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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 193 190
Rank change year-on-year -149 -3 +20
Contract jobs citing Web Services 310 405 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 1.47% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.63% 6.61% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 276 285
10th Percentile £374 £358 £378
25th Percentile £429 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £638
90th Percentile £739 £736 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 26
10th Percentile £51.63 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £58.13 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £67.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -107 167 £575 +4.55% 34
South East -103 44 £500 +5.26% 17
Midlands -45 36 £475 +11.76% 8
North of England -88 35 £463 +2.78% 7
West Midlands -44 30 £475 - 5
Yorkshire -29 21 £460 -10.42% 2
South West -31 15 £425 -16.21% 8
East of England -34 14 £470 -14.16% 1
North West -72 12 £650 +45.41% 3
East Midlands -19 4 £482 +34.50% 3
North East -45 3 £425 -15.00% 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 11 (3.55%) CICS
1 11 (3.55%) Confluence
1 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.61%) Appian
3 5 (1.61%) JBoss
4 4 (1.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.29%) IIS
4 4 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.97%) Apache
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.97%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Mule
6 2 (0.65%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.29%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.29%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.97%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.65%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.32%) BASE24
6 1 (0.32%) Maximo
6 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 97 (31.29%) Azure
2 75 (24.19%) AWS
3 33 (10.65%) Entra ID
4 26 (8.39%) Amazon SQS
4 26 (8.39%) Serverless
5 25 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (8.06%) Amazon S3
5 25 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.42%) GitHub
6 23 (7.42%) PaaS
7 20 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (5.81%) AWS KMS
8 18 (5.81%) Route 53
8 18 (5.81%) SaaS
9 14 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.52%) Power Platform
10 13 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (3.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.19%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.19%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.90%) SSL
3 6 (1.94%) HTTP
3 6 (1.94%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.29%) DNS
4 4 (1.29%) FTP
4 4 (1.29%) IPsec
4 4 (1.29%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.97%) Internet
6 2 (0.65%) Firewall
6 2 (0.65%) Intranet
6 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.32%) ATM
7 1 (0.32%) DMZ
7 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 33 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.39%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.06%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (5.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (4.84%) Db2
8 9 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.26%) Power BI
9 7 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.94%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.61%) MySQL
11 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (1.61%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.29%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (17.10%) Git
2 49 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 34 (10.97%) JIRA
4 25 (8.06%) JUnit
5 24 (7.74%) Maven
6 20 (6.45%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.13%) Mockito
7 19 (6.13%) Visual Studio
8 18 (5.81%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.52%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.19%) jMock
11 12 (3.87%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (2.90%) GitLab
13 8 (2.58%) LoadRunner
13 8 (2.58%) Postman
14 7 (2.26%) Ant
14 7 (2.26%) SoapUI
15 6 (1.94%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (1.61%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 63 (20.32%) Public Sector
3 59 (19.03%) Finance
4 57 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.06%) Banking
6 22 (7.10%) Military
7 12 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.61%) Billing
10 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.29%) Automotive
11 4 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.29%) Legal
11 4 (1.29%) Retail
11 4 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.65%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 155 (50.00%) Developer
2 44 (14.19%) Senior
3 38 (12.26%) Java Developer
4 29 (9.35%) Architect
5 28 (9.03%) Senior Developer
6 22 (7.10%) Consultant
7 16 (5.16%) .NET Developer
7 16 (5.16%) C# Developer
7 16 (5.16%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.19%) Azure Developer
9 12 (3.87%) Lead
10 10 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (3.23%) IAM Specialist
10 10 (3.23%) Technical Architect
11 9 (2.90%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.58%) Analyst
12 8 (2.58%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (2.58%) Designer
12 8 (2.58%) Salesforce Developer
12 8 (2.58%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (46.77%) REST
2 108 (34.84%) SOAP
3 53 (17.10%) .NET
4 51 (16.45%) Spring
4 51 (16.45%) XML
5 50 (16.13%) RESTful
6 41 (13.23%) Spring Boot
7 40 (12.90%) JSON
8 36 (11.61%) AngularJS
9 33 (10.65%) Node.js
10 31 (10.00%) OAuth
11 28 (9.03%) Hibernate
12 26 (8.39%) HTML
13 23 (7.42%) JPA
13 23 (7.42%) SailPoint
14 21 (6.77%) SAML
15 20 (6.45%) OAuth2
15 20 (6.45%) Spring Batch
15 20 (6.45%) Spring Integration
16 19 (6.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.03%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.19%) CMDB
4 13 (4.19%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.55%) Mainframe
6 10 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.26%) DataPower
8 7 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.94%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.84%) Linux
2 25 (8.06%) Windows
3 14 (4.52%) Unix
4 10 (3.23%) zOS
5 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (40.65%) Agile
2 93 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 84 (27.10%) DevOps
4 66 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (20.65%) Microservices
6 51 (16.45%) Scrum
7 45 (14.52%) TDD
8 44 (14.19%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (12.26%) Analytics
9 38 (12.26%) ITSM
10 35 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (10.97%) Software Engineering
12 32 (10.32%) Design Patterns
12 32 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
12 32 (10.32%) Unit Testing
12 32 (10.32%) Validation
12 32 (10.32%) Workflow
13 31 (10.00%) Containerisation
13 31 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (9.35%) AI
Programming Languages
1 105 (33.87%) SQL
2 79 (25.48%) Java
3 68 (21.94%) JavaScript
4 58 (18.71%) C#
5 54 (17.42%) Python
6 32 (10.32%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.42%) C++
8 18 (5.81%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.55%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.94%) ABAP
11 6 (1.94%) Groovy
11 6 (1.94%) JCL
11 6 (1.94%) SOQL
11 6 (1.94%) SOSL
11 6 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.94%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.94%) XPath
12 5 (1.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 94 (30.32%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.00%) Degree
4 11 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.97%) MBA
10 2 (0.65%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PMP
11 1 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.55%) QA
3 10 (3.23%) NIST
4 7 (2.26%) SLA
5 4 (1.29%) GRC
5 4 (1.29%) NCSC
6 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.97%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (13.55%) Docker
2 31 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.19%) Postfix
4 4 (1.29%) RACF
5 2 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.65%) NFS
5 2 (0.65%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.65%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.10%) Grafana
2 17 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.55%) Ansible
5 5 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.61%) Terraform
6 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.32%) Istio
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 79 (25.48%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.13%) Oracle
3 29 (9.35%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.48%) Jaspersoft
4 17 (5.48%) SAP
5 14 (4.52%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.52%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.90%) IBM
7 7 (2.26%) Adobe
7 7 (2.26%) Pega
7 7 (2.26%) Workday
8 6 (1.94%) UiPath
9 5 (1.61%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.61%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.29%) Centrify
10 4 (1.29%) Citrix
10 4 (1.29%) Google
10 4 (1.29%) Intapp
10 4 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.29%) Sybase