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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 198 152
Rank change year-on-year +16 -46 -28
Contract jobs citing Web Services 238 267 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 1.17% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.16% 6.46% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 170 359
10th Percentile £332 £400 £362
25th Percentile £450 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 19
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £63.62
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 3,325 4,132 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.13% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,176 3,074 4,318
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £406 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.42%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 86 135
10th Percentile £22.65 £22.20 £19.80
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £67.68
90th Percentile £74.46 £79.19 £77.19
UK median hourly rate £47.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.21% +23.81% +16.67%

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 30 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 30 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 +6 75 £600 +14.29% 34
North of England +31 65 £525 +5.00% 34
Yorkshire +29 35 £550 - 10
Scotland +37 34 £538 +11.79% 6
Midlands +2 30 £613 +2.08% 27
North West +11 27 £463 -7.50% 21
East of England +12 21 £350 -30.00% 13
West Midlands +8 21 £638 +2.00% 17
South West -17 10 £475 -13.64% 12
East Midlands +10 9 £600 - 10
North East +11 3 £491 -1.90% 3
Northern Ireland +4 3 £575 +43.75% 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 16 (6.72%) Confluence
2 6 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.10%) Appian
4 4 (1.68%) IIS
4 4 (1.68%) Mule
4 4 (1.68%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.26%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.26%) WordPress
6 2 (0.84%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.42%) Jadu
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) CATIA
2 1 (0.42%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.42%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Temenos T24
2 5 (2.10%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.45%) Azure
2 77 (32.35%) AWS
3 15 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.04%) PaaS
5 10 (4.20%) IaaS
6 9 (3.78%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.78%) SaaS
6 9 (3.78%) Serverless
7 8 (3.36%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.36%) GitHub
8 7 (2.94%) Apigee
8 7 (2.94%) Kong
9 5 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (2.10%) Unqork
10 4 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.68%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.26%) npm
11 3 (1.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.39%) SSL
2 12 (5.04%) LAN
2 12 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.04%) VPN
2 12 (5.04%) WAN
3 11 (4.62%) Ethernet
4 10 (4.20%) VoIP
5 9 (3.78%) MPLS
5 9 (3.78%) PBX
5 9 (3.78%) WLAN
6 7 (2.94%) Firewall
6 7 (2.94%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.52%) Internet
8 5 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.10%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.10%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.10%) DHCP
8 5 (2.10%) DNS
8 5 (2.10%) HTTP
8 5 (2.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.62%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.36%) Power BI
4 7 (2.94%) MySQL
4 7 (2.94%) OLAP
4 7 (2.94%) OLTP
5 6 (2.52%) Oracle OLAP
5 6 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.68%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.26%) Redis
9 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.84%) Tableau
10 1 (0.42%) Big Data
10 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.92%) JIRA
2 20 (8.40%) Git
2 20 (8.40%) Visual Studio
3 17 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.62%) Eclipse
5 7 (2.94%) JMeter
6 6 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.10%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.10%) Liquibase
7 5 (2.10%) Selenium
7 5 (2.10%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.68%) Gatling
8 4 (1.68%) GitLab
8 4 (1.68%) Log4j
8 4 (1.68%) Maven
9 3 (1.26%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.26%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (1.26%) Mocha
9 3 (1.26%) webpack
9 3 (1.26%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (23.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.66%) Public Sector
3 22 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.24%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (5.46%) Finance
5 12 (5.04%) Military
6 11 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.20%) Banking
8 9 (3.78%) Billing
9 4 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (34.45%) Developer
2 77 (32.35%) Architect
3 17 (7.14%) Consultant
3 17 (7.14%) Senior
3 17 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
4 15 (6.30%) Software Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 14 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 13 (5.46%) C# Software Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Applications Support
7 11 (4.62%) Applications Support Engineer
7 11 (4.62%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.20%) Lead
9 9 (3.78%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (3.78%) JIRA Engineer
9 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 9 (3.78%) Test Manager
10 8 (3.36%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.45%) RESTful
2 31 (13.03%) REST
3 29 (12.18%) .NET
4 27 (11.34%) SOAP
5 24 (10.08%) XML
6 23 (9.66%) Kafka
6 23 (9.66%) Spring
6 23 (9.66%) Spring Boot
7 19 (7.98%) HTML
7 19 (7.98%) Node.js
8 17 (7.14%) .NET Framework
8 17 (7.14%) OpenID
9 15 (6.30%) CSS
9 15 (6.30%) JSON
10 14 (5.88%) React
11 13 (5.46%) Entity Framework
12 11 (4.62%) J2EE
12 11 (4.62%) OAuth
13 10 (4.20%) .NET Core
13 10 (4.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.81%) PKI
2 18 (7.56%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.36%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.94%) DataPower
6 6 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.52%) Life Science
7 5 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.68%) NHS
8 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.26%) IoT
9 3 (1.26%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.39%) Linux
2 21 (8.82%) Windows
3 8 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.52%) Unix
5 4 (1.68%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.57%) Agile
2 43 (18.07%) Cryptography
3 41 (17.23%) Key Management
4 35 (14.71%) Service Management
5 31 (13.03%) ITSM
5 31 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (12.61%) TDD
7 29 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (11.76%) DevOps
8 28 (11.76%) Scrum
8 28 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 25 (10.50%) Customer Service
10 24 (10.08%) ITIL
10 24 (10.08%) Software Engineering
11 23 (9.66%) Asset Management
11 23 (9.66%) IT Asset Management
11 23 (9.66%) Operations Management
11 23 (9.66%) Service Delivery
12 22 (9.24%) Analytics
13 21 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.17%) Java
2 44 (18.49%) JavaScript
3 39 (16.39%) C#
4 24 (10.08%) SQL
5 13 (5.46%) C++
5 13 (5.46%) Python
6 9 (3.78%) Scala
7 8 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.52%) C
8 6 (2.52%) Go
8 6 (2.52%) PHP
9 5 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.68%) Groovy
11 3 (1.26%) Bash
11 3 (1.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) ABAP
12 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (37.39%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 47 (19.75%) Degree
4 31 (13.03%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.78%) CCIE
5 9 (3.78%) CCIE Data Center
5 9 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.36%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.68%) CCNP
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) ISEB
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.10%) HL7
1 5 (2.10%) QA
2 4 (1.68%) SLA
3 3 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.26%) WCAG
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (23.95%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.98%) Docker
3 7 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.04%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.26%) Ansible
2 3 (1.26%) Grafana
3 2 (0.84%) Kibana
3 2 (0.84%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) Anchore
4 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.42%) Packer
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.92%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.56%) Oracle
4 13 (5.46%) IBM
5 9 (3.78%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.78%) Cisco
6 8 (3.36%) VMware
7 7 (2.94%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.94%) TSYS
8 6 (2.52%) Cadence
9 5 (2.10%) Adobe
9 5 (2.10%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.10%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.10%) OpenText
9 5 (2.10%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.10%) Pega
9 5 (2.10%) Symantec
9 5 (2.10%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.68%) Google
11 3 (1.26%) SAP