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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 207 174
Rank change year-on-year -92 -33 +28
Contract jobs citing Web Services 296 312 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 1.28% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.79% 5.64% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 188 280
10th Percentile £363 £361 £405
25th Percentile £414 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £713 £825 £711
UK median daily rate £506 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -5.47% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 4
10th Percentile £38.31 £62.38 £52.63
25th Percentile £55.86 £64.06 £56.56
Median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -13.91% +15.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £91.13
90th Percentile - £67.10 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -1.43% -13.91% +15.27%

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 7,804 5,531 7,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.01% 22.63% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,764 5,391
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 84 187
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.22 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.14 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.70 £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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -59 172 £463 -20.26% 34
South East -69 37 £589 +17.80% 18
North of England -74 27 £625 +25.00% 20
East of England -5 23 £750 +36.36% 6
Midlands -57 22 £475 +13.10% 5
West Midlands -56 19 £475 +3.26% 4
South West -23 15 £556 -4.09% 10
Yorkshire -49 15 £460 - 9
North West -46 12 £625 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -37 3 £563 +72.55% 1
North East -14 1 - - 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 14 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.39%) Appian
3 11 (3.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (3.72%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.04%) Confluence
5 8 (2.70%) CICS
6 7 (2.36%) JBoss
6 7 (2.36%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.69%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.35%) IIS
8 4 (1.35%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.01%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.68%) Apache
10 2 (0.68%) Documentum
10 2 (0.68%) Drupal
10 2 (0.68%) Mule
10 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.68%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (4.73%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.70%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.36%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.36%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (2.03%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.69%) SAP EWM
7 4 (1.35%) SAP ERP
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (1.01%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.01%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.01%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (1.01%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.68%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.68%) Azure
2 66 (22.30%) AWS
3 37 (12.50%) PaaS
4 25 (8.45%) OCI
5 24 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.77%) GitHub
7 17 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (5.41%) Entra ID
8 16 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (5.07%) IaaS
9 15 (5.07%) SaaS
9 15 (5.07%) Serverless
10 14 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.39%) Azure App Service
11 13 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (4.39%) GCP
12 12 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (4.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.73%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.03%) SSL
4 5 (1.69%) IPsec
4 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.01%) DNS
5 3 (1.01%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) DHCP
6 2 (0.68%) Firewall
6 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 2 (0.68%) NFC
6 2 (0.68%) PPP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.46%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.41%) DB2
5 13 (4.39%) SAP HANA
6 12 (4.05%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.04%) Pinecone
8 9 (3.04%) Power BI
9 8 (2.70%) MySQL
10 6 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.35%) Data Hub
12 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (1.01%) SAP Data Services
14 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (17.57%) Git
2 26 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.77%) JIRA
4 22 (7.43%) Postman
5 17 (5.74%) JUnit
6 16 (5.41%) Eclipse
6 16 (5.41%) Maven
7 15 (5.07%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.07%) Visual Studio
8 13 (4.39%) Selenium
9 12 (4.05%) Mockito
10 10 (3.38%) SoapUI
11 9 (3.04%) Cucumber
12 8 (2.70%) MLflow
13 7 (2.36%) DbUnit
13 7 (2.36%) jMock
14 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (2.03%) GitLab
14 6 (2.03%) JMeter
15 5 (1.69%) REST Assured
General
1 86 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 49 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.53%) Finance
5 20 (6.76%) Military
6 16 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.72%) Banking
8 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.01%) Billing
10 3 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (43.58%) Developer
2 44 (14.86%) Senior
3 30 (10.14%) Consultant
4 26 (8.78%) Senior Developer
5 25 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 24 (8.11%) Architect
7 21 (7.09%) Lead
8 19 (6.42%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.41%) Python Developer
10 14 (4.73%) Cloud Specialist
10 14 (4.73%) SAP Consultant
11 13 (4.39%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (4.05%) Analyst
12 12 (4.05%) Integration Specialist
12 12 (4.05%) Oracle Specialist
13 11 (3.72%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.38%) Azure Developer
14 10 (3.38%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.38%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.04%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (46.62%) REST
2 108 (36.49%) SOAP
3 51 (17.23%) XML
4 37 (12.50%) JSON
5 33 (11.15%) Spring
6 32 (10.81%) RESTful
7 31 (10.47%) Node.js
8 28 (9.46%) OAuth
9 25 (8.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (8.11%) Spring Boot
10 24 (8.11%) XSLT
11 23 (7.77%) .NET
11 23 (7.77%) AngularJS
12 19 (6.42%) JWT
13 17 (5.74%) CSS
13 17 (5.74%) J2EE
14 16 (5.41%) .NET Framework
15 15 (5.07%) Hibernate
15 15 (5.07%) JPA
16 14 (4.73%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.72%) CMDB
4 10 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.04%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.70%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.70%) Replication
7 5 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.35%) DataPower
8 4 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.35%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.84%) Linux
2 29 (9.80%) Windows
3 7 (2.36%) Unix
3 7 (2.36%) zOS
4 6 (2.03%) Android
5 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (39.53%) Agile
2 75 (25.34%) CI/CD
3 62 (20.95%) DevOps
3 62 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (17.57%) Microservices
5 46 (15.54%) Continuous Integration
6 43 (14.53%) Unit Testing
7 40 (13.51%) Design Patterns
8 39 (13.18%) Test Automation
9 38 (12.84%) Containerisation
9 38 (12.84%) ERP
10 37 (12.50%) TDD
11 35 (11.82%) Scrum
12 33 (11.15%) Software Engineering
13 31 (10.47%) Validation
14 30 (10.14%) Data Modelling
15 29 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
16 26 (8.78%) OO
16 26 (8.78%) SOA
17 25 (8.45%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.99%) SQL
2 61 (20.61%) Java
3 60 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 58 (19.59%) Python
5 43 (14.53%) C#
6 23 (7.77%) ABAP
7 20 (6.76%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.42%) C++
9 12 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (4.05%) Ruby
10 8 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.70%) PHP
10 8 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.70%) XPath
11 5 (1.69%) Go
11 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.35%) Groovy
12 4 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.01%) JCL
13 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.01%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.39%) DV Cleared
4 12 (4.05%) Degree
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.35%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) ISEB
8 1 (0.34%) MBA
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.38%) QA
3 8 (2.70%) SLA
4 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (13.18%) Docker
2 12 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.03%) Postfix
4 5 (1.69%) RACF
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.05%) Grafana
3 8 (2.70%) Ansible
4 7 (2.36%) TIBCO Hawk
5 5 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.69%) Terraform
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 55 (18.58%) Oracle
2 53 (17.91%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.82%) SAP
4 16 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.38%) IBM
5 10 (3.38%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.04%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.04%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.04%) UiPath
7 8 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.70%) Google
8 7 (2.36%) BEA
8 7 (2.36%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.36%) TIBCO
9 6 (2.03%) Adobe
9 6 (2.03%) Guidewire
9 6 (2.03%) Workday
10 5 (1.69%) Computacenter
11 4 (1.35%) Dataiku