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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 219 187
Rank change year-on-year -7 -32 -19
Contract jobs citing Web Services 356 370 545
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 1.17% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.49% 5.28% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 206 345
10th Percentile £350 £339 £384
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £624 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 11
10th Percentile £55.00 £63.25 £53.00
25th Percentile - - £55.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile - - £88.28
90th Percentile - £66.75 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 6,485 7,014 8,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.83% 22.09% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 4,487 6,633
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 139 186
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £38.80
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £71.95 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.01% -13.80%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 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
London +5 174 £500 -10.71% 63
North of England 0 55 £494 +3.89% 39
South East -6 42 £475 -5.00% 45
North West +5 40 £455 -4.21% 25
Midlands -13 36 £436 -0.95% 9
East of England -14 29 £548 +9.50% 9
West Midlands -13 23 £485 -19.17% 8
East Midlands -5 13 £387 +13.51% 1
South West +3 11 £488 - 18
Yorkshire -14 10 £627 +25.45% 5
North East - 5 £500 - 9
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 28 (7.87%) Confluence
2 14 (3.93%) WebSphere
3 10 (2.81%) IIS
4 8 (2.25%) Apache
4 8 (2.25%) CICS
5 7 (1.97%) CMS
5 7 (1.97%) JBoss
6 6 (1.69%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.69%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.40%) Mule
7 5 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.40%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.12%) Anypoint
8 4 (1.12%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.84%) Mule ESB
9 3 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.56%) Drupal
10 2 (0.56%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (10.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.65%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.25%) Maximo
3 8 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.69%) Workday HCM
5 5 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.84%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.84%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.56%) Primavera
8 2 (0.56%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.28%) SAP Convergent Charging
9 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.28%) Shopify
9 1 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (23.31%) Azure
2 59 (16.57%) AWS
3 16 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (3.93%) OCI
5 13 (3.65%) PaaS
5 13 (3.65%) SaaS
6 12 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (3.37%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (3.09%) GCP
7 11 (3.09%) GitHub
7 11 (3.09%) Serverless
8 10 (2.81%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.53%) AWS KMS
10 8 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.25%) Entra ID
10 8 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.25%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.25%) Route 53
11 7 (1.97%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.62%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.34%) SSL
3 18 (5.06%) Ethernet
4 13 (3.65%) HTTP
5 9 (2.53%) NFC
5 9 (2.53%) PPP
6 6 (1.69%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.12%) ATM
8 2 (0.56%) DHCP
8 2 (0.56%) DMZ
8 2 (0.56%) DNS
8 2 (0.56%) Internet
8 2 (0.56%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.56%) SMTP
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (8.71%) SQL Server
3 30 (8.43%) SAP HANA
4 19 (5.34%) DB2
4 19 (5.34%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.93%) Redis
7 12 (3.37%) MySQL
7 12 (3.37%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.81%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.53%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (1.12%) Power BI
12 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (20.79%) Git
2 46 (12.92%) JIRA
3 45 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 36 (10.11%) Eclipse
5 24 (6.74%) Postman
6 22 (6.18%) JUnit
6 22 (6.18%) Maven
7 21 (5.90%) Visual Studio
8 18 (5.06%) Selenium
9 16 (4.49%) SonarQube
10 15 (4.21%) GitLab
11 14 (3.93%) Mockito
12 12 (3.37%) Cucumber
13 9 (2.53%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.53%) SoapUI
13 9 (2.53%) Valgrind
14 8 (2.25%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.97%) IntelliJ
15 7 (1.97%) Subversion
16 6 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 106 (29.78%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.98%) Finance
3 53 (14.89%) Banking
