Web Services Contracts in South London

Web Services
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Web Services 7 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.80% 2.90% 5.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.73% 12.07% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £455
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.20%
75th Percentile £338 - £488
90th Percentile - - £498
London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 27.72% 24.07% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 69
10th Percentile £380 £425 £445
25th Percentile £449 £453 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% -13.87%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £649
90th Percentile £738 £671 £713
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.16 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -27.97% +9.04%
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
% change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in South London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in South London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in South London

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Croydon +4 3 - -
Merton - 3 £325 - 2
Bromley - 1 - -
Web Services
London

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 4 (57.14%) JBoss
2 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Applications Support
1 3 (42.86%) Applications Support Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) WireMock
3 1 (14.29%) EJB
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Process Management
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) AOP
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) REXX
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle