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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 223 171
Rank change year-on-year -63 -52 +24
Contract jobs citing Web Services 320 302 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.18% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 5.23% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 181 280
10th Percentile £363 £363 £405
25th Percentile £417 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £719 £825 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -6.54% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 5
10th Percentile £46.00 £62.00 £51.82
25th Percentile £58.43 £63.13 £54.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £90.25
90th Percentile - £67.40 £92.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%

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 7,833 5,773 7,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.53% 22.59% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,821 5,435
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £430 £430
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 £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 78 207
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.92 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.75 £40.78
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 £65.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £81.34 £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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -48 176 £455 -22.22% 33
North of England -50 39 £650 +30.00% 20
South East -46 38 £545 +8.90% 24
East of England -8 25 £775 +40.86% 14
Midlands -50 24 £475 +13.10% 10
North West -25 20 £684 +36.80% 13
West Midlands -43 20 £475 +3.26% 8
Yorkshire -46 19 £463 - 5
South West -21 17 £550 -5.17% 13
East Midlands -24 4 £525 +61.04% 1
North East -13 1 - - 2
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 15 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.06%) Appian
3 11 (3.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (3.44%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.13%) Confluence
5 8 (2.50%) CICS
6 7 (2.19%) JBoss
6 7 (2.19%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.56%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.25%) IIS
8 4 (1.25%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.94%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.63%) Apache
10 2 (0.63%) Documentum
10 2 (0.63%) Drupal
10 2 (0.63%) Mule
10 2 (0.63%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.25%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (4.38%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.50%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.19%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.19%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.88%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.56%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.25%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.94%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.94%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.94%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (0.94%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.63%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.63%) Azure
2 64 (20.00%) AWS
3 37 (11.56%) PaaS
4 25 (7.81%) OCI
5 23 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (6.88%) GitHub
7 18 (5.63%) Entra ID
8 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.69%) IaaS
10 14 (4.38%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.38%) GCP
10 14 (4.38%) SaaS
10 14 (4.38%) Serverless
11 13 (4.06%) Azure App Service
11 13 (4.06%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.75%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.94%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.88%) SSL
4 5 (1.56%) IPsec
4 5 (1.56%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.25%) DNS
6 3 (0.94%) DHCP
6 3 (0.94%) FTP
6 3 (0.94%) HTTP
6 3 (0.94%) NFC
6 3 (0.94%) PPP
7 2 (0.63%) Firewall
7 2 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.63%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.13%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.25%) SAP HANA
4 15 (4.69%) DB2
5 12 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.81%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (2.50%) Power BI
9 7 (2.19%) MySQL
10 5 (1.56%) Data Hub
10 5 (1.56%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.63%) DTS
13 2 (0.63%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 54 (16.88%) Git
2 26 (8.13%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.81%) Postman
4 23 (7.19%) JIRA
5 19 (5.94%) Eclipse
6 18 (5.63%) JUnit
7 17 (5.31%) Visual Studio
8 16 (5.00%) Maven
9 15 (4.69%) SonarQube
10 13 (4.06%) Mockito
10 13 (4.06%) Selenium
11 11 (3.44%) Cucumber
12 10 (3.13%) SoapUI
13 8 (2.50%) MLflow
14 7 (2.19%) DbUnit
14 7 (2.19%) jMock
15 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (1.56%) GitLab
15 5 (1.56%) JMeter
15 5 (1.56%) REST Assured
General
1 95 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.25%) Public Sector
3 48 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (14.38%) Finance
5 22 (6.88%) Military
6 19 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.38%) Banking
8 7 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.94%) Billing
10 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.94%) Law
10 3 (0.94%) Retail
11 2 (0.63%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.63%) Front Office
11 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (41.88%) Developer
2 47 (14.69%) Senior
3 44 (13.75%) Consultant
4 26 (8.13%) Java Developer
4 26 (8.13%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.19%) Architect
5 23 (7.19%) SAP Consultant
6 22 (6.88%) Software Engineer
7 21 (6.56%) Lead
8 16 (5.00%) Python Developer
9 15 (4.69%) Cloud Specialist
10 13 (4.06%) Analyst
10 13 (4.06%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.06%) Integration Specialist
10 13 (4.06%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (3.75%) C# Software Engineer
12 11 (3.44%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.44%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) ABAP Consultant
13 10 (3.13%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (43.13%) REST
2 112 (35.00%) SOAP
3 50 (15.63%) XML
4 40 (12.50%) JSON
5 37 (11.56%) RESTful
6 35 (10.94%) Node.js
7 34 (10.63%) Spring
8 30 (9.38%) .NET
8 30 (9.38%) OAuth
9 27 (8.44%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (7.50%) Spring Boot
11 24 (7.50%) XSLT
12 19 (5.94%) JWT
13 18 (5.63%) CSS
14 17 (5.31%) .NET Framework
14 17 (5.31%) BAPI
15 16 (5.00%) J2EE
16 15 (4.69%) HTML
16 15 (4.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.81%) CMDB
4 9 (2.81%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.50%) Replication
6 7 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.56%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.25%) DataPower
8 4 (1.25%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.94%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.81%) Linux
2 32 (10.00%) Windows
3 10 (3.13%) Android
4 7 (2.19%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.19%) zOS
5 6 (1.88%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (40.00%) Agile
2 77 (24.06%) CI/CD
3 67 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (19.06%) DevOps
5 50 (15.63%) Microservices
6 48 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 45 (14.06%) Unit Testing
8 44 (13.75%) Test Automation
9 40 (12.50%) ERP
10 39 (12.19%) Scrum
10 39 (12.19%) TDD
11 37 (11.56%) Containerisation
11 37 (11.56%) Design Patterns
12 36 (11.25%) Software Engineering
13 35 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
14 32 (10.00%) Validation
15 30 (9.38%) Data Modelling
16 29 (9.06%) Continuous Delivery
17 28 (8.75%) OO
18 27 (8.44%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.19%) SQL
2 64 (20.00%) Java
2 64 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 59 (18.44%) Python
4 50 (15.63%) C#
5 31 (9.69%) ABAP
6 25 (7.81%) C++
7 22 (6.88%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (3.75%) Ruby
9 9 (2.81%) PHP
10 8 (2.50%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.50%) XPath
11 7 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.88%) Go
13 4 (1.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.25%) Swift
14 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.31%) Degree
4 12 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISA
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) CISSP
9 1 (0.31%) ISEB
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.31%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.00%) QA
2 12 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.19%) SLA
4 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (11.88%) Docker
2 15 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.88%) Postfix
4 5 (1.56%) RACF
5 3 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.44%) Grafana
3 9 (2.81%) Ansible
4 7 (2.19%) TIBCO Hawk
5 5 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.56%) Terraform
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 58 (18.13%) Oracle
2 57 (17.81%) Microsoft
3 45 (14.06%) SAP
4 14 (4.38%) Adobe
4 14 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 10 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.13%) IBM
6 10 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.81%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (2.81%) UiPath
8 8 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (2.50%) Google
9 7 (2.19%) BEA
9 7 (2.19%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.19%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.88%) Workday
11 5 (1.56%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.56%) Splunk