The first table below looks at the demand for Web Services skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Services over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 41 25 40
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 260 332 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 5.171% 7.284% 4.291%
As % of the Application Development category 12.78% 16.93% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 241 301 167
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% -8.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2035 1961 1563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.47% 43.02% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1813 1757 1428
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Web Services
England

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Web Services across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands Web Services Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Web Services across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Web Services Salary Trend

Web Services
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Web Services across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Web Services Salary Histogram

Web Services
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warwickshire -8 71 £32,500 -9.72%
Birmingham -32 56 £40,000 +6.66%
Solihull +9 36 £38,500 -3.75%
Coventry -1 33 £40,000 +58.41%
Worcestershire -2 25 £40,000 +23.07%
Staffordshire -10 17 £37,500 +7.14%
Shropshire -1 6 £34,000 -10.52%
Herefordshire +13 4 £27,500 -9.09%
Wolverhampton -5 2 £28,750 -11.53%
Walsall - 1 - -
Web Services
England

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Web Services also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Web Services.

1 365 (70.06%) .NET
2 318 (61.04%) C#
3 313 (60.08%) JavaScript
4 312 (59.88%) SQL Server
5 287 (55.09%) ASP.NET
6 273 (52.40%) CSS
7 267 (51.25%) HTML
8 264 (50.67%) SQL
9 245 (47.02%) XML
10 209 (40.12%) MVC
11 192 (36.85%) jQuery
12 164 (31.48%) Ajax
13 132 (25.34%) Microsoft
14 120 (23.03%) XSLT
15 115 (22.07%) OO
16 110 (21.11%) WCF
17 103 (19.77%) Web Development
18 102 (19.58%) VB.NET
19 98 (18.81%) .NET Framework
20 87 (16.70%) PHP
20 87 (16.70%) Java
21 82 (15.74%) SQL Server 2008
22 80 (15.36%) Agile Software Development
23 78 (14.97%) Windows
23 78 (14.97%) Finance
24 74 (14.20%) T-SQL
25 72 (13.82%) Linux
25 72 (13.82%) Scrum
26 67 (12.86%) Visual Studio
27 63 (12.09%) HTML5

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Web Services also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Web Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 365 (70.06%) .NET
2 287 (55.09%) ASP.NET
3 273 (52.40%) CSS
4 267 (51.25%) HTML
5 245 (47.02%) XML
6 192 (36.85%) jQuery
7 164 (31.48%) Ajax
8 120 (23.03%) XSLT
9 110 (21.11%) WCF
10 98 (18.81%) .NET Framework
11 63 (12.09%) HTML5
12 55 (10.56%) XHTML
13 51 (9.789%) WPF
13 51 (9.789%) ASP.NET MVC
14 49 (9.405%) LINQ
15 45 (8.637%) XSL
16 43 (8.253%) CSS3
17 41 (7.869%) WinForms
18 38 (7.294%) SOAP
19 36 (6.910%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 57 (10.94%) SharePoint
2 54 (10.36%) Apache
3 30 (5.758%) BizTalk Server
4 23 (4.415%) CMS
5 20 (3.839%) SharePoint 2010
5 20 (3.839%) Tomcat
5 20 (3.839%) IIS
6 16 (3.071%) SharePoint Server
7 13 (2.495%) Amazon AWS
8 9 (1.727%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (1.152%) Drupal
9 6 (1.152%) NetWeaver
10 5 (0.960%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.960%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.768%) Kentico
12 3 (0.576%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.576%) Windows Azure
13 2 (0.384%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.384%) lighttpd
13 2 (0.384%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 50 (9.597%) MS Excel
2 28 (5.374%) Photoshop
3 18 (3.455%) InfoPath
4 15 (2.879%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.960%) MS Office
6 4 (0.768%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.384%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.192%) Fireworks
8 1 (0.192%) SPSS
8 1 (0.192%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.192%) MS Project
8 1 (0.192%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (3.839%) SAP Business One
2 15 (2.879%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.960%) Remedy AR System
4 4 (0.768%) Google Analytics
5 2 (0.384%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.192%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.192%) Agresso
6 1 (0.192%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.192%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.192%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.192%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.192%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.879%) DHCP
2 14 (2.687%) HTTP
3 13 (2.495%) Modbus
4 11 (2.111%) Internet
5 5 (0.960%) WAN
5 5 (0.960%) LAN
6 4 (0.768%) LDAP
6 4 (0.768%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.768%) Intranet
7 3 (0.576%) DNS
7 3 (0.576%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.384%) Network Security
8 2 (0.384%) NAS
8 2 (0.384%) VLAN
8 2 (0.384%) WLAN
8 2 (0.384%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.384%) SNMP
8 2 (0.384%) SAN
8 2 (0.384%) Firewall
8 2 (0.384%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (59.88%) SQL Server
2 82 (15.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 61 (11.71%) SQL Server 2005
4 53 (10.17%) MySQL
5 22 (4.223%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.687%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.919%) Oracle 8/8i
8 7 (1.344%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (1.344%) SQL Server 2012
9 6 (1.152%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.768%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.768%) DB2
10 4 (0.768%) Oracle 10g
11 3 (0.576%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.384%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.384%) Big Data
12 2 (0.384%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.384%) SQL Server 2000
13 1 (0.192%) MS Access
13 1 (0.192%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 67 (12.86%) Visual Studio
2 55 (10.56%) Subversion
3 21 (4.031%) NUnit
3 21 (4.031%) Team Foundation Server
3 21 (4.031%) Eclipse
4 14 (2.687%) Git (software)
5 12 (2.303%) JIRA
6 10 (1.919%) Moq
6 10 (1.919%) Selenium
7 8 (1.536%) Zend Studio
7 8 (1.536%) NetBeans
8 7 (1.344%) ReSharper
8 7 (1.344%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.344%) Flash Builder
8 7 (1.344%) GitHub
8 7 (1.344%) NCover
9 6 (1.152%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.152%) TestDirector
10 5 (0.960%) MSBuild
11 4 (0.768%) JUnit
General
1 78 (14.97%) Finance
2 16 (3.071%) Marketing
3 15 (2.879%) Games
4 11 (2.111%) Manufacturing
5 10 (1.919%) Telecoms
6 9 (1.727%) Pharmaceutical
6 9 (1.727%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.536%) Legal
8 5 (0.960%) Advertising
8 5 (0.960%) Banking
8 5 (0.960%) Retail
9 4 (0.768%) Publishing
10 2 (0.384%) Electronics
11 1 (0.192%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 408 (78.31%) Developer
2 189 (36.28%) .NET Developer
3 106 (20.35%) C# Developer
4 77 (14.78%) Senior Developer
5 71 (13.63%) Web Developer
5 71 (13.63%) ASP.NET Developer
6 66 (12.67%) C# .NET Developer
7 51 (9.789%) Senior .NET Developer
8 50 (9.597%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 43 (8.253%) .NET Web Developer
10 40 (7.678%) Software Developer
11 37 (7.102%) Software Engineer
12 25 (4.798%) Team Leader
13 24 (4.607%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
14 22 (4.223%) Senior C# Developer
15 21 (4.031%) PHP Developer
15 21 (4.031%) Applications Developer
16 20 (3.839%) Programmer
17 19 (3.647%) SharePoint Developer
18 17 (3.263%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.142%) Mobile App
2 21 (4.031%) Open Source
3 19 (3.647%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.071%) W3C
5 14 (2.687%) SaaS
6 12 (2.303%) Computer Science
6 12 (2.303%) iPhone
7 11 (2.111%) N-Tier
8 9 (1.727%) Pocket PC
9 8 (1.536%) Device Driver
10 7 (1.344%) Graphic Design
11 5 (0.960%) VLE
12 4 (0.768%) Social Media
12 4 (0.768%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.576%) Firmware
13 3 (0.576%) Blackberry
14 2 (0.384%) Inversion of Control
14 2 (0.384%) Psychology
14 2 (0.384%) RIA
14 2 (0.384%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 78 (14.97%) Windows
2 72 (13.82%) Linux
3 41 (7.869%) UNIX
4 22 (4.223%) Windows Mobile
5 20 (3.839%) OpenVMS
5 20 (3.839%) Solaris
