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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 1.77% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £329 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £440 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £708 - -
England median daily rate £498 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -8.92% -0.68% -4.35%

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 204 113 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.97% 15.74% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 85 120
10th Percentile £308 £313 £313
25th Percentile £367 £355 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £523 £510 £545
90th Percentile £625 £560 £650
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.46% +18.18% -15.38%

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 November 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 23 November 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
Nottinghamshire - 4 £700 -
Northamptonshire -13 3 £308 -30.11%
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Architect
2 4 (50.00%) SAP Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) SAP PI
2 3 (37.50%) BAPI
2 3 (37.50%) IDoc
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (25.00%) SAP XI
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) JSON
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) RAML
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) OOP
5 1 (12.50%) API Development
5 1 (12.50%) API Testing
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) ABAP
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SAP