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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 194 205
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -37
Contract jobs citing Web Services 184 214 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.38% 1.33% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.30% 4.81% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 133 186
10th Percentile £352 £402 £406
25th Percentile £413 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +5.77% -2.62%
75th Percentile £692 £675 £675
90th Percentile £699 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £51.78
25th Percentile - - £52.56
Median hourly rate - - £67.91
75th Percentile - - £87.42
90th Percentile - - £88.97
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 3,469 4,450 5,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 27.74% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,050 4,282
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £715
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 42
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.80 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £37.72
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -33.59% +10.34%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +13 31 £450 -30.77% 13
West London +2 11 £475 +60.07% 3
South London -8 4 - - 2
East London +6 2 £610 +35.56%
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 21 (11.41%) Confluence
2 7 (3.80%) CMS
3 6 (3.26%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.63%) CICS
6 2 (1.09%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) Appian
6 2 (1.09%) JBoss
7 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.54%) Mule
7 1 (0.54%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (6.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (3.26%) Workday HCM
5 4 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (1.09%) Magento
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (1.09%) SAP CX
6 2 (1.09%) SAP HR
6 2 (1.09%) Shopify
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.54%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.54%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.54%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.54%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.54%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.54%) Azure
2 21 (11.41%) AWS
3 10 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.43%) PaaS
3 10 (5.43%) SaaS
4 7 (3.80%) Firebase
4 7 (3.80%) OCI
5 6 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.26%) Power Automate
5 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.72%) GitHub
6 5 (2.72%) Serverless
7 4 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.17%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.61%) SSL
2 10 (5.43%) HTTP
3 3 (1.63%) POP3
3 3 (1.63%) SMTP
4 2 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (10.33%) SAP HANA
2 17 (9.24%) Relational Database
3 15 (8.15%) SQL Server
4 14 (7.61%) Redis
5 9 (4.89%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.26%) DB2
6 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.17%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.63%) MySQL
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.09%) Big Data
9 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 34 (18.48%) JIRA
2 30 (16.30%) Git
3 24 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.96%) Postman
5 13 (7.07%) JUnit
6 11 (5.98%) Maven
6 11 (5.98%) SoapUI
7 9 (4.89%) Mockito
7 9 (4.89%) REST Assured
8 8 (4.35%) GitLab
8 8 (4.35%) Selenium
8 8 (4.35%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.80%) Cucumber
9 7 (3.80%) Eclipse
10 6 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (3.26%) IntelliJ
10 6 (3.26%) Subversion
10 6 (3.26%) Xcode
10 6 (3.26%) XCTest
11 4 (2.17%) JMeter
General
1 58 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.37%) Finance
3 34 (18.48%) Banking
4 20 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.80%) Back Office
5 7 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.17%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Billing
9 2 (1.09%) Front Office
9 2 (1.09%) Marketing
9 2 (1.09%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (40.22%) Developer
2 46 (25.00%) Architect
3 33 (17.93%) Senior
4 21 (11.41%) SAP Architect
5 20 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 17 (9.24%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.15%) ServiceNow Architect
8 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Automation Tester
10 7 (3.80%) Node.js Developer
10 7 (3.80%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Tester
11 6 (3.26%) Analyst
11 6 (3.26%) Lead
12 5 (2.72%) Integration Specialist
12 5 (2.72%) Selenium Automation Tester
12 5 (2.72%) Selenium Tester
12 5 (2.72%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (43.48%) REST
2 53 (28.80%) SOAP
3 41 (22.28%) HTML
4 33 (17.93%) RESTful
5 32 (17.39%) JSON
6 30 (16.30%) AngularJS
7 27 (14.67%) CSS
8 25 (13.59%) .NET
9 23 (12.50%) Spring
10 19 (10.33%) HTML5
11 18 (9.78%) jQuery
12 17 (9.24%) Node.js
13 16 (8.70%) Spring Boot
13 16 (8.70%) XML
14 15 (8.15%) Apache Camel
14 15 (8.15%) LDAP
15 13 (7.07%) Hibernate
15 13 (7.07%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (6.52%) ODBC
16 12 (6.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.07%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.80%) CMDB
4 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.17%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.63%) PKI
7 3 (1.63%) Replication
7 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.09%) CSOC
8 2 (1.09%) DataPower
8 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.09%) Life Science
8 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.35%) Linux
1 8 (4.35%) Unix
2 4 (2.17%) Android
2 4 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.63%) Windows
4 2 (1.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (41.30%) Agile
2 52 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (21.74%) Microservices
4 38 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (20.65%) DevOps
5 33 (17.93%) Scrum
6 29 (15.76%) Integration Patterns
6 29 (15.76%) Project Delivery
7 25 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
9 22 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.96%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.41%) CRM
10 21 (11.41%) ITSM
10 21 (11.41%) SDLC
10 21 (11.41%) TDD
11 20 (10.87%) Test Automation
12 19 (10.33%) Impact Assessments
13 17 (9.24%) Unit Testing
14 16 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.41%) JavaScript
2 45 (24.46%) Java
3 43 (23.37%) SQL
4 26 (14.13%) Python
5 20 (10.87%) C#
6 15 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.43%) Groovy
8 9 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.80%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.26%) PHP
10 6 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.26%) Ruby
10 6 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.17%) ABAP
11 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.17%) Swift
12 3 (1.63%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.63%) COBOL
12 3 (1.63%) XPath
13 2 (1.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.13%) Degree
3 23 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.63%) CISSP
7 3 (1.63%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.63%) MCPD
7 3 (1.63%) MCSD
8 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) CISA
9 1 (0.54%) CISM
9 1 (0.54%) OCP
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) QA
2 6 (3.26%) GDPR
3 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.17%) COBIT
4 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.09%) GRC
5 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.26%) Ansible
4 3 (1.63%) Kibana
5 2 (1.09%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.54%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.54%) Control-M
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (17.93%) ServiceNow
2 29 (15.76%) Oracle
3 28 (15.22%) SAP
4 22 (11.96%) Microsoft
5 20 (10.87%) Splunk
6 14 (7.61%) Dynatrace
7 12 (6.52%) BMC
7 12 (6.52%) HP
7 12 (6.52%) Ivanti
7 12 (6.52%) Remedy
8 10 (5.43%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.80%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (3.80%) Workday
10 5 (2.72%) Axway
10 5 (2.72%) webMethods
11 4 (2.17%) Guidewire
11 4 (2.17%) YouTube
12 3 (1.63%) Duck Creek
12 3 (1.63%) IBM
12 3 (1.63%) UiPath