Web Services Contracts in England

Web Services
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 220 144
Rank change year-on-year +34 -76 -26
Contract jobs citing Web Services 464 642 1,363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.26% 1.27% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.22% 5.48% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 427 900
10th Percentile £413 £412 £375
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £748 £743 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £540
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 25
10th Percentile £59.00 £57.88 -
25th Percentile - £65.88 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +13.97% +85.74%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £62.15
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.65% +55.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in England

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +19 238 £575 +4.55% 78
South East +22 110 £625 +19.05% 42
North of England +45 74 £525 +5.00% 30
Yorkshire +40 39 £550 +2.33% 11
North West +8 31 £450 -10.00% 17
Midlands -3 22 £638 +7.06% 31
West Midlands +16 16 £638 +10.87% 17
East of England +5 11 £350 -30.00% 11
East Midlands +11 6 £600 - 14
South West -3 6 £443 -19.55% 14
North East +22 4 £431 -13.80% 2
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (2.37%) IIS
2 9 (1.94%) Confluence
2 9 (1.94%) Mule
3 7 (1.51%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.29%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.08%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.08%) JBoss
5 5 (1.08%) Mule ESB
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.08%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.65%) Apache
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.22%) Jadu
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) CATIA
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.51%) SAP EWM
4 6 (1.29%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.65%) Shopify
7 1 (0.22%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.22%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (29.09%) Azure
2 110 (23.71%) AWS
3 56 (12.07%) PaaS
4 47 (10.13%) SaaS
5 46 (9.91%) IaaS
6 35 (7.54%) GitHub
7 21 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.53%) Serverless
8 20 (4.31%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.66%) Azure API Management
9 17 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
10 15 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (3.23%) Azure Storage
10 15 (3.23%) Entra ID
11 12 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.59%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.37%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.05%) SSL
2 39 (8.41%) 5G
2 39 (8.41%) Broadband
3 12 (2.59%) Firewall
3 12 (2.59%) Internet
4 11 (2.37%) VPN
5 10 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.16%) VoIP
6 9 (1.94%) HTTP
6 9 (1.94%) LAN
6 9 (1.94%) MPLS
6 9 (1.94%) PBX
6 9 (1.94%) WAN
6 9 (1.94%) WLAN
7 7 (1.51%) DNS
7 7 (1.51%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.08%) DHCP
8 5 (1.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.33%) MySQL
3 33 (7.11%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.39%) Relational Database
5 21 (4.53%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.37%) OLTP
9 10 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.94%) Big Data
10 9 (1.94%) Power BI
10 9 (1.94%) SAP HANA
11 8 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.51%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.51%) Redis
13 6 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.29%) Siebel EIM
14 5 (1.08%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 61 (13.15%) Git
2 40 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 35 (7.54%) JIRA
4 16 (3.45%) JUnit
5 15 (3.23%) Postman
6 14 (3.02%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.59%) Selenium
8 11 (2.37%) Visual Studio
9 10 (2.16%) Eclipse
9 10 (2.16%) Gatling
9 10 (2.16%) JMeter
10 6 (1.29%) GitLab
10 6 (1.29%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.29%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (1.08%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (1.08%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.08%) Mocha
11 5 (1.08%) Mockito
11 5 (1.08%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 87 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.10%) Finance
3 40 (8.62%) Law
4 39 (8.41%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 29 (6.25%) Banking
8 19 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.45%) Marketing
9 16 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.02%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.16%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.94%) Military
13 7 (1.51%) Billing
13 7 (1.51%) Retail
14 6 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.86%) Electronics
