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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 187 186
Rank change year-on-year -155 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 292 400 448
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.45% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.44% 6.50% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 274 282
10th Percentile £400 £358 £382
25th Percentile £432 £406 £466
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 £732 £761
UK median daily rate £527 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.40% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 27
10th Percentile £51.63 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £59.69 -
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 8,486 6,154 7,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.60% 22.31% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,559 4,231 5,050
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
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 £643 £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 246 151 228
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £47.60 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%
75th Percentile £73.34 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +18.45% +7.07% -14.58%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -110 157 £575 +4.55% 50
South East -93 44 £500 +5.26% 27
Midlands -57 33 £475 +11.76% 12
North of England -91 31 £460 +2.22% 12
West Midlands -54 28 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -28 16 £454 -11.59% 1
South West -28 14 £485 -4.39% 9
East of England -32 14 £470 -14.16% 3
North West -67 12 £650 +45.41% 9
East Midlands -24 3 £438 +19.02% 3
North East -44 3 £425 -15.00% 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 10 (3.42%) Confluence
2 9 (3.08%) CICS
2 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.71%) JBoss
4 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.37%) IIS
4 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.03%) Appian
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) Mule
6 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.34%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 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 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.03%) Orchestrade
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 ITSM
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.34%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.11%) Azure
2 67 (22.95%) AWS
3 32 (10.96%) Entra ID
4 24 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
4 24 (8.22%) GitHub
5 23 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 23 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.53%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.85%) Serverless
8 18 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.48%) AWS KMS
9 16 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 16 (5.48%) Route 53
10 15 (5.14%) PaaS
11 14 (4.79%) SaaS
12 13 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.45%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.45%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.40%) HTTP
3 5 (1.71%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.71%) SSL
4 4 (1.37%) DNS
5 3 (1.03%) Internet
6 2 (0.68%) Firewall
6 2 (0.68%) FTP
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 36 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.62%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.56%) Relational Database
4 23 (7.88%) DynamoDB
5 17 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (4.11%) Db2
8 8 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.40%) Power BI
9 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.71%) MySQL
10 5 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.37%) SAP HANA
12 3 (1.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 54 (18.49%) Git
2 46 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 29 (9.93%) JIRA
4 23 (7.88%) JUnit
5 22 (7.53%) Maven
6 20 (6.85%) Eclipse
7 18 (6.16%) Mockito
7 18 (6.16%) Visual Studio
8 17 (5.82%) SonarQube
9 12 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
9 12 (4.11%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.77%) jMock
11 8 (2.74%) GitLab
11 8 (2.74%) LoadRunner
12 6 (2.05%) Ant
12 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.05%) Postman
12 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (1.71%) Selenium
13 5 (1.71%) SoapUI
General
1 93 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.26%) Public Sector
3 54 (18.49%) Finance
4 52 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.22%) Banking
6 21 (7.19%) Military
7 12 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.71%) Billing
9 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.37%) Automotive
10 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
10 4 (1.37%) Retail
11 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 149 (51.03%) Developer
2 43 (14.73%) Senior
3 36 (12.33%) Java Developer
4 30 (10.27%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.88%) Architect
6 20 (6.85%) Consultant
7 17 (5.82%) .NET Developer
7 17 (5.82%) C# Developer
8 14 (4.79%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.11%) Azure Developer
9 12 (4.11%) Lead
10 11 (3.77%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (3.42%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
12 9 (3.08%) Designer
12 9 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (2.74%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.74%) Salesforce Developer
14 7 (2.40%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (44.52%) REST
2 101 (34.59%) SOAP
3 55 (18.84%) .NET
4 47 (16.10%) RESTful
4 47 (16.10%) Spring
5 44 (15.07%) XML
6 38 (13.01%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.33%) AngularJS
8 33 (11.30%) JSON
9 29 (9.93%) Node.js
10 26 (8.90%) Hibernate
10 26 (8.90%) HTML
11 24 (8.22%) SailPoint
12 22 (7.53%) OAuth
13 21 (7.19%) JPA
14 19 (6.51%) LDAP
15 18 (6.16%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (6.16%) Spring Batch
15 18 (6.16%) Spring Integration
16 17 (5.82%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.14%) CMDB
4 13 (4.45%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.42%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.08%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.05%) DataPower
9 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.05%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.38%) Linux
2 23 (7.88%) Windows
3 13 (4.45%) Unix
4 8 (2.74%) 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 (41.78%) Agile
2 79 (27.05%) CI/CD
3 72 (24.66%) DevOps
4 65 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (18.15%) Microservices
6 49 (16.78%) Scrum
7 44 (15.07%) TDD
8 42 (14.38%) ITSM
9 38 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (11.99%) Analytics
11 34 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (11.64%) Software Engineering
12 32 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (10.62%) Unit Testing
14 30 (10.27%) ITIL
15 29 (9.93%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (9.59%) SDLC
16 28 (9.59%) Validation
16 28 (9.59%) Workflow
17 27 (9.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 99 (33.90%) SQL
2 73 (25.00%) Java
3 64 (21.92%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.52%) C#
5 51 (17.47%) Python
6 32 (10.96%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.53%) C++
8 17 (5.82%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.77%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.74%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.40%) 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
1 103 (35.27%) Security Cleared
2 93 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.27%) Degree
4 10 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) 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 22 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.45%) QA
3 12 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.77%) NIST
5 6 (2.05%) SLA
6 4 (1.37%) GRC
6 4 (1.37%) NCSC
7 3 (1.03%) 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 40 (13.70%) Docker
2 32 (10.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.77%) 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 21 (7.19%) Grafana
2 14 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.11%) Ansible
3 12 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.05%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.05%) Terraform
5 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.41%) Oracle
3 29 (9.93%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.48%) SAP
5 15 (5.14%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (4.79%) Salesforce
7 12 (4.11%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.40%) Adobe
8 7 (2.40%) IBM
8 7 (2.40%) Pega
9 6 (2.05%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.05%) UiPath
10 5 (1.71%) Centrify
11 4 (1.37%) Citrix
11 4 (1.37%) Google
11 4 (1.37%) Intapp
11 4 (1.37%) Workday
12 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.03%) Splunk
13 2 (0.68%) Solace