Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 198 141
Rank change year-on-year +10 -57 -33
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,557 1,815 4,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.86% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.30% 6.22% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 871 1,304 2,327
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,173 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,290 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Web Services is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web Services.

Salary trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 1,266 £55,173 -15.12% 218
UK excluding London +39 1,121 £55,000 - 137
Work from Home -37 565 £57,500 -4.17% 112
London -26 386 £63,218 -18.43% 81
South East +5 316 £55,000 -4.35% 35
North of England +67 256 £55,173 +6.10% 36
Midlands +72 200 £52,500 -4.55% 28
North West +79 193 £60,000 +4.35% 23
Scotland +30 176 £65,000 -6.40% 6
East Midlands +77 128 £52,500 -2.33% 10
West Midlands +2 71 £55,000 - 18
East of England -55 64 £35,500 -40.83% 13
South West -59 55 £62,500 +19.62% 12
Yorkshire +34 48 £52,500 +16.67% 10
Northern Ireland +18 32 £48,500 +7.78% 5
Wales -2 24 £32,500 -40.15% 3
North East -4 15 £55,000 +3.05% 3

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 92 (5.91%) IIS
2 64 (4.11%) Apache
3 62 (3.98%) CMS
4 36 (2.31%) OpenStack
5 34 (2.18%) Tomcat
6 27 (1.73%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.41%) SAS
8 15 (0.96%) Confluence
8 15 (0.96%) JBoss
9 10 (0.64%) EPiServer
10 9 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
11 8 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.45%) WordPress
13 6 (0.39%) Drupal
13 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.26%) nginx
16 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.35%) Photoshop
3 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (2.18%) SDL Web 8
2 27 (1.73%) NEC Housing
3 26 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 24 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
6 14 (0.90%) Adobe Campaign
7 12 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
7 12 (0.77%) Shopify
8 6 (0.39%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.32%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.19%) SAP CX
12 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
12 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.13%) R3 Corda
12 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 620 (39.82%) Azure
2 314 (20.17%) AWS
3 259 (16.63%) Azure DevOps
4 242 (15.54%) IBM Cloud
5 199 (12.78%) Serverless
6 135 (8.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 133 (8.54%) Azure Functions
8 126 (8.09%) Azure API Management
8 126 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
9 82 (5.27%) SaaS
10 66 (4.24%) Power Platform
11 52 (3.34%) GitHub
12 51 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (3.28%) GCP
13 46 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (1.99%) PaaS
15 30 (1.93%) PowerApps
16 28 (1.80%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
18 22 (1.41%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.37%) Kerberos
2 47 (3.02%) TCP/IP
3 37 (2.38%) HTTP
4 21 (1.35%) Internet
5 17 (1.09%) DNS
5 17 (1.09%) VPN
6 16 (1.03%) Firewall
6 16 (1.03%) SSH
7 13 (0.83%) SNMP
8 12 (0.77%) MQTT
9 11 (0.71%) Network Security
9 11 (0.71%) SMTP
10 9 (0.58%) SSL
11 5 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.26%) 5G
12 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.26%) LAN
12 4 (0.26%) RS-232
12 4 (0.26%) WAN
12 4 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (26.20%) NoSQL
2 397 (25.50%) PostgreSQL
3 352 (22.61%) SQL Server
4 275 (17.66%) MongoDB
5 266 (17.08%) Relational Database
6 241 (15.48%) DB2
7 117 (7.51%) MySQL
8 70 (4.50%) Metadata
9 48 (3.08%) Oracle Database
10 47 (3.02%) Power BI
11 43 (2.76%) DynamoDB
12 38 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 30 (1.93%) MS Access
13 30 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 27 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (1.67%) Redis
16 22 (1.41%) RDBMS
17 15 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 366 (23.51%) Git
2 174 (11.18%) Jenkins
3 145 (9.31%) Visual Studio
4 104 (6.68%) JIRA
5 76 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.17%) Artifactory
7 44 (2.83%) Moq
8 43 (2.76%) TeamCity
9 39 (2.50%) GitLab
10 36 (2.31%) NUnit
11 32 (2.06%) Postman
12 29 (1.86%) Eclipse
13 28 (1.80%) Jasmine
13 28 (1.80%) JUnit
13 28 (1.80%) Karma Test Runner
14 27 (1.73%) Selenium
15 21 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
16 20 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
17 19 (1.22%) JMeter
17 19 (1.22%) Oracle APEX
General
1 409 (26.27%) Finance
2 360 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 323 (20.75%) Public Sector
4 287 (18.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 171 (10.98%) Marketing
6 164 (10.53%) Law
7 94 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
8 80 (5.14%) Retail
9 65 (4.17%) Legal
10 53 (3.40%) Banking
11 40 (2.57%) Police
12 38 (2.44%) Local Government
13 30 (1.93%) Electronics
14 28 (1.80%) Billing
15 24 (1.54%) Publishing
16 23 (1.48%) Back Office
17 15 (0.96%) Investment Banking
18 14 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
20 11 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 819 (52.60%) Developer
2 291 (18.69%) Senior
3 256 (16.44%) Software Engineer
4 249 (15.99%) Full Stack Developer
5 172 (11.05%) Senior Developer
6 169 (10.85%) Full Stack Engineer
