Web Services Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Web Services
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 49 60
Rank change year-on-year -27 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Web Services 4 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 0.85% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 5.05% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £341 £273 -
25th Percentile £396 £293 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £326 £600
Median % change year-on-year +61.04% -45.67% +0.76%
75th Percentile £581 £359 £647
90th Percentile £593 £378 £686
England median daily rate £500 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -9.05% +1.38% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% +8.33% -8.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 154 99 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.49% 16.92% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 79 68
10th Percentile £360 £312 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £418
Median % change year-on-year +12.25% -4.36% -2.73%
75th Percentile £550 £518 £525
90th Percentile £625 £551 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £22.28
75th Percentile £25.13 - £31.00
90th Percentile £25.14 - £56.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the East Midlands

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 February 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
Northamptonshire -25 2 £454 +39.19% 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IFS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase