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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 179 189
Rank change year-on-year -110 +10 +14
Contract jobs citing Web Services 164 192 216
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.44% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 4.93% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 130 135
10th Percentile £413 £348 £403
25th Percentile £461 £413 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £595
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -10.92% +8.18%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £745 £726 £810
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
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 5,289 3,897 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.15% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,713 3,491
10th Percentile £400 £368 £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 £823 £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 £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%

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 28 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 28 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 -28 25 £563 +25.00% 15
South London -1 14 £700 - 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 13 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.05%) CICS
3 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.44%) IIS
5 3 (1.83%) Confluence
6 2 (1.22%) Apache
6 2 (1.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Elite 3E
2 3 (1.83%) Orchestrade
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.22%) Infor LN
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%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.61%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.34%) Azure
2 24 (14.63%) AWS
3 13 (7.93%) GitHub
4 12 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.71%) Serverless
6 10 (6.10%) PaaS
7 8 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.27%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.66%) GCP
9 6 (3.66%) OCI
9 6 (3.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.05%) HTTP
1 5 (3.05%) SSL
2 4 (2.44%) DNS
3 3 (1.83%) Internet
4 2 (1.22%) 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 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.66%) Db2
5 6 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.66%) Power BI
6 5 (3.05%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.44%) Tableau
8 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.83%) Metadata
8 3 (1.83%) MySQL
8 3 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.83%) SQLite
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Git
2 19 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.49%) JIRA
4 8 (4.88%) eggPlant
4 8 (4.88%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.27%) Selenium
6 6 (3.66%) Ant
6 6 (3.66%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.66%) GitLab
6 6 (3.66%) JMeter
6 6 (3.66%) Postman
6 6 (3.66%) SoapUI
6 6 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.05%) JUnit
7 5 (3.05%) LoadRunner
8 4 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.44%) Maven
8 4 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (23.17%) Finance
4 28 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 25 (15.24%) Banking
6 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.83%) Automotive
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
8 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Military
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (55.49%) Developer
2 31 (18.90%) Senior
3 19 (11.59%) Senior Developer
4 16 (9.76%) Architect
5 14 (8.54%) C# Developer
6 13 (7.93%) Lead
7 12 (7.32%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.49%) .NET Developer
8 9 (5.49%) Consultant
8 9 (5.49%) Designer
9 7 (4.27%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (4.27%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.66%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (3.05%) Azure Developer
11 5 (3.05%) Technical Leader
12 4 (2.44%) AWS Developer
12 4 (2.44%) Integration Developer
12 4 (2.44%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (42.68%) REST
2 69 (42.07%) SOAP
3 47 (28.66%) .NET
4 35 (21.34%) XML
5 30 (18.29%) HTML
6 28 (17.07%) RESTful
7 18 (10.98%) Spring
8 15 (9.15%) CSS
9 14 (8.54%) AngularJS
9 14 (8.54%) JSON
9 14 (8.54%) Middleware
9 14 (8.54%) Spring Boot
10 12 (7.32%) XSLT
11 11 (6.71%) .NET Framework
11 11 (6.71%) ASP.NET
12 10 (6.10%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (6.10%) React
13 9 (5.49%) Kafka
14 7 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
15 6 (3.66%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.54%) CMDB
2 11 (6.71%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.05%) Mainframe
7 5 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.44%) DataPower
8 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.44%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.83%) Derivative
9 3 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.37%) Linux
2 15 (9.15%) Unix
3 4 (2.44%) zOS
4 2 (1.22%) Windows
5 1 (0.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.85%) Agile
2 53 (32.32%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (22.56%) CI/CD
4 36 (21.95%) DevOps
5 34 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (15.85%) AI
7 25 (15.24%) Workflow
8 24 (14.63%) ITIL
9 22 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (12.80%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (12.20%) ITSM
11 20 (12.20%) Migration
11 20 (12.20%) SDLC
12 19 (11.59%) Data Modelling
12 19 (11.59%) Design Patterns
12 19 (11.59%) Scrum
12 19 (11.59%) Software Engineering
13 18 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (10.37%) Analytics
14 17 (10.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.02%) SQL
2 39 (23.78%) Java
2 39 (23.78%) JavaScript
3 37 (22.56%) Python
4 35 (21.34%) C#
5 13 (7.93%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.10%) Apex Code
6 10 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 10 (6.10%) VB.NET
7 8 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.66%) SOQL
8 6 (3.66%) SOSL
9 5 (3.05%) C++
9 5 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.05%) XPath
10 4 (2.44%) JCL
11 3 (1.83%) ABAP
11 3 (1.83%) Groovy
11 3 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 53 (32.32%) Security Cleared
2 48 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.15%) Degree
4 10 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.44%) ISEB
6 4 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.83%) MBA
8 2 (1.22%) 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 15 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.88%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) GRC
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (8.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.44%) Postfix
3 2 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.22%) NFS
3 2 (1.22%) Sendmail
3 2 (1.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (3.05%) Grafana
1 5 (3.05%) HP Fortify
2 4 (2.44%) Ansible
2 4 (2.44%) Control-M
2 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (20.12%) Oracle
2 26 (15.85%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.37%) SAP
4 16 (9.76%) ServiceNow
5 12 (7.32%) Salesforce
6 11 (6.71%) IBM
7 6 (3.66%) Pega
8 5 (3.05%) UiPath
9 4 (2.44%) Adobe
9 4 (2.44%) Citrix
9 4 (2.44%) Google
9 4 (2.44%) Intapp
9 4 (2.44%) Workday
10 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.22%) Baan
11 2 (1.22%) Infor
11 2 (1.22%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.22%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.22%) Sybase