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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 13 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 1.72% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 6.95% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile £412 £313 -
25th Percentile £416 £358 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £405 £341
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% +18.94% -
75th Percentile £435 £571 £383
90th Percentile £437 £700 £417
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 176 187 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.17% 24.67% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 158 102
10th Percentile £381 £266 £306
25th Percentile £413 £354 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £445
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -8.43% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £547
90th Percentile £611 £564 £622
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -12.18% -61.54%
75th Percentile £26.88 £24.05 £27.50
90th Percentile £28.75 £24.71 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%

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
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 22 August 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 +8 2 - -
Leicestershire - 2 £428 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (20.00%) JWT
4 1 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Biometrics
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) API Development
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft