Web Services Contracts in Berkshire

Web Services
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +34 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing Web Services 32 25 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.82% 1.27% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.65% 7.60% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 16
10th Percentile £350 £461 £475
25th Percentile £406 £502 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +11.98%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £700
90th Percentile £638 £601 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 253 329 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.29% 16.69% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 218 216
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £638
90th Percentile £638 £666 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 8
10th Percentile £30.87 £56.62 £52.90
25th Percentile £31.80 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £54.75 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.12% -21.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £81.02 - £80.25
90th Percentile £87.91 £61.68 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Berkshire

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Berkshire

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Berkshire

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Berkshire

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +44 20 £550 -5.34% 12
Wokingham -5 4 £475 +2.70%
Windsor - 2 £450 - 1
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (15.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) OCI
2 4 (12.50%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.38%) JUnit
1 3 (9.38%) Mockito
2 2 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.13%) DbUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) jMock
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Billing
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Designer
3 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) REST
2 11 (34.38%) SOAP
3 7 (21.88%) JSON
4 6 (18.75%) HTML
4 6 (18.75%) XML
5 4 (12.50%) Ajax
5 4 (12.50%) CSS
6 3 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (9.38%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.38%) Spring
6 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.25%) .NET
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Camel
7 2 (6.25%) jQuery
7 2 (6.25%) OAuth
7 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
7 2 (6.25%) WireMock
8 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.13%) JPA
8 1 (3.13%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Frameworx
1 5 (15.63%) TM Forum
2 4 (12.50%) CMDB
3 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) VMS
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) Scrum
3 10 (31.25%) SOA
4 9 (28.13%) ITIL
4 9 (28.13%) Microservices
5 8 (25.00%) Validation
6 7 (21.88%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Service Management
7 6 (18.75%) Data Mapping
7 6 (18.75%) DevOps
7 6 (18.75%) Information Security
7 6 (18.75%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (18.75%) ITSM
8 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
8 5 (15.63%) CRM
8 5 (15.63%) Data Transformation
8 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
8 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
8 5 (15.63%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.25%) X++
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) CISM
1 5 (15.63%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
1 3 (9.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kibana
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.13%) Puppet
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) ServiceNow
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.38%) Snow
5 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) Jaspersoft