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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 205 176
Rank change year-on-year -111 -29 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 295 312 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 1.29% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.73% 5.72% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 289
10th Percentile £377 £360 £406
25th Percentile £424 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £638
90th Percentile £731 £825 £715
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 3
10th Percentile £38.31 £62.38 £57.35
25th Percentile £55.86 £64.06 £68.38
Median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -26.55% +33.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.75 £92.00
90th Percentile - £67.10 £93.05
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £88.50
% change year-on-year -1.43% -26.55% +33.58%

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 7,915 5,454 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.81% 22.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,765 5,406
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 88 169
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -60 178 £500 -14.53% 29
South East -72 33 £591 +18.20% 22
North of England -72 26 £600 +20.00% 18
East of England -20 23 £750 +36.36% 6
Midlands -60 22 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -48 19 £475 +12.43% 5
South West -22 15 £556 -4.09% 8
Yorkshire -45 14 £460 +24.32% 9
North West -46 12 £625 +25.00% 8
East Midlands -39 3 £563 +72.55% 1
North East -12 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 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.75%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.41%) Appian
4 11 (3.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 11 (3.73%) WebLogic
5 9 (3.05%) CICS
5 9 (3.05%) Confluence
6 7 (2.37%) JBoss
6 7 (2.37%) WebSphere
7 5 (1.69%) Jupyter
8 4 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.36%) IIS
8 4 (1.36%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.02%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.68%) Apache
10 2 (0.68%) Documentum
10 2 (0.68%) Drupal
10 2 (0.68%) Mule
10 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (4.75%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.71%) SAP HCM
2 8 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.37%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (2.37%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (1.69%) SAP EWM
5 4 (1.36%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.36%) SAP MDG
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-S
6 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.75%) Azure
2 69 (23.39%) AWS
3 39 (13.22%) PaaS
4 27 (9.15%) OCI
5 25 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.80%) GitHub
7 18 (6.10%) Entra ID
8 17 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.76%) Serverless
9 15 (5.08%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.08%) IaaS
9 15 (5.08%) SaaS
10 14 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (4.41%) Azure App Service
11 13 (4.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (4.41%) Power Platform
12 12 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (4.07%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.42%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.75%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.03%) SSL
4 5 (1.69%) IPsec
4 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.36%) DNS
6 3 (1.02%) Firewall
6 3 (1.02%) FTP
7 2 (0.68%) DHCP
7 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) HTTP
8 1 (0.34%) NFC
8 1 (0.34%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.76%) DB2
5 14 (4.75%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.39%) Power BI
7 10 (3.39%) SAP HANA
8 9 (3.05%) Pinecone
9 8 (2.71%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (2.37%) MySQL
11 6 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.36%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.02%) Metadata
14 3 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
15 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 49 (16.61%) Git
2 26 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.46%) JIRA
4 21 (7.12%) Postman
5 17 (5.76%) JUnit
6 16 (5.42%) Maven
7 15 (5.08%) Eclipse
7 15 (5.08%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.08%) Visual Studio
8 13 (4.41%) Selenium
9 12 (4.07%) Mockito
10 9 (3.05%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.71%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.71%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.71%) jMock
11 8 (2.71%) MLflow
12 7 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.37%) GitLab
13 6 (2.03%) JMeter
14 4 (1.36%) REST Assured
General
1 83 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.71%) Public Sector
3 53 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.90%) Finance
5 20 (6.78%) Military
6 16 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.39%) Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Billing
9 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Law
9 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.68%) Dutch Language
10 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.68%) Front Office
10 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (42.71%) Developer
2 43 (14.58%) Senior
3 27 (9.15%) Consultant
4 26 (8.81%) Architect
4 26 (8.81%) Senior Developer
5 24 (8.14%) Java Developer
6 22 (7.46%) Lead
7 18 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.42%) Python Developer
9 14 (4.75%) Cloud Specialist
10 13 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.07%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (4.07%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (3.73%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.73%) SAP Consultant
13 10 (3.39%) Analyst
13 10 (3.39%) Azure Developer
13 10 (3.39%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (3.39%) Salesforce Developer
13 10 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (47.46%) REST
2 110 (37.29%) SOAP
3 50 (16.95%) XML
4 37 (12.54%) JSON
5 36 (12.20%) RESTful
6 33 (11.19%) Spring
7 30 (10.17%) Node.js
8 29 (9.83%) OAuth
9 26 (8.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (8.14%) Spring Boot
10 24 (8.14%) XSLT
11 23 (7.80%) .NET
12 22 (7.46%) AngularJS
13 19 (6.44%) JWT
14 16 (5.42%) .NET Framework
14 16 (5.42%) J2EE
15 15 (5.08%) Hibernate
15 15 (5.08%) JPA
15 15 (5.08%) Pandas
16 13 (4.41%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.39%) CMDB
4 10 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.05%) Low-Code
5 9 (3.05%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.71%) Replication
7 7 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.69%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.69%) DataPower
8 5 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.36%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.02%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.54%) Linux
2 27 (9.15%) Windows
3 8 (2.71%) zOS
4 6 (2.03%) Unix
5 4 (1.36%) Android
6 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (38.98%) Agile
2 73 (24.75%) CI/CD
3 68 (23.05%) DevOps
4 59 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (18.98%) Microservices
6 47 (15.93%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (14.24%) Unit Testing
8 41 (13.90%) Design Patterns
9 39 (13.22%) Containerisation
10 38 (12.88%) Test Automation
11 36 (12.20%) ERP
11 36 (12.20%) TDD
12 35 (11.86%) Scrum
12 35 (11.86%) Software Engineering
13 32 (10.85%) Continuous Delivery
14 30 (10.17%) Data Modelling
14 30 (10.17%) SOA
14 30 (10.17%) Validation
15 27 (9.15%) Analytics
16 26 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.75%) SQL
2 58 (19.66%) Python
3 57 (19.32%) Java
4 54 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.24%) C#
6 22 (7.46%) ABAP
7 21 (7.12%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.10%) C++
9 12 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (4.07%) Ruby
10 10 (3.39%) Apex Code
11 8 (2.71%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.71%) XPath
12 7 (2.37%) PHP
12 7 (2.37%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.69%) Go
14 4 (1.36%) JCL
15 3 (1.02%) Groovy
15 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (34.58%) Security Cleared
2 85 (28.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.42%) Degree
4 15 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.36%) MBA
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) ISEB
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
11 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.71%) QA
3 7 (2.37%) SLA
4 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (12.88%) Docker
2 13 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.37%) Postfix
4 5 (1.69%) RACF
5 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.75%) Grafana
3 7 (2.37%) Ansible
3 7 (2.37%) TIBCO Hawk
4 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.69%) Terraform
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 56 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.31%) Oracle
3 32 (10.85%) SAP
4 15 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 11 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.39%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.39%) IBM
6 10 (3.39%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.39%) OpenAI
7 9 (3.05%) UiPath
8 8 (2.71%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (2.37%) BEA
9 7 (2.37%) Google
9 7 (2.37%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.37%) TIBCO
10 6 (2.03%) Guidewire
10 6 (2.03%) Workday
11 5 (1.69%) Adobe
11 5 (1.69%) Computacenter
12 4 (1.36%) Dataiku