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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 246 169
Rank change year-on-year -6 -77 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 332 308 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.99% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.78% 4.54% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 174 340
10th Percentile £350 £315 £381
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £716 £757 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 10
10th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - - £56.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - £67.50 £90.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 6,942 6,790 8,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.70% 21.72% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,677 4,330 6,328
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £666 £675
90th Percentile £734 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 183
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.98 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%

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 November 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 November 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 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
London 0 164 £475 -17.39% 66
North of England -12 46 £550 +41.03% 31
East of England 0 42 £550 +59.42% 14
South East -7 37 £475 -11.63% 33
North West -9 34 £550 +41.03% 23
Midlands -29 21 £488 +3.72% 13
South West -5 14 £488 -12.16% 10
West Midlands -24 13 £488 -18.75% 9
Yorkshire -34 9 £627 +25.45% 8
East Midlands -6 8 £553 +25.57% 3
North East -1 3 £500 -
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 26 (7.83%) Confluence
2 13 (3.92%) WebSphere
3 10 (3.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.41%) Apache
5 8 (2.41%) IIS
6 7 (2.11%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.51%) CMS
7 5 (1.51%) Jupyter
7 5 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (1.20%) Mule
8 4 (1.20%) NetWeaver
9 3 (0.90%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.90%) CICS
9 3 (0.90%) JBoss
9 3 (0.90%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.60%) Appian
10 2 (0.60%) Documentum
10 2 (0.60%) Drupal
10 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (6.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.41%) Maximo
3 8 (2.41%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.11%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.81%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.81%) Workday HCM
6 5 (1.51%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.51%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.60%) Primavera
8 2 (0.60%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG-F
8 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG-M
8 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.30%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (25.00%) Azure
2 52 (15.66%) AWS
3 19 (5.72%) PaaS
4 18 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (4.22%) GitHub
5 14 (4.22%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.92%) SaaS
7 12 (3.61%) Entra ID
7 12 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.61%) OCI
8 11 (3.31%) GCP
9 10 (3.01%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.41%) Serverless
12 7 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.81%) AWS KMS
13 6 (1.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.83%) TCP/IP
2 23 (6.93%) Ethernet
3 13 (3.92%) SSL
4 8 (2.41%) NFC
4 8 (2.41%) PPP
5 5 (1.51%) HTTP
6 4 (1.20%) ATM
7 3 (0.90%) DHCP
7 3 (0.90%) DNS
8 2 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.60%) SMTP
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) FTP
9 1 (0.30%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.24%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.12%) DB2
5 16 (4.82%) SAP HANA
6 14 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.31%) Redis
8 10 (3.01%) MySQL
9 8 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.41%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.11%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.81%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.81%) Power BI
12 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.90%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.60%) EDMS
13 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 57 (17.17%) Git
2 40 (12.05%) JIRA
3 38 (11.45%) Eclipse
4 25 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.53%) Visual Studio
5 23 (6.93%) Postman
6 19 (5.72%) JUnit
6 19 (5.72%) Selenium
7 13 (3.92%) Maven
7 13 (3.92%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.31%) Cucumber
8 11 (3.31%) Mockito
9 8 (2.41%) Valgrind
10 7 (2.11%) GitLab
10 7 (2.11%) JMeter
10 7 (2.11%) SoapUI
11 6 (1.81%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.81%) REST Assured
11 6 (1.81%) Subversion
11 6 (1.81%) WebDriver
General
1 97 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.87%) Finance
3 52 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 46 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (7.83%) Military
