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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 59 63
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 4 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 1.34% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 5.41% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £418 £297 -
25th Percentile £431 £323 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £358 £319
Median % change year-on-year +34.50% +12.40% -46.10%
75th Percentile £572 £383 £346
90th Percentile £589 £433 £357
England median daily rate £517 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.35% -9.09% -
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 £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 142 185 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.37% 24.80% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 156 101
10th Percentile £393 £256 £275
25th Percentile £413 £319 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £470 £550
90th Percentile £600 £531 £620
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £14.33 £20.39 £16.32
25th Percentile £15.52 £20.60 £21.92
Median hourly rate £17.50 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% -12.18% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.05 £28.44
90th Percentile £27.50 £24.71 £44.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 July 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 July 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
Leicestershire - 2 £428 - 2
Northamptonshire 0 1 £600 +67.60%
Nottinghamshire - 1 £525 -
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
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%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Repair
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
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