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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 221 175
Rank change year-on-year -74 -46 +22
Contract jobs citing Web Services 309 296 503
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.15% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 5.07% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 174 269
10th Percentile £363 £363 £407
25th Percentile £414 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £642 £647 £638
90th Percentile £721 £825 £717
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 7
10th Percentile £46.00 £62.00 £52.74
25th Percentile £58.43 £63.13 £56.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £78.25
90th Percentile - £67.40 £91.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 7,681 5,835 7,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.72% 22.65% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,163 3,816 5,419
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.33% -1.69% -7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 80 207
10th Percentile £35.08 £27.04 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.31 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £80.10 £76.53
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -40 169 £450 -21.74% 42
South East -35 37 £589 +17.80% 24
North of England -54 36 £684 +36.80% 24
East of England -1 26 £750 +36.36% 11
Midlands -46 23 £475 +17.14% 10
North West -31 20 £684 +36.80% 15
West Midlands -43 19 £475 -5.00% 8
South West -21 16 £550 -5.17% 11
Yorkshire -54 16 £661 +32.25% 6
East Midlands -29 4 £525 +61.04% 2
North East -13 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 13 (4.21%) Appian
2 11 (3.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (3.56%) WebLogic
3 10 (3.24%) Confluence
4 8 (2.59%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.27%) CICS
5 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.27%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.94%) JBoss
7 5 (1.62%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.29%) IIS
8 4 (1.29%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.97%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.65%) Apache
10 2 (0.65%) Documentum
10 2 (0.65%) Drupal
10 2 (0.65%) Mule
10 2 (0.65%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (6.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.18%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.59%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.27%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.27%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.94%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.62%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.29%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.97%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.97%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.97%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (0.97%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.65%) Primavera
9 2 (0.65%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 78 (25.24%) Azure
2 60 (19.42%) AWS
3 33 (10.68%) PaaS
4 28 (9.06%) OCI
5 18 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.18%) IaaS
7 15 (4.85%) GitHub
8 14 (4.53%) SaaS
9 13 (4.21%) GCP
10 12 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.88%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.88%) Serverless
11 11 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.24%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.91%) AWS KMS
13 9 (2.91%) Azure AI
13 9 (2.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.15%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.18%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.94%) SSL
4 5 (1.62%) IPsec
4 5 (1.62%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.97%) DHCP
5 3 (0.97%) DNS
5 3 (0.97%) FTP
5 3 (0.97%) HTTP
5 3 (0.97%) NFC
5 3 (0.97%) PPP
6 2 (0.65%) Firewall
6 2 (0.65%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.36%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.77%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.47%) SAP HANA
4 18 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.53%) DB2
6 11 (3.56%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (2.91%) Pinecone
9 7 (2.27%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.27%) Power BI
10 6 (1.94%) MySQL
11 5 (1.62%) Data Hub
11 5 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.97%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (16.50%) Git
2 28 (9.06%) Postman
3 23 (7.44%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.12%) JIRA
5 19 (6.15%) Eclipse
6 17 (5.50%) JUnit
6 17 (5.50%) Visual Studio
7 15 (4.85%) Maven
7 15 (4.85%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.21%) Mockito
8 13 (4.21%) Selenium
9 10 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 10 (3.24%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.59%) MLflow
11 7 (2.27%) DbUnit
11 7 (2.27%) jMock
12 5 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.62%) GitLab
12 5 (1.62%) JMeter
12 5 (1.62%) REST Assured
General
1 90 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.68%) Public Sector
3 46 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.92%) Finance
5 22 (7.12%) Military
6 18 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.21%) Banking
8 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.29%) Billing
11 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.97%) Law
12 2 (0.65%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.65%) Front Office
12 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 126 (40.78%) Developer
2 48 (15.53%) Senior
3 44 (14.24%) Consultant
4 27 (8.74%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.44%) SAP Consultant
6 22 (7.12%) Java Developer
6 22 (7.12%) Software Engineer
7 21 (6.80%) Architect
8 20 (6.47%) Lead
9 17 (5.50%) Cloud Specialist
10 16 (5.18%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.85%) Integration Specialist
11 15 (4.85%) Oracle Specialist
12 13 (4.21%) Analyst
13 12 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.88%) C# Software Engineer
14 11 (3.56%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.24%) ABAP Consultant
15 10 (3.24%) C++ Software Engineer
15 10 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (41.42%) REST
2 104 (33.66%) SOAP
3 51 (16.50%) XML
4 41 (13.27%) JSON
5 37 (11.97%) RESTful
6 33 (10.68%) Node.js
7 31 (10.03%) OAuth
8 30 (9.71%) Spring
9 29 (9.39%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (8.09%) .NET
10 25 (8.09%) AngularJS
10 25 (8.09%) XSLT
11 22 (7.12%) Spring Boot
12 20 (6.47%) JWT
13 17 (5.50%) BAPI
13 17 (5.50%) CSS
14 16 (5.18%) Middleware
15 15 (4.85%) Hibernate
15 15 (4.85%) HTML
16 14 (4.53%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.56%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.91%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.59%) Replication
7 7 (2.27%) CMDB
7 7 (2.27%) Mainframe
7 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.62%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.62%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.29%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.97%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.94%) Linux
2 31 (10.03%) Windows
3 10 (3.24%) Android
4 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.94%) zOS
6 5 (1.62%) Unix
7 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (40.78%) Agile
2 76 (24.60%) CI/CD
3 63 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (19.09%) DevOps
5 51 (16.50%) Unit Testing
6 48 (15.53%) Continuous Integration
7 47 (15.21%) Microservices
8 45 (14.56%) ERP
9 43 (13.92%) Test Automation
10 37 (11.97%) Containerisation
10 37 (11.97%) TDD
11 36 (11.65%) Design Patterns
11 36 (11.65%) Software Engineering
12 35 (11.33%) Scrum
13 33 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
14 32 (10.36%) Validation
15 30 (9.71%) Data Modelling
16 29 (9.39%) Continuous Delivery
17 28 (9.06%) OO
18 26 (8.41%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.98%) SQL
2 61 (19.74%) JavaScript
3 59 (19.09%) Java
4 57 (18.45%) Python
5 45 (14.56%) C#
6 31 (10.03%) ABAP
7 25 (8.09%) C++
8 14 (4.53%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.88%) Ruby
10 8 (2.59%) PHP
10 8 (2.59%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.59%) XPath
11 7 (2.27%) Apex Code
11 7 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.94%) Go
13 5 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.62%) Swift
14 4 (1.29%) Groovy
15 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (31.07%) Security Cleared
2 75 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.83%) Degree
4 10 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
10 1 (0.32%) MBA
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.18%) QA
2 12 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.94%) SLA
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (11.65%) Docker
2 13 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.94%) Postfix
4 5 (1.62%) RACF
5 3 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.56%) Grafana
3 7 (2.27%) Ansible
3 7 (2.27%) TIBCO Hawk
4 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.62%) Terraform
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 62 (20.06%) Oracle
2 50 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 44 (14.24%) SAP
4 14 (4.53%) Adobe
5 11 (3.56%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.24%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.24%) IBM
7 9 (2.91%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.91%) UiPath
8 8 (2.59%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (2.27%) BEA
9 7 (2.27%) Google
9 7 (2.27%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.27%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.94%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.94%) Workday
11 5 (1.62%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.62%) Splunk