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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 230 167
Rank change year-on-year -61 -63 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 276 297 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.10% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.92% 5.01% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 168 301
10th Percentile £350 £359 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £644 £630 £630
90th Percentile £715 £800 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 8
10th Percentile £33.19 - £55.61
25th Percentile £64.06 - £57.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £90.06
90th Percentile - £67.40 £91.30
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 7,048 5,926 7,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.14% 21.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,723 3,793 5,554
10th Percentile £356 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 70 168
10th Percentile £32.31 £26.25 £29.36
25th Percentile £44.01 £44.17 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £75.10 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -24 155 £491 -16.03% 25
North of England -48 32 £625 +26.26% 22
South East -27 28 £590 +2.61% 30
East of England -11 25 £737 +34.05% 15
North West -22 23 £650 +31.98% 9
South West -11 15 £550 -5.17% 12
Midlands -46 14 £565 +28.41% 14
Yorkshire -48 9 £598 +19.50% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £700 +100.00% 9
West Midlands -42 7 £430 -14.00% 5
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 (3.99%) Confluence
2 8 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.90%) WebLogic
3 7 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (2.54%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.81%) Appian
4 5 (1.81%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.45%) Mule
5 4 (1.45%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.09%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.09%) CICS
6 3 (1.09%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.72%) Documentum
7 2 (0.72%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) Apache
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.36%) JBoss
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.45%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 25 (9.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.90%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.54%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.54%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (2.17%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (1.81%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.45%) SAP EWM
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.09%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.72%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.72%) Primavera
9 2 (0.72%) Remedy AR System
10 1 (0.36%) Maximo
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 61 (22.10%) Azure
2 38 (13.77%) AWS
3 25 (9.06%) PaaS
4 24 (8.70%) OCI
5 13 (4.71%) GitHub
6 12 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.99%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.62%) GCP
9 9 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.26%) IaaS
9 9 (3.26%) SaaS
10 8 (2.90%) iPaaS
10 8 (2.90%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (2.54%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.81%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.81%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.81%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.16%) TCP/IP
2 14 (5.07%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.81%) HTTP
3 5 (1.81%) SSL
4 4 (1.45%) ATM
4 4 (1.45%) NFC
4 4 (1.45%) PPP
5 3 (1.09%) DHCP
5 3 (1.09%) DNS
6 2 (0.72%) Firewall
6 2 (0.72%) SMTP
7 1 (0.36%) FTP
7 1 (0.36%) Internet
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.36%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.61%) Relational Database
3 20 (7.25%) SAP HANA
4 11 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.26%) DB2
6 8 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.17%) Power BI
8 5 (1.81%) Data Hub
8 5 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.45%) MySQL
9 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.45%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (1.09%) Redis
10 3 (1.09%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.09%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.72%) DTS
11 2 (0.72%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 43 (15.58%) Git
2 28 (10.14%) Postman
3 24 (8.70%) Eclipse
4 18 (6.52%) JIRA
5 15 (5.43%) Visual Studio
6 14 (5.07%) Selenium
7 13 (4.71%) Jenkins
8 10 (3.62%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.90%) SoapUI
10 7 (2.54%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.81%) Appium
11 5 (1.81%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (1.81%) GitLab
11 5 (1.81%) JMeter
11 5 (1.81%) JUnit
11 5 (1.81%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (1.81%) XCUITest
12 4 (1.45%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (1.45%) Valgrind
General
1 83 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 36 (13.04%) Finance
4 35 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.25%) Banking
6 18 (6.52%) Military
7 16 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.81%) Billing
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Law
10 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 107 (38.77%) Developer
2 44 (15.94%) Senior
3 40 (14.49%) Consultant
4 27 (9.78%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.70%) SAP Consultant
5 24 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 19 (6.88%) Lead
7 18 (6.52%) Architect
8 13 (4.71%) C# Software Engineer
8 13 (4.71%) Cloud Specialist
8 13 (4.71%) Python Developer
9 12 (4.35%) Analyst
9 12 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (4.35%) Integration Specialist
9 12 (4.35%) Oracle Specialist
10 10 (3.62%) ABAP Consultant
10 10 (3.62%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.26%) Senior Python Developer
11 9 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (36.23%) REST
2 86 (31.16%) SOAP
3 41 (14.86%) XML
4 33 (11.96%) JSON
5 26 (9.42%) .NET
6 24 (8.70%) HTML
6 24 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 22 (7.97%) CSS
7 22 (7.97%) Node.js
7 22 (7.97%) RESTful
8 21 (7.61%) XSLT
9 20 (7.25%) AngularJS
9 20 (7.25%) BAPI
10 18 (6.52%) OAuth
11 16 (5.80%) Spring
12 15 (5.43%) Middleware
13 14 (5.07%) JWT
14 13 (4.71%) SAP Fiori
15 12 (4.35%) J2EE
16 11 (3.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (2.90%) CMDB
2 8 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (2.90%) Mobile App
2 8 (2.90%) Public Cloud
2 8 (2.90%) Replication
3 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.81%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.45%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.45%) PACS
5 4 (1.45%) Smartcard
5 4 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.72%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.78%) Linux
2 24 (8.70%) Windows
3 11 (3.99%) Android
4 9 (3.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.72%) Unix
7 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.51%) Agile
2 57 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (18.48%) CI/CD
4 45 (16.30%) DevOps
5 44 (15.94%) Unit Testing
6 41 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 36 (13.04%) ERP
8 35 (12.68%) Software Engineering
9 30 (10.87%) Data Modelling
10 29 (10.51%) Performance Tuning
11 28 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (9.42%) Design Patterns
12 26 (9.42%) Microservices
12 26 (9.42%) OO
12 26 (9.42%) Scrum
13 25 (9.06%) TDD
14 24 (8.70%) Containerisation
14 24 (8.70%) Validation
15 23 (8.33%) Migration
16 22 (7.97%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.83%) JavaScript
2 55 (19.93%) SQL
3 49 (17.75%) Java
4 46 (16.67%) Python
5 39 (14.13%) C#
6 35 (12.68%) ABAP
7 22 (7.97%) C++
8 12 (4.35%) Ruby
9 11 (3.99%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.26%) PL/SQL
10 9 (3.26%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.26%) XPath
11 8 (2.90%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.90%) PHP
12 7 (2.54%) Apex Code
13 6 (2.17%) Swift
14 5 (1.81%) Groovy
15 4 (1.45%) COBOL
15 4 (1.45%) Go
15 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.97%) Degree
4 11 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISA
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.25%) QA
2 8 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.45%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.36%) DICOM
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
5 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) PMO
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (7.97%) Docker
2 12 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) RACF
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.54%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (2.17%) Ansible
4 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.81%) Terraform
5 2 (0.72%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 53 (19.20%) Oracle
2 51 (18.48%) SAP
3 43 (15.58%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.07%) Adobe
5 12 (4.35%) Splunk
6 11 (3.99%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.62%) IBM
8 9 (3.26%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.54%) BEA
9 7 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.54%) Google
9 7 (2.54%) Guidewire
9 7 (2.54%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.54%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.81%) BMC
10 5 (1.81%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.81%) Remedy
10 5 (1.81%) UiPath
11 4 (1.45%) webMethods