Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 193 197 135
Rank change year-on-year +4 -62 -26
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,521 2,001 4,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.91% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.25% 6.31% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 876 1,453 2,375
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,969 £50,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £99,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 1,227 £57,494 -11.55% 215
UK excluding London +26 1,094 £55,000 - 135
Work from Home -49 551 £57,500 -4.17% 115
London -31 384 £70,000 -10.42% 76
South East +3 306 £57,500 - 42
North of England +64 231 £55,173 +5.09% 30
Midlands +75 189 £52,500 -4.55% 30
Scotland +14 183 £66,250 -2.05% 3
North West +71 167 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East Midlands +78 125 £52,500 +5.00% 13
South West -34 65 £61,250 +22.50% 14
East of England -57 65 £35,500 -40.83% 11
West Midlands +9 63 £55,000 - 17
Yorkshire +51 50 £52,500 +16.67% 11
Northern Ireland +31 31 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Wales +12 24 £32,500 -40.15% 5
North East -3 14 £55,000 +3.05% 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 79 (5.19%) IIS
2 52 (3.42%) Apache
2 52 (3.42%) CMS
3 45 (2.96%) JBoss
4 38 (2.50%) OpenStack
4 38 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
5 31 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 24 (1.58%) Tomcat
7 22 (1.45%) SAS
8 14 (0.92%) Confluence
9 10 (0.66%) EPiServer
10 8 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.46%) WordPress
12 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.33%) Drupal
13 5 (0.33%) nginx
14 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
14 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
15 3 (0.20%) Ethereum
Applications
1 23 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.18%) Photoshop
3 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.78%) SDL Web 8
3 25 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.92%) NEC Housing
6 13 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.85%) Shopify
7 11 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.59%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.33%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.20%) R3 Corda
12 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
13 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
13 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
13 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 581 (38.20%) Azure
2 278 (18.28%) AWS
3 243 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
4 227 (14.92%) IBM Cloud
5 194 (12.75%) Serverless
6 126 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 125 (8.22%) Azure API Management
7 125 (8.22%) Azure Functions
8 118 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 114 (7.50%) SaaS
10 62 (4.08%) Power Platform
11 53 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.16%) GCP
13 47 (3.09%) GitHub
14 44 (2.89%) PaaS
15 31 (2.04%) IaaS
16 22 (1.45%) PowerApps
17 20 (1.31%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.25%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.54%) Kerberos
2 42 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.91%) HTTP
4 22 (1.45%) Internet
5 21 (1.38%) VPN
6 16 (1.05%) Network Security
7 15 (0.99%) DNS
7 15 (0.99%) SSH
7 15 (0.99%) SSL
8 13 (0.85%) SNMP
9 11 (0.72%) Firewall
10 10 (0.66%) SMTP
11 8 (0.53%) MQTT
12 4 (0.26%) 5G
12 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.26%) LAN
12 4 (0.26%) RS-232
12 4 (0.26%) WAN
12 4 (0.26%) WLAN
13 3 (0.20%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (23.73%) NoSQL
2 356 (23.41%) PostgreSQL
3 341 (22.42%) SQL Server
4 261 (17.16%) Relational Database
5 255 (16.77%) MongoDB
6 223 (14.66%) DB2
7 116 (7.63%) MySQL
8 70 (4.60%) Metadata
9 46 (3.02%) Power BI
10 40 (2.63%) Oracle Database
11 37 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 36 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.97%) MS Access
14 23 (1.51%) RDBMS
15 20 (1.31%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 9 (0.59%) Big Data
19 9 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 341 (22.42%) Git
2 182 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 140 (9.20%) Visual Studio
4 99 (6.51%) JIRA
5 82 (5.39%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.27%) Artifactory
7 42 (2.76%) Selenium
8 37 (2.43%) TeamCity
9 33 (2.17%) Postman
10 32 (2.10%) IntelliJ
11 31 (2.04%) JUnit
11 31 (2.04%) Moq
12 30 (1.97%) NUnit
13 29 (1.91%) Eclipse
14 28 (1.84%) Jasmine
14 28 (1.84%) Karma Test Runner
15 24 (1.58%) JMeter
16 23 (1.51%) Maven
17 22 (1.45%) Cucumber
17 22 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 390 (25.64%) Finance
2 322 (21.17%) Public Sector
3 307 (20.18%) Social Skills
4 278 (18.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (10.91%) Marketing
6 165 (10.85%) Law
7 85 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
8 81 (5.33%) Retail
9 72 (4.73%) Legal
10 59 (3.88%) Banking
11 26 (1.71%) Local Government
12 24 (1.58%) Police
12 24 (1.58%) Publishing
13 19 (1.25%) Back Office
14 18 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.85%) Electronics
15 13 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.79%) French Language
17 11 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 787 (51.74%) Developer
2 311 (20.45%) Senior
3 266 (17.49%) Software Engineer
4 235 (15.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 175 (11.51%) Senior Developer
6 167 (10.98%) Lead
