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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 212 178
Rank change year-on-year -70 -34 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 316 307 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.24% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.04% 5.51% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 185 283
10th Percentile £363 £363 £405
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £638
90th Percentile £720 £825 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 5
10th Percentile £40.88 £62.38 £51.82
25th Percentile £56.72 £64.06 £54.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £90.25
90th Percentile £65.57 £67.10 £92.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%

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 7,826 5,573 7,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 22.59% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,752 5,399
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 86 200
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -51 179 £463 -20.26% 28
North of England -51 39 £680 +35.90% 15
South East -62 37 £589 +17.80% 17
East of England -12 23 £750 +36.36% 10
Midlands -59 23 £475 +13.10% 9
North West -35 21 £690 +37.90% 9
West Midlands -55 19 £475 +3.26% 7
Yorkshire -42 18 £461 - 4
South West -22 15 £556 -4.09% 9
East Midlands -33 4 £525 +61.04% 2
North East -13 1 - - 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 (4.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.11%) Appian
3 11 (3.48%) Confluence
3 11 (3.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (3.48%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.53%) CICS
5 7 (2.22%) JBoss
5 7 (2.22%) WebSphere
6 5 (1.58%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.27%) IIS
7 4 (1.27%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.95%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.63%) Apache
9 2 (0.63%) Documentum
9 2 (0.63%) Drupal
9 2 (0.63%) Mule
9 2 (0.63%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.95%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (6.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (4.43%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (2.53%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.22%) BusinessWorks
4 7 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.90%) SAP MDG
6 4 (1.27%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.27%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.95%) SAP MDG-F
7 3 (0.95%) SAP MDG-M
7 3 (0.95%) SAP MDG-S
7 3 (0.95%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.63%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 79 (25.00%) Azure
2 65 (20.57%) AWS
3 37 (11.71%) PaaS
4 26 (8.23%) OCI
5 23 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (7.28%) GitHub
6 19 (6.01%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.75%) IaaS
8 15 (4.75%) SaaS
9 14 (4.43%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.43%) Serverless
10 13 (4.11%) Azure App Service
10 13 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (4.11%) GCP
11 12 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (3.80%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.43%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.90%) SSL
4 5 (1.58%) IPsec
4 5 (1.58%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.95%) DNS
5 3 (0.95%) FTP
5 3 (0.95%) NFC
5 3 (0.95%) PPP
6 2 (0.63%) DHCP
6 2 (0.63%) Firewall
6 2 (0.63%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.63%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) HTTP
7 1 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.91%) Relational Database
3 20 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (6.33%) SAP HANA
4 15 (4.75%) DB2
5 12 (3.80%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.85%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (2.85%) Pinecone
8 8 (2.53%) MySQL
8 8 (2.53%) Power BI
9 5 (1.58%) Data Hub
9 5 (1.58%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.63%) Redis
12 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (17.09%) Git
2 27 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.91%) JIRA
4 22 (6.96%) Postman
5 17 (5.38%) Eclipse
5 17 (5.38%) JUnit
6 16 (5.06%) Maven
7 15 (4.75%) Selenium
7 15 (4.75%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.75%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.80%) Mockito
9 11 (3.48%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.16%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.53%) MLflow
12 7 (2.22%) DbUnit
12 7 (2.22%) jMock
13 6 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (1.90%) GitLab
13 6 (1.90%) JMeter
14 5 (1.58%) REST Assured
General
1 92 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.52%) Public Sector
3 49 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (14.24%) Finance
5 20 (6.33%) Military
6 16 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.43%) Banking
8 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.58%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.27%) Retail
11 3 (0.95%) Billing
11 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.95%) Law
12 2 (0.63%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.63%) Front Office
12 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (41.77%) Developer
2 45 (14.24%) Senior
3 42 (13.29%) Consultant
4 25 (7.91%) Senior Developer
5 24 (7.59%) Architect
5 24 (7.59%) Java Developer
6 23 (7.28%) SAP Consultant
7 21 (6.65%) Lead
8 20 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.06%) Python Developer
10 14 (4.43%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (4.11%) Analyst
11 13 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.80%) Integration Specialist
12 12 (3.80%) Oracle Specialist
13 11 (3.48%) Azure Developer
13 11 (3.48%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.16%) ABAP Consultant
14 10 (3.16%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (44.62%) REST
2 111 (35.13%) SOAP
3 50 (15.82%) XML
4 39 (12.34%) JSON
5 34 (10.76%) RESTful
6 33 (10.44%) Spring
7 32 (10.13%) Node.js
8 29 (9.18%) .NET
9 28 (8.86%) OAuth
10 27 (8.54%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (8.23%) AngularJS
12 24 (7.59%) XSLT
13 22 (6.96%) Spring Boot
14 19 (6.01%) CSS
14 19 (6.01%) JWT
15 17 (5.38%) .NET Framework
15 17 (5.38%) BAPI
15 17 (5.38%) J2EE
16 15 (4.75%) Hibernate
16 15 (4.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.80%) CMDB
3 12 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.85%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.53%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.53%) Replication
8 5 (1.58%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.58%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.27%) DataPower
9 4 (1.27%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.95%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.66%) Linux
2 30 (9.49%) Windows
3 7 (2.22%) Android
3 7 (2.22%) Unix
3 7 (2.22%) zOS
4 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (38.61%) Agile
2 75 (23.73%) CI/CD
3 68 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (19.62%) DevOps
5 50 (15.82%) Microservices
6 46 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
7 43 (13.61%) Unit Testing
8 42 (13.29%) Test Automation
9 40 (12.66%) ERP
10 39 (12.34%) Design Patterns
11 37 (11.71%) Containerisation
11 37 (11.71%) Scrum
12 36 (11.39%) Performance Tuning
12 36 (11.39%) TDD
13 33 (10.44%) Software Engineering
14 32 (10.13%) Data Modelling
15 31 (9.81%) Validation
16 28 (8.86%) Continuous Delivery
16 28 (8.86%) OO
17 26 (8.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.10%) SQL
2 63 (19.94%) JavaScript
3 62 (19.62%) Java
4 59 (18.67%) Python
5 47 (14.87%) C#
6 31 (9.81%) ABAP
7 23 (7.28%) C++
7 23 (7.28%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (3.80%) Ruby
9 9 (2.85%) PHP
10 8 (2.53%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.53%) XPath
11 6 (1.90%) Go
12 5 (1.58%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.27%) Groovy
14 3 (0.95%) JCL
14 3 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 105 (33.23%) Security Cleared
2 86 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.43%) Degree
4 13 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.32%) MBA
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.32%) PMP
9 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.11%) QA
3 8 (2.53%) SLA
4 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (12.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.90%) Postfix
4 5 (1.58%) RACF
5 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.48%) Grafana
3 8 (2.53%) Ansible
4 7 (2.22%) TIBCO Hawk
5 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.58%) Terraform
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.32%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 57 (18.04%) Oracle
2 55 (17.41%) Microsoft
3 46 (14.56%) SAP
4 17 (5.38%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.43%) Adobe
6 11 (3.48%) OpenAI
7 10 (3.16%) IBM
7 10 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.85%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.85%) Google
8 9 (2.85%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.85%) UiPath
9 8 (2.53%) Automation Anywhere
10 7 (2.22%) BEA
10 7 (2.22%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.22%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.22%) TIBCO
11 6 (1.90%) Workday
12 5 (1.58%) Computacenter
13 4 (1.27%) Dataiku