Web Services Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Web Services
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Web Services 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.53% 0.35% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.44% 3.23% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £438
75th Percentile £538 - £444
90th Percentile £545 - -
South East median daily rate £591 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +18.20% -20.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 90 31 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.03% 10.99% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 26 45
10th Percentile £379 £364 £389
25th Percentile £456 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -4.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £643
90th Percentile £638 £706 £657
South East median daily rate £515 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.90% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -5.23%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Web Services job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 4 £500 - 1
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Implementation Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Web Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow