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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 212 203
Rank change year-on-year -127 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Web Services 306 373 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.34% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 5.28% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 253 236
10th Percentile £375 £357 £362
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £652
90th Percentile £732 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 27
10th Percentile £52.00 £55.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.01%

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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
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 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -98 157 £575 +9.00% 138
South East -66 48 £500 +5.26% 33
Midlands -40 38 £443 +0.20% 21
North of England -84 35 £468 -1.58% 30
West Midlands -32 31 £447 -7.84% 16
Yorkshire -24 19 £450 -24.69% 9
East of England -45 14 £510 -6.42% 24
South West -35 11 £425 -15.00% 9
North West -82 11 £650 +42.86% 15
East Midlands -23 5 £428 +5.62% 5
North East -46 5 £425 -15.00% 7
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 21 (6.86%) Confluence
2 10 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.63%) CICS
5 4 (1.31%) IIS
5 4 (1.31%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
6 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) Appian
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.33%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Mule
7 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.63%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.31%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.98%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.65%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.65%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.65%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (27.45%) Azure
2 61 (19.93%) AWS
3 23 (7.52%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.86%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.54%) GitHub
6 18 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (4.58%) GCP
7 14 (4.58%) Serverless
8 13 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (4.25%) SaaS
9 11 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.94%) AWS KMS
11 9 (2.94%) Route 53
12 8 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.96%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.92%) Ethernet
1 12 (3.92%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.61%) HTTP
3 6 (1.96%) SSL
4 5 (1.63%) FTP
4 5 (1.63%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.31%) Firewall
6 3 (0.98%) DNS
7 2 (0.65%) Internet
7 2 (0.65%) Intranet
7 2 (0.65%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) ATM
8 1 (0.33%) DMZ
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.75%) Relational Database
2 38 (12.42%) SQL Server
3 29 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.25%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.27%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.94%) RDBMS
6 9 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (2.61%) Db2
8 7 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.29%) Power BI
9 6 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.31%) Tableau
12 3 (0.98%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 66 (21.57%) Git
2 46 (15.03%) Jenkins
3 40 (13.07%) JIRA
4 27 (8.82%) SonarQube
5 23 (7.52%) Maven
6 22 (7.19%) JUnit
7 19 (6.21%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.21%) Mockito
8 18 (5.88%) Visual Studio
9 13 (4.25%) LoadRunner
10 10 (3.27%) JMeter
11 9 (2.94%) eggPlant
11 9 (2.94%) Postman
12 8 (2.61%) Selenium
12 8 (2.61%) SoapUI
13 7 (2.29%) DbUnit
13 7 (2.29%) GitLab
13 7 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (1.96%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 74 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (21.90%) Public Sector
4 63 (20.59%) Finance
5 28 (9.15%) Banking
6 22 (7.19%) Military
7 11 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.96%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.63%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.63%) Legal
11 5 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.31%) Automotive
12 4 (1.31%) Billing
12 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 159 (51.96%) Developer
2 52 (16.99%) Senior
3 35 (11.44%) Java Developer
4 33 (10.78%) Senior Developer
5 26 (8.50%) Consultant
6 21 (6.86%) Architect
7 19 (6.21%) C# Developer
8 18 (5.88%) .NET Developer
9 17 (5.56%) Lead
9 17 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (3.59%) IAM Specialist
12 10 (3.27%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 9 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (2.94%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (2.94%) ServiceNow Developer
13 9 (2.94%) Technical Consultant
14 8 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (2.29%) C++ Software Engineer
15 7 (2.29%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (37.25%) REST
2 99 (32.35%) SOAP
3 72 (23.53%) .NET
4 62 (20.26%) RESTful
5 56 (18.30%) XML
6 43 (14.05%) Spring
7 41 (13.40%) HTML
7 41 (13.40%) Spring Boot
8 39 (12.75%) AngularJS
9 30 (9.80%) JSON
10 26 (8.50%) Hibernate
10 26 (8.50%) Middleware
11 25 (8.17%) SailPoint
12 24 (7.84%) CSS
12 24 (7.84%) Node.js
12 24 (7.84%) OAuth
13 22 (7.19%) React
14 21 (6.86%) ASP.NET
15 20 (6.54%) JPA
16 19 (6.21%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.92%) CMDB
5 12 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.27%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.61%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.63%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.31%) DataPower
12 4 (1.31%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.98%) Derivative
13 3 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.40%) Linux
2 20 (6.54%) Unix
3 17 (5.56%) Windows
4 4 (1.31%) zOS
5 3 (0.98%) VMS
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (46.73%) Agile
2 95 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (30.72%) CI/CD
4 74 (24.18%) DevOps
5 62 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (16.34%) Microservices
7 48 (15.69%) Scrum
7 48 (15.69%) SDLC
7 48 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.36%) Software Engineering
9 40 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (12.75%) API Integration
10 39 (12.75%) TDD
11 38 (12.42%) ITSM
12 35 (11.44%) Validation
13 34 (11.11%) Unit Testing
14 32 (10.46%) Analytics
15 31 (10.13%) AI
15 31 (10.13%) Containerisation
15 31 (10.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (33.99%) SQL
2 81 (26.47%) Java
3 74 (24.18%) JavaScript
4 63 (20.59%) C#
5 55 (17.97%) Python
6 24 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.21%) C++
9 15 (4.90%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.94%) Apex Code
10 9 (2.94%) VB.NET
11 8 (2.61%) ABAP
11 8 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.61%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.29%) Groovy
13 6 (1.96%) SOQL
13 6 (1.96%) SOSL
13 6 (1.96%) XPath
14 5 (1.63%) Bash
14 5 (1.63%) X++
Qualifications
1 100 (32.68%) Security Cleared
2 91 (29.74%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.75%) Degree
4 12 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.31%) ISEB
9 4 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.31%) PMP
10 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.98%) MBA
11 2 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.65%) PhD
11 2 (0.65%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.54%) QA
3 12 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.59%) NIST
5 5 (1.63%) HL7
6 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.31%) GRC
7 3 (0.98%) NCSC
8 2 (0.65%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.33%) GMP
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (15.36%) Docker
2 29 (9.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.29%) Postfix
4 2 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.65%) IAG
4 2 (0.65%) NFS
4 2 (0.65%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.65%) Varnish
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.19%) Grafana
2 20 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.25%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.59%) Ansible
6 5 (1.63%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.31%) Control-M
8 3 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.65%) Argo
9 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.33%) Istio
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.67%) Oracle
3 26 (8.50%) SAP
4 21 (6.86%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.58%) UiPath
6 12 (3.92%) IBM
7 10 (3.27%) Workday
8 8 (2.61%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.61%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (2.29%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.29%) Google
9 7 (2.29%) Pega
10 6 (1.96%) Adobe
10 6 (1.96%) Centrify
11 4 (1.31%) Ariba
11 4 (1.31%) Citrix
11 4 (1.31%) Intapp
11 4 (1.31%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.98%) Planview