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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 168 185
Rank change year-on-year -95 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Web Services 172 207 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.66% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 6.26% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 143 157
10th Percentile £400 £363 £423
25th Percentile £432 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £572 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -0.52% +0.52%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £739 £787 £793
England median daily rate £500 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.41% -
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 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -13.33%

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 4,341 3,306 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.44% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,317 3,470
10th Percentile £380 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £23.98 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.13 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -29 21 £648 +43.89% 4
South London -5 6 - -
West London -34 3 - -
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 11 (6.40%) CICS
2 9 (5.23%) Appian
3 8 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (2.33%) Confluence
5 4 (2.33%) JBoss
5 4 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.33%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.74%) Apache
6 3 (1.74%) IIS
7 2 (1.16%) CMS
7 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.58%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.58%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.91%) SAP EWM
2 5 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.33%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.74%) Orchestrade
5 2 (1.16%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.58%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.67%) Azure
2 34 (19.77%) AWS
3 16 (9.30%) PaaS
4 15 (8.72%) Serverless
5 12 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.98%) OCI
6 11 (6.40%) GitHub
6 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (5.23%) Entra ID
9 8 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (4.65%) Power Automate
10 7 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (4.07%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (4.07%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) DMZ
3 1 (0.58%) FTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Intranet
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.53%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.56%) Db2
4 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.81%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.65%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.49%) SAP HANA
7 6 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.91%) MySQL
8 5 (2.91%) Power BI
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.74%) Metadata
10 3 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.74%) SQLite
11 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (13.37%) Git
1 23 (13.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.81%) JIRA
3 9 (5.23%) GitLab
3 9 (5.23%) Maven
3 9 (5.23%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.65%) JUnit
5 7 (4.07%) Ant
5 7 (4.07%) MLflow
5 7 (4.07%) Postman
6 6 (3.49%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (2.91%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.33%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.33%) jMock
8 4 (2.33%) Mockito
8 4 (2.33%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.33%) Selenium
9 3 (1.74%) Moq
General
1 55 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.67%) Finance
3 27 (15.70%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.63%) Banking
6 5 (2.91%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.33%) Retail
8 3 (1.74%) Automotive
8 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.74%) Legal
8 3 (1.74%) Military
8 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Billing
9 2 (1.16%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (54.07%) Developer
2 29 (16.86%) Senior
3 24 (13.95%) Senior Developer
4 13 (7.56%) Architect
5 12 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.40%) Consultant
6 11 (6.40%) Lead
7 10 (5.81%) Salesforce Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.07%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.07%) Cloud Specialist
9 7 (4.07%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (3.49%) AWS Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) Integration Specialist
11 5 (2.91%) Oracle Specialist
11 5 (2.91%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (50.00%) REST
2 63 (36.63%) SOAP
3 34 (19.77%) RESTful
4 27 (15.70%) XML
5 26 (15.12%) .NET
6 23 (13.37%) HTML
7 22 (12.79%) JSON
8 20 (11.63%) Spring
9 16 (9.30%) CSS
10 15 (8.72%) XSLT
11 14 (8.14%) OAuth
12 13 (7.56%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.40%) JWT
14 10 (5.81%) J2EE
14 10 (5.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (5.81%) Pandas
14 10 (5.81%) React
14 10 (5.81%) Spring Boot
14 10 (5.81%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.40%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.81%) CMDB
4 9 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.07%) DataPower
6 7 (4.07%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.49%) Online Banking
7 6 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.91%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.33%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.74%) Derivative
10 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.88%) Linux
2 10 (5.81%) Windows
2 10 (5.81%) zOS
3 9 (5.23%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.07%) Agile
2 41 (23.84%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.35%) DevOps
4 34 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (17.44%) Workflow
6 27 (15.70%) AI
7 25 (14.53%) Data Modelling
8 24 (13.95%) Microservices
9 23 (13.37%) Containerisation
9 23 (13.37%) Integration Patterns
10 22 (12.79%) Design Patterns
10 22 (12.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (12.79%) Test Automation
11 21 (12.21%) Validation
12 20 (11.63%) Software Engineering
13 19 (11.05%) ITIL
13 19 (11.05%) Scrum
14 18 (10.47%) ERP
14 18 (10.47%) Migration
14 18 (10.47%) OO
Programming Languages
1 52 (30.23%) SQL
2 44 (25.58%) Python
3 35 (20.35%) Java
4 29 (16.86%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.37%) C#
6 13 (7.56%) Apex Code
7 12 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.65%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 8 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.65%) XPath
9 6 (3.49%) ABAP
9 6 (3.49%) C++
9 6 (3.49%) JCL
9 6 (3.49%) SOQL
9 6 (3.49%) SOSL
10 5 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.91%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.98%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.33%) MBA
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.49%) SLA
3 5 (2.91%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (13.37%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.91%) Postfix
4 2 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.16%) NFS
4 2 (1.16%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.07%) Ansible
2 7 (4.07%) Grafana
3 4 (2.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.16%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.16%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.58%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (18.60%) Oracle
2 24 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.14%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.98%) SAP
5 11 (6.40%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.23%) OpenAI
7 8 (4.65%) UiPath
8 7 (4.07%) Automation Anywhere
9 6 (3.49%) Adobe
9 6 (3.49%) Guidewire
9 6 (3.49%) IBM
10 4 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.33%) Citrix
10 4 (2.33%) Intapp
10 4 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (2.33%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.74%) Cognizant
11 3 (1.74%) Google
11 3 (1.74%) Sybase
12 2 (1.16%) BEA