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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 164 184
Rank change year-on-year -93 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 167 203 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.68% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 6.46% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 136 162
10th Percentile £400 £386 £432
25th Percentile £438 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £663
90th Percentile £674 £825 £788
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 4,215 3,144 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.03% 26.02% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,201 3,364
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £30.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -38.18%
75th Percentile £59.99 £53.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £89.50 £68.25 £75.00
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 27 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 27 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 -33 18 £599 +14.05% 9
South London -12 6 - -
West London -34 3 - - 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 11 (6.59%) CICS
2 10 (5.99%) Appian
3 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.40%) Confluence
4 4 (2.40%) JBoss
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.80%) Apache
5 3 (1.80%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.20%) CMS
6 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.60%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.60%) IIS
7 1 (0.60%) Mule
7 1 (0.60%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (2.99%) SAP EWM
2 5 (2.99%) 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 40 (23.95%) Azure
2 37 (22.16%) AWS
3 23 (13.77%) PaaS
4 20 (11.98%) OCI
5 15 (8.98%) Serverless
6 12 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.59%) GitHub
7 11 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.39%) IaaS
9 9 (5.39%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.79%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (4.79%) Azure AI
10 8 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (4.79%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) DNS
2 3 (1.80%) 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 18 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.78%) DB2
3 12 (7.19%) Relational Database
4 11 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.99%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.39%) Pinecone
7 6 (3.59%) SAP HANA
8 5 (2.99%) MySQL
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.40%) Power BI
10 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.80%) Metadata
10 3 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.80%) SQLite
11 2 (1.20%) Data Hub
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (13.17%) Git
2 19 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.38%) Postman
4 9 (5.39%) GitLab
4 9 (5.39%) Maven
4 9 (5.39%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.79%) JIRA
5 8 (4.79%) JUnit
5 8 (4.79%) MLflow
5 8 (4.79%) SoapUI
6 5 (2.99%) Selenium
7 4 (2.40%) Ant
7 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.40%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.40%) jMock
7 4 (2.40%) Mockito
8 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.80%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.80%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.56%) Finance
3 32 (19.16%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.38%) Banking
6 4 (2.40%) Military
6 4 (2.40%) Retail
7 3 (1.80%) Automotive
7 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.80%) 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%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (49.10%) Developer
2 20 (11.98%) Senior
3 16 (9.58%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.38%) Architect
5 12 (7.19%) Cloud Specialist
5 12 (7.19%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Lead
6 10 (5.99%) Integration Specialist
6 10 (5.99%) Oracle Specialist
7 9 (5.39%) Consultant
7 9 (5.39%) Python Developer
7 9 (5.39%) Salesforce Developer
8 8 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) AWS Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (50.30%) REST
2 62 (37.13%) SOAP
3 35 (20.96%) RESTful
4 27 (16.17%) JSON
5 25 (14.97%) XML
6 20 (11.98%) HTML
6 20 (11.98%) Spring
7 19 (11.38%) OAuth
8 18 (10.78%) .NET
8 18 (10.78%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (9.58%) CSS
9 16 (9.58%) JWT
10 15 (8.98%) XSLT
11 12 (7.19%) Lightning Web Components
12 11 (6.59%) AngularJS
12 11 (6.59%) Pandas
13 10 (5.99%) Django
13 10 (5.99%) J2EE
13 10 (5.99%) Spring Boot
13 10 (5.99%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.59%) Mainframe
3 10 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.79%) CMDB
4 8 (4.79%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.19%) DataPower
6 6 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.59%) Online Banking
7 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.98%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) zOS
3 9 (5.39%) Windows
4 7 (4.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.60%) Android
6 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.14%) Agile
2 36 (21.56%) CI/CD
2 36 (21.56%) DevOps
3 32 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.97%) ERP
4 25 (14.97%) Microservices
4 25 (14.97%) Test Automation
5 24 (14.37%) Containerisation
6 23 (13.77%) Integration Patterns
7 22 (13.17%) AI
7 22 (13.17%) Workflow
8 21 (12.57%) Design Patterns
8 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (11.98%) Data Modelling
10 19 (11.38%) Architectural Patterns
11 18 (10.78%) Validation
12 17 (10.18%) Batch Processing
12 17 (10.18%) ITIL
12 17 (10.18%) OO
13 16 (9.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.75%) SQL
2 41 (24.55%) Python
3 34 (20.36%) Java
4 26 (15.57%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.18%) C#
6 12 (7.19%) Apex Code
7 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.79%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.59%) ABAP
9 6 (3.59%) JCL
9 6 (3.59%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.99%) XPath
11 3 (1.80%) C++
11 3 (1.80%) Ruby
11 3 (1.80%) SOQL
11 3 (1.80%) SOSL
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
12 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 46 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) Degree
4 8 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.40%) MBA
8 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.59%) SLA
3 5 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (13.77%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.99%) 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 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.19%) Ansible
2 7 (4.19%) Grafana
3 4 (2.40%) 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 37 (22.16%) Oracle
2 23 (13.77%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.78%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.59%) SAP
5 10 (5.99%) OpenAI
6 9 (5.39%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.39%) UiPath
7 8 (4.79%) Automation Anywhere
8 6 (3.59%) Adobe
8 6 (3.59%) Guidewire
8 6 (3.59%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.40%) IBM
9 4 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (1.80%) Citrix
10 3 (1.80%) Cognizant
10 3 (1.80%) Google
10 3 (1.80%) Sybase
11 2 (1.20%) BEA
11 2 (1.20%) TIBCO