Web Services Contracts in the Thames Valley

Web Services
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 98 116
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 29 52 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.09% 1.79% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.41% 10.46% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 35
10th Percentile £444 £449 £388
25th Percentile £450 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +31.25%
75th Percentile £520 £604 £650
90th Percentile £555 £700 -
South East median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - +30.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley 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 345 497 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.97% 17.13% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 360 441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +45.56%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +43.33% -2.17%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -22 27 £500 -4.76% 8
Buckinghamshire - 2 £438 - 4
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (20.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.45%) Jadu
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (24.14%) IaaS
3 7 (24.14%) PaaS
3 7 (24.14%) SaaS
3 7 (24.14%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Azure API Management
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) SSL
2 4 (13.79%) 5G
2 4 (13.79%) Broadband
3 3 (10.34%) Network Security
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Relational Database
2 7 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) JUnit
4 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.45%) JMeter
5 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Law
3 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Java Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Penetration Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Security Penetration Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Security Specialist
5 4 (13.79%) Security Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Tester
5 4 (13.79%) Testing Specialist
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) CRM Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) CRM Technical Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Functional Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) REST
2 7 (24.14%) Spring
2 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (20.69%) Node.js
4 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 4 (13.79%) SOAP
5 3 (10.34%) .NET
5 3 (10.34%) J2EE
6 2 (6.90%) Apache Camel
6 2 (6.90%) HTML
6 2 (6.90%) Kafka
6 2 (6.90%) Mustache
6 2 (6.90%) React
7 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) Doctrine
7 1 (3.45%) jQuery
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) PKI
2 7 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
4 3 (10.34%) Life Science
4 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) NHS
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Cryptography
1 11 (37.93%) Key Management
2 10 (34.48%) Microservices
3 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 8 (27.59%) TDD
5 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (24.14%) DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) Scrum
6 5 (17.24%) BDD
6 5 (17.24%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (17.24%) Kanban
7 4 (13.79%) Application Security
7 4 (13.79%) ITSM
7 4 (13.79%) Migration
7 4 (13.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 4 (13.79%) OWASP
7 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.79%) Security Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Java
2 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) PHP
3 4 (13.79%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) Ruby
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) Degree
3 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) CREST Certified
4 4 (13.79%) GIAC
4 4 (13.79%) GPEN
4 4 (13.79%) OSCP
4 4 (13.79%) SANS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
1 4 (13.79%) NCSC
1 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.34%) HL7
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 10 (34.48%) Docker
3 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
1 4 (13.79%) Virgin Media
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk