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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 221 184
Rank change year-on-year -70 -37 +14
Contract jobs citing Web Services 295 294 503
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.13% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 5.02% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 171 272
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £626
90th Percentile £717 £825 £713
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 7
10th Percentile £28.06 £62.00 £52.74
25th Percentile £56.56 £63.13 £56.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £78.25
90th Percentile - £67.40 £91.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.40%

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 7,450 5,860 7,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.87% 22.55% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,002 3,799 5,574
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 74 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% +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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -29 165 £460 -20.00% 32
North of England -56 38 £650 +31.31% 28
South East -32 33 £590 +18.00% 25
North West -34 23 £625 +26.26% 16
East of England -11 22 £750 +36.36% 12
Midlands -52 17 £475 +17.14% 16
South West -21 15 £525 -9.48% 9
Yorkshire -55 15 £725 +45.00% 9
West Midlands -42 14 £475 -5.00% 13
East Midlands -27 3 £416 +27.68% 3
North East -12 1 - - 3
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 (4.41%) Appian
2 11 (3.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (3.73%) WebLogic
3 10 (3.39%) Confluence
4 8 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.37%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.69%) CICS
6 5 (1.69%) JBoss
6 5 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.36%) IIS
7 4 (1.36%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.02%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.68%) Apache
9 2 (0.68%) Documentum
9 2 (0.68%) Drupal
9 2 (0.68%) Mule
9 2 (0.68%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
Applications
1 7 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.36%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (6.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (5.08%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.71%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.37%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.37%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (2.03%) SAP MDG
6 5 (1.69%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.36%) SAP EWM
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.02%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (1.02%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.76%) Azure
2 50 (16.95%) AWS
3 32 (10.85%) PaaS
4 27 (9.15%) OCI
5 17 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (5.08%) GitHub
6 15 (5.08%) IaaS
6 15 (5.08%) SaaS
7 13 (4.41%) GCP
8 11 (3.73%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.05%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.05%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.05%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.05%) Serverless
11 8 (2.71%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.71%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.41%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.39%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.03%) SSL
4 5 (1.69%) IPsec
4 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.36%) ATM
5 4 (1.36%) HTTP
6 3 (1.02%) DHCP
6 3 (1.02%) DNS
6 3 (1.02%) FTP
6 3 (1.02%) NFC
6 3 (1.02%) PPP
7 2 (0.68%) Firewall
8 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.34%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.81%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.78%) SAP HANA
4 15 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.07%) DB2
6 10 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (3.05%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.37%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.03%) Power BI
10 5 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.69%) Data Hub
10 5 (1.69%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.69%) MySQL
11 4 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (1.02%) SAP Data Services
12 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (16.27%) Git
2 29 (9.83%) Postman
3 22 (7.46%) JIRA
4 17 (5.76%) Eclipse
4 17 (5.76%) Jenkins
5 13 (4.41%) Selenium
6 11 (3.73%) JUnit
6 11 (3.73%) Visual Studio
7 10 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.39%) SoapUI
7 10 (3.39%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.05%) Maven
9 8 (2.71%) MLflow
9 8 (2.71%) Mockito
10 5 (1.69%) GitLab
10 5 (1.69%) JMeter
10 5 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.36%) Appium
11 4 (1.36%) Charles Proxy
11 4 (1.36%) Katalon Studio
General
1 84 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.68%) Public Sector
3 44 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.58%) Finance
5 16 (5.42%) Banking
5 16 (5.42%) Military
6 12 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.71%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.36%) Billing
9 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 120 (40.68%) Developer
2 48 (16.27%) Senior
3 43 (14.58%) Consultant
4 27 (9.15%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.80%) SAP Consultant
6 22 (7.46%) Architect
7 20 (6.78%) Lead
8 18 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.42%) Cloud Specialist
9 16 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.08%) Analyst
10 15 (5.08%) Python Developer
11 14 (4.75%) Integration Specialist
11 14 (4.75%) Oracle Specialist
12 12 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.39%) ABAP Consultant
13 10 (3.39%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.39%) Technical Consultant
14 9 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 9 (3.05%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (41.36%) REST
2 97 (32.88%) SOAP
3 47 (15.93%) XML
4 35 (11.86%) JSON
5 31 (10.51%) RESTful
6 30 (10.17%) OAuth
7 28 (9.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 27 (9.15%) .NET
9 25 (8.47%) XSLT
10 24 (8.14%) Spring
11 23 (7.80%) Node.js
12 20 (6.78%) CSS
13 19 (6.44%) AngularJS
13 19 (6.44%) HTML
13 19 (6.44%) JWT
14 17 (5.76%) BAPI
15 16 (5.42%) Middleware
15 16 (5.42%) Spring Boot
16 13 (4.41%) NumPy
16 13 (4.41%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.05%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.71%) Replication
6 7 (2.37%) CMDB
6 7 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.69%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.69%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.36%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.36%) PACS
9 4 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.17%) Linux
2 24 (8.14%) Windows
3 11 (3.73%) Android
4 9 (3.05%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.36%) zOS
6 3 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.02%) Unix
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (36.61%) Agile
2 66 (22.37%) CI/CD
3 60 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (18.98%) DevOps
5 44 (14.92%) Test Automation
5 44 (14.92%) Unit Testing
6 43 (14.58%) ERP
7 38 (12.88%) Microservices
8 35 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (11.86%) Design Patterns
9 32 (10.85%) Containerisation
9 32 (10.85%) Performance Tuning
10 31 (10.51%) Data Modelling
11 30 (10.17%) Software Engineering
12 28 (9.49%) OO
12 28 (9.49%) Scrum
13 27 (9.15%) Validation
14 26 (8.81%) Requirements Gathering
14 26 (8.81%) TDD
15 24 (8.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.73%) SQL
2 56 (18.98%) JavaScript
3 55 (18.64%) Java
4 52 (17.63%) Python
5 38 (12.88%) C#
6 31 (10.51%) ABAP
7 18 (6.10%) C++
8 13 (4.41%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.07%) Ruby
10 10 (3.39%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.71%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.71%) PHP
11 8 (2.71%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.71%) XPath
12 7 (2.37%) Apex Code
13 6 (2.03%) Go
13 6 (2.03%) Groovy
13 6 (2.03%) Swift
14 5 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 82 (27.80%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.12%) Degree
4 9 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB
9 1 (0.34%) MBA
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.76%) QA
2 12 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.69%) SLA
5 4 (1.36%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.68%) GDPR
6 2 (0.68%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) DICOM
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (10.51%) Docker
2 11 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) RACF
4 3 (1.02%) Postfix
4 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.37%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (2.03%) Ansible
4 5 (1.69%) Grafana
4 5 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.36%) Terraform
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (21.36%) Oracle
2 46 (15.59%) SAP
3 44 (14.92%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.75%) Adobe
5 11 (3.73%) IBM
5 11 (3.73%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.05%) UiPath
7 8 (2.71%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (2.71%) Guidewire
8 7 (2.37%) BEA
8 7 (2.37%) Google
8 7 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.37%) TIBCO
9 6 (2.03%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.03%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.03%) Workday
10 5 (1.69%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.69%) Splunk
11 4 (1.36%) Jaspersoft