6 16 (3.071%) Android
7 13 (2.495%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.303%) Windows 8
9 11 (2.111%) Windows Phone 8
9 11 (2.111%) Windows Phone
10 9 (1.727%) Windows CE
11 4 (0.768%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.576%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.192%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.192%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.192%) AIX
13 1 (0.192%) Windows Vista
13 1 (0.192%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.192%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (40.12%) MVC
2 115 (22.07%) OO
3 103 (19.77%) Web Development
4 80 (15.36%) Agile Software Development
5 72 (13.82%) Scrum
6 51 (9.789%) E-Commerce
7 47 (9.021%) TDD
8 38 (7.294%) Unit Testing
9 35 (6.718%) CRM
10 30 (5.758%) SOA
11 27 (5.182%) OOP
12 20 (3.839%) UML
13 19 (3.647%) Workflow
14 18 (3.455%) Automation Testing
14 18 (3.455%) PRINCE
14 18 (3.455%) Multithreading
15 17 (3.263%) Waterfall
15 17 (3.263%) MVVM
16 16 (3.071%) BDD
17 15 (2.879%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 318 (61.04%) C#
2 313 (60.08%) JavaScript
3 264 (50.67%) SQL
4 102 (19.58%) VB.NET
5 87 (16.70%) PHP
5 87 (16.70%) Java
6 74 (14.20%) T-SQL
7 53 (10.17%) C++
8 37 (7.102%) PL/SQL
9 32 (6.142%) Perl
10 31 (5.950%) VB
11 29 (5.566%) ActionScript
12 27 (5.182%) XPath
13 26 (4.990%) Ruby
14 18 (3.455%) Python
15 15 (2.879%) Delphi
16 12 (2.303%) PHP5
16 12 (2.303%) VB6
16 12 (2.303%) ABAP
17 11 (2.111%) XAML
Qualifications
1 45 (8.637%) Degree
2 8 (1.536%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (1.152%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.768%) MCP
5 3 (0.576%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (0.576%) MCDST
6 1 (0.192%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.192%) ISEB
6 1 (0.192%) MCSD
6 1 (0.192%) MCSE
6 1 (0.192%) MCTS
6 1 (0.192%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.192%) MCPD
6 1 (0.192%) CIW
6 1 (0.192%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.192%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.879%) QA
System Software
1 11 (2.111%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.727%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.576%) XenApp
3 3 (0.576%) XenServer
3 3 (0.576%) XenDesktop
4 2 (0.384%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.192%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (0.576%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (0.384%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.192%) OpenView
3 1 (0.192%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 132 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.17%) Oracle
3 39 (7.486%) SAP
4 23 (4.415%) Zend
5 17 (3.263%) Adobe
6 10 (1.919%) VMware
7 9 (1.727%) Google
7 9 (1.727%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.152%) HP
8 6 (1.152%) Citrix
8 6 (1.152%) Remedy
9 5 (0.960%) Telerik
10 4 (0.768%) Twitter
10 4 (0.768%) Apple
11 3 (0.576%) IBM
11 3 (0.576%) Baan
11 3 (0.576%) LANDesk
11 3 (0.576%) Facebook
12 2 (0.384%) Appcelerator
12 2 (0.384%) NetApp
Warwickshire
To be suitable for this Web Developer role you will have gained a minimum of two years commercial web development experiencing utilising ASP.NET, HTML and CSS. Database...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warwick, West Midlands
C# Developer/ Software Developer/ Programmer C#,WPF, Silverlight, ASP.net, SQL SERVER This market leading organisation are looking to add a C#.net Developer (WPF, WCF, ASP.net &...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits, Flexi Time
Posted: 1 May 2013
Warwick, West Midlands
C# Developer/ Software Developer - Warwick, Warwickshire - £35k - Excellent Role & Company!C#, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.Net, SQL SERVER, WCF, Developer.This market leading organisation are looking to add a...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits, Flexi Time
Posted: 10 May 2013
Leamington Spa, West Midlands
Along with the core technical skills of C#, ASP.net, Visual studio, SQL, HTML, CSS, key attributes include a strong work ethic, desire to learn and excellent interpersonal...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £33000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Stroud,...
