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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 234 170
Rank change year-on-year -32 -64 +16
Contract jobs citing Web Services 303 315 584
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.04% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.40% 4.77% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 180 330
10th Percentile £344 £319 £381
25th Percentile £413 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £634 £630 £629
90th Percentile £713 £764 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 10
10th Percentile £61.25 £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 6,879 6,604 8,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.43% 21.76% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,628 4,204 6,174
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -5.09%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 98 175
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -14.62% +19.13% -15.74%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -15 149 £456 -20.78% 25
North of England -30 43 £550 +27.91% 27
East of England -2 38 £550 +33.33% 13
South East -12 35 £488 -15.22% 24
North West -14 31 £550 +41.03% 22
Midlands -25 16 £465 -1.06% 8
South West -5 13 £488 -12.16% 15
Yorkshire -29 9 £627 +25.45% 3
East Midlands -9 8 £553 +25.57% 1
West Midlands -30 8 £465 -22.50% 6
North East -4 3 £500 - 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 24 (7.92%) Confluence
2 10 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.30%) WebSphere
3 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.31%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.65%) Apache
5 5 (1.65%) IIS
5 5 (1.65%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.65%) NetWeaver
5 5 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.32%) CICS
6 4 (1.32%) CMS
7 3 (0.99%) Mule
7 3 (0.99%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.66%) Documentum
8 2 (0.66%) Drupal
8 2 (0.66%) JBoss
8 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (6.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.64%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.31%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.98%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.98%) Workday HCM
6 5 (1.65%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (1.65%) Maximo
6 5 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.65%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.99%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.66%) Primavera
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.33%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.09%) Azure
2 47 (15.51%) AWS
3 19 (6.27%) PaaS
4 13 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.29%) GitHub
5 12 (3.96%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.96%) OCI
5 12 (3.96%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.63%) SaaS
7 10 (3.30%) GCP
8 8 (2.64%) SuccessFactors
9 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.98%) iPaaS
10 6 (1.98%) Serverless
11 5 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.65%) Sentry
12 4 (1.32%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.25%) TCP/IP
2 22 (7.26%) Ethernet
3 14 (4.62%) SSL
4 7 (2.31%) NFC
4 7 (2.31%) PPP
5 5 (1.65%) HTTP
6 4 (1.32%) ATM
7 3 (0.99%) DHCP
7 3 (0.99%) DNS
8 2 (0.66%) SMTP
9 1 (0.33%) FTP
9 1 (0.33%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.94%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.28%) SAP HANA
5 15 (4.95%) DB2
6 10 (3.30%) MySQL
6 10 (3.30%) Redis
7 8 (2.64%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.98%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.98%) Power BI
9 3 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.99%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.99%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.66%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 47 (15.51%) Git
2 36 (11.88%) Eclipse
3 35 (11.55%) JIRA
4 23 (7.59%) Postman
4 23 (7.59%) Visual Studio
5 17 (5.61%) Jenkins
5 17 (5.61%) Selenium
6 12 (3.96%) JUnit
7 11 (3.63%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.64%) Maven
8 8 (2.64%) Mockito
9 7 (2.31%) JMeter
9 7 (2.31%) SoapUI
9 7 (2.31%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.31%) Valgrind
10 6 (1.98%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.98%) Subversion
11 5 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.65%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.65%) Xcode
General
1 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.83%) Finance
3 46 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.91%) Presentation Skills
6 24 (7.92%) Military
7 23 (7.59%) Banking
8 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.32%) Back Office
10 4 (1.32%) Law
11 3 (0.99%) Billing
11 3 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.66%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Police
12 2 (0.66%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 118 (38.94%) Developer
2 50 (16.50%) Senior
3 38 (12.54%) Consultant
4 36 (11.88%) Architect
5 32 (10.56%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 21 (6.93%) C# Software Engineer
7 21 (6.93%) C++ Software Engineer
8 20 (6.60%) SAP Consultant
9 19 (6.27%) Lead
10 18 (5.94%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
11 14 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.30%) ABAP Consultant
12 10 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.30%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.30%) Tester
13 9 (2.97%) Analyst
14 8 (2.64%) .NET Developer
14 8 (2.64%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (36.63%) REST
2 103 (33.99%) SOAP
3 42 (13.86%) JSON
4 41 (13.53%) .NET
4 41 (13.53%) HTML
4 41 (13.53%) Node.js
4 41 (13.53%) XML
5 37 (12.21%) AngularJS
5 37 (12.21%) RESTful
6 28 (9.24%) CSS
6 28 (9.24%) Spring
7 22 (7.26%) HTML5
8 21 (6.93%) jQuery
8 21 (6.93%) Spring Boot
9 20 (6.60%) BAPI
9 20 (6.60%) Middleware
10 19 (6.27%) LDAP
11 15 (4.95%) XSLT
12 14 (4.62%) JDBC
12 14 (4.62%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.95%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.64%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.64%) CMDB
4 8 (2.64%) Replication
5 7 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.31%) Smartcard
6 6 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.32%) PACS
7 4 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.99%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.54%) Linux
2 37 (12.21%) Windows
3 10 (3.30%) Android
4 8 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.65%) Unix
7 2 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (40.92%) Agile
2 68 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (20.13%) CI/CD
3 61 (20.13%) DevOps
4 50 (16.50%) Unit Testing
5 47 (15.51%) Microservices
5 47 (15.51%) Scrum
6 41 (13.53%) Software Engineering
7 39 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
7 39 (12.87%) TDD
8 35 (11.55%) Test Automation
9 32 (10.56%) Computer Science
10 31 (10.23%) ITSM
11 30 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
12 29 (9.57%) ERP
12 29 (9.57%) Validation
12 29 (9.57%) Visualisation
13 28 (9.24%) OO
14 27 (8.91%) Performance Tuning
15 24 (7.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.66%) JavaScript
2 72 (23.76%) SQL
3 70 (23.10%) Java
4 53 (17.49%) C#
5 49 (16.17%) Python
6 33 (10.89%) C++
7 31 (10.23%) ABAP
8 14 (4.62%) Ruby
9 12 (3.96%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.63%) PL/SQL
11 10 (3.30%) PHP
12 9 (2.97%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.64%) Groovy
13 8 (2.64%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.31%) XPath
15 6 (1.98%) Swift
15 6 (1.98%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.65%) COBOL
16 5 (1.65%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 85 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.21%) Degree
4 18 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CISA
10 1 (0.33%) CISM
10 1 (0.33%) ISEB
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.24%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.32%) COBIT
3 4 (1.32%) GDPR
3 4 (1.32%) ISO 8583
4 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.66%) GRC
5 2 (0.66%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) DICOM
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (6.27%) Docker
2 9 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (5.61%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.65%) Ansible
3 5 (1.65%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (1.32%) Terraform
5 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.50%) SAP
3 48 (15.84%) Oracle
4 32 (10.56%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.28%) Splunk
6 14 (4.62%) HP
7 13 (4.29%) BMC
7 13 (4.29%) IBM
7 13 (4.29%) Ivanti
7 13 (4.29%) Remedy
8 10 (3.30%) Adobe
8 10 (3.30%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.30%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.97%) Workday
10 7 (2.31%) Axway
10 7 (2.31%) Google
11 5 (1.65%) BEA
11 5 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.65%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.65%) TIBCO