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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 214 201
Rank change year-on-year -127 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 325 354 402
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.26% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.30% 4.95% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 234 225
10th Percentile £363 £356 £347
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £718 £700 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 28
10th Percentile £52.38 £55.00 £64.25
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £65.75 - -
90th Percentile £77.35 - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 9,834 7,150 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.26% 25.49% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,464 4,822 5,230
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £448 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -89 166 £550 +7.84% 171
South East -67 49 £500 +5.26% 35
North of England -91 38 £475 -3.75% 58
Midlands -38 37 £449 +2.91% 26
West Midlands -35 30 £450 -7.22% 23
Yorkshire -19 20 £450 -28.26% 13
East of England -47 17 £525 -3.67% 16
South West -25 13 £488 -2.50% 19
North West -80 10 £650 +42.86% 31
North East -39 8 £675 +35.00% 15
East Midlands -21 5 £428 +10.67% 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 24 (7.38%) Confluence
2 10 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (2.15%) IIS
5 4 (1.23%) Apache
5 4 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.92%) CICS
6 3 (0.92%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.62%) CMS
7 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) Appian
8 1 (0.31%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.15%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.23%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.92%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.62%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.62%) iTrent
5 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.62%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.62%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.62%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.62%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 95 (29.23%) Azure
2 69 (21.23%) AWS
3 23 (7.08%) GCP
3 23 (7.08%) GitHub
4 21 (6.46%) Entra ID
5 19 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.00%) SaaS
7 13 (4.00%) Serverless
8 10 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (3.08%) iPaaS
9 9 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.46%) Boomi
10 8 (2.46%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.85%) AWS KMS
12 6 (1.85%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.69%) Ethernet
1 12 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.46%) HTTP
3 7 (2.15%) SSL
4 6 (1.85%) FTP
5 5 (1.54%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.23%) Firewall
7 2 (0.62%) Internet
7 2 (0.62%) Intranet
7 2 (0.62%) VPN
7 2 (0.62%) X.509
8 1 (0.31%) ATM
8 1 (0.31%) Broadband
8 1 (0.31%) DMZ
8 1 (0.31%) DNS
8 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
8 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.62%) Relational Database
3 32 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.31%) Oracle Database
5 10 (3.08%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.77%) MySQL
6 9 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.46%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.15%) Db2
9 6 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.85%) Power BI
10 5 (1.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (22.77%) Git
2 48 (14.77%) JIRA
3 47 (14.46%) Jenkins
4 28 (8.62%) SonarQube
5 25 (7.69%) Maven
6 24 (7.38%) JUnit
7 20 (6.15%) Mockito
7 20 (6.15%) Visual Studio
8 18 (5.54%) Eclipse
9 13 (4.00%) LoadRunner
10 9 (2.77%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.77%) eggPlant
10 9 (2.77%) JMeter
11 8 (2.46%) Postman
11 8 (2.46%) Selenium
11 8 (2.46%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.85%) Ant
12 6 (1.85%) Gradle
12 6 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (21.85%) Finance
4 69 (21.23%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.92%) Banking
6 22 (6.77%) Military
7 13 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.23%) Automotive
13 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.23%) Legal
14 3 (0.92%) Billing
15 2 (0.62%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 168 (51.69%) Developer
2 53 (16.31%) Senior
3 35 (10.77%) Java Developer
4 31 (9.54%) Senior Developer
5 29 (8.92%) Consultant
6 21 (6.46%) .NET Developer
6 21 (6.46%) Architect
6 21 (6.46%) C# Developer
7 19 (5.85%) Lead
8 17 (5.23%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.38%) C# .NET Developer
9 11 (3.38%) IAM Specialist
9 11 (3.38%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 11 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (2.77%) C# Software Engineer
10 9 (2.77%) ServiceNow Developer
10 9 (2.77%) Technical Consultant
11 8 (2.46%) Applications Developer
11 8 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (35.38%) REST
2 105 (32.31%) SOAP
3 78 (24.00%) .NET
4 66 (20.31%) RESTful
5 63 (19.38%) XML
6 47 (14.46%) HTML
7 42 (12.92%) AngularJS
7 42 (12.92%) Spring
8 40 (12.31%) Spring Boot
9 33 (10.15%) JSON
10 30 (9.23%) CSS
10 30 (9.23%) Middleware
11 27 (8.31%) React
12 26 (8.00%) OAuth
12 26 (8.00%) SailPoint
13 25 (7.69%) Node.js
14 23 (7.08%) Hibernate
15 21 (6.46%) ASP.NET
15 21 (6.46%) LDAP
16 20 (6.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.77%) Enterprise Software
2 32 (9.85%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 15 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.08%) CMDB
6 9 (2.77%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.54%) Replication
10 4 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.92%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.38%) Linux
2 23 (7.08%) Unix
3 22 (6.77%) Windows
4 4 (1.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.92%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.92%) zOS
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (47.69%) Agile
2 108 (33.23%) CI/CD
3 102 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (25.54%) DevOps
5 68 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (18.15%) Test Automation
7 52 (16.00%) SDLC
8 51 (15.69%) Scrum
8 51 (15.69%) Software Engineering
9 46 (14.15%) Microservices
10 43 (13.23%) Unit Testing
11 42 (12.92%) API Integration
11 42 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (12.62%) Validation
13 39 (12.00%) AI
13 39 (12.00%) TDD
14 38 (11.69%) Containerisation
15 36 (11.08%) ITSM
16 35 (10.77%) Code Quality
16 35 (10.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 103 (31.69%) SQL
2 84 (25.85%) JavaScript
3 81 (24.92%) Java
4 69 (21.23%) C#
5 62 (19.08%) Python
6 26 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.54%) C++
9 13 (4.00%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.69%) ABAP
10 12 (3.69%) Bash
11 11 (3.38%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.38%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.08%) Groovy
13 9 (2.77%) VB.NET
14 7 (2.15%) Apex Code
14 7 (2.15%) XPath
15 6 (1.85%) SOQL
15 6 (1.85%) SOSL
16 4 (1.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 95 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 86 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.62%) Degree
4 16 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.54%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.54%) PMP
9 4 (1.23%) ISEB
9 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.23%) PhD
10 2 (0.62%) CISSP
10 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.62%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.77%) QA
3 13 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.69%) NIST
5 7 (2.15%) NCSC
6 6 (1.85%) HL7
7 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.23%) GRC
8 3 (0.92%) GDPR
9 1 (0.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.31%) GMP
9 1 (0.31%) GxP
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) PMO
9 1 (0.31%) SLA
9 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (16.62%) Docker
2 32 (9.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) Postfix
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.62%) IAG
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (8.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.54%) Grafana
3 12 (3.69%) Ansible
3 12 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.54%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.23%) Control-M
7 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.62%) Argo
9 1 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (24.92%) Microsoft
2 56 (17.23%) Oracle
3 30 (9.23%) SAP
4 19 (5.85%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.54%) UiPath
6 13 (4.00%) Google
6 13 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.69%) IBM
7 12 (3.69%) Workday
8 8 (2.46%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.15%) Pega
10 6 (1.85%) Adobe
10 6 (1.85%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.85%) Centrify
11 5 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.23%) Ariba
12 4 (1.23%) Citrix
12 4 (1.23%) Intapp
12 4 (1.23%) Planview