Web Services Contract Job Trends in England

Web Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 201 194
Rank change year-on-year -150 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 292 374 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.36% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.98% 5.47% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 254 257
10th Percentile £400 £356 £356
25th Percentile £448 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £527 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.40% -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 27
10th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £63.13 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -0.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Web Services job vacancy trend in England

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in England

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Services in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -110 164 £575 +8.49% 146
South East -75 43 £500 +5.26% 30
North of England -81 34 £457 +1.56% 30
Midlands -48 30 £443 +0.20% 18
West Midlands -48 23 £447 -7.84% 13
Yorkshire -27 20 £452 -11.98% 5
South West -28 11 £485 +6.01% 15
North West -78 9 £650 +44.44% 21
East of England -38 8 £460 -15.98% 15
East Midlands -25 5 £428 +5.62% 5
North East -39 5 £425 -15.00% 6
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.77%) Confluence
3 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.71%) CICS
6 4 (1.37%) IIS
6 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.68%) Apache
8 2 (0.68%) CMS
8 2 (0.68%) JBoss
8 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.34%) Appian
9 1 (0.34%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.34%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.34%) Mule
9 1 (0.34%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.37%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.03%) Orchestrade
3 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.68%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.34%) BASE24
5 1 (0.34%) Maximo
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 89 (30.48%) Azure
2 55 (18.84%) AWS
3 30 (10.27%) Entra ID
4 27 (9.25%) GitHub
5 25 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (6.51%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (5.82%) Serverless
8 13 (4.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (4.45%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.45%) PaaS
8 13 (4.45%) SaaS
9 12 (4.11%) GCP
10 11 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.08%) AWS KMS
12 9 (3.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.40%) HTTP
2 6 (2.05%) SSL
3 5 (1.71%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.37%) DNS
4 4 (1.37%) FTP
4 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.03%) Internet
6 2 (0.68%) Firewall
6 2 (0.68%) Intranet
6 2 (0.68%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) ATM
7 1 (0.34%) DMZ
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.27%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.08%) RDBMS
5 9 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (2.74%) Db2
6 8 (2.74%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (2.05%) Power BI
9 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.71%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.37%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (18.84%) Git
2 39 (13.36%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.59%) JIRA
4 16 (5.48%) SonarQube
5 14 (4.79%) JUnit
6 13 (4.45%) LoadRunner
6 13 (4.45%) Maven
7 12 (4.11%) Eclipse
8 11 (3.77%) JMeter
8 11 (3.77%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.42%) Mockito
10 9 (3.08%) Postman
10 9 (3.08%) Selenium
11 8 (2.74%) eggPlant
11 8 (2.74%) GitLab
11 8 (2.74%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.40%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.40%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 100 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.92%) Public Sector
3 60 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (18.49%) Finance
5 26 (8.90%) Banking
6 13 (4.45%) Military
7 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.71%) Legal
9 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.37%) Automotive
10 4 (1.37%) Billing
10 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (51.71%) Developer
2 48 (16.44%) Senior
3 31 (10.62%) Java Developer
4 29 (9.93%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.22%) Architect
6 21 (7.19%) Consultant
7 20 (6.85%) .NET Developer
8 17 (5.82%) C# Developer
9 15 (5.14%) Lead
10 11 (3.77%) Azure Developer
10 11 (3.77%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (3.42%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 9 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (3.08%) Designer
12 9 (3.08%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (2.74%) Technical Consultant
14 7 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
14 7 (2.40%) Salesforce Developer
14 7 (2.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (40.41%) REST
2 100 (34.25%) SOAP
3 76 (26.03%) .NET
4 51 (17.47%) XML
5 48 (16.44%) RESTful
6 39 (13.36%) Spring
7 36 (12.33%) HTML
8 35 (11.99%) Spring Boot
9 32 (10.96%) AngularJS
10 25 (8.56%) SailPoint
11 24 (8.22%) JSON
12 22 (7.53%) OAuth
13 21 (7.19%) ASP.NET
13 21 (7.19%) Middleware
14 19 (6.51%) CSS
14 19 (6.51%) LDAP
15 18 (6.16%) .NET Core
15 18 (6.16%) Hibernate
16 17 (5.82%) React
16 17 (5.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.25%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.48%) CMDB
4 13 (4.45%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.11%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.71%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.37%) DataPower
11 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.96%) Linux
2 18 (6.16%) Unix
3 10 (3.42%) Windows
4 4 (1.37%) zOS
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.41%) Agile
2 82 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (26.03%) DevOps
4 72 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 47 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (15.41%) Microservices
7 42 (14.38%) ITSM
8 39 (13.36%) Scrum
9 37 (12.67%) SDLC
10 35 (11.99%) Test Automation
11 33 (11.30%) Analytics
11 33 (11.30%) Software Engineering
12 32 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (10.27%) API Integration
13 30 (10.27%) Workflow
14 28 (9.59%) AI
15 27 (9.25%) ITIL
15 27 (9.25%) TDD
16 26 (8.90%) Migration
16 26 (8.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (34.93%) SQL
2 72 (24.66%) Java
3 62 (21.23%) JavaScript
4 59 (20.21%) C#
5 56 (19.18%) Python
6 31 (10.62%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.48%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.11%) C++
9 10 (3.42%) Apex Code
9 10 (3.42%) VB.NET
10 8 (2.74%) ABAP
10 8 (2.74%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.05%) SOQL
12 6 (2.05%) SOSL
13 5 (1.71%) X++
13 5 (1.71%) XPath
14 4 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 104 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 97 (33.22%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.30%) Degree
4 10 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.37%) ISEB
8 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.03%) MBA
10 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.68%) PhD
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
11 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.51%) QA
3 12 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.77%) NIST
5 5 (1.71%) HL7
6 4 (1.37%) GRC
6 4 (1.37%) NCSC
7 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.68%) GDPR
8 2 (0.68%) SLA
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (11.99%) Docker
2 31 (10.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.40%) Postfix
4 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.68%) NFS
4 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.68%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.45%) Grafana
3 12 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.77%) Ansible
5 5 (1.71%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.37%) Control-M
7 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.68%) Argo
8 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 48 (16.44%) Oracle
3 26 (8.90%) SAP
4 25 (8.56%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.11%) IBM
7 9 (3.08%) UiPath
8 8 (2.74%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.74%) Pega
8 8 (2.74%) Workday
9 7 (2.40%) Adobe
9 7 (2.40%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.40%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.05%) Centrify
11 5 (1.71%) Google
12 4 (1.37%) Citrix
12 4 (1.37%) Intapp
12 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.03%) Ariba
13 3 (1.03%) OpenAI