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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 182 182
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 165 176 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.24% 4.90% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 111 163
10th Percentile £350 £400 £450
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £585 £573
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +2.09% -0.35%
75th Percentile £598 £675 £675
90th Percentile £644 £825 £798
England median daily rate £500 £545 £533
% change year-on-year -8.26% +2.35% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,892 3,595 4,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.10% 26.23% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,340 3,438
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £688
90th Percentile £771 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 28
10th Percentile £32.97 £35.00 £29.36
25th Percentile £35.25 £38.50 £36.10
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £74.06
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +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 5 February 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 5 February 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 16 £463 -17.18% 15
East London +1 2 £538 +8.59%
West London -21 2 £350 -30.00% 3
South London -14 1 £500 +53.85% 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 9 (5.45%) Appian
2 8 (4.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.85%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.24%) Confluence
3 7 (4.24%) WebSphere
4 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.42%) CICS
5 4 (2.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) JBoss
6 1 (0.61%) Mule
6 1 (0.61%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.24%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.42%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.21%) Cloudability
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.61%) Shopify
6 1 (0.61%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.61%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
6 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.45%) Azure
2 26 (15.76%) PaaS
3 25 (15.15%) OCI
4 20 (12.12%) AWS
5 13 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.06%) GitHub
7 9 (5.45%) IaaS
8 8 (4.85%) Azure AI
8 8 (4.85%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.85%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.85%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.24%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.64%) Azure App Service
10 6 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.03%) iPaaS
11 5 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) HTTP
2 2 (1.21%) DHCP
2 2 (1.21%) DNS
2 2 (1.21%) Firewall
2 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.61%) FTP
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.61%) SMTP
3 1 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.52%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.67%) DB2
4 8 (4.85%) Pinecone
4 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.03%) Data Hub
5 5 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.42%) Power BI
6 4 (2.42%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (1.82%) Redis
8 2 (1.21%) MySQL
9 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.61%) Big Data
9 1 (0.61%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.61%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (18.18%) Git
2 29 (17.58%) Postman
3 13 (7.88%) JIRA
4 11 (6.67%) Selenium
5 9 (5.45%) SoapUI
6 8 (4.85%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.24%) MLflow
7 7 (4.24%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
9 5 (3.03%) Appium
9 5 (3.03%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (3.03%) JMeter
9 5 (3.03%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (3.03%) XCUITest
10 4 (2.42%) GitLab
10 4 (2.42%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.42%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.82%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.82%) JUnit
11 3 (1.82%) Maven
General
1 44 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.39%) Finance
2 32 (19.39%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.27%) Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.42%) Military
8 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.21%) Billing
9 2 (1.21%) Dutch Language
9 2 (1.21%) Front Office
9 2 (1.21%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (47.27%) Developer
2 29 (17.58%) Senior
3 20 (12.12%) Senior Developer
4 16 (9.70%) Cloud Specialist
5 14 (8.48%) Integration Specialist
5 14 (8.48%) Oracle Specialist
5 14 (8.48%) Python Developer
6 12 (7.27%) Consultant
7 8 (4.85%) Analyst
7 8 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (4.85%) Senior Python Developer
8 7 (4.24%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.24%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.24%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.64%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.64%) Architect
9 6 (3.64%) Lead
9 6 (3.64%) Oracle Consultant
9 6 (3.64%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.64%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (52.73%) REST
2 63 (38.18%) SOAP
3 27 (16.36%) JSON
4 25 (15.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (14.55%) XML
6 21 (12.73%) .NET
7 20 (12.12%) OAuth
7 20 (12.12%) XSLT
8 18 (10.91%) JWT
9 17 (10.30%) HTML
10 16 (9.70%) CSS
11 15 (9.09%) RESTful
12 12 (7.27%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.67%) NumPy
13 11 (6.67%) Pandas
14 10 (6.06%) J2EE
14 10 (6.06%) scikit-learn
14 10 (6.06%) Spring
15 9 (5.45%) .NET Framework
15 9 (5.45%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 8 (4.85%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.24%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.03%) CMDB
4 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.42%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.42%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.21%) DataPower
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.21%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.21%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.24%) Linux
1 7 (4.24%) Windows
2 6 (3.64%) Android
2 6 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.82%) Unix
3 3 (1.82%) zOS
4 2 (1.21%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (36.97%) Agile
2 40 (24.24%) Test Automation
3 35 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (16.97%) DevOps
5 27 (16.36%) ERP
6 25 (15.15%) CI/CD
7 24 (14.55%) Unit Testing
8 20 (12.12%) Design Patterns
9 19 (11.52%) AI
10 17 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (9.70%) Analytics
11 16 (9.70%) Data Modelling
11 16 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.09%) Microservices
12 15 (9.09%) OO
12 15 (9.09%) SDLC
12 15 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (7.88%) SOA
13 13 (7.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.24%) SQL
2 36 (21.82%) Python
3 28 (16.97%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.33%) Java
5 21 (12.73%) C#
6 10 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.45%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.85%) XPath
9 6 (3.64%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.64%) Ruby
10 5 (3.03%) ABAP
10 5 (3.03%) Groovy
10 5 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.03%) Swift
11 4 (2.42%) C++
12 3 (1.82%) COBOL
12 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 44 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.09%) Degree
4 8 (4.85%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.42%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) CISA
7 1 (0.61%) CISM
7 1 (0.61%) CISSP
7 1 (0.61%) ISEB
7 1 (0.61%) MBA
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.61%) PMP
7 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.30%) QA
2 8 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) GDPR
4 2 (1.21%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (10.30%) Docker
2 9 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.24%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.61%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 51 (30.91%) Oracle
2 20 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.06%) IBM
3 10 (6.06%) OpenAI
3 10 (6.06%) SAP
4 8 (4.85%) Guidewire
4 8 (4.85%) UiPath
5 7 (4.24%) Automation Anywhere
5 7 (4.24%) BEA
5 7 (4.24%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.24%) Splunk
5 7 (4.24%) TIBCO
6 6 (3.64%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.42%) Adobe
7 4 (2.42%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.82%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.21%) Charles River
9 2 (1.21%) Citrix
9 2 (1.21%) webMethods