7 168 (10.79%) Lead
8 137 (8.80%) Azure Developer
9 115 (7.39%) C# Developer
10 110 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (7.00%) .NET Developer
12 94 (6.04%) Lead Software Engineer
13 84 (5.39%) Architect
14 78 (5.01%) Java Developer
15 72 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 63 (4.05%) Software Developer
17 61 (3.92%) Java Engineer
18 56 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
19 54 (3.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
20 48 (3.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (45.99%) .NET
2 694 (44.57%) REST
3 647 (41.55%) HTML
4 583 (37.44%) CSS
5 509 (32.69%) AngularJS
6 473 (30.38%) ASP.NET
7 426 (27.36%) XML
8 380 (24.41%) React
9 354 (22.74%) jQuery
10 351 (22.54%) RESTful
11 330 (21.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 313 (20.10%) Vue
13 306 (19.65%) JSON
14 283 (18.18%) SOAP
15 263 (16.89%) ASP.NET Core
16 250 (16.06%) Node.js
17 238 (15.29%) Backbone.js
17 238 (15.29%) Ember.js
18 164 (10.53%) Spring
19 154 (9.89%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 324 (20.81%) Algorithms
2 265 (17.02%) Data Structures
3 249 (15.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 242 (15.54%) Blockchain
5 137 (8.80%) Management Information System
6 114 (7.32%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
8 78 (5.01%) Reference Data
9 70 (4.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 64 (4.11%) Onboarding
11 56 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
12 55 (3.53%) CMDB
13 54 (3.47%) Cloud Native
14 42 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
16 37 (2.38%) Public Cloud
17 36 (2.31%) Legacy Code
18 34 (2.18%) Product Ownership
19 28 (1.80%) Blog
19 28 (1.80%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 371 (23.83%) Linux
2 325 (20.87%) Windows
3 262 (16.83%) Android
4 246 (15.80%) Apple iOS
5 52 (3.34%) Unix
6 27 (1.73%) AIX
6 27 (1.73%) Solaris
7 10 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.32%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.32%) Windows Mobile
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.064%) CentOS
11 1 (0.064%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.064%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (45.47%) Agile
2 497 (31.92%) Full Stack Development
3 488 (31.34%) MVC
4 446 (28.64%) DevOps
5 406 (26.08%) OO
6 364 (23.38%) Software Engineering
7 348 (22.35%) OOP
8 336 (21.58%) Design Patterns
9 324 (20.81%) SOLID
10 313 (20.10%) Web Development
11 309 (19.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 308 (19.78%) Mentoring
13 294 (18.88%) CI/CD
13 294 (18.88%) User Experience
14 282 (18.11%) Responsive Web Design
15 262 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
16 249 (15.99%) MVVM
17 242 (15.54%) Design Thinking
18 238 (15.29%) Co-Creation
19 235 (15.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 753 (48.36%) JavaScript
2 742 (47.66%) SQL
3 679 (43.61%) C#
4 447 (28.71%) Java
5 283 (18.18%) Python
6 142 (9.12%) T-SQL
7 133 (8.54%) Go
8 110 (7.06%) TypeScript
9 91 (5.84%) PHP
10 66 (4.24%) VB.NET
11 65 (4.17%) Prolog
11 65 (4.17%) SPARQL
12 63 (4.05%) VB
13 55 (3.53%) PowerShell
14 52 (3.34%) Shell Script
15 44 (2.83%) C
16 42 (2.70%) XPath
17 37 (2.38%) C++
17 37 (2.38%) Scala
18 28 (1.80%) VB6
Qualifications
1 252 (16.18%) Degree
2 125 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 89 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 15 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 15 (0.96%) PhD
10 14 (0.90%) CISSP
11 11 (0.71%) MBA
11 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.51%) CISM
12 8 (0.51%) GIAC
13 6 (0.39%) SANS
14 5 (0.32%) HNC
14 5 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 5 (0.32%) MCAD
15 4 (0.26%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.87%) QA
2 67 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.03%) GDPR
4 14 (0.90%) NIST
5 9 (0.58%) COBIT
6 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.39%) SLA
7 6 (0.39%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 5 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.26%) PMO
10 2 (0.13%) DICOM
10 2 (0.13%) EMIR
10 2 (0.13%) GRC
10 2 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (11.56%) Docker
2 87 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.45%) Firmware
5 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.064%) etcd
8 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.064%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 105 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.47%) Ansible
3 40 (2.57%) Terraform
4 20 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.83%) WMI
6 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
6 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.32%) Puppet
7 5 (0.32%) Suricata
8 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.26%) HP UCMDB
9 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.19%) Control-M
9 3 (0.19%) Grafana
9 3 (0.19%) MIIS
9 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 286 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 249 (15.99%) IBM
3 245 (15.74%) Red Hat
4 160 (10.28%) Oracle
5 60 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.21%) Google
7 38 (2.44%) Adobe
8 36 (2.31%) WSO2
9 30 (1.93%) HP
10 27 (1.73%) NEC
11 26 (1.67%) BMC
11 26 (1.67%) Remedy
12 23 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.41%) Splunk
14 18 (1.16%) VMware
15 17 (1.09%) Cognizant
16 13 (0.83%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.64%) Sybase
17 10 (0.64%) Twitter
17 10 (0.64%) Xamarin