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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 171 193
Rank change year-on-year -153 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Web Services 301 393 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 1.61% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.72% 7.12% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 258 296
10th Percentile £366 £359 £403
25th Percentile £421 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £639 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £51.25 £54.50 -
25th Percentile £56.72 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile £65.57 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -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 8,088 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 109 248
10th Percentile £30.82 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -94 172 £570 -2.98% 19
South East -98 40 £500 +2.83% 10
Midlands -67 34 £475 +11.76% 3
North of England -85 32 £483 +1.58% 12
West Midlands -50 29 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -42 17 £461 +24.66% 6
South West -19 14 £425 - 7
North West -61 14 £650 +36.84% 6
East of England -26 12 £460 -12.38% 14
East Midlands -35 3 £525 +46.65% 1
North East -23 2 £425 -22.73%
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 (4.32%) Appian
2 11 (3.65%) CICS
2 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.66%) JBoss
3 8 (2.66%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.99%) Confluence
5 6 (1.99%) IIS
6 4 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.33%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.00%) Apache
8 2 (0.66%) CMS
8 2 (0.66%) Mule
8 2 (0.66%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.66%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.33%) Workday HCM
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.00%) Orchestrade
5 3 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.66%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.66%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.66%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 90 (29.90%) Azure
2 72 (23.92%) AWS
3 31 (10.30%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.97%) PaaS
5 25 (8.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (8.31%) Serverless
6 24 (7.97%) Amazon SQS
7 23 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (6.31%) OCI
10 18 (5.98%) AWS KMS
10 18 (5.98%) GitHub
10 18 (5.98%) Route 53
10 18 (5.98%) SaaS
11 15 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (4.65%) IaaS
12 14 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.32%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.32%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.99%) SSL
3 5 (1.66%) IPsec
3 5 (1.66%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.33%) DNS
4 4 (1.33%) Firewall
4 4 (1.33%) FTP
5 3 (1.00%) HTTP
5 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.00%) Internet
6 2 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.33%) ATM
7 1 (0.33%) DMZ
7 1 (0.33%) Intranet
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.97%) PostgreSQL
1 30 (9.97%) SQL Server
2 26 (8.64%) Relational Database
3 25 (8.31%) DynamoDB
4 19 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (4.65%) Db2
7 9 (2.99%) Pinecone
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.33%) SAP HANA
9 6 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.99%) Power BI
10 5 (1.66%) MySQL
10 5 (1.66%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.33%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 46 (15.28%) Git
2 40 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 25 (8.31%) JUnit
4 24 (7.97%) Maven
5 23 (7.64%) SonarQube
6 21 (6.98%) JIRA
7 19 (6.31%) Mockito
8 18 (5.98%) Eclipse
9 16 (5.32%) Visual Studio
10 14 (4.65%) DbUnit
10 14 (4.65%) Postman
11 13 (4.32%) jMock
12 12 (3.99%) Bitbucket Server
13 10 (3.32%) SoapUI
14 9 (2.99%) GitLab
15 8 (2.66%) LoadRunner
15 8 (2.66%) MLflow
16 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
17 5 (1.66%) Ant
17 5 (1.66%) Selenium
General
1 89 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.26%) Public Sector
3 50 (16.61%) Finance
4 44 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.64%) Military
6 19 (6.31%) Banking
7 12 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.99%) Billing
10 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.33%) Retail
12 3 (1.00%) Automotive
12 3 (1.00%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.00%) Legal
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.66%) Front Office
13 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 136 (45.18%) Developer
2 44 (14.62%) Senior
3 36 (11.96%) Java Developer
4 31 (10.30%) Architect
5 30 (9.97%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.97%) Consultant
7 16 (5.32%) Lead
7 16 (5.32%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.32%) Azure Developer
9 11 (3.65%) Analyst
9 11 (3.65%) Cloud Specialist
9 11 (3.65%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.32%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (3.32%) Senior Architect
10 10 (3.32%) Technical Consultant
11 9 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (2.99%) Integration Specialist
11 9 (2.99%) Oracle Specialist
11 9 (2.99%) Python Developer
11 9 (2.99%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (43.85%) REST
2 100 (33.22%) SOAP
3 48 (15.95%) RESTful
4 47 (15.61%) XML
5 44 (14.62%) Spring
6 40 (13.29%) JSON
7 37 (12.29%) OAuth
8 35 (11.63%) .NET
8 35 (11.63%) Spring Boot
9 31 (10.30%) Node.js
10 28 (9.30%) AngularJS
11 24 (7.97%) HTML
12 23 (7.64%) Hibernate
12 23 (7.64%) JPA
13 20 (6.64%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (6.64%) Spring Batch
13 20 (6.64%) Spring Integration
14 19 (6.31%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (6.31%) XSLT
15 18 (5.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 14 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.99%) CMDB
3 12 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.65%) Mainframe
5 10 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.66%) Low-Code
8 7 (2.33%) DataPower
8 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.99%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.99%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 45 (14.95%) Linux
2 25 (8.31%) Windows
3 13 (4.32%) Unix
4 10 (3.32%) zOS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (38.54%) Agile
2 89 (29.57%) CI/CD
3 81 (26.91%) DevOps
4 63 (20.93%) Microservices
5 56 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (14.29%) TDD
8 42 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 41 (13.62%) Scrum
10 33 (10.96%) Software Engineering
11 32 (10.63%) Analytics
11 32 (10.63%) Design Patterns
12 31 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (10.30%) Validation
12 31 (10.30%) Workflow
13 30 (9.97%) Continuous Delivery
13 30 (9.97%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (9.63%) ERP
14 29 (9.63%) Test Automation
14 29 (9.63%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (30.56%) SQL
2 75 (24.92%) Java
3 64 (21.26%) Python
4 59 (19.60%) JavaScript
5 45 (14.95%) C#
6 30 (9.97%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.98%) C++
8 13 (4.32%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.99%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.66%) ABAP
10 8 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.66%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.66%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.99%) JCL
11 6 (1.99%) XPath
12 4 (1.33%) Ruby
12 4 (1.33%) SOQL
12 4 (1.33%) SOSL
13 3 (1.00%) Go
13 3 (1.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 98 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 89 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.64%) Degree
4 11 (3.65%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.33%) MBA
10 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.66%) NIST
3 8 (2.66%) SLA
4 7 (2.33%) QA
5 4 (1.33%) NCSC
6 3 (1.00%) GDPR
6 3 (1.00%) GRC
7 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (14.95%) Docker
2 27 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.32%) Postfix
4 5 (1.66%) RACF
5 2 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.66%) NFS
5 2 (0.66%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.66%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.31%) Grafana
2 20 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.33%) Ansible
5 6 (1.99%) Terraform
6 5 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.66%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.66%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.33%) Argo
9 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.94%) Oracle
3 25 (8.31%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.65%) Jaspersoft
5 16 (5.32%) SAP
6 14 (4.65%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.32%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.99%) UiPath
9 8 (2.66%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.66%) Workday
10 7 (2.33%) Adobe
11 6 (1.99%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.99%) IBM
12 5 (1.66%) Google
12 5 (1.66%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.33%) Sybase
14 3 (1.00%) BMC
14 3 (1.00%) Citrix
14 3 (1.00%) Cognizant