%) Analytics
15 12 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 44 (30.14%) JavaScript
2 37 (25.34%) SQL
3 29 (19.86%) Java
4 24 (16.44%) Python
5 18 (12.33%) C#
6 10 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.79%) Groovy
7 7 (4.79%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.79%) Ruby
7 7 (4.79%) XPath
8 6 (4.11%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.42%) PHP
9 5 (3.42%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.42%) Swift
10 4 (2.74%) C++
10 4 (2.74%) COBOL
10 4 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.74%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.05%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.01%) Degree
4 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.37%) CISSP
7 2 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) OCP
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.33%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) COBIT
3 4 (2.74%) GDPR
4 2 (1.37%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (7.53%) Docker
2 7 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (8.22%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.42%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (2.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.68%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.68%) Control-M
5 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.68%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) Oracle
2 23 (15.75%) ServiceNow
3 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.59%) Splunk
5 13 (8.90%) HP
6 12 (8.22%) BMC
6 12 (8.22%) Ivanti
6 12 (8.22%) Remedy
7 8 (5.48%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.48%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.79%) IBM
9 6 (4.11%) SAP
9 6 (4.11%) Workday
10 5 (3.42%) BEA
10 5 (3.42%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (3.42%) TIBCO
11 4 (2.74%) Dataiku
12 3 (2.05%) Axway
12 3 (2.05%) Databricks
12 3 (2.05%) webMethods