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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 55 65
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.88% 0.90% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.82% 5.74% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £444 £575 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +27.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £656 £750
90th Percentile - £698 £940
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -32.14% +12.00% +38.50%

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 78 122 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.69% 15.76% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 86 122
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £391 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £700
90th Percentile £689 £718 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -26.90%

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 4 July 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 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (60.00%) AWS KMS
3 6 (60.00%) Route 53
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (70.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Tableau
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) Maven
3 6 (60.00%) JUnit
3 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (40.00%) DbUnit
4 4 (40.00%) jMock
4 4 (40.00%) Mockito
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) REST
1 8 (80.00%) Spring
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (70.00%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (70.00%) SOAP
3 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (60.00%) JPA
3 6 (60.00%) RESTful
3 6 (60.00%) Spring Batch
3 6 (60.00%) Spring Integration
4 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (40.00%) Bootstrap
4 4 (40.00%) PowerMock
4 4 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
6 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (10.00%) Mustache
6 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) TDD
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (50.00%) BDD
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Kanban
5 4 (40.00%) Open Source
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Change Management
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (20.00%) Service Management
7 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Postfix
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft