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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 169 182
Rank change year-on-year -107 +13 +32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 167 213 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.56% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 5.97% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 147 140
10th Percentile £400 £358 £412
25th Percentile £450 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £675
90th Percentile £741 £755 £825
England median daily rate £517 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -9.09% -4.35%
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 - - -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 4,539 3,568 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.12% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,004 2,499 3,269
10th Percentile £390 £374 £375
25th Percentile £450 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £725
90th Percentile £780 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +20.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -31 24 £575 +27.78% 3
South London -7 14 £537 - 5
West London -26 3 - - 2
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 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (2.40%) Appian
3 4 (2.40%) Confluence
4 3 (1.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.80%) IIS
4 3 (1.80%) JBoss
5 2 (1.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.60%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.60%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Elite 3E
1 4 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.80%) Orchestrade
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.20%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.60%) SDL Web 8
4 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.16%) Azure
2 33 (19.76%) AWS
3 16 (9.58%) Serverless
4 15 (8.98%) PaaS
5 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.59%) GitHub
8 10 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.39%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.39%) OCI
10 8 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (4.79%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.19%) SaaS
12 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.59%) Azure App Service
12 6 (3.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) SSL
2 4 (2.40%) DNS
2 4 (2.40%) HTTP
3 3 (1.80%) Internet
4 2 (1.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.60%) DMZ
5 1 (0.60%) Firewall
5 1 (0.60%) FTP
5 1 (0.60%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.57%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.58%) Relational Database
3 13 (7.78%) Db2
4 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.99%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.59%) Power BI
8 5 (2.99%) MySQL
8 5 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.40%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.80%) Metadata
10 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.80%) SQLite
11 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Git
1 24 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.78%) JIRA
3 9 (5.39%) GitLab
3 9 (5.39%) Maven
4 8 (4.79%) JUnit
5 7 (4.19%) Ant
6 6 (3.59%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (2.40%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.40%) jMock
7 4 (2.40%) Mockito
7 4 (2.40%) Postman
7 4 (2.40%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.40%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.80%) MLflow
8 3 (1.80%) Selenium
8 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.35%) Finance
3 39 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.97%) Banking
5 23 (13.77%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.40%) Retail
8 3 (1.80%) Automotive
8 3 (1.80%) Legal
8 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Military
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (55.69%) Developer
2 26 (15.57%) Senior
3 20 (11.98%) Senior Developer
4 14 (8.38%) Architect
5 12 (7.19%) C# Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Java Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Consultant
7 9 (5.39%) Lead
8 8 (4.79%) Designer
8 8 (4.79%) Salesforce Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (3.59%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.59%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (2.99%) AWS Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Cloud Specialist
12 4 (2.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (52.69%) REST
2 69 (41.32%) SOAP
3 32 (19.16%) .NET
3 32 (19.16%) RESTful
4 31 (18.56%) XML
5 25 (14.97%) JSON
6 22 (13.17%) HTML
6 22 (13.17%) Spring
7 15 (8.98%) CSS
7 15 (8.98%) XSLT
8 14 (8.38%) AngularJS
9 12 (7.19%) Middleware
9 12 (7.19%) OAuth
9 12 (7.19%) Spring Boot
10 11 (6.59%) .NET Framework
10 11 (6.59%) Lightning Web Components
11 10 (5.99%) React
12 9 (5.39%) ASP.NET
12 9 (5.39%) Jakarta EE
12 9 (5.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.78%) CMDB
2 12 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.59%) Mainframe
4 9 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.19%) DataPower
7 6 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.59%) Online Banking
8 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.40%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.40%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.80%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.80%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Linux
2 10 (5.99%) Unix
2 10 (5.99%) zOS
3 8 (4.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (33.53%) Agile
2 45 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (23.35%) CI/CD
4 38 (22.75%) DevOps
5 27 (16.17%) Workflow
6 26 (15.57%) AI
7 25 (14.97%) ITIL
8 24 (14.37%) Integration Patterns
9 23 (13.77%) Scrum
9 23 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (13.17%) Analytics
11 21 (12.57%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.57%) ERP
11 21 (12.57%) Microservices
12 20 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.98%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (11.38%) Design Patterns
13 19 (11.38%) ITSM
13 19 (11.38%) Migration
14 18 (10.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.33%) SQL
2 37 (22.16%) JavaScript
3 36 (21.56%) Python
4 35 (20.96%) Java
5 31 (18.56%) C#
6 13 (7.78%) PL/SQL
7 12 (7.19%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.59%) Apex Code
9 8 (4.79%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.19%) C++
11 6 (3.59%) JCL
11 6 (3.59%) SOQL
11 6 (3.59%) SOSL
11 6 (3.59%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.59%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.59%) XPath
12 5 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.99%) VB.NET
13 4 (2.40%) Groovy
14 2 (1.20%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 46 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.78%) Degree
4 9 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.80%) MBA
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.59%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) SLA
4 3 (1.80%) GRC
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Docker
2 5 (2.99%) Postfix
3 4 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.20%) NFS
4 2 (1.20%) Sendmail
4 2 (1.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (4.19%) Grafana
1 7 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.59%) Ansible
3 4 (2.40%) Terraform
4 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (18.56%) Oracle
2 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.98%) ServiceNow
4 13 (7.78%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.39%) SAP
6 8 (4.79%) IBM
7 6 (3.59%) Pega
8 5 (2.99%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.99%) UiPath
9 4 (2.40%) Adobe
9 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.40%) Citrix
9 4 (2.40%) Intapp
9 4 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (1.80%) Automation Anywhere
10 3 (1.80%) Google
10 3 (1.80%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.80%) Sybase
10 3 (1.80%) Workday
11 2 (1.20%) Sitecore