15 4 (0.86%) Front Office
16 3 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (39.87%) Developer
2 89 (19.18%) Architect
3 47 (10.13%) Senior
3 47 (10.13%) Tester
4 43 (9.27%) Consultant
5 39 (8.41%) Penetration Tester
5 39 (8.41%) Security Penetration Tester
5 39 (8.41%) Security Specialist
5 39 (8.41%) Security Tester
5 39 (8.41%) Testing Specialist
6 32 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 31 (6.68%) Lead
8 30 (6.47%) Senior Developer
9 25 (5.39%) Full Stack Developer
10 22 (4.74%) ServiceNow Developer
10 22 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 18 (3.88%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.45%) C# Developer
12 16 (3.45%) Python Developer
13 14 (3.02%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (18.32%) REST
2 80 (17.24%) HTML
3 72 (15.52%) SOAP
4 67 (14.44%) XML
5 63 (13.58%) .NET
5 63 (13.58%) RESTful
6 58 (12.50%) CSS
7 52 (11.21%) Spring
8 43 (9.27%) Node.js
9 33 (7.11%) AngularJS
9 33 (7.11%) JSON
10 32 (6.90%) ASP.NET
11 31 (6.68%) Kafka
11 31 (6.68%) LDAP
11 31 (6.68%) Spring Boot
12 30 (6.47%) SailPoint
13 26 (5.60%) .NET Framework
14 25 (5.39%) J2EE
14 25 (5.39%) OAuth
15 22 (4.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.78%) Mobile App
2 43 (9.27%) PKI
3 25 (5.39%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.08%) DataPower
9 5 (1.08%) IoT
9 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.86%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.65%) CMDB
11 3 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.70%) Linux
2 32 (6.90%) Windows
3 21 (4.53%) Unix
4 13 (2.80%) Android
4 13 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.86%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) AIX
8 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (29.31%) Agile
2 66 (14.22%) TDD
3 65 (14.01%) DevOps
3 65 (14.01%) Scrum
4 52 (11.21%) Continuous Integration
4 52 (11.21%) Microservices
5 51 (10.99%) Software Engineering
6 49 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 47 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (9.70%) OWASP
10 43 (9.27%) Cryptography
10 43 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (9.27%) Test Automation
11 42 (9.05%) Key Management
12 39 (8.41%) Application Security
12 39 (8.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 39 (8.41%) Penetration Testing
12 39 (8.41%) Security Testing
13 38 (8.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 134 (28.88%) Java
2 123 (26.51%) JavaScript
3 99 (21.34%) SQL
4 76 (16.38%) C#
5 56 (12.07%) Python
6 23 (4.96%) Scala
7 19 (4.09%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.37%) ABAP
10 10 (2.16%) C++
11 7 (1.51%) Perl
12 6 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.29%) XPath
13 5 (1.08%) PHP
13 5 (1.08%) Ruby
14 4 (0.86%) Bash
14 4 (0.86%) Groovy
14 4 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 62 (13.36%) Degree
4 40 (8.62%) SANS
5 39 (8.41%) CREST Certified
5 39 (8.41%) GIAC
5 39 (8.41%) GPEN
5 39 (8.41%) OSCP
6 25 (5.39%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.94%) CCIE
8 9 (1.94%) CCIE Data Center
9 6 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.86%) CCNP
11 3 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.22%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.41%) GDPR
1 39 (8.41%) NCSC
1 39 (8.41%) PCI DSS
2 28 (6.03%) QA
3 7 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.29%) SLA
5 2 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.22%) HL7
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 85 (18.32%) Active Directory
2 40 (8.62%) Docker
3 20 (4.31%) ACF2
3 20 (4.31%) IAG
3 20 (4.31%) RACF
4 7 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (8.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.02%) Terraform
3 13 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.59%) Grafana
5 10 (2.16%) Ansible
6 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.08%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.08%) Kibana
8 2 (0.43%) logstash
8 2 (0.43%) Matomo
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.22%) Anchore
9 1 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.22%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.22%) MOM
9 1 (0.22%) Packer
9 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.22%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 68 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 57 (12.28%) ServiceNow
3 56 (12.07%) Oracle
4 39 (8.41%) Virgin Media
5 24 (5.17%) SAP
6 20 (4.31%) Sybase
7 18 (3.88%) Adobe
8 16 (3.45%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.59%) Google
9 12 (2.59%) IBM
10 9 (1.94%) Cisco
11 7 (1.51%) Guidewire
11 7 (1.51%) Splunk
12 6 (1.29%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.29%) Siebel
12 6 (1.29%) Workday
13 5 (1.08%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.08%) Infoblox
13 5 (1.08%) Symantec
13 5 (1.08%) Zscaler