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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 206 182
Rank change year-on-year -97 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing Web Services 299 310 489
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 1.27% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.71% 5.65% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 193 289
10th Percentile £377 £358 £420
25th Percentile £426 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £790 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 1
10th Percentile £38.31 £62.38 -
25th Percentile £55.86 £64.06 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% +18.18% -21.43%

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 8,053 5,484 7,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.53% 22.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 3,807 5,369
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 87 163
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.34 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.36
90th Percentile £78.88 £83.38 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -61 180 £500 -16.67% 29
South East -65 34 £591 +18.50% 22
North of England -83 25 £625 +25.00% 18
East of England -20 23 £750 +36.36% 6
Midlands -58 23 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -55 20 £475 +12.43% 5
South West -22 16 £550 -5.17% 8
North West -45 13 £625 +25.00% 8
Yorkshire -47 12 £461 +24.66% 9
East Midlands -35 3 £563 +72.55% 1
North East -17 1 - - 1
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 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.68%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.35%) Appian
4 12 (4.01%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (3.34%) CICS
7 9 (3.01%) Confluence
8 8 (2.68%) JBoss
9 7 (2.34%) WebSphere
10 5 (1.67%) Jupyter
11 4 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (1.34%) IIS
11 4 (1.34%) Tomcat
12 3 (1.00%) Mule
12 3 (1.00%) Mule ESB
12 3 (1.00%) NetWeaver
13 2 (0.67%) Apache
13 2 (0.67%) Documentum
13 2 (0.67%) Drupal
13 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (4.68%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.68%) SAP HCM
2 8 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.34%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (2.34%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (1.67%) SAP EWM
5 4 (1.34%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.34%) Workday HCM
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (1.00%) SAP ERP
6 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 72 (24.08%) Azure
2 71 (23.75%) AWS
3 40 (13.38%) PaaS
4 26 (8.70%) OCI
5 25 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.02%) GitHub
7 18 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 18 (6.02%) Serverless
8 17 (5.69%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.35%) IaaS
10 15 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 15 (5.02%) SaaS
11 14 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (4.35%) Azure App Service
13 12 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.35%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.68%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.01%) SSL
4 5 (1.67%) DNS
4 5 (1.67%) IPsec
4 5 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.34%) FTP
6 3 (1.00%) Firewall
7 2 (0.67%) DHCP
7 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.67%) Internet
8 1 (0.33%) HTTP
8 1 (0.33%) NFC
8 1 (0.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.03%) Relational Database
3 21 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.69%) DB2
5 16 (5.35%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (3.68%) Power BI
8 10 (3.34%) SAP HANA
9 9 (3.01%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.34%) MySQL
10 7 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.34%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.34%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.00%) Metadata
14 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 3 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
14 3 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (16.72%) Git
2 27 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.69%) JIRA
4 21 (7.02%) Postman
5 19 (6.35%) JUnit
6 18 (6.02%) Maven
7 17 (5.69%) SonarQube
8 16 (5.35%) Eclipse
9 15 (5.02%) Visual Studio
10 13 (4.35%) Mockito
11 12 (4.01%) Selenium
12 9 (3.01%) DbUnit
12 9 (3.01%) jMock
12 9 (3.01%) SoapUI
13 8 (2.68%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.68%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.68%) MLflow
14 6 (2.01%) JMeter
15 5 (1.67%) GitLab
16 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
General
1 85 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 69 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 55 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.38%) Finance
5 20 (6.69%) Military
6 16 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.01%) Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Billing
8 4 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.34%) Retail
9 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.00%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Front Office
10 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 131 (43.81%) Developer
2 44 (14.72%) Senior
3 28 (9.36%) Architect
4 27 (9.03%) Consultant
4 27 (9.03%) Java Developer
4 27 (9.03%) Senior Developer
5 20 (6.69%) Lead
6 18 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.69%) Python Developer
8 14 (4.68%) Cloud Specialist
9 13 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.01%) Integration Specialist
10 12 (4.01%) Oracle Specialist
11 11 (3.68%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) SAP Consultant
12 10 (3.34%) Analyst
12 10 (3.34%) Azure Developer
12 10 (3.34%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (3.34%) Salesforce Developer
13 9 (3.01%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (47.49%) REST
2 111 (37.12%) SOAP
3 53 (17.73%) XML
4 39 (13.04%) JSON
5 36 (12.04%) RESTful
6 35 (11.71%) Spring
7 31 (10.37%) Node.js
8 29 (9.70%) OAuth
9 26 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 25 (8.36%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (8.36%) XSLT
11 24 (8.03%) .NET
11 24 (8.03%) AngularJS
12 19 (6.35%) JWT
13 17 (5.69%) Hibernate
13 17 (5.69%) J2EE
13 17 (5.69%) JPA
14 16 (5.35%) .NET Framework
14 16 (5.35%) Pandas
15 14 (4.68%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.02%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (3.68%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.34%) CMDB
4 10 (3.34%) Mainframe
4 10 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.01%) Low-Code
6 8 (2.68%) Replication
7 7 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.67%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.67%) DataPower
8 5 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.34%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.71%) Linux
2 26 (8.70%) Windows
3 8 (2.68%) zOS
4 7 (2.34%) Unix
5 3 (1.00%) Android
5 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (38.46%) Agile
2 73 (24.41%) CI/CD
3 70 (23.41%) DevOps
4 60 (20.07%) Microservices
4 60 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
6 42 (14.05%) Unit Testing
7 41 (13.71%) Containerisation
7 41 (13.71%) Design Patterns
8 39 (13.04%) TDD
9 37 (12.37%) Software Engineering
9 37 (12.37%) Test Automation
10 36 (12.04%) ERP
11 35 (11.71%) Scrum
12 31 (10.37%) Continuous Delivery
13 30 (10.03%) Data Modelling
13 30 (10.03%) SOA
13 30 (10.03%) Validation
14 28 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (9.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.09%) SQL
2 61 (20.40%) Java
3 57 (19.06%) Python
4 54 (18.06%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.05%) C#
6 22 (7.36%) ABAP
7 20 (6.69%) PowerShell
8 19 (6.35%) C++
9 12 (4.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (4.01%) Ruby
10 10 (3.34%) Apex Code
11 9 (3.01%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.68%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.68%) XPath
13 7 (2.34%) PHP
14 5 (1.67%) Go
15 4 (1.34%) JCL
15 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 88 (29.43%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.69%) Degree
4 15 (5.02%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.34%) MBA
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) ISEB
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.68%) QA
3 7 (2.34%) SLA
4 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.67%) GDPR
4 2 (0.67%) PMO
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (12.71%) Docker
2 13 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.01%) Postfix
4 5 (1.67%) RACF
5 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) NFS
6 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 26 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.69%) Grafana
3 7 (2.34%) TIBCO Hawk
4 6 (2.01%) Ansible
4 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.34%) Terraform
6 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 57 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 55 (18.39%) Oracle
3 31 (10.37%) SAP
4 15 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.01%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (3.68%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.34%) IBM
7 10 (3.34%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.01%) UiPath
9 8 (2.68%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (2.34%) BEA
10 7 (2.34%) Google
10 7 (2.34%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.34%) TIBCO
10 7 (2.34%) Workday
11 6 (2.01%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.67%) Adobe
12 5 (1.67%) Computacenter
13 4 (1.34%) Dataiku