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

 6 months to
21 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 208 207
Rank change year-on-year -141 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Web Services 311 371 405
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 1.35% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.18% 5.28% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 253 233
10th Percentile £396 £356 £362
25th Percentile £421 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £650
90th Percentile £730 £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 9,779 7,022 8,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.46% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,428 4,778 5,448
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 168 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -106 159 £564 +7.33% 205
South East -67 47 £500 +5.26% 40
Midlands -40 38 £443 +1.65% 25
North of England -86 37 £475 - 44
West Midlands -34 31 £447 -7.84% 21
Yorkshire -27 20 £450 -28.26% 11
East of England -41 16 £510 -6.42% 26
South West -39 11 £425 -15.00% 13
North West -81 11 £650 +43.65% 23
North East -39 6 £550 +10.00% 11
East Midlands -22 5 £428 +10.67% 4
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 (6.75%) Confluence
2 10 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.61%) CICS
5 4 (1.29%) IIS
5 4 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.32%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) Mule
7 1 (0.32%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.61%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.29%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.96%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.64%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.64%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.64%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (27.97%) Azure
2 65 (20.90%) AWS
3 23 (7.40%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (6.43%) GitHub
6 17 (5.47%) GCP
7 15 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (4.82%) Serverless
8 14 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (4.18%) SaaS
10 11 (3.54%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.89%) AWS KMS
12 9 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.89%) Route 53
13 7 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.93%) iPaaS
14 6 (1.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.86%) Ethernet
1 12 (3.86%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.57%) HTTP
3 6 (1.93%) SSL
4 5 (1.61%) FTP
4 5 (1.61%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.29%) Firewall
6 3 (0.96%) DNS
7 2 (0.64%) Internet
7 2 (0.64%) Intranet
7 2 (0.64%) VPN
8 1 (0.32%) ATM
8 1 (0.32%) DMZ
8 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.32%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.22%) Relational Database
1 38 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.50%) DynamoDB
4 11 (3.54%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (2.57%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.25%) Db2
7 7 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.25%) Power BI
8 6 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.29%) Tableau
11 3 (0.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 68 (21.86%) Git
2 46 (14.79%) Jenkins
3 40 (12.86%) JIRA
4 27 (8.68%) SonarQube
5 25 (8.04%) JUnit
6 24 (7.72%) Maven
7 20 (6.43%) Mockito
7 20 (6.43%) Visual Studio
8 19 (6.11%) Eclipse
9 13 (4.18%) LoadRunner
10 9 (2.89%) eggPlant
10 9 (2.89%) JMeter
11 8 (2.57%) Postman
11 8 (2.57%) Selenium
11 8 (2.57%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.25%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.25%) DbUnit
12 7 (2.25%) GitLab
12 7 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 73 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (21.54%) Public Sector
4 65 (20.90%) Finance
5 29 (9.32%) Banking
6 22 (7.07%) Military
7 11 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.93%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.61%) Legal
12 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.29%) Automotive
13 4 (1.29%) Billing
13 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.64%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 160 (51.45%) Developer
2 53 (17.04%) Senior
3 36 (11.58%) Java Developer
4 33 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 26 (8.36%) Consultant
6 21 (6.75%) Architect
6 21 (6.75%) C# Developer
7 20 (6.43%) .NET Developer
8 18 (5.79%) Lead
9 17 (5.47%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.18%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (3.54%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (3.54%) IAM Specialist
12 10 (3.22%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 9 (2.89%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (2.89%) ServiceNow Developer
13 9 (2.89%) Technical Consultant
14 7 (2.25%) C++ Software Engineer
14 7 (2.25%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (37.30%) REST
2 102 (32.80%) SOAP
3 74 (23.79%) .NET
4 65 (20.90%) RESTful
5 55 (17.68%) XML
6 42 (13.50%) Spring
7 40 (12.86%) HTML
7 40 (12.86%) Spring Boot
8 39 (12.54%) AngularJS
9 29 (9.32%) JSON
10 27 (8.68%) Middleware
11 26 (8.36%) Hibernate
12 25 (8.04%) OAuth
12 25 (8.04%) SailPoint
13 24 (7.72%) Node.js
14 23 (7.40%) CSS
15 21 (6.75%) ASP.NET
15 21 (6.75%) React
16 20 (6.43%) .NET Core
16 20 (6.43%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.65%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 14 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.86%) CMDB
7 10 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.89%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.57%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.61%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.29%) DataPower
13 4 (1.29%) Online Banking
14 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.50%) Linux
2 20 (6.43%) Unix
3 19 (6.11%) Windows
4 4 (1.29%) zOS
5 3 (0.96%) VMS
6 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (47.27%) Agile
2 97 (31.19%) CI/CD
3 96 (30.87%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (25.72%) DevOps
5 62 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (16.40%) Test Automation
7 50 (16.08%) Scrum
7 50 (16.08%) Software Engineering
8 49 (15.76%) Microservices
9 48 (15.43%) SDLC
10 41 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (12.54%) API Integration
12 38 (12.22%) ITSM
12 38 (12.22%) TDD
12 38 (12.22%) Unit Testing
13 37 (11.90%) Validation
14 32 (10.29%) AI
14 32 (10.29%) Analytics
14 32 (10.29%) Containerisation
15 31 (9.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (33.44%) SQL
2 83 (26.69%) Java
3 73 (23.47%) JavaScript
4 65 (20.90%) C#
5 59 (18.97%) Python
6 24 (7.72%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.75%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.11%) C++
9 15 (4.82%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.89%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.89%) VB.NET
11 8 (2.57%) ABAP
11 8 (2.57%) Apex Code
11 8 (2.57%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.25%) Groovy
13 6 (1.93%) SOQL
13 6 (1.93%) SOSL
13 6 (1.93%) XPath
14 5 (1.61%) Bash
14 5 (1.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (31.83%) Security Cleared
2 90 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 41 (13.18%) Degree
4 13 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.29%) ISEB
9 4 (1.29%) PhD
9 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.29%) PMP
10 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.96%) MBA
11 2 (0.64%) CISSP
11 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.64%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.75%) QA
3 12 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.54%) NIST
5 6 (1.93%) HL7
6 4 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.29%) GRC
6 4 (1.29%) NCSC
7 2 (0.64%) GDPR
8 1 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.32%) GMP
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (15.11%) Docker
2 29 (9.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.25%) Postfix
4 2 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.64%) IAG
4 2 (0.64%) NFS
4 2 (0.64%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.64%) Varnish
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.07%) Grafana
2 20 (6.43%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.18%) Prometheus
3 13 (4.18%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.54%) Ansible
5 5 (1.61%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.29%) Control-M
7 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.64%) Argo
8 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.32%) Istio
9 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.40%) Oracle
3 26 (8.36%) SAP
4 21 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.50%) UiPath
6 13 (4.18%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.86%) IBM
8 10 (3.22%) Workday
9 9 (2.89%) Google
10 8 (2.57%) CyberArk
10 8 (2.57%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (2.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.25%) Pega
12 6 (1.93%) Adobe
12 6 (1.93%) Centrify
13 4 (1.29%) Ariba
13 4 (1.29%) Citrix
13 4 (1.29%) Intapp
13 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.96%) Planview
354 Web Services jobs in England