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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 190 179
Rank change year-on-year -42 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 167 176 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.29% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.22% 4.91% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 111 154
10th Percentile £350 £363 £450
25th Percentile £400 £498 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% - -
75th Percentile £597 £681 £675
90th Percentile £644 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
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 £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 3,961 3,583 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.11% 26.36% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,359 3,400
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 12 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 12 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 -20 16 £463 -13.71% 11
West London -16 3 £350 -30.00% 3
East London +2 2 £538 +8.59%
South London -12 1 £500 +53.85%
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 (5.99%) Appian
2 8 (4.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.79%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.19%) Confluence
3 7 (4.19%) WebSphere
4 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.99%) CICS
6 4 (2.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.60%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
7 1 (0.60%) Mule
7 1 (0.60%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (8.38%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (4.19%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.40%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.20%) Cloudability
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.60%) Shopify
6 1 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.60%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
6 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (25.75%) Azure
2 26 (15.57%) PaaS
3 25 (14.97%) OCI
4 20 (11.98%) AWS
5 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.99%) GitHub
7 9 (5.39%) Azure AI
7 9 (5.39%) IaaS
7 9 (5.39%) Power Automate
8 8 (4.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 8 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (4.79%) Entra ID
8 8 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.79%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.59%) Azure App Service
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.59%) SaaS
10 5 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) HTTP
2 2 (1.20%) DHCP
2 2 (1.20%) DNS
2 2 (1.20%) Firewall
2 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) FTP
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) SMTP
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.77%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.38%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.19%) DB2
4 9 (5.39%) Pinecone
5 8 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.99%) Data Hub
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database
7 4 (2.40%) Power BI
7 4 (2.40%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.80%) Redis
9 2 (1.20%) MySQL
10 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.60%) Big Data
10 1 (0.60%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (17.37%) Git
1 29 (17.37%) Postman
2 14 (8.38%) JIRA
3 11 (6.59%) Selenium
4 9 (5.39%) SoapUI
5 8 (4.79%) MLflow
6 7 (4.19%) Cucumber
6 7 (4.19%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.19%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.99%) Appium
7 5 (2.99%) Charles Proxy
7 5 (2.99%) JMeter
7 5 (2.99%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (2.99%) XCUITest
8 4 (2.40%) GitLab
8 4 (2.40%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.40%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.80%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.80%) JUnit
9 3 (1.80%) Maven
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.36%) Finance
3 32 (19.16%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Banking
6 6 (3.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.40%) Military
9 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
10 2 (1.20%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 2 (1.20%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.60%) Law
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 79 (47.31%) Developer
2 30 (17.96%) Senior
3 21 (12.57%) Senior Developer
4 16 (9.58%) Cloud Specialist
5 14 (8.38%) Integration Specialist
5 14 (8.38%) Oracle Specialist
5 14 (8.38%) Python Developer
6 12 (7.19%) Consultant
7 9 (5.39%) Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.59%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Architect
10 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Lead
10 6 (3.59%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.59%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (52.69%) REST
2 64 (38.32%) SOAP
3 28 (16.77%) JSON
4 25 (14.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 25 (14.97%) XML
5 21 (12.57%) .NET
5 21 (12.57%) OAuth
6 20 (11.98%) XSLT
7 19 (11.38%) JWT
8 17 (10.18%) HTML
9 16 (9.58%) CSS
9 16 (9.58%) RESTful
10 12 (7.19%) AngularJS
10 12 (7.19%) NumPy
10 12 (7.19%) Pandas
11 11 (6.59%) scikit-learn
12 10 (5.99%) J2EE
12 10 (5.99%) Spring
12 10 (5.99%) Swagger
13 9 (5.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.99%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.39%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.19%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.99%) CMDB
5 5 (2.99%) Mainframe
5 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) DataPower
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.20%) Life Science
8 2 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
1 8 (4.79%) Windows
2 6 (3.59%) Android
2 6 (3.59%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.40%) zOS
4 3 (1.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) Agile
2 40 (23.95%) Test Automation
3 35 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (16.77%) DevOps
4 28 (16.77%) ERP
5 26 (15.57%) CI/CD
6 24 (14.37%) Unit Testing
7 20 (11.98%) AI
7 20 (11.98%) Design Patterns
8 17 (10.18%) Analytics
8 17 (10.18%) Data Modelling
8 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (9.58%) Containerisation
9 16 (9.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (9.58%) OO
9 16 (9.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (8.98%) Microservices
10 15 (8.98%) SDLC
11 14 (8.38%) API Development
11 14 (8.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.95%) SQL
2 36 (21.56%) Python
3 28 (16.77%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.17%) C#
5 21 (12.57%) Java
6 10 (5.99%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.39%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.79%) XPath
9 6 (3.59%) Apex Code
9 6 (3.59%) Ruby
10 5 (2.99%) ABAP
10 5 (2.99%) C++
10 5 (2.99%) Groovy
10 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.99%) Swift
11 3 (1.80%) COBOL
11 3 (1.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.20%) PHP
12 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.75%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.98%) Degree
4 8 (4.79%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CISA
7 1 (0.60%) CISM
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) ISEB
7 1 (0.60%) MBA
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
7 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.18%) QA
2 9 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) GRC
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (10.78%) Docker
2 8 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.19%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (2.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.60%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.60%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 51 (30.54%) Oracle
2 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.59%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.99%) IBM
5 9 (5.39%) SAP
5 9 (5.39%) UiPath
6 8 (4.79%) Automation Anywhere
6 8 (4.79%) Guidewire
7 7 (4.19%) BEA
7 7 (4.19%) Salesforce
7 7 (4.19%) Splunk
7 7 (4.19%) TIBCO
8 6 (3.59%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.59%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.40%) Adobe
9 4 (2.40%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.80%) Cognizant
11 2 (1.20%) Charles River
11 2 (1.20%) Citrix
11 2 (1.20%) webMethods