Web Services Contracts

Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 190 207 154
Rank change year-on-year +17 -53 -38
Contract jobs citing Web Services 543 774 1,661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.29% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.12% 5.56% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 517 1,074
10th Percentile £410 £406 £377
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +6.25% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 29
10th Percentile £59.00 £57.88 £46.80
25th Percentile - £65.88 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.65% +55.38%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.15
% change year-on-year - - +55.38%

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £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 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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
England +34 464 £550 - 215
Work from Home +78 289 £550 +3.00% 115
UK excluding London +19 251 £531 +6.25% 135
London +19 238 £575 +4.55% 76
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
Scotland +28 28 £590 +29.32% 3
Midlands -3 22 £638 +7.06% 30
West Midlands +16 16 £638 +10.87% 17
East of England +5 11 £350 -30.00% 11
East Midlands +11 6 £600 - 13
South West -3 6 £443 -19.55% 14
North East +22 4 £431 -13.80% 2

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 16 (2.95%) Confluence
2 14 (2.58%) IIS
3 10 (1.84%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.66%) Mule
5 8 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.47%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.10%) Apache
7 6 (1.10%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.92%) JBoss
8 5 (0.92%) Mule ESB
8 5 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.74%) CMS
9 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.55%) WordPress
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
Applications
1 12 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 10 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.29%) SAP EWM
3 6 (1.10%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.92%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (28.18%) Azure
2 118 (21.73%) AWS
3 59 (10.87%) PaaS
4 49 (9.02%) IaaS
5 47 (8.66%) SaaS
6 44 (8.10%) GitHub
7 23 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.05%) Serverless
9 17 (3.13%) Azure API Management
9 17 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.95%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (2.76%) Azure Storage
12 13 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.39%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.73%) SSL
2 39 (7.18%) 5G
2 39 (7.18%) Broadband
3 14 (2.58%) Internet
4 13 (2.39%) Firewall
5 12 (2.21%) LAN
5 12 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.21%) WAN
6 11 (2.03%) VPN
7 10 (1.84%) HTTP
7 10 (1.84%) VoIP
8 9 (1.66%) MPLS
8 9 (1.66%) PBX
8 9 (1.66%) WLAN
9 8 (1.47%) DNS
10 7 (1.29%) Ethernet
10 7 (1.29%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.92%) DHCP
11 5 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 49 (9.02%) MySQL
3 35 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.52%) Oracle Reports
5 29 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 25 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.39%) Oracle Database
10 11 (2.03%) OLTP
11 10 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.84%) Power BI
12 9 (1.66%) Big Data
12 9 (1.66%) SAP HANA
13 8 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.29%) Redis
15 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
16 5 (0.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 73 (13.44%) Git
2 53 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 47 (8.66%) JIRA
4 16 (2.95%) JUnit
4 16 (2.95%) Postman
5 15 (2.76%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.58%) Eclipse
7 13 (2.39%) Maven
7 13 (2.39%) Selenium
8 11 (2.03%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.84%) Gatling
9 10 (1.84%) JMeter
10 9 (1.66%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.29%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.10%) GitLab
12 6 (1.10%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.92%) Mockito
13 5 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 117 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 103 (18.97%) Finance
3 48 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 45 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.37%) Law
6 39 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (6.63%) Banking
8 23 (4.24%) Financial Institution
9 21 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (3.31%) Marketing
11 17 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.84%) Military
12 10 (1.84%) Retail
