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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 197 182
Rank change year-on-year -108 -15 +38
Contract jobs citing Web Services 290 322 491
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 1.31% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.66% 5.86% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 199 287
10th Percentile £386 £360 £416
25th Percentile £430 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £638
90th Percentile £718 £790 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £532 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 5
10th Percentile £38.31 £57.50 £56.00
25th Percentile £55.86 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -7.14%

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 7,926 5,499 7,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.04% 22.43% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,294 3,812 5,298
10th Percentile £359 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 93 189
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.31 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £82.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -68 173 £500 -16.63% 33
South East -78 32 £591 +21.54% 29
North of England -65 28 £625 +25.00% 24
East of England -16 23 £750 +36.36% 17
Midlands -61 22 £475 +13.10% 10
West Midlands -54 19 £475 +12.43% 4
South West -24 15 £556 -4.09% 15
North West -59 15 £625 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire -57 12 £461 +24.66% 10
East Midlands -36 3 £563 +72.55% 6
North East -13 2 £425 - 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 15 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.48%) Appian
4 12 (4.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (4.14%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.79%) CICS
6 8 (2.76%) JBoss
7 7 (2.41%) Confluence
7 7 (2.41%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.38%) IIS
8 4 (1.38%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.03%) Mule
9 3 (1.03%) Mule ESB
9 3 (1.03%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.69%) Apache
10 2 (0.69%) Documentum
10 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.48%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.76%) SAP HCM
2 8 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (2.41%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (2.41%) SAP Payroll
4 5 (1.72%) SAP EWM
5 4 (1.38%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.38%) Workday HCM
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (1.03%) SAP MDG-F
6 3 (1.03%) SAP MDG-M
6 3 (1.03%) SAP MDG-S
7 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.69%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (23.45%) AWS
2 66 (22.76%) Azure
3 38 (13.10%) PaaS
4 24 (8.28%) OCI
5 23 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.24%) GitHub
7 20 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
7 20 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 20 (6.90%) Serverless
8 19 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (6.55%) Amazon S3
9 18 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (5.52%) SaaS
12 15 (5.17%) IaaS
13 14 (4.83%) AWS KMS
13 14 (4.83%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (4.83%) Route 53
14 13 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.83%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.07%) SSL
4 5 (1.72%) FTP
4 5 (1.72%) IPsec
4 5 (1.72%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.38%) DNS
6 3 (1.03%) Firewall
7 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.69%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (7.93%) Relational Database
3 19 (6.55%) DynamoDB
4 18 (6.21%) DB2
5 15 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.10%) Pinecone
6 9 (3.10%) SAP HANA
7 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.41%) Power BI
8 6 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.72%) MySQL
10 4 (1.38%) Data Hub
10 4 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.38%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.03%) Metadata
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
11 3 (1.03%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (15.17%) Git
2 29 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.24%) JUnit
4 20 (6.90%) Maven
5 19 (6.55%) JIRA
5 19 (6.55%) SonarQube
6 17 (5.86%) Postman
7 15 (5.17%) Eclipse
7 15 (5.17%) Mockito
7 15 (5.17%) Visual Studio
8 11 (3.79%) DbUnit
8 11 (3.79%) jMock
9 10 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (3.10%) Selenium
11 8 (2.76%) MLflow
11 8 (2.76%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.41%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.07%) GitLab
14 5 (1.72%) JMeter
15 3 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 86 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.76%) Public Sector
3 53 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.48%) Finance
5 19 (6.55%) Military
6 15 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.79%) Banking
8 4 (1.38%) Billing
8 4 (1.38%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Law
9 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 127 (43.79%) Developer
2 40 (13.79%) Senior
3 29 (10.00%) Architect
3 29 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 27 (9.31%) Consultant
5 25 (8.62%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.55%) Lead
7 17 (5.86%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) Cloud Specialist
8 13 (4.48%) Python Developer
9 11 (3.79%) Azure Developer
9 11 (3.79%) Integration Specialist
9 11 (3.79%) Oracle Specialist
9 11 (3.79%) Python Engineer
9 11 (3.79%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (3.10%) Analyst
11 9 (3.10%) Senior Architect
11 9 (3.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (46.90%) REST
2 110 (37.93%) SOAP
3 54 (18.62%) XML
4 39 (13.45%) JSON
5 37 (12.76%) Spring
6 36 (12.41%) RESTful
7 30 (10.34%) Node.js
8 29 (10.00%) Spring Boot
9 28 (9.66%) OAuth
10 26 (8.97%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.97%) XSLT
11 23 (7.93%) .NET
11 23 (7.93%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (6.55%) Hibernate
12 19 (6.55%) JPA
13 18 (6.21%) JWT
14 17 (5.86%) J2EE
15 16 (5.52%) Spring Batch
15 16 (5.52%) Spring Integration
16 15 (5.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.79%) Mainframe
2 11 (3.79%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.45%) CMDB
3 10 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.10%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.76%) Replication
6 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.07%) DataPower
8 5 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.38%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.38%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.76%) Linux
2 25 (8.62%) Windows
3 9 (3.10%) zOS
4 7 (2.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.69%) Android
5 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.62%) Agile
2 73 (25.17%) CI/CD
3 68 (23.45%) DevOps
4 58 (20.00%) Microservices
5 53 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (14.48%) Containerisation
8 41 (14.14%) TDD
9 37 (12.76%) Design Patterns
10 36 (12.41%) Software Engineering
10 36 (12.41%) Unit Testing
11 34 (11.72%) ERP
12 33 (11.38%) Scrum
13 32 (11.03%) Test Automation
14 31 (10.69%) SOA
15 30 (10.34%) Continuous Delivery
15 30 (10.34%) Validation
16 28 (9.66%) Data Modelling
17 27 (9.31%) Performance Tuning
18 26 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (25.86%) SQL
2 64 (22.07%) Java
3 54 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 51 (17.59%) Python
5 40 (13.79%) C#
6 21 (7.24%) ABAP
6 21 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.21%) C++
8 12 (4.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (3.10%) Apex Code
9 9 (3.10%) Ruby
10 8 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.76%) XPath
11 7 (2.41%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.72%) JCL
12 5 (1.72%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.38%) Go
14 3 (1.03%) Groovy
15 2 (0.69%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 102 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.52%) Degree
4 13 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.38%) MBA
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) ISEB
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.41%) QA
2 7 (2.41%) SLA
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.69%) PMO
4 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.34%) GRC
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.34%) NCSC
4 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (12.76%) Docker
2 14 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.79%) Postfix
4 5 (1.72%) RACF
5 1 (0.34%) NFS
5 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.55%) Grafana
3 7 (2.41%) TIBCO Hawk
4 6 (2.07%) Ansible
4 6 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.72%) Terraform
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.34%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 58 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.62%) Oracle
3 28 (9.66%) SAP
4 18 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.83%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (4.14%) Atlassian
7 10 (3.45%) IBM
7 10 (3.45%) OpenAI
8 9 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 9 (3.10%) UiPath
9 8 (2.76%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.76%) Workday
10 7 (2.41%) BEA
10 7 (2.41%) TIBCO
11 6 (2.07%) Guidewire
11 6 (2.07%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.72%) Adobe
12 5 (1.72%) Computacenter
12 5 (1.72%) Google
13 3 (1.03%) BMC