Web Services Jobs

Web Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 188 200
Rank change year-on-year -174 +12 -61
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 411 1,541 1,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.56% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.33% 7.33% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 287 877 1,378
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £45,125 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Web Services falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 16 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 14 May 2025. 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 -161 373 £60,000 +8.75% 530
UK excluding London -171 242 £57,500 +4.55% 338
Work from Home -93 186 £62,500 +8.70% 434
London -45 157 £75,000 +15.38% 267
South East -77 74 £60,000 +4.35% 97
North of England -107 44 £60,000 +8.75% 99
Midlands -77 38 £48,750 -7.14% 58
East of England +17 36 £50,000 +40.85% 21
South West +81 33 £85,253 +36.40% 30
North West -120 32 £60,000 - 60
West Midlands +13 26 £56,844 +3.35% 42
Scotland -26 12 £65,000 - 29
East Midlands -68 12 £47,500 -9.52% 13
Yorkshire +36 9 £45,500 -13.33% 29
Wales +21 5 £37,500 +15.38% 6
North East +33 3 £52,500 -4.55% 11

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 19 (4.62%) Confluence
2 13 (3.16%) CMS
2 13 (3.16%) JBoss
2 13 (3.16%) Red Hat Fuse
3 10 (2.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.19%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.46%) IIS
5 6 (1.46%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.97%) Apache
6 4 (0.97%) nginx
6 4 (0.97%) WordPress
7 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.73%) Mule
7 3 (0.73%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.73%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.49%) CICS
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (4.87%) NetSuite
2 15 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.68%) JDE OneWorld
4 7 (1.70%) Orchestrade
5 6 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.73%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.73%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 3 (0.73%) Maximo
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.24%) Endur
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.24%) SAP PLM
9 1 (0.24%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.68%) AWS
2 115 (27.98%) Azure
3 50 (12.17%) Serverless
4 33 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
5 31 (7.54%) GCP
6 30 (7.30%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (6.33%) GitHub
9 23 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (5.11%) Boomi
11 21 (5.11%) SaaS
12 20 (4.87%) Power Automate
13 19 (4.62%) PowerApps
14 17 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 16 (3.89%) npm
16 14 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (3.16%) Amazon S3
18 11 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.43%) FTP
2 5 (1.22%) DNS
3 4 (0.97%) Firewall
4 3 (0.73%) DHCP
4 3 (0.73%) HTTP
4 3 (0.73%) SSL
4 3 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) Internet
6 1 (0.24%) Network Security
6 1 (0.24%) SAN
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) VoIP
6 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.24%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (20.44%) SQL Server
2 64 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (14.84%) Relational Database
4 55 (13.38%) MySQL
5 28 (6.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (4.87%) RDBMS
8 19 (4.62%) NoSQL
9 17 (4.14%) Power BI
10 12 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.68%) Redis
12 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.70%) DB2
13 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.70%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 133 (32.36%) Git
2 68 (16.55%) Jenkins
3 45 (10.95%) JIRA
4 41 (9.98%) JUnit
5 23 (5.60%) Mockito
6 22 (5.35%) JMeter
7 17 (4.14%) Maven
8 16 (3.89%) Cypress.io
8 16 (3.89%) Postman
9 15 (3.65%) SonarQube
9 15 (3.65%) Visual Studio
9 15 (3.65%) webpack
10 14 (3.41%) Cucumber
11 13 (3.16%) GitLab
11 13 (3.16%) Selenium
12 12 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (2.68%) SoapUI
14 10 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (2.19%) Subversion
15 9 (2.19%) TeamCity
General
1 97 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 92 (22.38%) Finance
3 41 (9.98%) Retail
4 40 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.76%) Banking
6 13 (3.16%) Investment Banking
6 13 (3.16%) Law
6 13 (3.16%) Marketing
7 8 (1.95%) Back Office
8 7 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.46%) Advertising
9 6 (1.46%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.22%) Automotive
10 5 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Agriculture
11 4 (0.97%) Games
11 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 216 (52.55%) Developer
2 97 (23.60%) Senior
3 53 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 47 (11.44%) Software Engineer
5 45 (10.95%) Senior Developer
6 42 (10.22%) Lead
7 32 (7.79%) Analyst
8 27 (6.57%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.87%) NetSuite Developer
11 19 (4.62%) Architect
12 17 (4.14%) Lead Developer
13 16 (3.89%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.65%) C# Developer
15 13 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) SQL Analyst
16 12 (2.92%) AWS Software Engineer
16 12 (2.92%) Junior
16 12 (2.92%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (45.26%) REST
2 129 (31.39%) HTML
3 116 (28.22%) SOAP
4 100 (24.33%) CSS
5 99 (24.09%) RESTful
6 85 (20.68%) XML
7 83 (20.19%) .NET
7 83 (20.19%) JSON
8 67 (16.30%) Spring
9 62 (15.09%) Spring Boot
10 59 (14.36%) React
11 51 (12.41%) AngularJS
12 46 (11.19%) jQuery
13 43 (10.46%) ASP.NET
14 42 (10.22%) Hibernate
15 39 (9.49%) Node.js
16 38 (9.25%) .NET Framework
17 31 (7.54%) CSS3
18 28 (6.81%) Apache Camel
18 28 (6.81%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.65%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.16%) CMDB
6 13 (3.16%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.70%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.73%) NHS
14 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.98%) Linux
2 22 (5.35%) Windows
3 14 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.19%) Android
6 7 (1.70%) Unix
7 3 (0.73%) AIX
7 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.49%) zOS
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (47.93%) Agile
2 113 (27.49%) Microservices
3 90 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (21.41%) CI/CD
5 79 (19.22%) DevOps
6 72 (17.52%) TDD
7 68 (16.55%) Software Engineering
8 67 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
8 67 (16.30%) Scrum
9 65 (15.82%) MVC
10 49 (11.92%) Test Automation
11 48 (11.68%) OOP
12 41 (9.98%) BDD
13 40 (9.73%) Kanban
13 40 (9.73%) SDLC
14 39 (9.49%) OO
15 38 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (9.25%) Mentoring
16 37 (9.00%) User Experience
17 36 (8.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 177 (43.07%) JavaScript
2 156 (37.96%) SQL
3 114 (27.74%) C#
4 102 (24.82%) Java
5 53 (12.90%) Python
5 53 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 29 (7.06%) PHP
7 22 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.38%) T-SQL
9 16 (3.89%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.43%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.19%) C++
12 6 (1.46%) Bash
12 6 (1.46%) C
13 5 (1.22%) Groovy
13 5 (1.22%) Swift
14 4 (0.97%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.73%) VB
15 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.73%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 50 (12.17%) Degree
2 44 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 40 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.73%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.24%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.06%) QA
2 16 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.65%) SLA
4 5 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (21.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) Postfix
3 4 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.49%) Squid
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 68 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.65%) Ansible
3 14 (3.41%) Kibana
4 12 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.70%) Terraform
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) Control-M
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.49%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.49%) Grafana
8 2 (0.49%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.24%) Consul
9 1 (0.24%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 87 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.06%) Oracle
3 26 (6.33%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.38%) Ping Identity
4 18 (4.38%) Splunk
5 16 (3.89%) Dynatrace
5 16 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.92%) Dell
6 12 (2.92%) SAP
7 11 (2.68%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.19%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.19%) IBM
9 6 (1.46%) VMware
10 5 (1.22%) Twitter
11 4 (0.97%) Apple
11 4 (0.97%) HP
11 4 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.97%) Workday
12 3 (0.73%) Google
12 3 (0.73%) Infor