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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 243 173
Rank change year-on-year -6 -70 +7
Contract jobs citing Web Services 341 317 601
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 1.02% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.94% 4.69% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 179 342
10th Percentile £350 £319 £376
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £620
90th Percentile £715 £748 £702
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 10
10th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - - £56.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - £67.50 £90.60
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 6,906 6,756 8,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.86% 21.67% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,664 4,314 6,421
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.97%
75th Percentile £634 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 99 182
10th Percentile £30.68 £26.25 £36.31
25th Percentile £43.00 £41.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -5 166 £475 -17.39% 57
North of England -17 47 £550 +15.79% 37
East of England -12 41 £550 +30.18% 19
South East 0 40 £475 -9.52% 26
North West -7 34 £550 +27.17% 31
Midlands -21 25 £458 +4.16% 14
West Midlands -24 16 £475 -20.83% 10
South West -2 14 £488 -12.16% 6
East Midlands -6 9 £435 +14.78% 3
Yorkshire -26 9 £627 +25.45% 6
North East -7 4 £500 -
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 27 (7.92%) Confluence
2 13 (3.81%) WebSphere
3 8 (2.35%) Apache
3 8 (2.35%) IIS
3 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.35%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.76%) CMS
6 5 (1.47%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.47%) Mule
7 4 (1.17%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.17%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.88%) CICS
8 3 (0.88%) JBoss
8 3 (0.88%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.59%) Appian
9 2 (0.59%) Documentum
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (3.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.35%) Maximo
3 8 (2.35%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.05%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.76%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.76%) Workday HCM
6 5 (1.47%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (1.47%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.59%) Primavera
9 2 (0.59%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG-F
9 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG-M
9 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG-S
10 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
10 1 (0.29%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (25.22%) Azure
2 58 (17.01%) AWS
3 16 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (4.40%) PaaS
5 13 (3.81%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.52%) GCP
6 12 (3.52%) GitHub
6 12 (3.52%) OCI
6 12 (3.52%) SaaS
7 10 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (2.93%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.93%) SuccessFactors
8 9 (2.64%) Serverless
9 7 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.76%) AWS KMS
10 6 (1.76%) Firebase
10 6 (1.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.04%) TCP/IP
2 22 (6.45%) Ethernet
3 15 (4.40%) SSL
4 9 (2.64%) NFC
4 9 (2.64%) PPP
5 7 (2.05%) HTTP
6 4 (1.17%) ATM
7 2 (0.59%) DHCP
7 2 (0.59%) DMZ
7 2 (0.59%) DNS
7 2 (0.59%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 2 (0.59%) SMTP
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) FTP
8 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.29%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.16%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.28%) SAP HANA
5 17 (4.99%) DB2
6 15 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.81%) Redis
8 11 (3.23%) MySQL
9 9 (2.64%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.64%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.35%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.47%) Power BI
12 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.88%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.59%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (19.06%) Git
2 43 (12.61%) JIRA
3 39 (11.44%) Eclipse
4 33 (9.68%) Jenkins
5 24 (7.04%) Visual Studio
6 22 (6.45%) Postman
7 20 (5.87%) JUnit
8 19 (5.57%) Selenium
9 18 (5.28%) Maven
10 14 (4.11%) SonarQube
11 12 (3.52%) Cucumber
11 12 (3.52%) Mockito
12 11 (3.23%) GitLab
13 9 (2.64%) Valgrind
14 8 (2.35%) SoapUI
15 7 (2.05%) JMeter
15 7 (2.05%) REST Assured
15 7 (2.05%) Subversion
16 6 (1.76%) IntelliJ
16 6 (1.76%) Xcode
General
1 102 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.01%) Finance
3 51 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 46 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.21%) Banking