13 9 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.29%) Billing
14 7 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.74%) Electronics
15 4 (0.74%) Front Office
16 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (39.78%) Developer
2 103 (18.97%) Architect
3 58 (10.68%) Senior
4 52 (9.58%) Consultant
5 47 (8.66%) Tester
6 39 (7.18%) Penetration Tester
6 39 (7.18%) Security Penetration Tester
6 39 (7.18%) Security Specialist
6 39 (7.18%) Security Tester
6 39 (7.18%) Senior Developer
6 39 (7.18%) Testing Specialist
7 35 (6.45%) Java Developer
7 35 (6.45%) Lead
8 28 (5.16%) Full Stack Developer
9 26 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 23 (4.24%) ServiceNow Developer
11 18 (3.31%) .NET Developer
12 17 (3.13%) SailPoint Developer
12 17 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
13 16 (2.95%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (20.81%) REST
2 95 (17.50%) HTML
3 86 (15.84%) SOAP
4 85 (15.65%) XML
5 75 (13.81%) .NET
6 73 (13.44%) RESTful
7 69 (12.71%) Spring
8 66 (12.15%) CSS
9 48 (8.84%) LDAP
10 47 (8.66%) JSON
10 47 (8.66%) Node.js
11 43 (7.92%) Spring Boot
12 39 (7.18%) SailPoint
13 37 (6.81%) AngularJS
14 35 (6.45%) Kafka
15 34 (6.26%) ASP.NET
16 32 (5.89%) J2EE
16 32 (5.89%) JSP
16 32 (5.89%) Servlets
17 29 (5.34%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.39%) Mobile App
2 44 (8.10%) PKI
3 33 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.92%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.92%) CMDB
9 5 (0.92%) DataPower
9 5 (0.92%) IoT
9 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (10.50%) Linux
2 34 (6.26%) Windows
3 21 (3.87%) Unix
4 16 (2.95%) Android
4 16 (2.95%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.74%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (28.18%) Agile
2 71 (13.08%) DevOps
2 71 (13.08%) Scrum
3 67 (12.34%) TDD
4 58 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
4 58 (10.68%) Microservices
5 57 (10.50%) CI/CD
5 57 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (10.13%) Software Engineering
7 54 (9.94%) Test Automation
8 50 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (8.47%) Migration
11 45 (8.29%) OWASP
12 43 (7.92%) Cryptography
12 43 (7.92%) OO
13 42 (7.73%) Key Management
14 41 (7.55%) Service Management
14 41 (7.55%) Unit Testing
15 39 (7.18%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 166 (30.57%) Java
2 145 (26.70%) JavaScript
3 116 (21.36%) SQL
4 79 (14.55%) C#
5 57 (10.50%) Python
6 23 (4.24%) Scala
7 21 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.03%) ABAP
10 10 (1.84%) C++
11 8 (1.47%) Go
12 7 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.29%) C
12 7 (1.29%) Perl
13 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.10%) XPath
14 5 (0.92%) PHP
14 5 (0.92%) Ruby
15 4 (0.74%) Bash
15 4 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 153 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.71%) Degree
4 42 (7.73%) SANS
5 39 (7.18%) CREST Certified
5 39 (7.18%) GIAC
5 39 (7.18%) GPEN
5 39 (7.18%) OSCP
6 25 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.66%) CCIE
9 9 (1.66%) CCIE Data Center
10 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.74%) CCNP
13 3 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.55%) CISSP
13 3 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.18%) GDPR
1 39 (7.18%) NCSC
1 39 (7.18%) PCI DSS
2 28 (5.16%) QA
3 10 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.10%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.55%) WCAG
7 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 49 (9.02%) Docker
3 28 (5.16%) ACF2
3 28 (5.16%) IAG
3 28 (5.16%) RACF
4 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.76%) Terraform
3 13 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.21%) Grafana
5 11 (2.03%) Ansible
6 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.92%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.92%) Kibana
8 2 (0.37%) logstash
8 2 (0.37%) Matomo
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) Anchore
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.18%) MOM
9 1 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.18%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 80 (14.73%) Oracle
2 77 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 69 (12.71%) ServiceNow
4 39 (7.18%) Virgin Media
5 28 (5.16%) Sybase
6 27 (4.97%) SAP
7 20 (3.68%) Salesforce
8 18 (3.31%) Adobe
9 13 (2.39%) Google
10 12 (2.21%) IBM
11 11 (2.03%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.66%) Cisco
13 7 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 7 (1.29%) Splunk
13 7 (1.29%) VMware
14 6 (1.10%) Cadence
14 6 (1.10%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.10%) Siebel
14 6 (1.10%) Workday
15 5 (0.92%) CheckPoint