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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 170 191
Rank change year-on-year -156 +21 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 294 391 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.63% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.66% 7.30% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 251 303
10th Percentile £376 £363 £405
25th Percentile £424 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £717 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £51.15 £53.50 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -10.34%

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 8,035 5,357 7,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.39% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,715 5,407
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £630 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £790
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £535
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 96 236
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.66 £22.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.90 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £66.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -97 168 £558 -7.08% 12
South East -84 36 £500 - 5
Midlands -63 32 £475 +11.76% 4
North of England -81 32 £483 -3.50% 7
West Midlands -59 27 £475 - 2
South West -22 17 £554 - 8
Yorkshire -42 17 £461 +24.66% 3
North West -52 14 £625 +25.00% 3
East of England -30 12 £470 -10.48% 8
East Midlands -34 3 £525 +46.65% 2
North East -27 2 £425 -22.73% 1
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 13 (4.42%) Appian
2 11 (3.74%) CICS
2 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.72%) JBoss
5 7 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (2.38%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.04%) Confluence
7 4 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.36%) IIS
7 4 (1.36%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.02%) Apache
8 3 (1.02%) Mule
8 3 (1.02%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.68%) CMS
9 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.08%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.70%) SAP EWM
2 5 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.36%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.68%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.34%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 83 (28.23%) Azure
2 72 (24.49%) AWS
3 32 (10.88%) PaaS
4 27 (9.18%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (8.50%) Serverless
6 24 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (7.82%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.14%) OCI
9 20 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (6.12%) AWS KMS
11 18 (6.12%) Route 53
12 17 (5.78%) GitHub
12 17 (5.78%) SaaS
13 15 (5.10%) IaaS
14 14 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.42%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.42%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.38%) SSL
3 5 (1.70%) IPsec
3 5 (1.70%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.36%) DNS
4 4 (1.36%) Firewall
4 4 (1.36%) FTP
5 3 (1.02%) HTTP
6 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 2 (0.68%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.50%) DynamoDB
2 25 (8.50%) SQL Server
3 24 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (4.76%) DB2
7 9 (3.06%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.04%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.04%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.70%) MySQL
10 5 (1.70%) Power BI
11 4 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (1.02%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (15.65%) Git
2 38 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.50%) JUnit
4 24 (8.16%) Maven
5 23 (7.82%) SonarQube
6 20 (6.80%) JIRA
7 19 (6.46%) Mockito
8 17 (5.78%) Eclipse
9 16 (5.44%) Postman
10 15 (5.10%) Visual Studio
11 14 (4.76%) DbUnit
12 13 (4.42%) jMock
13 12 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (3.40%) SoapUI
15 9 (3.06%) GitLab
16 8 (2.72%) MLflow
17 6 (2.04%) Cucumber
17 6 (2.04%) LoadRunner
17 6 (2.04%) Selenium
18 4 (1.36%) Ant
General
1 85 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 49 (16.67%) Finance
4 43 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.14%) Military
6 14 (4.76%) Banking
7 12 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.04%) Billing
8 6 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Retail
10 3 (1.02%) Automotive
10 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.02%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 130 (44.22%) Developer
2 39 (13.27%) Senior
3 36 (12.24%) Java Developer
4 29 (9.86%) Architect
5 25 (8.50%) Senior Developer
6 22 (7.48%) Consultant
7 18 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.78%) Lead
9 13 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.42%) Azure Developer
10 12 (4.08%) Analyst
10 12 (4.08%) Cloud Specialist
11 10 (3.40%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) Integration Specialist
11 10 (3.40%) Oracle Specialist
11 10 (3.40%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.40%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.40%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (3.06%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (45.24%) REST
2 101 (34.35%) SOAP
3 49 (16.67%) RESTful
4 44 (14.97%) Spring
4 44 (14.97%) XML
5 40 (13.61%) JSON
6 34 (11.56%) Spring Boot
7 33 (11.22%) OAuth
8 31 (10.54%) Node.js
9 28 (9.52%) .NET
9 28 (9.52%) AngularJS
10 23 (7.82%) Hibernate
10 23 (7.82%) HTML
10 23 (7.82%) JPA
11 22 (7.48%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (6.80%) Spring Batch
12 20 (6.80%) Spring Integration
13 19 (6.46%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (6.12%) XSLT
15 17 (5.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.74%) Mainframe
3 11 (3.74%) Mobile App
3 11 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.40%) CMDB
4 10 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.40%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.72%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.38%) DataPower
6 7 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.04%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.70%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.36%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.63%) Linux
2 23 (7.82%) Windows
3 11 (3.74%) Unix
4 10 (3.40%) zOS
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (38.78%) Agile
2 82 (27.89%) CI/CD
3 75 (25.51%) DevOps
4 62 (21.09%) Microservices
5 55 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (14.63%) TDD
8 42 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 38 (12.93%) Scrum
10 32 (10.88%) Design Patterns
10 32 (10.88%) Software Engineering
11 31 (10.54%) ERP
12 30 (10.20%) Continuous Delivery
12 30 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (10.20%) Test Automation
12 30 (10.20%) Unit Testing
13 29 (9.86%) Validation
14 28 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (9.18%) SOA
15 27 (9.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.91%) SQL
2 73 (24.83%) Java
3 60 (20.41%) JavaScript
3 60 (20.41%) Python
4 39 (13.27%) C#
5 26 (8.84%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.12%) C++
7 12 (4.08%) Apex Code
8 11 (3.74%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (2.72%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.38%) ABAP
11 6 (2.04%) JCL
11 6 (2.04%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.70%) PHP
12 5 (1.70%) Ruby
12 5 (1.70%) XPath
13 3 (1.02%) Go
13 3 (1.02%) Groovy
13 3 (1.02%) X++
Qualifications
1 102 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.63%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.16%) Degree
4 10 (3.40%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.36%) MBA
9 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.72%) SLA
3 6 (2.04%) QA
4 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.70%) NIST
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (14.63%) Docker
2 22 (7.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.42%) Postfix
4 5 (1.70%) RACF
5 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
5 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.48%) Grafana
2 20 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.38%) Ansible
5 6 (2.04%) Terraform
6 5 (1.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.68%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 67 (22.79%) Microsoft
2 53 (18.03%) Oracle
3 23 (7.82%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.78%) Jaspersoft
5 15 (5.10%) SAP
6 14 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.40%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.06%) UiPath
9 8 (2.72%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.72%) Workday
10 7 (2.38%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.04%) Adobe
11 6 (2.04%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.70%) Google
13 4 (1.36%) IBM
13 4 (1.36%) Sybase
14 3 (1.02%) BMC
14 3 (1.02%) Citrix
14 3 (1.02%) Cognizant
41 Web Services jobs in England