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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 209 204
Rank change year-on-year -148 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 300 359 405
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.31% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.05% 5.24% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 241 233
10th Percentile £380 £356 £364
25th Percentile £423 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £636 £609 £650
90th Percentile £738 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.83% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 27
10th Percentile £51.63 £55.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £77.45 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 9,824 6,855 8,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 25.05% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,456 4,670 5,469
10th Percentile £375 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 161 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -101 154 £575 +9.52% 204
South East -70 46 £500 +5.26% 45
Midlands -36 39 £447 +1.22% 28
North of England -81 34 £460 +2.22% 52
West Midlands -37 32 £449 -7.53% 22
Yorkshire -18 19 £450 -24.69% 12
East of England -45 14 £510 -6.42% 30
South West -49 11 £425 -15.00% 16
North West -70 10 £650 +44.93% 27
East Midlands -19 5 £428 +5.62% 6
North East -38 5 £425 -15.00% 14
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 18 (6.00%) Confluence
2 10 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.67%) CICS
5 4 (1.33%) IIS
5 4 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.67%) Apache
6 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.67%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.33%) Appian
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.33%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Mule
7 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.67%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.33%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.00%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.67%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.67%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.33%) Maximo
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.33%) Azure
2 61 (20.33%) AWS
3 23 (7.67%) Entra ID
4 20 (6.67%) GitHub
5 19 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.33%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (5.00%) Serverless
7 14 (4.67%) GCP
8 13 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (4.33%) SaaS
9 11 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.00%) AWS KMS
11 9 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.00%) Route 53
12 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.00%) PaaS
13 6 (2.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.00%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.67%) HTTP
3 6 (2.00%) SSL
4 5 (1.67%) FTP
5 4 (1.33%) Firewall
5 4 (1.33%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.00%) DNS
7 2 (0.67%) Internet
7 2 (0.67%) Intranet
7 2 (0.67%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) ATM
8 1 (0.33%) DMZ
8 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.67%) Relational Database
1 38 (12.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.33%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.00%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.00%) RDBMS
4 9 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.67%) Db2
6 7 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.00%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.67%) Power BI
9 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.33%) MySQL
9 4 (1.33%) SAP HANA
9 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (21.33%) Git
2 46 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 35 (11.67%) JIRA
4 27 (9.00%) SonarQube
5 23 (7.67%) Maven
6 22 (7.33%) JUnit
7 19 (6.33%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.33%) Mockito
8 18 (6.00%) Visual Studio
9 13 (4.33%) LoadRunner
10 10 (3.33%) JMeter
11 9 (3.00%) eggPlant
11 9 (3.00%) Postman
12 8 (2.67%) Selenium
12 8 (2.67%) SoapUI
13 7 (2.33%) DbUnit
13 7 (2.33%) GitLab
13 7 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (22.00%) Public Sector
4 58 (19.33%) Finance
5 27 (9.00%) Banking
6 22 (7.33%) Military
7 11 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.67%) Legal
10 5 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.33%) Automotive
11 4 (1.33%) Billing
12 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 156 (52.00%) Developer
2 53 (17.67%) Senior
3 36 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 34 (11.33%) Senior Developer
5 26 (8.67%) Consultant
6 21 (7.00%) Architect
7 19 (6.33%) C# Developer
8 18 (6.00%) .NET Developer
8 18 (6.00%) Lead
9 16 (5.33%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (3.67%) IAM Specialist
12 10 (3.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 9 (3.00%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (3.00%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Technical Consultant
14 8 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (2.67%) ServiceNow Developer
15 7 (2.33%) C++ Software Engineer
15 7 (2.33%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (37.00%) REST
2 95 (31.67%) SOAP
3 71 (23.67%) .NET
4 60 (20.00%) RESTful
5 55 (18.33%) XML
6 43 (14.33%) Spring
7 41 (13.67%) Spring Boot
8 40 (13.33%) HTML
9 39 (13.00%) AngularJS
10 27 (9.00%) JSON
11 26 (8.67%) Hibernate
12 25 (8.33%) Middleware
12 25 (8.33%) SailPoint
13 24 (8.00%) OAuth
14 23 (7.67%) CSS
14 23 (7.67%) Node.js
15 21 (7.00%) ASP.NET
15 21 (7.00%) JPA
16 20 (6.67%) React
17 19 (6.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.67%) Mobile App
5 13 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.67%) CMDB
8 10 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.00%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.33%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.67%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.33%) DataPower
13 4 (1.33%) Online Banking
13 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.00%) Derivative
14 3 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.67%) Linux
2 20 (6.67%) Unix
3 17 (5.67%) Windows
4 4 (1.33%) zOS
5 3 (1.00%) VMS
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (45.33%) Agile
2 92 (30.67%) CI/CD
2 92 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (24.67%) DevOps
4 57 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (17.00%) Microservices
6 46 (15.33%) SDLC
7 45 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 45 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 43 (14.33%) Scrum
9 39 (13.00%) API Integration
9 39 (13.00%) TDD
10 37 (12.33%) ITSM
11 36 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (11.33%) Unit Testing
13 32 (10.67%) Containerisation
13 32 (10.67%) Validation
14 30 (10.00%) AI
14 30 (10.00%) Migration
15 29 (9.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 100 (33.33%) SQL
2 80 (26.67%) Java
3 71 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 62 (20.67%) C#
5 56 (18.67%) Python
6 24 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 19 (6.33%) C++
7 19 (6.33%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.67%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.00%) ABAP
9 9 (3.00%) Apex Code
9 9 (3.00%) VB.NET
10 8 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.00%) Groovy
11 6 (2.00%) SOQL
11 6 (2.00%) SOSL
11 6 (2.00%) XPath
12 5 (1.67%) Bash
12 5 (1.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (33.00%) Security Cleared
2 90 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.67%) Degree
4 12 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.33%) ISEB
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.00%) MBA
11 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.67%) PhD
11 2 (0.67%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.33%) PMP
12 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.67%) QA
2 19 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.67%) NIST
5 5 (1.67%) HL7
6 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.33%) GRC
7 3 (1.00%) NCSC
8 2 (0.67%) GDPR
9 1 (0.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.33%) GMP
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (15.33%) Docker
2 29 (9.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.33%) Postfix
4 2 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.67%) IAG
4 2 (0.67%) NFS
4 2 (0.67%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.67%) Varnish
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (7.67%) Grafana
2 19 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.33%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.67%) Ansible
6 5 (1.67%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.33%) Control-M
8 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.67%) Argo
9 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.33%) Istio
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 49 (16.33%) Oracle
3 27 (9.00%) SAP
4 20 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.00%) IBM
7 10 (3.33%) UiPath
7 10 (3.33%) Workday
8 8 (2.67%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (2.67%) Pega
9 7 (2.33%) Adobe
9 7 (2.33%) Atlassian
9 7 (2.33%) Google
10 6 (2.00%) Centrify
11 4 (1.33%) Ariba
11 4 (1.33%) Citrix
11 4 (1.33%) Intapp
11 4 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.00%) OpenAI