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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 179 198
Rank change year-on-year -168 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Web Services 292 399 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 1.57% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 6.97% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 265 299
10th Percentile £364 £358 £398
25th Percentile £423 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £638
90th Percentile £740 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 24
10th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £56.72 £56.56 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £65.57 - -
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 8,304 5,724 7,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.09% 22.48% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,472 3,950 5,529
10th Percentile £363 £357 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 121 266
10th Percentile £30.40 £30.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%
75th Percentile £74.63 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.01 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -102 161 £570 +3.26% 14
South East -93 39 £500 +5.26% 11
Midlands -59 34 £475 +11.76% 1
North of England -78 33 £469 -1.32% 12
West Midlands -53 29 £475 -
Yorkshire -32 20 £460 -10.42% 4
South West -33 14 £425 - 4
East of England -35 14 £460 -15.98% 4
North West -71 12 £650 +44.44% 8
East Midlands -21 3 £525 +46.65% 1
North East -38 2 £425 -15.00%
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 (3.77%) CICS
1 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.42%) Appian
3 9 (3.08%) Confluence
4 8 (2.74%) JBoss
5 7 (2.40%) IIS
6 6 (2.05%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.37%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.03%) Apache
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.68%) CMS
10 2 (0.68%) Mule
10 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.37%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.37%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.37%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.03%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) BASE24
6 1 (0.34%) Maximo
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.51%) Azure
2 74 (25.34%) AWS
3 31 (10.62%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (8.22%) Amazon SQS
5 24 (8.22%) PaaS
5 24 (8.22%) Serverless
6 23 (7.88%) Amazon S3
7 22 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (6.85%) GitHub
9 18 (6.16%) AWS KMS
9 18 (6.16%) Route 53
10 15 (5.14%) SaaS
11 13 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (4.45%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (4.45%) OCI
12 12 (4.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.45%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.71%) SSL
3 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 4 (1.37%) FTP
3 4 (1.37%) Internet
3 4 (1.37%) IPsec
3 4 (1.37%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.03%) Firewall
4 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.68%) Intranet
5 2 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) ATM
6 1 (0.34%) DMZ
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.90%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.56%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (4.45%) Db2
8 7 (2.40%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.40%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.40%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.40%) Power BI
8 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.05%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.71%) MySQL
10 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (15.41%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.07%) Git
3 25 (8.56%) JIRA
3 25 (8.56%) JUnit
4 24 (8.22%) Maven
5 21 (7.19%) SonarQube
6 20 (6.85%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.51%) Mockito
7 19 (6.51%) Visual Studio
8 14 (4.79%) DbUnit
9 13 (4.45%) jMock
10 12 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (3.08%) GitLab
11 9 (3.08%) Postman
12 8 (2.74%) LoadRunner
13 7 (2.40%) Ant
13 7 (2.40%) SoapUI
14 6 (2.05%) MLflow
14 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
General
1 90 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.55%) Public Sector
3 54 (18.49%) Finance
4 46 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.88%) Banking
6 21 (7.19%) Military
7 11 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Billing
10 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Retail
12 3 (1.03%) Automotive
12 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Law
14 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 145 (49.66%) Developer
2 45 (15.41%) Senior
3 35 (11.99%) Java Developer
4 31 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 30 (10.27%) Architect
6 22 (7.53%) Consultant
7 16 (5.48%) Software Engineer
8 14 (4.79%) Lead
9 13 (4.45%) Azure Developer
9 13 (4.45%) C# Developer
10 12 (4.11%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.42%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (3.42%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.08%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.08%) Senior Architect
13 8 (2.74%) Analyst
13 8 (2.74%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) IAM Specialist
13 8 (2.74%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.74%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (46.23%) REST
2 100 (34.25%) SOAP
3 49 (16.78%) RESTful
4 47 (16.10%) .NET
5 45 (15.41%) Spring
5 45 (15.41%) XML
6 37 (12.67%) JSON
7 36 (12.33%) Spring Boot
8 32 (10.96%) AngularJS
9 31 (10.62%) Node.js
9 31 (10.62%) OAuth
10 26 (8.90%) HTML
11 23 (7.88%) Hibernate
11 23 (7.88%) JPA
12 20 (6.85%) SailPoint
12 20 (6.85%) Spring Batch
12 20 (6.85%) Spring Integration
13 19 (6.51%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (5.82%) CSS
14 17 (5.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.79%) Mobile App
2 14 (4.79%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.77%) Mainframe
3 11 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.42%) CMDB
5 8 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.40%) DataPower
7 6 (2.05%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.05%) Online Banking
7 6 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.07%) Linux
2 26 (8.90%) Windows
3 14 (4.79%) Unix
4 10 (3.42%) zOS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.36%) Agile
2 88 (30.14%) CI/CD
3 80 (27.40%) DevOps
4 62 (21.23%) Microservices
5 52 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.75%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (14.73%) TDD
8 42 (14.38%) Scrum
9 36 (12.33%) Containerisation
10 35 (11.99%) Software Engineering
11 33 (11.30%) Analytics
11 33 (11.30%) Workflow
12 32 (10.96%) Validation
13 31 (10.62%) Performance Tuning
14 30 (10.27%) ITSM
15 29 (9.93%) AI
15 29 (9.93%) Design Patterns
15 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (9.59%) Unit Testing
17 27 (9.25%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.25%) SQL
2 74 (25.34%) Java
3 59 (20.21%) JavaScript
3 59 (20.21%) Python
4 52 (17.81%) C#
5 30 (10.27%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.53%) C++
7 14 (4.79%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.11%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.74%) ABAP
9 8 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.74%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.05%) JCL
10 6 (2.05%) SOQL
10 6 (2.05%) SOSL
10 6 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.05%) XPath
11 5 (1.71%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 89 (30.48%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.08%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.93%) Degree
4 11 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.37%) MBA
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.68%) PhD
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.74%) NIST
3 8 (2.74%) QA
3 8 (2.74%) SLA
4 4 (1.37%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (15.07%) Docker
2 29 (9.93%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.45%) Postfix
4 4 (1.37%) RACF
5 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.68%) NFS
5 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.53%) Grafana
2 19 (6.51%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.42%) Ansible
5 5 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.71%) Terraform
6 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 75 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 49 (16.78%) Oracle
3 25 (8.56%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.82%) Jaspersoft
4 17 (5.82%) SAP
5 14 (4.79%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.79%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.74%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.40%) Adobe
8 6 (2.05%) Automation Anywhere
8 6 (2.05%) IBM
8 6 (2.05%) UiPath
8 6 (2.05%) Workday
9 5 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.71%) Google
10 4 (1.37%) Centrify
10 4 (1.37%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.37%) Intapp
10 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.37%) Sybase