C# and ASP.NET Developer / Programmer / Software Engineer, £31-36,000 plus great benefits (£2k guaranteed yearly training budget, company bonus, paid overtime, pension and private health care).
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £31-36,000 + Great Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
I have an urgent requirement for a Lead Developer/Tech Lead with excellent skills in C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server (including Stored Procedures and T-SQL), OO/SOA...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 50,000 + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
I have an urgent requirement for a Lead Developer/Tech Lead with excellent skills in C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server (including Stored Procedures and T-SQL), OO/SOA...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 55,000 + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Redditch, Worcestershire
In support of our continued expansion, we are looking to recruit a number of .Net/C# Developers to join our delivery team, working in an agile environment. This...
Candidate Source
Salary: £35,000 - £48,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 23 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
Net Developer (C#, SQL, WPF, WCF, ASP.Net) Location: Warwick... WPF/Silverlight. WCF/Web Services... SQL Server 2005/2008 including: Stored Procedures... Desirable skills: MVVM/MVC. SSIS/SSRS...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: Up to £36,000 per annum flexible working, development
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Midlands
Skills & Experience Needed; Experience of working on the hybris platform Java / J2EE Programming experience Programming experience in EJB, JSP, XML, OR SQL Knowledge of web services, Javascript or...
Nigel Frank International
Salary: £450 - £500 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Worcestershire
Multithreaded development... - Practical MVVM experience. - Automation testing experience... javascript, css html, css3 and javascript, javascript, sql, web development, html, html/css/js, html/css/js, html/css, html/...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands
You will have: * Demonstrable customer facing experience and excellent communication skills and team focus;* Hands on experience of Web application and Web service development in a commercial environment...
BARCLAYS
Salary: Competitive salary plus excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You would have worked on projects involving C#, ASP.NET, VB6, VB.NET and SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, XML/XSL, COM, DHTML, JavaScript, web services, InfoPath, SQL Server/...
Greythorn
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, Midlands, UK, West Midlands
Previous experience of developing internet software using Microsoft technologies such as C# and SQL Server is essential... Knowledge Essential criteria: 4-5 years experience of .net development in...
Human Factors International
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 24 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
have a picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C# or VB, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, COM, DHTML, XAML,CSS, JavaScript,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
For this position the client is looking for a candidate with strong, .Net, C#, ASP.Net, MVC, WCF and SQL Server skills... Therefore my client is looking for...
Proteus Europe
Salary: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands
Windows Mobile Application Developer - Mobile Apps : Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 5 / Mobile 6.5, C#.net, SQL Server experience - first project 6 months in Midlands - Midlands, London and...
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Additionally a good grounding in OOP, Web Services, MySQL and JavaScript is required. On top of this if you have knowledge of some of the following areas it...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
We have a clear picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, XML/XSL, COM,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Worcester, West Midlands
Knowledge of PHP, working within the Zend Framework and PHPTAL will be advantageous.Working Knowledge of Adobe applications (Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop) will be required however the ability to...
Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Worcester, West Midlands
Company OverviewFor over a decade, this Internet domain name and hosting service has provided first class web services to a wide variety of customers that require high-quality,...
Salary: £22000 - £24000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Worcester, West Midlands
Company OverviewFor over a decade, this Internet domain name and hosting service has provided first class web services to a wide variety of customers that require high-quality,...
Salary: £15500 - £16500 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Knowledge of Citrix Xen Server, Xen App, Xen Desktop, or other related environments... Full Driving License Desirable skills and experience MCP/MCDST/ITIL/Citrix certifications would be desirable.
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013