Web Services Contracts in London

Web Services
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 184 210
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -56
Contract jobs citing Web Services 203 243 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.53% 1.38% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 5.11% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 163 214
10th Percentile £363 £414 £422
25th Percentile £433 £475 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £695 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.41% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £52.30
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £79.62
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

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 3,504 4,755 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.99% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,490 5,129
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 42
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +37.97%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in London

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 5 July 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 +5 34 £450 -21.74% 34
West London +12 11 £475 +11.76% 10
South London -1 5 - - 5
East London +8 1 £700 +29.63% 5
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.91%) Confluence
2 9 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.94%) CMS
4 5 (2.46%) Apache
4 5 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.97%) JBoss
6 3 (1.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.48%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.99%) Appian
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.99%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.49%) CICS
8 1 (0.49%) IIS
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (12.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.97%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.97%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.99%) Magento
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.99%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.99%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 2 (0.99%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.99%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.99%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.99%) Shopify
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.49%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.49%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.12%) Azure
2 27 (13.30%) AWS
3 11 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (5.42%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.93%) GitHub
4 10 (4.93%) Power Automate
5 8 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.94%) PowerApps
5 8 (3.94%) Serverless
6 7 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (3.45%) GCP
6 7 (3.45%) SaaS
7 6 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.96%) Firebase
7 6 (2.96%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.93%) SSL
2 9 (4.43%) HTTP
3 4 (1.97%) Firewall
4 3 (1.48%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.48%) POP3
4 3 (1.48%) SMTP
5 1 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) SAP HANA
2 19 (9.36%) Relational Database
3 17 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.39%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.42%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.43%) DB2
6 9 (4.43%) Redis
7 8 (3.94%) Big Data
7 8 (3.94%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.96%) Power BI
9 5 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.46%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.46%) MySQL
9 5 (2.46%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.97%) MS Access
10 4 (1.97%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.48%) OLAP
11 3 (1.48%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 26 (12.81%) Git
2 25 (12.32%) JIRA
3 23 (11.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.42%) JUnit
4 11 (5.42%) Postman
5 9 (4.43%) Maven
6 8 (3.94%) Selenium
6 8 (3.94%) SoapUI
7 7 (3.45%) Mockito
8 6 (2.96%) GitLab
8 6 (2.96%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.46%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.97%) QARun
10 4 (1.97%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.97%) webpack
10 4 (1.97%) WinRunner
11 3 (1.48%) JMeter
11 3 (1.48%) Subversion
11 3 (1.48%) Xcode
General
1 78 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 61 (30.05%) Finance
3 39 (19.21%) Banking
4 37 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.96%) Back Office
7 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.46%) Retail
9 4 (1.97%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.99%) Marketing
10 2 (0.99%) Military
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 91 (44.83%) Developer
2 52 (25.62%) Architect
3 35 (17.24%) Senior
4 22 (10.84%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.34%) SAP Architect
6 20 (9.85%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
7 18 (8.87%) Java Developer
8 13 (6.40%) C# Developer
8 13 (6.40%) ServiceNow Architect
9 12 (5.91%) C++ Developer
10 11 (5.42%) C++/C# Developer
11 10 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.43%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Node.js Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Analyst
13 8 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.94%) Lead
14 7 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 7 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
14 7 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (34.48%) REST
2 49 (24.14%) SOAP
3 46 (22.66%) RESTful
4 40 (19.70%) .NET
5 39 (19.21%) HTML
6 30 (14.78%) CSS
7 26 (12.81%) AngularJS
8 25 (12.32%) JSON
8 25 (12.32%) Spring
9 21 (10.34%) ASP.NET
9 21 (10.34%) Kafka
10 20 (9.85%) XML
11 19 (9.36%) .NET Core
11 19 (9.36%) Node.js
12 17 (8.37%) WCF
13 16 (7.88%) React
14 15 (7.39%) Middleware
14 15 (7.39%) Spring Boot
15 12 (5.91%) HTML5
16 11 (5.42%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (4.43%) CMDB
2 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (4.43%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.46%) N-Tier
6 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.97%) Replication
7 3 (1.48%) PKI
7 3 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.99%) CSOC
8 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.88%) Unix
2 12 (5.91%) Windows
3 10 (4.93%) Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.42%) Agile
2 59 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (23.15%) DevOps
4 38 (18.72%) Microservices
5 32 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 26 (12.81%) Project Delivery
9 24 (11.82%) Analytics
10 23 (11.33%) Scrum
10 23 (11.33%) Technical Architecture
11 22 (10.84%) CRM
12 19 (9.36%) Impact Assessments
12 19 (9.36%) ITSM
12 19 (9.36%) SDLC
12 19 (9.36%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.87%) Roadmaps
13 18 (8.87%) TDD
14 17 (8.37%) Computer Science
14 17 (8.37%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.47%) JavaScript
2 50 (24.63%) SQL
3 47 (23.15%) Java
4 37 (18.23%) C#
5 35 (17.24%) Python
6 23 (11.33%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.91%) C++
8 10 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.43%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.43%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.45%) Groovy
11 6 (2.96%) ABAP
11 6 (2.96%) PHP
11 6 (2.96%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.96%) Ruby
12 5 (2.46%) Scala
13 4 (1.97%) Perl
14 2 (0.99%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.99%) REXX
15 1 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.32%) Degree
3 22 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.46%) MCPD
6 5 (2.46%) MCSD
7 4 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.99%) CISSP
9 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.49%) MCAD
10 1 (0.49%) OCP
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.49%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.85%) QA
2 6 (2.96%) GDPR
3 5 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.97%) COBIT
5 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (8.37%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Kibana
5 2 (0.99%) Terraform
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.49%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.49%) Grafana
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (18.23%) Oracle
1 37 (18.23%) SAP
2 32 (15.76%) ServiceNow
3 28 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.93%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.93%) Splunk
5 8 (3.94%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.46%) Workday
7 4 (1.97%) BMC
7 4 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.97%) Databricks
7 4 (1.97%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.97%) HP
7 4 (1.97%) IBM
7 4 (1.97%) Ivanti
7 4 (1.97%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.97%) OpenText
7 4 (1.97%) Qualtrics
7 4 (1.97%) Remedy
7 4 (1.97%) YouTube