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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 207 174
Rank change year-on-year -94 -33 +29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 304 309 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.26% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.88% 5.56% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 190 282
10th Percentile £363 £362 £405
25th Percentile £414 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +0.69% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £714 £825 £713
UK median daily rate £511 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.49% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 5
10th Percentile £38.31 £62.38 £51.82
25th Percentile £55.86 £64.06 £54.56
Median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £90.25
90th Percentile - £67.10 £92.35
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.43% +4.00% -4.58%

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 7,829 5,557 7,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 22.62% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,775 5,401
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 193
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -52 176 £458 -21.12% 29
South East -54 36 £590 +18.00% 17
North of England -65 31 £625 +25.00% 16
East of England -14 23 £750 +36.36% 11
Midlands -48 23 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -57 19 £475 +3.26% 5
Yorkshire -41 18 £461 - 4
South West -22 15 £556 -4.09% 10
North West -44 13 £625 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -31 4 £525 +61.04% 1
North East -11 1 - - 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 15 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.28%) Appian
3 11 (3.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (3.62%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.29%) Confluence
5 8 (2.63%) CICS
6 7 (2.30%) JBoss
6 7 (2.30%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.64%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.32%) IIS
8 4 (1.32%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.99%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.66%) Apache
10 2 (0.66%) Documentum
10 2 (0.66%) Drupal
10 2 (0.66%) Mule
10 2 (0.66%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (4.61%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.63%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.30%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.97%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.64%) SAP EWM
7 4 (1.32%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (0.99%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.66%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.00%) Azure
2 65 (21.38%) AWS
3 37 (12.17%) PaaS
4 26 (8.55%) OCI
5 23 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (7.57%) GitHub
6 17 (5.59%) Entra ID
6 17 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (4.93%) IaaS
7 15 (4.93%) SaaS
8 14 (4.61%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.61%) Serverless
9 13 (4.28%) Azure App Service
9 13 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (4.28%) GCP
10 12 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (3.95%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.61%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.97%) SSL
4 5 (1.64%) IPsec
4 5 (1.64%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.99%) DNS
5 3 (0.99%) FTP
6 2 (0.66%) DHCP
6 2 (0.66%) Firewall
6 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.66%) Internet
6 2 (0.66%) NFC
6 2 (0.66%) PPP
7 1 (0.33%) HTTP
7 1 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.93%) DB2
5 14 (4.61%) SAP HANA
6 12 (3.95%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.96%) MySQL
8 9 (2.96%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.63%) Power BI
10 5 (1.64%) Data Hub
10 5 (1.64%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.66%) Redis
13 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (17.43%) Git
2 27 (8.88%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.89%) JIRA
4 22 (7.24%) Postman
5 17 (5.59%) JUnit
6 16 (5.26%) Eclipse
6 16 (5.26%) Maven
7 15 (4.93%) Selenium
7 15 (4.93%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.93%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.95%) Mockito
9 11 (3.62%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.29%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.63%) MLflow
12 7 (2.30%) DbUnit
12 7 (2.30%) jMock
13 6 (1.97%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.97%) GitLab
13 6 (1.97%) JMeter
14 5 (1.64%) REST Assured
General
1 91 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.04%) Public Sector
3 49 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.14%) Finance
5 20 (6.58%) Military
6 16 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.62%) Banking
8 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.32%) Retail
10 3 (0.99%) Billing
10 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.66%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.66%) Front Office
11 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (42.43%) Developer
2 44 (14.47%) Senior
3 34 (11.18%) Consultant
4 25 (8.22%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.89%) Architect
5 24 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 21 (6.91%) Lead
7 19 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 15 (4.93%) SAP Consultant
10 14 (4.61%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Analyst
12 12 (3.95%) Integration Specialist
12 12 (3.95%) Oracle Specialist
13 11 (3.62%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) Azure Developer
14 10 (3.29%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.96%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (45.72%) REST
2 110 (36.18%) SOAP
3 50 (16.45%) XML
4 37 (12.17%) JSON
5 34 (11.18%) RESTful
6 33 (10.86%) Spring
7 32 (10.53%) Node.js
8 28 (9.21%) OAuth
9 27 (8.88%) Oracle Fusion
10 26 (8.55%) .NET
11 24 (7.89%) XSLT
12 23 (7.57%) AngularJS
13 22 (7.24%) Spring Boot
14 19 (6.25%) CSS
14 19 (6.25%) JWT
15 17 (5.59%) .NET Framework
15 17 (5.59%) J2EE
16 15 (4.93%) Hibernate
17 14 (4.61%) JPA
18 13 (4.28%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.62%) CMDB
5 10 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.29%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.96%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.63%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.63%) Replication
8 5 (1.64%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.32%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.32%) DataPower
9 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.32%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.83%) Linux
2 29 (9.54%) Windows
3 7 (2.30%) Android
3 7 (2.30%) Unix
3 7 (2.30%) zOS
4 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (39.14%) Agile
2 75 (24.67%) CI/CD
3 66 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (20.07%) DevOps
5 50 (16.45%) Microservices
6 46 (15.13%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (14.14%) Unit Testing
8 42 (13.82%) Test Automation
9 40 (13.16%) Design Patterns
10 39 (12.83%) ERP
11 37 (12.17%) Containerisation
12 36 (11.84%) Scrum
12 36 (11.84%) TDD
13 32 (10.53%) Data Modelling
13 32 (10.53%) Software Engineering
14 31 (10.20%) Validation
15 28 (9.21%) Continuous Delivery
16 27 (8.88%) OO
17 26 (8.55%) Analytics
17 26 (8.55%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.36%) SQL
2 62 (20.39%) Java
2 62 (20.39%) JavaScript
3 58 (19.08%) Python
4 43 (14.14%) C#
5 24 (7.89%) ABAP
6 21 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.25%) C++
8 12 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (3.95%) Ruby
9 9 (2.96%) PHP
10 8 (2.63%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.63%) XPath
11 6 (1.97%) Go
12 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.99%) JCL
14 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.28%) Degree
3 13 (4.28%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.33%) ISEB
7 1 (0.33%) MBA
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.33%) PMP
7 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.62%) QA
3 8 (2.63%) SLA
4 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) NCSC
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (12.83%) Docker
2 13 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.97%) Postfix
4 5 (1.64%) RACF
5 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.62%) Grafana
3 8 (2.63%) Ansible
4 7 (2.30%) TIBCO Hawk
5 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.64%) Terraform
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 57 (18.75%) Oracle
2 53 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.17%) SAP
4 16 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.62%) OpenAI
6 10 (3.29%) IBM
6 10 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.96%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.96%) Google
7 9 (2.96%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (2.96%) UiPath
8 8 (2.63%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (2.30%) Adobe
9 7 (2.30%) BEA
9 7 (2.30%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.30%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.30%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.97%) Workday
11 5 (1.64%) Computacenter
12 4 (1.32%) Dataiku