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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 236 182
Rank change year-on-year -57 -54 +21
Contract jobs citing Web Services 300 294 500
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.13% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 5.05% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 174 265
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £825 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 7
10th Percentile £28.06 £62.00 £52.74
25th Percentile £53.13 £63.13 £56.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £78.25
90th Percentile - £67.40 £91.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 7,582 5,821 7,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.84% 22.47% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,089 3,797 5,450
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 74 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.88
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.56 £43.78
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.10 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -52 170 £450 -21.74% 41
North of England -64 38 £650 +31.31% 34
South East -33 34 £590 +18.00% 31
North West -29 23 £625 +26.26% 22
East of England -12 21 £750 +36.36% 15
Midlands -62 18 £475 +17.14% 16
South West -15 15 £525 -9.48% 12
Yorkshire -47 15 £725 +45.00% 8
West Midlands -54 15 £475 -5.00% 13
East Midlands -26 3 £416 +27.68% 3
North East -14 1 - - 4
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 13 (4.33%) Appian
2 11 (3.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (3.67%) WebLogic
3 10 (3.33%) Confluence
4 8 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.33%) WebSphere
6 6 (2.00%) CICS
6 6 (2.00%) JBoss
7 5 (1.67%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.33%) IIS
8 4 (1.33%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.00%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.67%) Apache
10 2 (0.67%) Documentum
10 2 (0.67%) Drupal
10 2 (0.67%) Mule
10 2 (0.67%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.33%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.33%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.67%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.33%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (2.00%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.67%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.33%) SAP EWM
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (1.00%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.00%) Azure
2 54 (18.00%) AWS
3 33 (11.00%) PaaS
4 28 (9.33%) OCI
5 17 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.33%) IaaS
7 15 (5.00%) GitHub
7 15 (5.00%) SaaS
8 13 (4.33%) GCP
9 11 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.33%) Serverless
11 9 (3.00%) Azure AI
11 9 (3.00%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.00%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.00%) SSL
4 5 (1.67%) IPsec
4 5 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.33%) ATM
5 4 (1.33%) HTTP
6 3 (1.00%) DHCP
6 3 (1.00%) DNS
6 3 (1.00%) FTP
6 3 (1.00%) NFC
6 3 (1.00%) PPP
7 2 (0.67%) Firewall
7 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.33%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.67%) SAP HANA
4 16 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.33%) DB2
6 10 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (3.00%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.00%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.00%) Power BI
10 5 (1.67%) Data Hub
10 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.67%) MySQL
11 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (17.00%) Git
2 29 (9.67%) Postman
3 24 (8.00%) JIRA
4 19 (6.33%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.33%) Eclipse
6 13 (4.33%) JUnit
6 13 (4.33%) Selenium
7 11 (3.67%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.33%) Maven
8 10 (3.33%) SoapUI
8 10 (3.33%) Visual Studio
9 9 (3.00%) Mockito
10 8 (2.67%) MLflow
11 5 (1.67%) JMeter
11 5 (1.67%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.33%) Charles Proxy
12 4 (1.33%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.33%) jMock
12 4 (1.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 83 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.67%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.33%) Finance
5 16 (5.33%) Banking
6 15 (5.00%) Military
7 11 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.33%) Billing
10 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.67%) Front Office
12 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.67%) Law
12 2 (0.67%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 124 (41.33%) Developer
2 47 (15.67%) Senior
3 43 (14.33%) Consultant
4 26 (8.67%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.67%) SAP Consultant
6 22 (7.33%) Architect
7 20 (6.67%) Lead
8 18 (6.00%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.67%) Cloud Specialist
9 17 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.33%) Python Developer
11 15 (5.00%) Integration Specialist
11 15 (5.00%) Oracle Specialist
12 14 (4.67%) Analyst
13 12 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (3.67%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.33%) ABAP Consultant
15 10 (3.33%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
16 9 (3.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (42.00%) REST
2 98 (32.67%) SOAP
3 48 (16.00%) XML
4 36 (12.00%) JSON
5 33 (11.00%) RESTful
6 31 (10.33%) OAuth
7 29 (9.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 27 (9.00%) Spring
9 26 (8.67%) .NET
9 26 (8.67%) XSLT
10 23 (7.67%) Node.js
11 20 (6.67%) AngularJS
11 20 (6.67%) CSS
11 20 (6.67%) JWT
12 19 (6.33%) HTML
13 18 (6.00%) Spring Boot
14 17 (5.67%) BAPI
15 16 (5.33%) Middleware
16 13 (4.33%) J2EE
16 13 (4.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.67%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.00%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.67%) Replication
6 7 (2.33%) CMDB
6 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.67%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.33%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.33%) PACS
9 4 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.00%) Linux
2 23 (7.67%) Windows
3 11 (3.67%) Android
4 9 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.67%) zOS
6 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.00%) Unix
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (37.33%) Agile
2 66 (22.00%) CI/CD
3 60 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (19.00%) DevOps
5 44 (14.67%) ERP
5 44 (14.67%) Test Automation
5 44 (14.67%) Unit Testing
6 43 (14.33%) Microservices
7 38 (12.67%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (12.00%) Design Patterns
9 33 (11.00%) Containerisation
9 33 (11.00%) Performance Tuning
10 31 (10.33%) Data Modelling
10 31 (10.33%) Scrum
11 30 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 28 (9.33%) OO
13 26 (8.67%) Requirements Gathering
13 26 (8.67%) TDD
13 26 (8.67%) Validation
14 24 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 71 (23.67%) SQL
2 58 (19.33%) Java
3 55 (18.33%) Python
4 54 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 36 (12.00%) C#
6 31 (10.33%) ABAP
7 17 (5.67%) C++
8 13 (4.33%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.00%) Ruby
10 10 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.67%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.67%) PHP
11 8 (2.67%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.67%) XPath
12 7 (2.33%) Apex Code
13 6 (2.00%) Go
13 6 (2.00%) Groovy
13 6 (2.00%) Swift
14 5 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 83 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.00%) Degree
4 9 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) ISEB
9 1 (0.33%) MBA
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
9 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.67%) QA
2 12 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.67%) SLA
5 4 (1.33%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.67%) GDPR
6 2 (0.67%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) DICOM
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (10.67%) Docker
2 11 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.67%) RACF
4 3 (1.00%) Postfix
4 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.33%) Ansible
2 7 (2.33%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (2.00%) Grafana
4 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.33%) Terraform
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (21.33%) Oracle
2 46 (15.33%) SAP
3 44 (14.67%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.67%) Adobe
5 11 (3.67%) IBM
5 11 (3.67%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.00%) UiPath
7 8 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.67%) Guidewire
8 7 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.33%) BEA
8 7 (2.33%) Google
8 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.33%) TIBCO
9 6 (2.00%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.00%) Workday
10 5 (1.67%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.67%) Splunk