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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 158 180
Rank change year-on-year -92 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Web Services 166 204 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.68% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 6.46% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 137 163
10th Percentile £402 £387 £433
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £669
90th Percentile £674 £825 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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 £64.07 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.50% -1.92% -10.34%

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 4,203 3,159 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.07% 26.05% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 2,211 3,351
10th Percentile £371 £385 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 £31.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -39.29%
75th Percentile £59.72 £57.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -30 18 £599 +14.05% 7
South London -15 6 - -
West London -32 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 10 (6.02%) Appian
1 10 (6.02%) CICS
2 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.41%) Confluence
3 4 (2.41%) JBoss
3 4 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.81%) Apache
4 3 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) IIS
6 1 (0.60%) Mule
6 1 (0.60%) Mule ESB
6 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.01%) SAP EWM
2 5 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.20%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.60%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.60%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.60%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.49%) Azure
2 35 (21.08%) AWS
3 23 (13.86%) PaaS
4 20 (12.05%) OCI
5 13 (7.83%) Serverless
6 12 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.63%) GitHub
7 11 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.42%) IaaS
9 9 (5.42%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (4.82%) Azure AI
10 8 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) DNS
2 3 (1.81%) Firewall
3 2 (1.20%) Internet
3 2 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.60%) FTP
4 1 (0.60%) HTTP
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.24%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.23%) DB2
2 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.42%) Pinecone
4 8 (4.82%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.61%) SAP HANA
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.01%) MySQL
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.41%) Power BI
8 3 (1.81%) Data Hub
8 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.81%) Metadata
8 3 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.81%) SQLite
9 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.60%) Big Data
10 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (14.46%) Git
2 19 (11.45%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.43%) Postman
4 9 (5.42%) Maven
4 9 (5.42%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.82%) JIRA
5 8 (4.82%) JUnit
5 8 (4.82%) MLflow
5 8 (4.82%) SoapUI
6 7 (4.22%) GitLab
7 5 (3.01%) Selenium
8 4 (2.41%) Ant
8 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.41%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.41%) jMock
8 4 (2.41%) Mockito
9 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.81%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.81%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.08%) Finance
3 32 (19.28%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.83%) Banking
6 4 (2.41%) Military
6 4 (2.41%) Retail
7 3 (1.81%) Automotive
7 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Billing
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (48.19%) Developer
2 22 (13.25%) Senior
3 18 (10.84%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.43%) Architect
5 12 (7.23%) Cloud Specialist
5 12 (7.23%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.23%) Lead
6 11 (6.63%) Python Developer
7 10 (6.02%) Integration Specialist
7 10 (6.02%) Oracle Specialist
8 9 (5.42%) Salesforce Developer
9 8 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Consultant
10 7 (4.22%) AWS Developer
10 7 (4.22%) Azure Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (49.40%) REST
2 58 (34.94%) SOAP
3 33 (19.88%) RESTful
4 24 (14.46%) JSON
5 23 (13.86%) XML
6 21 (12.65%) Spring
7 20 (12.05%) HTML
7 20 (12.05%) OAuth
8 18 (10.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 17 (10.24%) .NET
9 17 (10.24%) JWT
10 16 (9.64%) CSS
11 15 (9.04%) XSLT
12 12 (7.23%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (6.63%) AngularJS
13 11 (6.63%) Pandas
13 11 (6.63%) Spring Boot
14 10 (6.02%) Django
14 10 (6.02%) J2EE
15 9 (5.42%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (6.02%) Mainframe
2 10 (6.02%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.82%) CMDB
3 8 (4.82%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.61%) DataPower
4 6 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.41%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.04%) Linux
2 9 (5.42%) Windows
2 9 (5.42%) zOS
3 7 (4.22%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (27.71%) Agile
2 35 (21.08%) CI/CD
2 35 (21.08%) DevOps
3 29 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (15.66%) Containerisation
4 26 (15.66%) Microservices
5 25 (15.06%) ERP
5 25 (15.06%) Test Automation
6 22 (13.25%) AI
6 22 (13.25%) Design Patterns
7 20 (12.05%) Data Modelling
7 20 (12.05%) Integration Patterns
7 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (12.05%) Workflow
8 19 (11.45%) Architectural Patterns
9 18 (10.84%) Validation
10 17 (10.24%) ITIL
10 17 (10.24%) OO
10 17 (10.24%) Software Engineering
11 16 (9.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.70%) Python
2 40 (24.10%) SQL
3 35 (21.08%) Java
4 26 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.24%) C#
6 12 (7.23%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.42%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.61%) ABAP
8 6 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.61%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.01%) JCL
9 5 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.01%) Ruby
10 4 (2.41%) XPath
11 3 (1.81%) C++
11 3 (1.81%) SOQL
11 3 (1.81%) SOSL
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
12 2 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 46 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.02%) Degree
4 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.01%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.41%) MBA
8 3 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.61%) SLA
3 5 (3.01%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (13.86%) Docker
2 6 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.01%) Postfix
4 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.20%) NFS
4 2 (1.20%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.22%) Ansible
2 7 (4.22%) Grafana
3 4 (2.41%) Terraform
4 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.20%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (21.69%) Oracle
2 22 (13.25%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.23%) Salesforce
4 10 (6.02%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.02%) SAP
5 9 (5.42%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.42%) UiPath
6 8 (4.82%) Automation Anywhere
7 6 (3.61%) Adobe
7 6 (3.61%) Guidewire
7 6 (3.61%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.01%) IBM
9 4 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (1.81%) Citrix
10 3 (1.81%) Cognizant
10 3 (1.81%) Google
10 3 (1.81%) Sybase
11 2 (1.20%) BEA
11 2 (1.20%) TIBCO