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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 196 184
Rank change year-on-year -160 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 293 399 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.43% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 6.46% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 273 285
10th Percentile £400 £358 £384
25th Percentile £425 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £723 £758
UK median daily rate £527 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 27
10th Percentile £51.63 £55.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £74.65 - -
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 8,461 6,180 7,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.57% 22.21% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,535 4,246 5,039
10th Percentile £363 £350 £359
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £641 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 152 226
10th Percentile £28.22 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £45.63 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -9.20%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -116 157 £575 +4.55% 53
South East -95 44 £500 +5.26% 27
Midlands -49 33 £475 +11.76% 12
North of England -76 32 £460 +2.22% 12
West Midlands -42 28 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -29 16 £454 -11.59% 2
East of England -29 14 £470 -14.16% 6
South West -36 14 £485 -4.39% 9
North West -68 12 £650 +45.41% 9
North East -43 4 £425 -15.00% 1
East Midlands -19 3 £438 +19.02% 3
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 10 (3.41%) Confluence
1 10 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.07%) CICS
2 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.37%) JBoss
3 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.68%) Apache
5 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) Mule
5 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) HCL Domino
6 1 (0.34%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.37%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.02%) Orchestrade
3 3 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.68%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 86 (29.35%) Azure
2 66 (22.53%) AWS
3 32 (10.92%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.19%) GitHub
6 23 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (7.85%) Amazon SQS
7 21 (7.17%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.83%) Serverless
9 18 (6.14%) Power Platform
10 17 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (5.46%) AWS KMS
11 16 (5.46%) Route 53
12 15 (5.12%) PaaS
13 14 (4.78%) SaaS
14 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (3.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.44%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.39%) HTTP
3 5 (1.71%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.71%) SSL
4 4 (1.37%) DNS
5 3 (1.02%) FTP
5 3 (1.02%) 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 35 (11.95%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (8.19%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.51%) DynamoDB
5 16 (5.46%) Amazon Aurora
5 16 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.10%) Db2
7 8 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.39%) Power BI
8 7 (2.39%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.71%) MySQL
9 5 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.37%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.02%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 55 (18.77%) Git
2 45 (15.36%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.24%) JIRA
4 22 (7.51%) JUnit
5 21 (7.17%) Maven
6 20 (6.83%) Eclipse
7 18 (6.14%) SonarQube
7 18 (6.14%) Visual Studio
8 17 (5.80%) Mockito
9 12 (4.10%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (4.10%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.75%) jMock
11 9 (3.07%) LoadRunner
12 8 (2.73%) GitLab
13 7 (2.39%) Postman
14 6 (2.05%) Ant
14 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.05%) JMeter
14 6 (2.05%) SoapUI
14 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.87%) Public Sector
3 53 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.09%) Finance
4 24 (8.19%) Banking
5 21 (7.17%) Military
6 12 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.71%) Billing
9 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.37%) Automotive
10 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
10 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 150 (51.19%) Developer
2 43 (14.68%) Senior
3 35 (11.95%) Java Developer
4 30 (10.24%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.85%) Architect
6 22 (7.51%) Consultant
7 17 (5.80%) .NET Developer
7 17 (5.80%) C# Developer
8 14 (4.78%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.44%) Lead
10 12 (4.10%) Azure Developer
11 11 (3.75%) IAM Specialist
12 10 (3.41%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (3.07%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (3.07%) Designer
13 9 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (2.73%) C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.73%) Salesforce Developer
14 8 (2.73%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (43.34%) REST
2 100 (34.13%) SOAP
3 58 (19.80%) .NET
4 46 (15.70%) RESTful
4 46 (15.70%) Spring
5 45 (15.36%) XML
6 37 (12.63%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.29%) AngularJS
8 32 (10.92%) JSON
9 29 (9.90%) Node.js
10 26 (8.87%) HTML
11 25 (8.53%) Hibernate
12 24 (8.19%) SailPoint
13 21 (7.17%) OAuth
14 20 (6.83%) JPA
15 19 (6.48%) LDAP
16 18 (6.14%) Spring Batch
16 18 (6.14%) Spring Integration
17 17 (5.80%) CSS
17 17 (5.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (5.46%) CMDB
4 13 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.10%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.41%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.41%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.07%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.05%) DataPower
9 6 (2.05%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.02%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.02%) Derivative
12 3 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.33%) Linux
2 23 (7.85%) Windows
3 14 (4.78%) Unix
4 8 (2.73%) zOS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (41.64%) Agile
2 77 (26.28%) CI/CD
3 73 (24.91%) DevOps
4 69 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (17.75%) Microservices
6 48 (16.38%) Scrum
7 43 (14.68%) ITSM
7 43 (14.68%) TDD
8 38 (12.97%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (11.95%) Analytics
11 34 (11.60%) Software Engineering
12 33 (11.26%) Unit Testing
13 31 (10.58%) ITIL
13 31 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (9.90%) SDLC
15 27 (9.22%) API Integration
15 27 (9.22%) Validation
15 27 (9.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.13%) SQL
2 73 (24.91%) Java
3 65 (22.18%) JavaScript
4 59 (20.14%) C#
5 52 (17.75%) Python
6 33 (11.26%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.51%) C++
8 17 (5.80%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.75%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (2.05%) ABAP
12 6 (2.05%) JCL
12 6 (2.05%) SOQL
12 6 (2.05%) SOSL
12 6 (2.05%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.71%) Groovy
13 5 (1.71%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.71%) XPath
14 4 (1.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 107 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 97 (33.11%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.24%) Degree
4 10 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.02%) MBA
11 2 (0.68%) PhD
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.17%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.44%) QA
3 12 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.75%) NIST
5 6 (2.05%) SLA
6 4 (1.37%) GRC
6 4 (1.37%) NCSC
7 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.68%) GDPR
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (12.97%) Docker
2 32 (10.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.75%) Postfix
4 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.68%) NFS
4 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 20 (6.83%) Grafana
2 13 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.10%) Ansible
3 12 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.05%) Terraform
5 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.02%) Oracle
3 29 (9.90%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.80%) SAP
5 15 (5.12%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (4.78%) Salesforce
7 12 (4.10%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.73%) IBM
9 7 (2.39%) Adobe
9 7 (2.39%) Pega
9 7 (2.39%) UiPath
10 6 (2.05%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.71%) Centrify
11 5 (1.71%) Workday
12 4 (1.37%) Citrix
12 4 (1.37%) Google
12 4 (1.37%) Intapp
13 3 (1.02%) BMC
13 3 (1.02%) Remedy
13 3 (1.02%) Splunk