5 28 (8.21%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (7.33%) Military
7 12 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.76%) Back Office
10 5 (1.47%) Retail
11 4 (1.17%) Law
12 3 (0.88%) Billing
12 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.59%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Police
14 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (39.88%) Developer
2 56 (16.42%) Senior
3 41 (12.02%) Architect
3 41 (12.02%) Consultant
4 36 (10.56%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.62%) Java Developer
6 25 (7.33%) Senior Developer
7 24 (7.04%) C++ Software Engineer
8 23 (6.74%) Lead
9 21 (6.16%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (5.87%) SAP Consultant
11 16 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.11%) ServiceNow Architect
13 13 (3.81%) Tester
14 10 (2.93%) ABAP Consultant
14 10 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (2.64%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (2.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
15 9 (2.64%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (37.54%) REST
2 117 (34.31%) SOAP
3 55 (16.13%) RESTful
4 51 (14.96%) HTML
5 48 (14.08%) Node.js
6 46 (13.49%) XML
7 42 (12.32%) .NET
8 41 (12.02%) JSON
9 40 (11.73%) AngularJS
9 40 (11.73%) Spring
10 37 (10.85%) CSS
11 33 (9.68%) Spring Boot
12 23 (6.74%) HTML5
13 21 (6.16%) BAPI
13 21 (6.16%) jQuery
14 20 (5.87%) Hibernate
15 19 (5.57%) LDAP
15 19 (5.57%) Middleware
16 16 (4.69%) J2EE
17 15 (4.40%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (4.40%) Mobile App
2 11 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.93%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.93%) Replication
4 9 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.64%) Smartcard
5 8 (2.35%) CMDB
6 7 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.17%) PACS
9 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
10 3 (0.88%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.49%) Linux
2 40 (11.73%) Windows
3 10 (2.93%) Android
3 10 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.35%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.05%) Unix
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (41.94%) Agile
2 81 (23.75%) CI/CD
2 81 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (21.70%) DevOps
4 59 (17.30%) Microservices
5 56 (16.42%) Scrum
6 48 (14.08%) Unit Testing
7 46 (13.49%) Continuous Integration
7 46 (13.49%) TDD
8 43 (12.61%) Software Engineering
9 40 (11.73%) Test Automation
10 34 (9.97%) ITSM
11 32 (9.38%) Computer Science
11 32 (9.38%) Data Modelling
11 32 (9.38%) OO
12 31 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
13 30 (8.80%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (8.50%) Validation
14 29 (8.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (34.90%) JavaScript
2 92 (26.98%) Java
3 89 (26.10%) SQL
4 56 (16.42%) C#
4 56 (16.42%) Python
5 35 (10.26%) C++
6 32 (9.38%) ABAP
7 16 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.40%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.52%) Ruby
10 11 (3.23%) Groovy
11 10 (2.93%) PHP
12 8 (2.35%) Kotlin
13 7 (2.05%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.05%) XPath
14 6 (1.76%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.76%) Swift
14 6 (1.76%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.47%) Apex Code
16 4 (1.17%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 90 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 72 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 36 (10.56%) Degree
4 18 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.05%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.88%) CISSP
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CISA
11 1 (0.29%) CISM
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.56%) QA
2 7 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.76%) GDPR
4 4 (1.17%) COBIT
4 4 (1.17%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.59%) GRC
5 2 (0.59%) HL7
6 1 (0.29%) DICOM
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (9.38%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.17%) Postfix
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.28%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.76%) Ansible
3 6 (1.76%) Terraform
4 5 (1.47%) TIBCO Hawk
5 4 (1.17%) Grafana
5 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.88%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.29%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 62 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 54 (15.84%) SAP
3 52 (15.25%) Oracle
4 32 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.28%) Splunk
6 15 (4.40%) IBM
7 14 (4.11%) HP
7 14 (4.11%) Salesforce
8 13 (3.81%) BMC
8 13 (3.81%) Ivanti
8 13 (3.81%) Remedy
9 11 (3.23%) Dynatrace
10 10 (2.93%) Adobe
11 9 (2.64%) Workday
12 8 (2.35%) Axway
12 8 (2.35%) Google
13 7 (2.05%) CA Agile Central
14 6 (1.76%) Atlassian
14 6 (1.76%) MuleSoft
15 5 (1.47%) Guidewire