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

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 172 186
Rank change year-on-year -156 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing Web Services 286 385 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.62% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.58% 7.24% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 249 304
10th Percentile £375 £363 £406
25th Percentile £425 £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 £718 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 13
10th Percentile £51.10 £53.50 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £64.07 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -1.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.50% -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 7,978 5,315 7,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.33% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,268 3,680 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 95 235
10th Percentile £30.77 £28.13 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.38 £66.50
90th Percentile £78.88 £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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -95 166 £550 -8.33% 25
South East -97 35 £500 - 10
North of England -83 32 £483 -3.50% 7
Midlands -67 29 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -59 25 £475 +5.56% 4
Yorkshire -44 17 £461 +24.66% 2
South West -23 16 £554 - 9
North West -57 14 £625 +25.00% 4
East of England -37 12 £470 -12.56% 11
North East -22 2 £425 -22.73% 1
East Midlands -38 2 £563 +57.12% 2
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 (4.55%) Appian
2 11 (3.85%) CICS
2 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.80%) JBoss
5 7 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (2.45%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.10%) Confluence
7 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.40%) IIS
7 4 (1.40%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.05%) Apache
8 3 (1.05%) Mule
8 3 (1.05%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.70%) CMS
9 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.20%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.75%) SAP EWM
2 5 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.40%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.70%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.35%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 80 (27.97%) Azure
2 71 (24.83%) AWS
3 32 (11.19%) PaaS
4 27 (9.44%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (8.74%) Serverless
6 24 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (8.04%) Amazon S3
8 21 (7.34%) OCI
9 20 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (6.29%) AWS KMS
11 18 (6.29%) Route 53
12 17 (5.94%) GitHub
12 17 (5.94%) SaaS
13 15 (5.24%) IaaS
14 14 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.20%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.20%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.45%) SSL
3 5 (1.75%) IPsec
3 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.40%) DNS
4 4 (1.40%) Firewall
4 4 (1.40%) FTP
5 3 (1.05%) HTTP
6 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 2 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (8.74%) DynamoDB
3 24 (8.39%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.04%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.90%) DB2
8 9 (3.15%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.10%) Oracle Database
10 6 (2.10%) SAP HANA
11 5 (1.75%) MySQL
11 5 (1.75%) Power BI
12 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.40%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (1.05%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (16.43%) Git
2 38 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.74%) JUnit
4 24 (8.39%) Maven
5 23 (8.04%) SonarQube
6 19 (6.64%) Mockito
7 18 (6.29%) JIRA
8 16 (5.59%) Eclipse
8 16 (5.59%) Postman
9 14 (4.90%) DbUnit
9 14 (4.90%) Visual Studio
10 13 (4.55%) jMock
11 12 (4.20%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (3.15%) GitLab
12 9 (3.15%) SoapUI
13 8 (2.80%) MLflow
14 6 (2.10%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.10%) Selenium
15 4 (1.40%) Ant
15 4 (1.40%) LoadRunner
General
1 80 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.48%) Public Sector
3 47 (16.43%) Finance
4 42 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.99%) Military
6 14 (4.90%) Banking
7 12 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.75%) Billing
10 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.40%) Retail
11 3 (1.05%) Automotive
11 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.70%) Front Office
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (44.41%) Developer
2 40 (13.99%) Senior
3 36 (12.59%) Java Developer
4 29 (10.14%) Architect
5 26 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.99%) Consultant
7 17 (5.94%) Lead
7 17 (5.94%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.55%) Azure Developer
9 12 (4.20%) Analyst
9 12 (4.20%) Cloud Specialist
10 11 (3.85%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.50%) Integration Specialist
11 10 (3.50%) Oracle Specialist
11 10 (3.50%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.15%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.15%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (45.45%) REST
2 98 (34.27%) SOAP
3 49 (17.13%) RESTful
4 44 (15.38%) Spring
5 41 (14.34%) XML
6 39 (13.64%) JSON
7 34 (11.89%) Spring Boot
8 33 (11.54%) OAuth
9 30 (10.49%) Node.js
10 28 (9.79%) AngularJS
11 26 (9.09%) .NET
12 23 (8.04%) Hibernate
12 23 (8.04%) HTML
12 23 (8.04%) JPA
13 21 (7.34%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (6.99%) Spring Batch
14 20 (6.99%) Spring Integration
15 19 (6.64%) ActiveMQ
16 17 (5.94%) CSS
16 17 (5.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 11 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.50%) CMDB
4 10 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.50%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.80%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.45%) DataPower
7 7 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.10%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.10%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.40%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.69%) Linux
2 22 (7.69%) Windows
3 11 (3.85%) Unix
4 10 (3.50%) zOS
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (38.81%) Agile
2 80 (27.97%) CI/CD
3 72 (25.17%) DevOps
4 62 (21.68%) Microservices
5 54 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (15.73%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (15.03%) Containerisation
8 42 (14.69%) TDD
9 38 (13.29%) Scrum
10 33 (11.54%) Design Patterns
11 32 (11.19%) Software Engineering
12 30 (10.49%) ERP
13 29 (10.14%) Continuous Delivery
13 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (10.14%) Test Automation
13 29 (10.14%) Unit Testing
14 28 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (9.79%) Validation
15 27 (9.44%) SOA
16 26 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 82 (28.67%) SQL
2 72 (25.17%) Java
3 60 (20.98%) Python
4 59 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 38 (13.29%) C#
6 25 (8.74%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.59%) C++
8 12 (4.20%) Apex Code
9 11 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.45%) ABAP
12 6 (2.10%) JCL
12 6 (2.10%) Ruby
12 6 (2.10%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.75%) PHP
14 4 (1.40%) XPath
15 3 (1.05%) Go
15 3 (1.05%) Groovy
15 3 (1.05%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 100 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 91 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.39%) Degree
4 10 (3.50%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.40%) MBA
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.80%) SLA
3 6 (2.10%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.70%) GDPR
5 2 (0.70%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (15.03%) Docker
2 22 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.55%) Postfix
4 5 (1.75%) RACF
5 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.70%) NFS
5 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.69%) Grafana
2 20 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.45%) Ansible
5 6 (2.10%) Terraform
6 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.70%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.70%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 51 (17.83%) Oracle
3 23 (8.04%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.94%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.90%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.90%) SAP
6 13 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.50%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.15%) UiPath
9 8 (2.80%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.80%) Workday
10 7 (2.45%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.10%) Adobe
11 6 (2.10%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.75%) Google
13 4 (1.40%) IBM
13 4 (1.40%) Sybase
14 3 (1.05%) BMC
14 3 (1.05%) Citrix
14 3 (1.05%) Cognizant
67 Web Services jobs in England