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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 218 161
Rank change year-on-year -71 -57 +32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 274 303 547
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.14% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.93% 5.13% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 170 308
10th Percentile £350 £368 £400
25th Percentile £413 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £647 £652 £630
90th Percentile £716 £803 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £538
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 8
10th Percentile £33.19 £62.75 £55.61
25th Percentile £64.06 - £57.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile - - £90.06
90th Percentile - £66.80 £91.30
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 6,975 5,904 7,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.02% 22.15% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 3,770 5,635
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 76 174
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £27.98
25th Percentile £46.00 £43.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.05 £74.65 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% -15.38%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -36 153 £495 -17.50% 26
North of England -45 32 £625 +26.26% 38
South East -20 30 £590 +2.61% 51
East of England -10 25 £737 +34.05% 33
North West -29 23 £650 +31.31% 16
South West -6 14 £550 -5.17% 22
Midlands -41 14 £565 +28.41% 24
Yorkshire -41 9 £598 +19.50% 15
East Midlands -20 7 £700 +100.00% 15
West Midlands -39 7 £430 -14.00% 9
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 (3.65%) Confluence
1 10 (3.65%) WebLogic
2 9 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.55%) Appian
4 7 (2.55%) WebSphere
5 5 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.46%) Mule
6 4 (1.46%) Mule ESB
7 3 (1.09%) Anypoint
7 3 (1.09%) JBoss
7 3 (1.09%) NetWeaver
7 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.73%) CICS
8 2 (0.73%) Documentum
8 2 (0.73%) Drupal
8 2 (0.73%) IIS
9 1 (0.36%) Apache
9 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.46%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (8.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.38%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.92%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.55%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.55%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (2.19%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (1.82%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.46%) SAP EWM
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.73%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.73%) Primavera
9 2 (0.73%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 61 (22.26%) Azure
2 37 (13.50%) AWS
3 26 (9.49%) PaaS
4 25 (9.12%) OCI
5 12 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.38%) GitHub
6 11 (4.01%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.65%) GCP
7 10 (3.65%) SaaS
8 9 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.28%) IaaS
9 8 (2.92%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.55%) iPaaS
10 7 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.82%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.82%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.82%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.20%) TCP/IP
2 14 (5.11%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.82%) HTTP
3 5 (1.82%) SSL
4 4 (1.46%) ATM
4 4 (1.46%) NFC
4 4 (1.46%) PPP
5 3 (1.09%) DHCP
5 3 (1.09%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) Firewall
6 2 (0.73%) SMTP
7 1 (0.36%) FTP
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.36%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.39%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.30%) SAP HANA
4 11 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.92%) DB2
5 8 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.19%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.19%) Power BI
7 5 (1.82%) Data Hub
7 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.46%) MySQL
8 4 (1.46%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (1.09%) SAP BW
9 3 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.73%) DTS
10 2 (0.73%) EDMS
10 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (15.33%) Git
2 28 (10.22%) Postman
3 24 (8.76%) Eclipse
4 17 (6.20%) JIRA
5 14 (5.11%) Selenium
5 14 (5.11%) Visual Studio
6 12 (4.38%) Jenkins
7 10 (3.65%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.92%) SoapUI
9 7 (2.55%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.82%) Appium
10 5 (1.82%) Charles Proxy
10 5 (1.82%) JMeter
10 5 (1.82%) JUnit
10 5 (1.82%) Katalon Studio
10 5 (1.82%) XCUITest
11 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.46%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.46%) Mockito
11 4 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
General
1 82 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.34%) Public Sector
3 36 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (13.14%) Finance
4 20 (7.30%) Banking
5 18 (6.57%) Military
6 16 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.82%) Billing
9 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (39.05%) Developer
2 45 (16.42%) Senior
3 39 (14.23%) Consultant
4 28 (10.22%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.39%) SAP Consultant
6 22 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.66%) Lead
8 20 (7.30%) Architect
9 13 (4.74%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (4.38%) Analyst
10 12 (4.38%) C# Software Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) Integration Specialist
10 12 (4.38%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (4.38%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.65%) ABAP Consultant
11 10 (3.65%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.28%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (36.50%) REST
2 86 (31.39%) SOAP
3 40 (14.60%) XML
4 32 (11.68%) JSON
5 25 (9.12%) .NET
5 25 (9.12%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (8.76%) HTML
7 22 (8.03%) CSS
7 22 (8.03%) Node.js
8 21 (7.66%) RESTful
9 20 (7.30%) AngularJS
9 20 (7.30%) BAPI
10 19 (6.93%) XSLT
11 17 (6.20%) OAuth
12 15 (5.47%) Middleware
12 15 (5.47%) Spring
13 13 (4.74%) JWT
13 13 (4.74%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (4.01%) J2EE
14 11 (4.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.92%) CMDB
3 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.92%) Public Cloud
3 8 (2.92%) Replication
4 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.19%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.46%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.46%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.46%) PACS
6 4 (1.46%) Smartcard
6 4 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.85%) Linux
2 24 (8.76%) Windows
3 11 (4.01%) Android
4 9 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.73%) Unix
7 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (35.40%) Agile
2 57 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (18.25%) CI/CD
4 44 (16.06%) DevOps
4 44 (16.06%) Unit Testing
5 41 (14.96%) Test Automation
6 36 (13.14%) ERP
7 32 (11.68%) Software Engineering
8 30 (10.95%) Data Modelling
9 29 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
10 28 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
11 26 (9.49%) Design Patterns
11 26 (9.49%) Microservices
12 25 (9.12%) OO
12 25 (9.12%) Scrum
12 25 (9.12%) TDD
12 25 (9.12%) Validation
13 23 (8.39%) Containerisation
13 23 (8.39%) Migration
14 22 (8.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.99%) JavaScript
2 56 (20.44%) SQL
3 48 (17.52%) Java
4 45 (16.42%) Python
5 38 (13.87%) C#
6 35 (12.77%) ABAP
7 22 (8.03%) C++
8 12 (4.38%) Ruby
9 11 (4.01%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.28%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.28%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.92%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.92%) PHP
12 7 (2.55%) Apex Code
12 7 (2.55%) XPath
13 6 (2.19%) Swift
14 5 (1.82%) Groovy
15 4 (1.46%) COBOL
15 4 (1.46%) Go
15 4 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.39%) Degree
4 11 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.46%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISA
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.30%) QA
2 8 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.46%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.73%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) DICOM
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) GRC
6 1 (0.36%) HL7
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (7.66%) Docker
2 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) RACF
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (2.19%) Ansible
4 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.46%) Terraform
6 2 (0.73%) CloudHub
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 56 (20.44%) Oracle
2 50 (18.25%) SAP
3 43 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.11%) Adobe
5 12 (4.38%) Splunk
6 11 (4.01%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.28%) IBM
7 9 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.55%) BEA
8 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.55%) Google
8 7 (2.55%) Guidewire
8 7 (2.55%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.55%) TIBCO
9 5 (1.82%) BMC
9 5 (1.82%) Computacenter
9 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.82%) Remedy
9 5 (1.82%) UiPath
10 4 (1.46%) HP