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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 174 189
Rank change year-on-year -153 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing Web Services 281 365 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.51% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.58% 6.76% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 233 299
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £430 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £638
90th Percentile £718 £773 £739
UK median daily rate £506 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -4.12% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 13
10th Percentile £47.71 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £56.56 -
Median hourly rate £62.82 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.82 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.46% -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 7,843 5,398 7,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.26% 22.31% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,735 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 227
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -85 165 £565 -5.83% 23
South East -86 36 £500 - 13
North of England -75 28 £475 -2.56% 11
Midlands -68 25 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -58 21 £475 +3.26% 3
South West -22 16 £554 - 12
East of England -27 14 £470 -10.48% 9
Yorkshire -48 14 £460 +24.32% 6
North West -54 13 £625 +25.00% 4
East Midlands -34 3 £563 +57.12% 3
North East -18 2 £425 -10.53% 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 (4.63%) Appian
1 13 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.56%) CICS
4 8 (2.85%) JBoss
5 7 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (2.49%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.14%) Confluence
7 4 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.42%) IIS
7 4 (1.42%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.07%) Apache
8 3 (1.07%) Mule
8 3 (1.07%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.71%) CMS
9 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.63%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.78%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.42%) Workday HCM
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.71%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.71%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.36%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 77 (27.40%) Azure
2 66 (23.49%) AWS
3 36 (12.81%) PaaS
4 29 (10.32%) Entra ID
5 23 (8.19%) OCI
6 20 (7.12%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.76%) GitHub
7 19 (6.76%) Serverless
8 17 (6.05%) SaaS
9 16 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.69%) IaaS
9 16 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (4.98%) AWS KMS
10 14 (4.98%) Route 53
11 13 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.98%) TCP/IP
2 13 (4.63%) Ethernet
3 7 (2.49%) SSL
4 5 (1.78%) DNS
4 5 (1.78%) IPsec
4 5 (1.78%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.42%) Firewall
5 4 (1.42%) FTP
6 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.71%) Internet
6 2 (0.71%) VPN
7 1 (0.36%) DHCP
7 1 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.19%) Relational Database
2 23 (8.19%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.76%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.63%) DB2
6 9 (3.20%) Pinecone
7 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.14%) Power BI
7 6 (2.14%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.78%) MySQL
8 5 (1.78%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.42%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.07%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.07%) Metadata
10 3 (1.07%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.07%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (15.66%) Git
2 34 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.47%) JUnit
4 20 (7.12%) Maven
5 19 (6.76%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.41%) JIRA
7 17 (6.05%) Eclipse
7 17 (6.05%) Postman
8 15 (5.34%) Mockito
8 15 (5.34%) Visual Studio
9 11 (3.91%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.91%) jMock
10 10 (3.56%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (2.85%) MLflow
11 8 (2.85%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.49%) GitLab
13 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.14%) Selenium
14 4 (1.42%) Ant
15 3 (1.07%) LoadRunner
General
1 75 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 68 (24.20%) Public Sector
3 44 (15.66%) Finance
4 41 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.12%) Military
6 12 (4.27%) Banking
6 12 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Billing
8 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Retail
9 3 (1.07%) Automotive
9 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 118 (41.99%) Developer
2 37 (13.17%) Senior
3 30 (10.68%) Java Developer
4 29 (10.32%) Architect
5 24 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.76%) Consultant
7 18 (6.41%) Lead
7 18 (6.41%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) Analyst
8 13 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) Cloud Specialist
9 11 (3.91%) Azure Developer
9 11 (3.91%) Integration Specialist
9 11 (3.91%) Oracle Specialist
9 11 (3.91%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.56%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Salesforce Developer
11 9 (3.20%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (45.91%) REST
2 96 (34.16%) SOAP
3 42 (14.95%) XML
4 40 (14.23%) JSON
4 40 (14.23%) RESTful
5 39 (13.88%) Spring
6 35 (12.46%) OAuth
7 31 (11.03%) Spring Boot
8 28 (9.96%) Node.js
9 26 (9.25%) .NET
9 26 (9.25%) AngularJS
10 23 (8.19%) HTML
10 23 (8.19%) Oracle Fusion
11 19 (6.76%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.76%) JPA
11 19 (6.76%) XSLT
12 18 (6.41%) JWT
13 17 (6.05%) CSS
14 16 (5.69%) Spring Batch
14 16 (5.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.91%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.56%) CMDB
4 10 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.56%) Mainframe
4 10 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.85%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.14%) DataPower
8 5 (1.78%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.42%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.42%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.23%) Linux
2 24 (8.54%) Windows
3 11 (3.91%) Unix
4 9 (3.20%) zOS
5 2 (0.71%) Android
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.43%) Agile
2 75 (26.69%) CI/CD
3 70 (24.91%) DevOps
4 56 (19.93%) Microservices
5 53 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (15.66%) Continuous Integration
7 41 (14.59%) Containerisation
8 40 (14.23%) TDD
9 34 (12.10%) Software Engineering
10 33 (11.74%) Design Patterns
10 33 (11.74%) Scrum
10 33 (11.74%) Unit Testing
11 31 (11.03%) ERP
12 30 (10.68%) Test Automation
12 30 (10.68%) Validation
13 29 (10.32%) Continuous Delivery
14 28 (9.96%) Analytics
15 27 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (9.25%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (9.25%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 73 (25.98%) SQL
2 66 (23.49%) Java
3 61 (21.71%) JavaScript
4 57 (20.28%) Python
5 40 (14.23%) C#
6 27 (9.61%) PowerShell
7 17 (6.05%) C++
8 12 (4.27%) Apex Code
9 10 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (3.56%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.85%) ABAP
11 7 (2.49%) Ruby
12 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.14%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.78%) JCL
13 5 (1.78%) PHP
14 4 (1.42%) XPath
15 3 (1.07%) Go
15 3 (1.07%) Groovy
15 3 (1.07%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 102 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.10%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.54%) Degree
4 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.42%) MBA
8 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.85%) SLA
3 6 (2.14%) QA
4 5 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.78%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (13.88%) Docker
2 23 (8.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.27%) Postfix
4 5 (1.78%) RACF
5 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 2 (0.71%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.71%) Varnish
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.76%) Grafana
3 11 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.49%) Ansible
5 6 (2.14%) Terraform
6 5 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.36%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 66 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.15%) Oracle
3 23 (8.19%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.98%) Jaspersoft
4 14 (4.98%) SAP
5 13 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.27%) Atlassian
7 10 (3.56%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.20%) UiPath
9 8 (2.85%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.85%) Workday
10 7 (2.49%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.14%) Google
11 6 (2.14%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.78%) Adobe
12 5 (1.78%) IBM
13 3 (1.07%) BMC
13 3 (1.07%) Cognizant
13 3 (1.07%) Remedy
14 2 (0.71%) Charles River