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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.53% 0.65% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.02% 3.79% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile £305 - -
25th Percentile £347 £309 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £341 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £506 £383 -
90th Percentile £700 £417 -
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -2.22%

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 216 132 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.44% 17.17% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 100 128
10th Percentile £270 £309 £300
25th Percentile £358 £340 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £498 £510 £538
90th Percentile £606 £575 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £20.74 - £56.90
25th Percentile £21.48 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £22.83 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.65%
75th Percentile £24.05 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.71 - £64.10
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 -2 9 £358 -18.64%
Nottinghamshire - 4 £700 -
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 3 (23.08%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
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 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Integration Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) SAP Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Payments Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) RAML
2 5 (38.46%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) SAP PI
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
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%) Spring Batch
5 2 (15.38%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (15.38%) SAP XI
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (7.69%) WSDL
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 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) API Development
3 5 (38.46%) Architectural Design
4 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (15.38%) Adaptive Web Design
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) OOP
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) 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%) Security Cleared
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