Web Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 186 151
Rank change year-on-year -6 -35 -25
Contract jobs citing Web Services 233 302 540
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.29% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 7.02% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 199 351
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +3.84% +16.47%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £588
90th Percentile £705 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -10.34% +14.62% +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -3 81 £540 +2.86% 37
North of England +42 70 £525 +5.00% 34
Yorkshire +37 37 £550 +2.33% 12
Scotland +41 31 £590 +31.11% 5
North West +9 29 £450 -10.00% 18
Midlands +14 26 £625 +4.17% 26
West Midlands +9 18 £638 +8.51% 13
East of England 0 15 £350 -30.00% 7
South West -3 10 £475 -13.64% 8
East Midlands +19 8 £600 - 13
North East +15 4 £431 -13.80% 4
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (5.58%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.72%) Mule
3 4 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.72%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.29%) IIS
4 3 (1.29%) WordPress
5 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Appian
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.43%) Jadu
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (36.05%) AWS
2 75 (32.19%) Azure
3 10 (4.29%) IaaS
3 10 (4.29%) PaaS
4 9 (3.86%) SaaS
5 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.43%) Serverless
6 6 (2.58%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.15%) Apigee
7 5 (2.15%) Kong
8 3 (1.29%) Azure API Management
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.29%) iPaaS
8 3 (1.29%) npm
8 3 (1.29%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 42 (18.03%) SSL
2 13 (5.58%) TCP/IP
3 12 (5.15%) LAN
3 12 (5.15%) VPN
3 12 (5.15%) WAN
4 11 (4.72%) Ethernet
5 10 (4.29%) VoIP
6 9 (3.86%) MPLS
6 9 (3.86%) PBX
6 9 (3.86%) WLAN
7 8 (3.43%) Firewall
8 7 (3.00%) Internet
8 7 (3.00%) Kerberos
9 6 (2.58%) DNS
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (2.15%) DHCP
10 5 (2.15%) HTTP
10 5 (2.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.15%) MySQL
5 5 (2.15%) OLAP
5 5 (2.15%) OLTP
5 5 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.15%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (2.15%) Power BI
6 3 (1.29%) Redis
7 2 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.86%) Tableau
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) GIS
8 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (10.73%) JIRA
2 21 (9.01%) Git
3 20 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 19 (8.15%) Visual Studio
5 12 (5.15%) Eclipse
6 8 (3.43%) JMeter
7 7 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.58%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.15%) Gatling
9 5 (2.15%) Liquibase
9 5 (2.15%) Selenium
9 5 (2.15%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.72%) GitLab
10 4 (1.72%) JUnit
10 4 (1.72%) Log4j
10 4 (1.72%) Maven
10 4 (1.72%) Zephyr
11 3 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (1.29%) Mocha
11 3 (1.29%) webpack
General
1 52 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.44%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.58%) Military
6 11 (4.72%) Finance
6 11 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.43%) Banking
7 8 (3.43%) Billing
8 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.29%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (35.19%) Developer
2 74 (31.76%) Architect
3 20 (8.58%) Senior
4 17 (7.30%) ServiceNow Developer
5 16 (6.87%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.44%) Consultant
6 15 (6.44%) Software Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) C# Software Engineer
8 12 (5.15%) .NET Developer
9 11 (4.72%) Applications Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) Lead
10 10 (4.29%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 9 (3.86%) Test Manager
12 8 (3.43%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.43%) Applications Support Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) JIRA Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.58%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.16%) RESTful
2 27 (11.59%) REST
3 26 (11.16%) .NET
4 25 (10.73%) XML
5 22 (9.44%) Node.js
5 22 (9.44%) OpenID
6 21 (9.01%) Kafka
7 20 (8.58%) SOAP
8 19 (8.15%) Spring
8 19 (8.15%) Spring Boot
9 18 (7.73%) HTML
10 17 (7.30%) JSON
10 17 (7.30%) OAuth
11 14 (6.01%) React
12 13 (5.58%) .NET Framework
13 12 (5.15%) CSS
14 10 (4.29%) J2EE
15 9 (3.86%) AngularJS
15 9 (3.86%) Entity Framework
15 9 (3.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.31%) PKI
2 17 (7.30%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.58%) Life Science
6 5 (2.15%) DataPower
7 4 (1.72%) IoT
7 4 (1.72%) NHS
7 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.29%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.29%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.60%) Linux
2 20 (8.58%) Windows
3 6 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.15%) Unix
5 4 (1.72%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (29.18%) Agile
2 45 (19.31%) Cryptography
3 44 (18.88%) Key Management
4 34 (14.59%) Service Management
5 31 (13.30%) ITSM
6 30 (12.88%) Test Automation
7 29 (12.45%) Scrum
8 28 (12.02%) TDD
9 27 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (11.16%) Customer Service
11 24 (10.30%) ITIL
11 24 (10.30%) Software Engineering
12 23 (9.87%) Asset Management
12 23 (9.87%) IT Asset Management
12 23 (9.87%) Operations Management
12 23 (9.87%) Service Delivery
13 22 (9.44%) Unit Testing
14 21 (9.01%) Analytics
15 20 (8.58%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.89%) Java
2 45 (19.31%) JavaScript
3 36 (15.45%) C#
4 21 (9.01%) SQL
5 16 (6.87%) Python
6 14 (6.01%) C++
7 10 (4.29%) Scala
8 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.58%) C
9 6 (2.58%) Go
9 6 (2.58%) PHP
10 5 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.72%) Groovy
12 3 (1.29%) Bash
12 3 (1.29%) Ruby
12 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.43%) ABAP
14 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 88 (37.77%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.04%) SC Cleared
3 50 (21.46%) Degree
4 25 (10.73%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.86%) CCIE
5 9 (3.86%) CCIE Data Center
5 9 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.43%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.72%) CCNP
9 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) ISEB
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.15%) HL7
1 5 (2.15%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) WCAG
3 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (24.03%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.58%) Docker
3 7 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.15%) Ansible
4 4 (1.72%) Grafana
5 2 (0.86%) Kibana
5 2 (0.86%) Terraform
6 1 (0.43%) Anchore
6 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.43%) Packer
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.16%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.44%) Oracle
4 9 (3.86%) Cisco
5 8 (3.43%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.00%) IBM
6 7 (3.00%) VMware
7 6 (2.58%) Cadence
7 6 (2.58%) Guidewire
8 5 (2.15%) Adobe
8 5 (2.15%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.15%) Google
8 5 (2.15%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.15%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.15%) Symantec
8 5 (2.15%) TSYS
8 5 (2.15%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.29%) Okta
10 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.86%) SAP