7 160 (10.52%) Full Stack Engineer
8 126 (8.28%) Azure Developer
9 107 (7.03%) .NET Developer
9 107 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
10 102 (6.71%) C# Developer
11 90 (5.92%) Java Engineer
12 89 (5.85%) Java Software Engineer
13 88 (5.79%) Lead Software Engineer
13 88 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 87 (5.72%) Architect
15 81 (5.33%) Java Developer
16 61 (4.01%) Software Developer
17 55 (3.62%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 50 (3.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 671 (44.12%) .NET
2 665 (43.72%) REST
3 624 (41.03%) HTML
4 550 (36.16%) CSS
5 515 (33.86%) AngularJS
6 455 (29.91%) XML
7 443 (29.13%) ASP.NET
8 376 (24.72%) RESTful
9 366 (24.06%) React
10 345 (22.68%) JSON
11 325 (21.37%) jQuery
12 321 (21.10%) SOAP
13 307 (20.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 299 (19.66%) Vue
15 243 (15.98%) ASP.NET Core
15 243 (15.98%) Node.js
16 221 (14.53%) Backbone.js
16 221 (14.53%) Ember.js
17 188 (12.36%) Spring
18 138 (9.07%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 307 (20.18%) Algorithms
2 245 (16.11%) Data Structures
3 235 (15.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 230 (15.12%) Blockchain
5 144 (9.47%) Management Information System
6 105 (6.90%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.19%) Reference Data
8 72 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (4.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 62 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
11 61 (4.01%) Onboarding
12 59 (3.88%) CMDB
13 50 (3.29%) Cloud Native
14 39 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.91%) Product Ownership
16 28 (1.84%) Legacy Code
17 25 (1.64%) Public Cloud
17 25 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
18 23 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
19 18 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 338 (22.22%) Linux
2 293 (19.26%) Windows
3 251 (16.50%) Android
4 235 (15.45%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.50%) Unix
6 27 (1.78%) AIX
7 14 (0.92%) Solaris
8 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.33%) Windows Mobile
11 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.066%) CentOS
13 1 (0.066%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (45.23%) Agile
2 465 (30.57%) Full Stack Development
2 465 (30.57%) MVC
3 404 (26.56%) DevOps
4 383 (25.18%) OO
5 362 (23.80%) Software Engineering
6 336 (22.09%) OOP
7 318 (20.91%) Design Patterns
8 309 (20.32%) User Experience
9 304 (19.99%) Mentoring
10 296 (19.46%) SOLID
11 295 (19.40%) Web Development
12 287 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
13 282 (18.54%) CI/CD
14 258 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
14 258 (16.96%) Responsive Web Design
15 236 (15.52%) SDLC
16 232 (15.25%) MVVM
17 225 (14.79%) Design Thinking
18 221 (14.53%) Co-Creation
Programming Languages
1 752 (49.44%) JavaScript
2 730 (47.99%) SQL
3 648 (42.60%) C#
4 456 (29.98%) Java
5 278 (18.28%) Python
6 149 (9.80%) T-SQL
7 127 (8.35%) Go
8 107 (7.03%) TypeScript
9 92 (6.05%) PHP
10 65 (4.27%) Prolog
10 65 (4.27%) SPARQL
11 62 (4.08%) VB
12 61 (4.01%) VB.NET
13 59 (3.88%) PowerShell
14 44 (2.89%) C
15 41 (2.70%) XPath
16 40 (2.63%) Shell Script
17 37 (2.43%) C++
18 29 (1.91%) PL/SQL
19 28 (1.84%) VB6
Qualifications
1 209 (13.74%) Degree
2 154 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 135 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 67 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.72%) MBA
10 11 (0.72%) PhD
11 10 (0.66%) CISSP
11 10 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.39%) CISM
12 6 (0.39%) GIAC
12 6 (0.39%) HNC
12 6 (0.39%) SANS
13 5 (0.33%) MCAD
14 4 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.30%) QA
2 52 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.18%) NIST
4 16 (1.05%) GDPR
5 13 (0.85%) COBIT
6 11 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.39%) SLA
9 6 (0.39%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.26%) PMO
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.13%) DICOM
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.066%) WCAG
System Software
1 184 (12.10%) Docker
2 86 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.46%) Firmware
4 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.13%) RACF
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.066%) ACF2
7 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.066%) etcd
7 1 (0.066%) IAG
7 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.066%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 112 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.75%) Ansible
3 44 (2.89%) Terraform
4 19 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.85%) WMI
6 8 (0.53%) HP UCMDB
7 6 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (0.33%) Puppet
9 4 (0.26%) Consul
9 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.26%) Kibana
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) MIIS
10 3 (0.20%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 265 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 232 (15.25%) IBM
3 228 (14.99%) Red Hat
4 148 (9.73%) Oracle
5 71 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.29%) Google
7 38 (2.50%) HP
7 38 (2.50%) WSO2
8 34 (2.24%) Adobe
8 34 (2.24%) BMC
8 34 (2.24%) Remedy
9 24 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.38%) Splunk
11 18 (1.18%) VMware
12 14 (0.92%) Cognizant
12 14 (0.92%) NEC
13 13 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.72%) Twitter
15 10 (0.66%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.66%) Xamarin