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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 187 191
Rank change year-on-year -95 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing Web Services 165 192 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.44% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.14% 4.92% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 133 138
10th Percentile £413 £352 £406
25th Percentile £457 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.58% +2.69%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £672
90th Percentile £743 £747 £799
England median daily rate £525 £500 £541
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.62% -1.59%
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 - - -0.81%

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 5,256 3,901 4,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.18% 29.17% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,516 2,726 3,493
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -23 26 £563 +25.00% 9
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 14 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.64%) CICS
3 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.42%) IIS
5 3 (1.82%) Confluence
6 2 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.21%) Apache
6 2 (1.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.61%) Appian
7 1 (0.61%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.61%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.61%) JBoss
7 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.82%) Orchestrade
3 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.21%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.61%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.21%) Azure
2 24 (14.55%) AWS
3 13 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.88%) GitHub
4 12 (7.27%) Serverless
5 11 (6.67%) PaaS
5 11 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (3.64%) OCI
9 6 (3.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (3.03%) GCP
11 4 (2.42%) IaaS
11 4 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) HTTP
1 5 (3.03%) SSL
2 4 (2.42%) DNS
3 3 (1.82%) Internet
4 2 (1.21%) Intranet
5 1 (0.61%) DMZ
5 1 (0.61%) Firewall
5 1 (0.61%) FTP
5 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) SAN
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.48%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.24%) Db2
4 7 (4.24%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.64%) Power BI
6 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.42%) Tableau
8 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.82%) Metadata
8 3 (1.82%) MySQL
8 3 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.82%) SQLite
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.21%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (15.76%) Git
2 18 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.45%) JIRA
4 8 (4.85%) eggPlant
5 7 (4.24%) GitLab
5 7 (4.24%) Selenium
5 7 (4.24%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.64%) Ant
6 6 (3.64%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.64%) JMeter
6 6 (3.64%) Postman
6 6 (3.64%) SoapUI
6 6 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.03%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.42%) JUnit
8 4 (2.42%) Maven
8 4 (2.42%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.82%) Moq
General
1 58 (35.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (24.24%) Finance
4 29 (17.58%) Public Sector
5 26 (15.76%) Banking
6 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.82%) Automotive
8 3 (1.82%) Legal
8 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (55.15%) Developer
2 31 (18.79%) Senior
3 19 (11.52%) Senior Developer
4 15 (9.09%) Architect
5 14 (8.48%) C# Developer
6 13 (7.88%) Lead
7 10 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.45%) .NET Developer
8 9 (5.45%) Consultant
8 9 (5.45%) Designer
9 8 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (4.85%) Salesforce Developer
10 7 (4.24%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Technical Leader
13 4 (2.42%) AWS Developer
13 4 (2.42%) Senior Manager
13 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (43.64%) REST
2 70 (42.42%) SOAP
3 48 (29.09%) .NET
4 34 (20.61%) XML
5 29 (17.58%) HTML
6 27 (16.36%) RESTful
7 17 (10.30%) Spring
8 15 (9.09%) CSS
8 15 (9.09%) JSON
9 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.48%) Middleware
10 12 (7.27%) .NET Framework
10 12 (7.27%) Spring Boot
10 12 (7.27%) XSLT
11 11 (6.67%) ASP.NET
11 11 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 9 (5.45%) Kafka
12 9 (5.45%) React
13 7 (4.24%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (3.64%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.48%) CMDB
2 11 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.85%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.64%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.03%) DataPower
7 5 (3.03%) Online Banking
7 5 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.82%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.82%) Derivative
9 3 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.91%) Linux
2 16 (9.70%) Unix
3 5 (3.03%) zOS
4 3 (1.82%) Windows
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (39.39%) Agile
2 53 (32.12%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (21.82%) CI/CD
3 36 (21.82%) DevOps
4 33 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (15.76%) AI
6 25 (15.15%) ITIL
7 24 (14.55%) Workflow
8 22 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
8 22 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.12%) ITSM
10 19 (11.52%) Design Patterns
10 19 (11.52%) Migration
10 19 (11.52%) Scrum
10 19 (11.52%) SDLC
11 18 (10.91%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.91%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.30%) Analytics
12 17 (10.30%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (10.30%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.79%) SQL
2 39 (23.64%) JavaScript
3 38 (23.03%) Java
3 38 (23.03%) Python
4 36 (21.82%) C#
5 13 (7.88%) PL/SQL
6 11 (6.67%) Apex Code
6 11 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.06%) VB.NET
8 8 (4.85%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.24%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.64%) SOQL
10 6 (3.64%) SOSL
11 5 (3.03%) C++
11 5 (3.03%) JCL
11 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.03%) XPath
12 4 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.82%) Groovy
14 2 (1.21%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 54 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 49 (29.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.48%) Degree
4 9 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.42%) ISEB
6 4 (2.42%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.82%) MBA
8 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.85%) QA
3 3 (1.82%) GRC
4 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (7.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.42%) Postfix
3 2 (1.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.21%) NFS
3 2 (1.21%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.21%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.03%) Grafana
1 5 (3.03%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.42%) Ansible
2 4 (2.42%) Control-M
3 3 (1.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.21%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (20.00%) Oracle
2 27 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.70%) SAP
3 16 (9.70%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.88%) Salesforce
5 11 (6.67%) IBM
6 6 (3.64%) Pega
7 5 (3.03%) UiPath
8 4 (2.42%) Adobe
8 4 (2.42%) Citrix
8 4 (2.42%) Intapp
8 4 (2.42%) Workday
9 3 (1.82%) Google
10 2 (1.21%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.21%) Baan
10 2 (1.21%) Infor
10 2 (1.21%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.21%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.21%) Sybase