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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 188 195
Rank change year-on-year -127 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 286 347 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.43% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.63% 6.40% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 218 296
10th Percentile £375 £359 £413
25th Percentile £430 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -3.32% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £718 £779 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 12
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 7,882 5,421 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.45% 22.37% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,744 5,326
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 103 226
10th Percentile £34.50 £33.25 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £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 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -69 168 £525 -12.50% 22
South East -90 38 £500 - 21
North of England -73 28 £625 +25.00% 11
Midlands -69 25 £475 +13.10% 2
West Midlands -53 21 £475 +3.26% 1
East of England -22 17 £750 +42.86% 11
North West -58 14 £625 +25.00% 6
South West -33 13 £575 -0.86% 9
Yorkshire -40 13 £461 +24.66% 5
East Midlands -32 3 £563 +72.55% 1
North East -15 2 £425 -10.53%
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 (4.55%) Appian
1 13 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.50%) CICS
4 9 (3.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (3.15%) WebLogic
5 8 (2.80%) JBoss
6 6 (2.10%) Confluence
7 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.40%) IIS
7 4 (1.40%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.40%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.05%) Apache
8 3 (1.05%) Mule
8 3 (1.05%) Mule ESB
8 3 (1.05%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.70%) CMS
9 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.75%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.40%) BusinessWorks
4 4 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.40%) Workday HCM
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (1.05%) SAP MDG
5 3 (1.05%) SAP MDG-F
5 3 (1.05%) SAP MDG-M
5 3 (1.05%) SAP MDG-S
6 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.70%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.70%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (25.87%) Azure
2 66 (23.08%) AWS
3 37 (12.94%) PaaS
4 28 (9.79%) Entra ID
5 24 (8.39%) OCI
6 21 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (6.99%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (6.99%) Serverless
8 19 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.64%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.64%) GitHub
9 18 (6.29%) SaaS
10 16 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (5.59%) IaaS
10 16 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (4.90%) AWS KMS
11 14 (4.90%) Route 53
12 13 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (4.20%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.24%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.90%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.10%) SSL
4 5 (1.75%) DNS
4 5 (1.75%) IPsec
4 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.40%) FTP
6 3 (1.05%) Firewall
7 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.70%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.64%) DynamoDB
4 15 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (5.24%) DB2
5 9 (3.15%) Pinecone
6 8 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.45%) SAP HANA
8 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.10%) Power BI
9 5 (1.75%) MySQL
9 5 (1.75%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.05%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.05%) Metadata
11 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 44 (15.38%) Git
2 33 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.34%) JUnit
4 20 (6.99%) Maven
5 19 (6.64%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.29%) JIRA
7 17 (5.94%) Eclipse
7 17 (5.94%) Postman
8 15 (5.24%) Mockito
8 15 (5.24%) Visual Studio
9 11 (3.85%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.85%) jMock
10 10 (3.50%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (2.80%) MLflow
11 8 (2.80%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.45%) Cucumber
12 7 (2.45%) GitLab
12 7 (2.45%) Selenium
13 3 (1.05%) Ant
13 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.43%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (15.38%) Finance
5 21 (7.34%) Military
6 15 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.20%) Banking
8 6 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Billing
9 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.70%) Automotive
11 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 119 (41.61%) Developer
2 37 (12.94%) Senior
3 30 (10.49%) Architect
4 29 (10.14%) Java Developer
5 24 (8.39%) Senior Developer
6 22 (7.69%) Consultant
7 19 (6.64%) Lead
8 18 (6.29%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) Cloud Specialist
10 11 (3.85%) Analyst
10 11 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
10 11 (3.85%) Oracle Specialist
10 11 (3.85%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.50%) Azure Developer
11 10 (3.50%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.15%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.15%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (46.15%) REST
2 100 (34.97%) SOAP
3 44 (15.38%) XML
4 40 (13.99%) JSON
5 39 (13.64%) RESTful
5 39 (13.64%) Spring
6 34 (11.89%) OAuth
7 31 (10.84%) Spring Boot
8 30 (10.49%) Node.js
9 27 (9.44%) AngularJS
10 25 (8.74%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (8.39%) .NET
12 21 (7.34%) XSLT
13 20 (6.99%) HTML
14 19 (6.64%) Hibernate
14 19 (6.64%) JPA
15 18 (6.29%) JWT
16 17 (5.94%) CSS
17 16 (5.59%) Spring Batch
17 16 (5.59%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (5.24%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.50%) CMDB
3 10 (3.50%) Mainframe
3 10 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.80%) Low-Code
5 7 (2.45%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.10%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.10%) DataPower
7 5 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.40%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.40%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.34%) Linux
2 25 (8.74%) Windows
3 11 (3.85%) Unix
4 9 (3.15%) zOS
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.11%) Agile
2 76 (26.57%) CI/CD
3 68 (23.78%) DevOps
4 57 (19.93%) Microservices
5 51 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.08%) Continuous Integration
7 41 (14.34%) Containerisation
7 41 (14.34%) TDD
8 36 (12.59%) Unit Testing
9 35 (12.24%) Design Patterns
10 33 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 32 (11.19%) Scrum
11 32 (11.19%) Validation
12 31 (10.84%) Test Automation
13 30 (10.49%) Continuous Delivery
13 30 (10.49%) ERP
14 29 (10.14%) Analytics
15 27 (9.44%) SOA
15 27 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.22%) SQL
2 65 (22.73%) Java
3 62 (21.68%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.58%) Python
5 39 (13.64%) C#
6 26 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.29%) C++
8 13 (4.55%) ABAP
9 11 (3.85%) Apex Code
9 11 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 10 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.45%) Ruby
11 7 (2.45%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.10%) XPath
13 5 (1.75%) JCL
13 5 (1.75%) PHP
14 3 (1.05%) Go
14 3 (1.05%) Groovy
15 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 101 (35.31%) Security Cleared
2 91 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.34%) Degree
4 10 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.40%) MBA
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.45%) QA
2 7 (2.45%) SLA
3 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.75%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) NCSC
4 2 (0.70%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (13.64%) Docker
2 22 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.20%) Postfix
4 5 (1.75%) RACF
5 2 (0.70%) NFS
5 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.70%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.64%) Grafana
3 11 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.45%) Ansible
5 6 (2.10%) Terraform
6 5 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.40%) TIBCO Hawk
8 2 (0.70%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.88%) Oracle
3 21 (7.34%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.94%) SAP
5 14 (4.90%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (4.20%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.85%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.50%) OpenAI
9 9 (3.15%) UiPath
10 8 (2.80%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (2.80%) Workday
11 7 (2.45%) IBM
12 6 (2.10%) Guidewire
12 6 (2.10%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.75%) Adobe
13 5 (1.75%) Google
14 4 (1.40%) BEA
14 4 (1.40%) TIBCO
15 3 (1.05%) BMC
15 3 (1.05%) Remedy