7 25 (7.53%) Banking
8 12 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.51%) Back Office
11 4 (1.20%) Law
12 3 (0.90%) Billing
12 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.60%) Marketing
13 2 (0.60%) Police
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
14 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (40.66%) Developer
2 54 (16.27%) Senior
3 41 (12.35%) Consultant
4 37 (11.14%) Architect
5 36 (10.84%) Software Engineer
6 26 (7.83%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.23%) Java Developer
8 23 (6.93%) C++ Software Engineer
9 22 (6.63%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (6.02%) Lead
10 20 (6.02%) SAP Consultant
11 14 (4.22%) ServiceNow Architect
11 14 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.61%) Tester
14 10 (3.01%) ABAP Consultant
15 9 (2.71%) Analyst
15 9 (2.71%) Automation Tester
15 9 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 8 (2.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (37.65%) REST
2 117 (35.24%) SOAP
3 50 (15.06%) RESTful
4 49 (14.76%) HTML
5 46 (13.86%) XML
6 45 (13.55%) .NET
6 45 (13.55%) Node.js
7 43 (12.95%) JSON
8 40 (12.05%) AngularJS
9 35 (10.54%) CSS
9 35 (10.54%) Spring
10 28 (8.43%) Spring Boot
11 22 (6.63%) HTML5
12 21 (6.33%) BAPI
12 21 (6.33%) jQuery
13 20 (6.02%) Middleware
14 19 (5.72%) Hibernate
14 19 (5.72%) LDAP
15 15 (4.52%) Bootstrap
15 15 (4.52%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.52%) Mobile App
2 12 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.01%) Replication
5 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.41%) CMDB
6 8 (2.41%) Smartcard
7 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.20%) PACS
10 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.90%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.55%) Linux
2 42 (12.65%) Windows
3 11 (3.31%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.01%) Android
5 8 (2.41%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.51%) Unix
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (41.87%) Agile
2 76 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (21.99%) CI/CD
3 73 (21.99%) DevOps
4 54 (16.27%) Microservices
5 53 (15.96%) Scrum
6 50 (15.06%) Unit Testing
7 45 (13.55%) Continuous Integration
7 45 (13.55%) TDD
8 43 (12.95%) Software Engineering
9 39 (11.75%) Test Automation
10 34 (10.24%) ITSM
11 32 (9.64%) Computer Science
12 31 (9.34%) Integration Patterns
12 31 (9.34%) OO
12 31 (9.34%) Validation
13 30 (9.04%) Data Modelling
13 30 (9.04%) ERP
13 30 (9.04%) Visualisation
14 29 (8.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 117 (35.24%) JavaScript
2 86 (25.90%) SQL
3 82 (24.70%) Java
4 60 (18.07%) C#
5 53 (15.96%) Python
6 35 (10.54%) C++
7 32 (9.64%) ABAP
8 15 (4.52%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.92%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.61%) Ruby
11 10 (3.01%) Groovy
11 10 (3.01%) PHP
12 9 (2.71%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.41%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.11%) T-SQL
14 7 (2.11%) XPath
15 6 (1.81%) Swift
16 5 (1.51%) Apex Code
16 5 (1.51%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.20%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 92 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 74 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.84%) Degree
4 18 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.81%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.90%) CISSP
9 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CISA
11 1 (0.30%) CISM
11 1 (0.30%) ISEB
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.30%) OCP
11 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PMP
11 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.24%) QA
2 7 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.81%) GDPR
4 4 (1.20%) COBIT
4 4 (1.20%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.60%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) DICOM
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (7.23%) Docker
2 8 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.20%) Postfix
4 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.42%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.51%) Ansible
3 5 (1.51%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (1.20%) Grafana
4 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.20%) Terraform
5 2 (0.60%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.30%) Control-M
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.30%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 67 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 52 (15.66%) SAP
3 51 (15.36%) Oracle
4 32 (9.64%) ServiceNow
5 17 (5.12%) Splunk
6 15 (4.52%) IBM
7 14 (4.22%) HP
8 13 (3.92%) BMC
8 13 (3.92%) Ivanti
8 13 (3.92%) Remedy
8 13 (3.92%) Salesforce
9 10 (3.01%) Adobe
9 10 (3.01%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.71%) Workday
11 8 (2.41%) Axway
12 7 (2.11%) Atlassian
12 7 (2.11%) Google
13 6 (1.81%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (1.51%) Computacenter
14 5 (1.51%) Guidewire