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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 219 196
Rank change year-on-year -15 -23 -17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 148 180 252
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.05% 1.14% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.00% 4.41% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 117 159
10th Percentile £325 £397 £410
25th Percentile £359 £495 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +2.68% -4.27%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £675
90th Percentile £694 £788 £825
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.82
25th Percentile - - £72.55
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £86.41
75th Percentile - - £90.94
90th Percentile - - £92.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 3,700 4,085 5,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 25.87% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 2,673 3,872
10th Percentile £356 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 32
10th Percentile £34.52 £35.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.25 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.55% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £72.41
90th Percentile £87.75 £71.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -19.23%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +6 24 £425 -23.94% 5
West London -7 6 £475 -5.00%
East London +1 3 £520 +15.56% 1
South London -7 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 20 (13.51%) Confluence
2 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.38%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.38%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.70%) CICS
4 4 (2.70%) CMS
4 4 (2.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.68%) Mule
5 1 (0.68%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (4.05%) Workday HCM
3 5 (3.38%) BusinessWorks
3 5 (3.38%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.68%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.68%) Shopify
5 1 (0.68%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.68%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.38%) Azure
2 19 (12.84%) PaaS
3 18 (12.16%) AWS
4 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.43%) OCI
5 9 (6.08%) GitHub
5 9 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.41%) SaaS
7 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (3.38%) Sentry
9 4 (2.70%) Azure App Service
9 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.70%) Azure WebJobs
9 4 (2.70%) Firebase
9 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.70%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) SSL
2 5 (3.38%) HTTP
3 2 (1.35%) DHCP
3 2 (1.35%) DNS
3 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) FTP
4 1 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.46%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.76%) Redis
5 8 (5.41%) DB2
6 7 (4.73%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.70%) MySQL
8 4 (2.70%) Power BI
9 3 (2.03%) Data Hub
9 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (21.62%) Git
2 29 (19.59%) JIRA
3 21 (14.19%) Postman
4 13 (8.78%) Selenium
5 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.73%) JMeter
7 7 (4.73%) JUnit
8 6 (4.05%) Maven
8 6 (4.05%) SoapUI
8 6 (4.05%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.38%) Appium
9 5 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (3.38%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (3.38%) Eclipse
9 5 (3.38%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (3.38%) Mockito
9 5 (3.38%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.38%) Subversion
9 5 (3.38%) Xcode
General
1 36 (24.32%) Finance
2 32 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.81%) Banking
5 6 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.70%) Back Office
6 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Billing
8 2 (1.35%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (47.30%) Developer
2 33 (22.30%) Senior
3 19 (12.84%) Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Senior Developer
5 14 (9.46%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.78%) ServiceNow Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 8 (5.41%) Senior Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Tester
8 7 (4.73%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.73%) Consultant
9 6 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Senior Python Developer
9 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.38%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.38%) Analyst
10 5 (3.38%) Integration Specialist
10 5 (3.38%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (3.38%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.38%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (50.68%) REST
2 60 (40.54%) SOAP
3 30 (20.27%) HTML
3 30 (20.27%) JSON
4 29 (19.59%) .NET
5 28 (18.92%) AngularJS
6 18 (12.16%) HTML5
7 17 (11.49%) CSS
7 17 (11.49%) jQuery
8 15 (10.14%) RESTful
8 15 (10.14%) Spring
9 14 (9.46%) LDAP
9 14 (9.46%) XML
10 13 (8.78%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (8.11%) Apache Camel
11 12 (8.11%) JDBC
11 12 (8.11%) Node.js
11 12 (8.11%) ODBC
11 12 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (8.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.46%) Mobile App
2 7 (4.73%) CMDB
3 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.70%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.03%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.03%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) DataPower
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Life Science
7 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.35%) VSAM
8 1 (0.68%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Android
1 5 (3.38%) Apple iOS
1 5 (3.38%) Unix
2 4 (2.70%) Linux
2 4 (2.70%) Windows
3 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.30%) Agile
2 42 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (23.65%) DevOps
4 34 (22.97%) Microservices
5 29 (19.59%) Scrum
5 29 (19.59%) Test Automation
6 22 (14.86%) Computer Science
6 22 (14.86%) Integration Patterns
7 21 (14.19%) ITSM
8 19 (12.84%) SDLC
9 17 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.49%) Unit Testing
10 16 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (10.14%) Design Patterns
11 15 (10.14%) User Experience
12 14 (9.46%) TDD
13 13 (8.78%) Analytics
13 13 (8.78%) Test Scripting
14 12 (8.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.76%) JavaScript
2 37 (25.00%) SQL
3 32 (21.62%) Java
4 27 (18.24%) Python
5 18 (12.16%) C#
6 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.76%) Ruby
8 8 (5.41%) PHP
9 7 (4.73%) Groovy
9 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.73%) XPath
10 6 (4.05%) PL/SQL
11 5 (3.38%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.38%) Swift
12 4 (2.70%) C++
12 4 (2.70%) COBOL
12 4 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.03%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 36 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.19%) Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.35%) CISSP
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) OCP
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) COBIT
3 4 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.68%) HL7
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.38%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.68%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.68%) Control-M
5 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.68%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 34 (22.97%) Oracle
2 23 (15.54%) ServiceNow
3 22 (14.86%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.46%) Splunk
5 13 (8.78%) HP
6 12 (8.11%) BMC
6 12 (8.11%) Ivanti
6 12 (8.11%) Remedy
7 8 (5.41%) Dynatrace
7 8 (5.41%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.73%) IBM
9 6 (4.05%) SAP
9 6 (4.05%) Workday
10 5 (3.38%) BEA
10 5 (3.38%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (3.38%) TIBCO
11 4 (2.70%) Dataiku
11 4 (2.70%) YouTube
12 3 (2.03%) Databricks
12 3 (2.03%) UiPath