WSDL Contracts in London

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 396 486
Rank change year-on-year +40 +90 +120
Contract jobs citing WSDL 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.035% 0.016%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.13% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £391 £435 -
25th Percentile £442 £488 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -14.29% +4.26%
75th Percentile £581 £598 £619
90th Percentile £585 £599 -
England median daily rate £402 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -28.21% +12.00% -26.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

WSDL 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 3,530 4,676 6,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 26.96% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,451 3,419 5,075
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £719 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 41
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £30.75
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £46.25
Median hourly rate £48.22 £40.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -40.74% +35.00%
75th Percentile £62.81 £58.76 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £62.50 £57.13 £63.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% -10.04% +15.45%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in London

WSDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WSDL in London

WSDL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSDL in London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WSDL in London

WSDL
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 WSDL within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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 1 - -
WSDL
England

WSDL
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 1 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) JWT
5 1 (20.00%) OAuth
5 1 (20.00%) RAML
5 1 (20.00%) RESTful
5 1 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) DataPower
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (20.00%) Budget Control
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle