Web Services Contracts in Birmingham

Web Services
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 62 61
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.65% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.88% 4.17% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £293 - -
25th Percentile £319 £575 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £619 £538
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +15.12% +13.16%
75th Percentile £494 £656 £675
90th Percentile £528 - £930
West Midlands median daily rate £423 £638 £588
% change year-on-year -33.73% +8.51% +30.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 85 120 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.28% 15.52% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 87 123
10th Percentile £380 £223 £330
25th Percentile £425 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £700 -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.23% - -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Birmingham

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Birmingham

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Birmingham

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Birmingham

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (20.00%) DbUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) jMock
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) BAPI
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) IDoc
2 2 (40.00%) Middleware
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Implementation
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) ABAP
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) COBOL
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft