Web Services Contract Job Trends in South London

Web Services
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Web Services 1 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.43% 1.85% 3.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 8.33% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £314
25th Percentile - £313 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -18.75% -12.09%
75th Percentile - £338 £485
90th Percentile - - £506
London median daily rate £470 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -19.66% +1.74% -

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 70 48 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 30.17% 22.22% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 33 50
10th Percentile £469 £380 £396
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -1.12% +1.14%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £613 £685 £675
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.08
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.16%
75th Percentile - - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Web Services job vacancy trend in South London

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Web Services

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 7 February 2026. 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 -
Web Services
London

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA