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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 208 205
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -37
Contract jobs citing Web Services 174 193 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.21% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 4.49% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 123 168
10th Percentile £329 £400 £400
25th Percentile £405 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% -6.14%
75th Percentile £692 £630 £675
90th Percentile £695 £769 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £51.95
25th Percentile - - £53.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.81
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - £92.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 3,507 4,295 5,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.20% 26.94% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,377 2,841 4,067
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 38
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.28 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.88 £40.20
Median hourly rate £51.97 £43.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.79% -27.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.70 £73.24
90th Percentile £85.95 £73.80 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +26 29 £475 -14.41% 20
West London +2 9 £475 -5.00% 1
East London +1 2 £485 +7.78% 1
South London -6 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 23 (13.22%) Confluence
2 7 (4.02%) CMS
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.30%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.72%) CICS
6 2 (1.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.57%) JBoss
7 1 (0.57%) Mule
7 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 20 (11.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (6.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (3.45%) Workday HCM
4 4 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (1.15%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.57%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.57%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.57%) Shopify
7 1 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.74%) Azure
2 19 (10.92%) AWS
3 12 (6.90%) PaaS
4 11 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.17%) OCI
5 9 (5.17%) SaaS
6 8 (4.60%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.02%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.02%) Firebase
8 6 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.45%) GitHub
9 5 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.87%) Sentry
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.72%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.47%) SSL
2 7 (4.02%) HTTP
3 2 (1.15%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) SMTP
4 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.34%) SAP HANA
2 17 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.05%) Redis
4 12 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.60%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
6 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.30%) Power BI
8 3 (1.72%) DB2
8 3 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.57%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.57%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.57%) Metadata
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 37 (21.26%) Git
2 34 (19.54%) JIRA
3 21 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 21 (12.07%) Postman
4 12 (6.90%) Selenium
5 11 (6.32%) JUnit
6 10 (5.75%) Maven
7 9 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 8 (4.60%) GitLab
8 8 (4.60%) SoapUI
8 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
9 7 (4.02%) Eclipse
9 7 (4.02%) Mockito
9 7 (4.02%) REST Assured
10 6 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (3.45%) IntelliJ
10 6 (3.45%) Subversion
10 6 (3.45%) Xcode
10 6 (3.45%) XCTest
11 5 (2.87%) WebDriver
General
1 54 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 35 (20.11%) Banking
4 23 (13.22%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.02%) Back Office
7 6 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.15%) Billing
10 2 (1.15%) Front Office
10 2 (1.15%) Military
11 1 (0.57%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 73 (41.95%) Developer
2 40 (22.99%) Architect
3 33 (18.97%) Senior
4 19 (10.92%) SAP Architect
4 19 (10.92%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
5 17 (9.77%) Senior Developer
6 16 (9.20%) Java Developer
7 13 (7.47%) ServiceNow Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.60%) Senior Architect
10 7 (4.02%) Automation Tester
10 7 (4.02%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Tester
11 6 (3.45%) Analyst
11 6 (3.45%) Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Lead
11 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.87%) Selenium Automation Tester
12 5 (2.87%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (44.83%) REST
2 53 (30.46%) SOAP
3 40 (22.99%) HTML
4 32 (18.39%) JSON
5 30 (17.24%) AngularJS
6 27 (15.52%) .NET
7 26 (14.94%) CSS
7 26 (14.94%) RESTful
8 20 (11.49%) Spring
9 19 (10.92%) HTML5
10 18 (10.34%) Node.js
11 17 (9.77%) jQuery
12 14 (8.05%) LDAP
12 14 (8.05%) Spring Boot
13 13 (7.47%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (6.90%) Apache Camel
14 12 (6.90%) JDBC
14 12 (6.90%) ODBC
14 12 (6.90%) SAML
14 12 (6.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.05%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.02%) CMDB
2 7 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.30%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.72%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.72%) Replication
7 2 (1.15%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.15%) CSOC
7 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.15%) DataPower
7 2 (1.15%) Life Science
7 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.15%) PKI
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Linux
1 7 (4.02%) Unix
2 5 (2.87%) Android
2 5 (2.87%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.30%) Windows
4 2 (1.15%) zOS
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (44.83%) Agile
2 54 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.84%) DevOps
4 37 (21.26%) Microservices
5 36 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (17.24%) Scrum
7 28 (16.09%) Integration Patterns
7 28 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (15.52%) Project Delivery
8 27 (15.52%) Test Automation
9 24 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 22 (12.64%) Technical Architecture
11 21 (12.07%) Computer Science
11 21 (12.07%) ITSM
12 18 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (10.34%) Impact Assessments
12 18 (10.34%) User Experience
13 17 (9.77%) SDLC
13 17 (9.77%) Unit Testing
14 16 (9.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 42 (24.14%) SQL
3 40 (22.99%) Java
4 24 (13.79%) Python
5 16 (9.20%) C#
6 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.75%) Groovy
8 8 (4.60%) PHP
9 6 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.45%) Ruby
9 6 (3.45%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.87%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.87%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.87%) Swift
11 4 (2.30%) C++
11 4 (2.30%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.72%) ABAP
12 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.72%) XPath
13 2 (1.15%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.07%) Degree
4 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.60%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.72%) CISSP
7 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) CISA
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) OCP
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
8 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.79%) QA
2 5 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.87%) GDPR
3 4 (2.30%) COBIT
4 2 (1.15%) GRC
5 1 (0.57%) HL7
5 1 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (9.20%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Postfix
3 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (7.47%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.15%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.57%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.57%) Control-M
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) Oracle
2 26 (14.94%) SAP
3 24 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 19 (10.92%) Microsoft
5 16 (9.20%) Splunk
6 12 (6.90%) BMC
6 12 (6.90%) Dynatrace
6 12 (6.90%) HP
6 12 (6.90%) Ivanti
6 12 (6.90%) Remedy
7 10 (5.75%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.02%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (3.45%) Workday
10 5 (2.87%) Axway
10 5 (2.87%) Guidewire
10 5 (2.87%) webMethods
11 4 (2.30%) Dataiku
11 4 (2.30%) YouTube
12 3 (1.72%) Databricks
12 3 (1.72%) UiPath