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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 172 190
Rank change year-on-year -156 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 283 388 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 1.62% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 7.24% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 250 304
10th Percentile £375 £362 £406
25th Percentile £428 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £718 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 13
10th Percentile £51.10 £53.50 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £64.07 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -1.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.50% -1.92% -10.34%

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 7,953 5,360 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.36% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,711 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 96 235
10th Percentile £30.61 £28.29 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.18 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -95 165 £558 -7.08% 19
South East -95 35 £500 - 8
North of England -91 31 £483 -3.50% 7
Midlands -68 28 £475 +13.10% 7
West Midlands -62 24 £475 +5.56% 5
Yorkshire -49 17 £461 +24.66% 3
South West -23 16 £554 - 9
North West -64 13 £625 +25.00% 3
East of England -33 12 £470 -12.56% 10
North East -25 2 £425 -22.73% 1
East Midlands -33 2 £563 +57.12% 2
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 13 (4.59%) Appian
2 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.53%) CICS
3 10 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.83%) JBoss
5 7 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (2.47%) WebLogic
6 6 (2.12%) Confluence
7 4 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.41%) IIS
7 4 (1.41%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.06%) Apache
8 3 (1.06%) Mule
8 3 (1.06%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.71%) CMS
9 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.24%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.77%) SAP EWM
2 5 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.41%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.71%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.71%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.35%) Maximo
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.35%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.92%) Azure
2 70 (24.73%) AWS
3 32 (11.31%) PaaS
4 27 (9.54%) Entra ID
5 24 (8.48%) Amazon SQS
6 23 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (8.13%) Amazon S3
6 23 (8.13%) Serverless
7 21 (7.42%) OCI
8 20 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (6.36%) AWS KMS
10 18 (6.36%) Route 53
11 17 (6.01%) GitHub
11 17 (6.01%) SaaS
12 15 (5.30%) IaaS
13 14 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.24%) Ethernet
1 12 (4.24%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.47%) SSL
3 5 (1.77%) IPsec
3 5 (1.77%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.41%) DNS
4 4 (1.41%) Firewall
4 4 (1.41%) FTP
5 3 (1.06%) HTTP
6 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.71%) Internet
6 2 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.13%) DynamoDB
2 23 (8.13%) Relational Database
2 23 (8.13%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 19 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.59%) DB2
5 9 (3.18%) Pinecone
6 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.12%) SAP HANA
7 5 (1.77%) MySQL
7 5 (1.77%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.77%) Power BI
8 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.06%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.06%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (16.61%) Git
2 38 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.83%) JUnit
4 24 (8.48%) Maven
5 23 (8.13%) SonarQube
6 19 (6.71%) Mockito
7 18 (6.36%) JIRA
8 16 (5.65%) Eclipse
8 16 (5.65%) Postman
9 14 (4.95%) DbUnit
9 14 (4.95%) Visual Studio
10 13 (4.59%) jMock
11 12 (4.24%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (3.18%) SoapUI
13 8 (2.83%) MLflow
14 7 (2.47%) GitLab
15 6 (2.12%) Cucumber
15 6 (2.12%) Selenium
16 4 (1.41%) Ant
16 4 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 77 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.38%) Public Sector
3 46 (16.25%) Finance
4 42 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.71%) Military
6 13 (4.59%) Banking
7 12 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Billing
10 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Automotive
11 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.71%) Front Office
12 2 (0.71%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (44.17%) Developer
2 39 (13.78%) Senior
3 36 (12.72%) Java Developer
4 29 (10.25%) Architect
5 26 (9.19%) Senior Developer
6 18 (6.36%) Consultant
7 17 (6.01%) Lead
7 17 (6.01%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.59%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.59%) Azure Developer
9 12 (4.24%) Analyst
9 12 (4.24%) Cloud Specialist
10 11 (3.89%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.53%) Integration Specialist
11 10 (3.53%) Oracle Specialist
11 10 (3.53%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (3.18%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Senior Architect
12 9 (3.18%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (45.94%) REST
2 96 (33.92%) SOAP
3 47 (16.61%) RESTful
4 45 (15.90%) Spring
5 40 (14.13%) XML
6 37 (13.07%) JSON
7 35 (12.37%) Spring Boot
8 34 (12.01%) OAuth
9 30 (10.60%) Node.js
10 28 (9.89%) AngularJS
11 26 (9.19%) .NET
12 23 (8.13%) Hibernate
12 23 (8.13%) HTML
12 23 (8.13%) JPA
13 21 (7.42%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (7.07%) Spring Batch
14 20 (7.07%) Spring Integration
15 19 (6.71%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (6.36%) XSLT
17 17 (6.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.53%) CMDB
4 10 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.53%) Mainframe
4 10 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.83%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.12%) DataPower
8 5 (1.77%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.41%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.41%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.84%) Linux
2 22 (7.77%) Windows
3 11 (3.89%) Unix
4 9 (3.18%) zOS
5 2 (0.71%) Android
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (39.22%) Agile
2 80 (28.27%) CI/CD
3 71 (25.09%) DevOps
4 63 (22.26%) Microservices
5 52 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (15.90%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (15.19%) Containerisation
8 42 (14.84%) TDD
9 38 (13.43%) Scrum
10 33 (11.66%) Design Patterns
11 32 (11.31%) Software Engineering
12 30 (10.60%) ERP
13 29 (10.25%) Continuous Delivery
13 29 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (10.25%) Test Automation
13 29 (10.25%) Unit Testing
14 28 (9.89%) Validation
15 26 (9.19%) Analytics
15 26 (9.19%) Architectural Patterns
15 26 (9.19%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 79 (27.92%) SQL
2 73 (25.80%) Java
3 59 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 58 (20.49%) Python
5 38 (13.43%) C#
6 25 (8.83%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.65%) C++
8 12 (4.24%) Apex Code
9 10 (3.53%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.47%) ABAP
12 6 (2.12%) Ruby
12 6 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.12%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.77%) JCL
13 5 (1.77%) PHP
14 4 (1.41%) XPath
15 3 (1.06%) Go
15 3 (1.06%) Groovy
15 3 (1.06%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 99 (34.98%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.48%) Degree
4 10 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.41%) MBA
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.83%) SLA
3 6 (2.12%) QA
4 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.77%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.71%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (15.19%) Docker
2 22 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.59%) Postfix
4 5 (1.77%) RACF
5 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 2 (0.71%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.71%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.77%) Grafana
2 20 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.47%) Ansible
5 6 (2.12%) Terraform
6 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) TIBCO Hawk
8 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 64 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.67%) Oracle
3 23 (8.13%) ServiceNow
4 17 (6.01%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (4.95%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.95%) SAP
6 13 (4.59%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.53%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.18%) UiPath
9 8 (2.83%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.83%) Workday
10 7 (2.47%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.12%) Adobe
11 6 (2.12%) Guidewire
12 5 (1.77%) Google
12 5 (1.77%) IBM
13 4 (1.41%) Sybase
14 3 (1.06%) BMC
14 3 (1.06%) Citrix
14 3 (1.06%) Cognizant
60 Web Services jobs in England