4 50 (14.04%) Public Sector
5 36 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.90%) Military
8 12 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.97%) Back Office
9 7 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.69%) Retail
11 3 (0.84%) Billing
11 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Front Office
12 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Police
12 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 135 (37.92%) Developer
2 62 (17.42%) Architect
3 52 (14.61%) Senior
4 36 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 33 (9.27%) Consultant
6 32 (8.99%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.46%) C++ Software Engineer
7 23 (6.46%) SAP Architect
8 22 (6.18%) Senior Developer
9 19 (5.34%) C# Software Engineer
9 19 (5.34%) Lead
9 19 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 14 (3.93%) Analyst
10 14 (3.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.93%) ServiceNow Architect
10 14 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.65%) SAP Consultant
12 11 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) Tester
13 10 (2.81%) ABAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (39.04%) REST
2 107 (30.06%) SOAP
3 69 (19.38%) RESTful
4 58 (16.29%) HTML
5 51 (14.33%) Spring
6 47 (13.20%) AngularJS
6 47 (13.20%) JSON
7 45 (12.64%) Node.js
8 44 (12.36%) Spring Boot
9 42 (11.80%) .NET
9 42 (11.80%) CSS
10 37 (10.39%) XML
11 25 (7.02%) Middleware
12 23 (6.46%) Hibernate
12 23 (6.46%) HTML5
13 21 (5.90%) jQuery
14 20 (5.62%) JPA
15 19 (5.34%) LDAP
16 17 (4.78%) BAPI
16 17 (4.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (4.21%) Mobile App
3 14 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.53%) Smartcard
5 8 (2.25%) CMDB
5 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 6 (1.69%) VSAM
7 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.12%) PACS
8 4 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 49 (13.76%) Linux
2 37 (10.39%) Windows
3 12 (3.37%) Unix
4 10 (2.81%) Android
4 10 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.53%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (41.85%) Agile
2 91 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (23.31%) CI/CD
4 76 (21.35%) DevOps
5 69 (19.38%) Microservices
6 61 (17.13%) Scrum
7 46 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (12.64%) TDD
9 44 (12.36%) Unit Testing
10 41 (11.52%) Test Automation
11 39 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
11 39 (10.96%) Software Engineering
12 38 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (9.83%) Integration Patterns
14 34 (9.55%) ITSM
15 32 (8.99%) SDLC
16 31 (8.71%) Project Delivery
17 30 (8.43%) Computer Science
18 29 (8.15%) Migration
18 29 (8.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 123 (34.55%) JavaScript
2 105 (29.49%) Java
3 98 (27.53%) SQL
4 53 (14.89%) C#
5 51 (14.33%) Python
6 31 (8.71%) C++
7 22 (6.18%) PL/SQL
8 18 (5.06%) ABAP
8 18 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.09%) Groovy
10 10 (2.81%) PHP
11 9 (2.53%) Ruby
12 8 (2.25%) COBOL
12 8 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.97%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.69%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.69%) JCL
14 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.69%) Swift
14 6 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 72 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.67%) Degree
4 17 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.40%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.12%) CISSP
9 2 (0.56%) CISM
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CISA
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) OCP
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.11%) QA
2 8 (2.25%) GDPR
3 7 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.12%) COBIT
4 4 (1.12%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) DICOM
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) SLA
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (10.96%) Docker
2 10 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.69%) Postfix
4 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (2.25%) Grafana
4 7 (1.97%) Ansible
4 7 (1.97%) Terraform
5 6 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) CloudHub
7 2 (0.56%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.28%) Control-M
8 1 (0.28%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 61 (17.13%) Oracle
2 59 (16.57%) Microsoft
3 53 (14.89%) SAP
4 33 (9.27%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.06%) Splunk
6 15 (4.21%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.93%) Dynatrace
8 13 (3.65%) BMC
8 13 (3.65%) HP
8 13 (3.65%) Ivanti
8 13 (3.65%) Remedy
9 11 (3.09%) IBM
10 10 (2.81%) Adobe
11 9 (2.53%) Axway
11 9 (2.53%) Google
12 8 (2.25%) Atlassian
12 8 (2.25%) Workday
13 7 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
14 6 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
14 6 (1.69%) MuleSoft