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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 13 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.67% 0.77% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.60% 4.44% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £358 £309 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £341 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% - -
75th Percentile £571 £383 -
90th Percentile £700 £417 -
England median daily rate £500 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% -

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 197 135 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.29% 17.24% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 102 152
10th Percentile £265 £306 £313
25th Percentile £351 £329 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £481 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -9 9 £363 -17.50% 3
Nottinghamshire - 4 £700 - 3
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
1 3 (23.08%) HTTPS
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) DMZ
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) SAP BW
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SAP Architect
3 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Scala Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) RAML
3 4 (30.77%) REST
3 4 (30.77%) SAP PI
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (23.08%) BAPI
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) IDoc
4 3 (23.08%) JPA
4 3 (23.08%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (23.08%) React
4 3 (23.08%) SOAP
4 3 (23.08%) Spring Batch
5 2 (15.38%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (15.38%) SAP XI
6 1 (7.69%) Akka
6 1 (7.69%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (23.08%) State Machine
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
2 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
2 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (15.38%) Adaptive Web Design
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) ABAP
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
1 4 (30.77%) SAP