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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 183 197
Rank change year-on-year -165 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Web Services 297 413 466
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.52% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 6.82% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 281 299
10th Percentile £370 £358 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £739 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 26
10th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £58.43 £56.56 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 8,470 6,054 7,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.91% 22.25% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,164 5,358
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £747 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 134 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -118 161 £575 +4.55% 26
South East -100 39 £500 +5.26% 27
Midlands -54 35 £475 +11.76% 5
North of England -87 34 £463 +2.78% 6
West Midlands -50 30 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -26 21 £460 -10.42% 1
South West -35 16 £425 -7.10% 9
East of England -29 14 £460 -15.98% 5
North West -74 12 £650 +45.41% 5
East Midlands -22 3 £525 +46.65% 3
North East -40 2 £425 -15.00%
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 11 (3.70%) CICS
1 11 (3.70%) Confluence
1 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.02%) Appian
3 6 (2.02%) JBoss
4 5 (1.68%) IIS
5 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.35%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.01%) Apache
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.67%) CMS
7 2 (0.67%) Mule
7 2 (0.67%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.35%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.35%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.01%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.67%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.34%) BASE24
5 1 (0.34%) Maximo
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 94 (31.65%) Azure
2 77 (25.93%) AWS
3 33 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 26 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
4 26 (8.75%) Serverless
5 25 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 25 (8.42%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.74%) GitHub
7 22 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.07%) PaaS
9 20 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (6.06%) AWS KMS
10 18 (6.06%) Route 53
11 16 (5.39%) SaaS
12 14 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (4.04%) Power Platform
15 11 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.36%) SSL
3 6 (2.02%) HTTP
4 4 (1.35%) DNS
4 4 (1.35%) FTP
4 4 (1.35%) IPsec
4 4 (1.35%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.01%) Internet
6 2 (0.67%) Firewall
6 2 (0.67%) Intranet
6 2 (0.67%) VPN
7 1 (0.34%) ATM
7 1 (0.34%) DMZ
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 33 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.42%) DynamoDB
3 25 (8.42%) Relational Database
4 19 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (4.71%) Db2
7 7 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.36%) Power BI
7 7 (2.36%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.68%) MySQL
9 5 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.35%) SAP HANA
10 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (16.50%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.15%) Git
3 28 (9.43%) JIRA
4 25 (8.42%) JUnit
5 24 (8.08%) Maven
6 20 (6.73%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.40%) Mockito
7 19 (6.40%) Visual Studio
8 18 (6.06%) SonarQube
9 14 (4.71%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.38%) jMock
11 12 (4.04%) Bitbucket Server
12 9 (3.03%) GitLab
13 8 (2.69%) LoadRunner
14 7 (2.36%) Ant
14 7 (2.36%) Cucumber
14 7 (2.36%) Postman
15 6 (2.02%) SoapUI
15 6 (2.02%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (1.68%) REST Assured
General
1 89 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.87%) Public Sector
3 56 (18.86%) Finance
4 55 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.08%) Banking
6 22 (7.41%) Military
7 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.68%) Billing
10 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.35%) Legal
11 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) Automotive
13 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 147 (49.49%) Developer
2 42 (14.14%) Senior
3 38 (12.79%) Java Developer
4 30 (10.10%) Architect
5 27 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.40%) Consultant
7 16 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 15 (5.05%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.05%) C# Developer
9 13 (4.38%) Azure Developer
9 13 (4.38%) Lead
10 10 (3.37%) C# Software Engineer
10 10 (3.37%) IAM Specialist
10 10 (3.37%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.03%) Senior Architect
12 8 (2.69%) Analyst
12 8 (2.69%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (2.69%) Designer
12 8 (2.69%) Salesforce Developer
13 7 (2.36%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (46.80%) REST
2 103 (34.68%) SOAP
3 50 (16.84%) .NET
4 49 (16.50%) RESTful
5 48 (16.16%) Spring
5 48 (16.16%) XML
6 38 (12.79%) Spring Boot
7 37 (12.46%) JSON
8 34 (11.45%) AngularJS
9 33 (11.11%) Node.js
10 31 (10.44%) OAuth
11 26 (8.75%) HTML
12 24 (8.08%) Hibernate
12 24 (8.08%) JPA
13 23 (7.74%) SailPoint
14 20 (6.73%) Spring Batch
14 20 (6.73%) Spring Integration
15 19 (6.40%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (6.40%) LDAP
15 19 (6.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.71%) Mobile App
3 13 (4.38%) CMDB
3 13 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.70%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.36%) DataPower
7 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.02%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.15%) Linux
2 25 (8.42%) Windows
3 14 (4.71%) Unix
4 10 (3.37%) zOS
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (40.07%) Agile
2 89 (29.97%) CI/CD
3 81 (27.27%) DevOps
4 64 (21.55%) Microservices
5 61 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (15.82%) Scrum
7 46 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
7 46 (15.49%) TDD
8 38 (12.79%) Analytics
8 38 (12.79%) ITSM
9 34 (11.45%) Software Engineering
10 33 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 33 (11.11%) Workflow
11 31 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
13 29 (9.76%) AI
13 29 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (9.76%) Design Patterns
13 29 (9.76%) Validation
14 28 (9.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 100 (33.67%) SQL
2 75 (25.25%) Java
3 65 (21.89%) JavaScript
4 59 (19.87%) Python
5 55 (18.52%) C#
6 32 (10.77%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.74%) C++
8 14 (4.71%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.70%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.02%) ABAP
11 6 (2.02%) JCL
11 6 (2.02%) SOQL
11 6 (2.02%) SOSL
11 6 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.02%) XPath
12 5 (1.68%) Groovy
12 5 (1.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 86 (28.96%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.10%) Degree
4 11 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.01%) MBA
9 2 (0.67%) PhD
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.37%) NIST
3 10 (3.37%) QA
4 7 (2.36%) SLA
5 4 (1.35%) GRC
5 4 (1.35%) NCSC
6 3 (1.01%) GDPR
7 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (14.81%) Docker
2 31 (10.44%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.38%) Postfix
4 4 (1.35%) RACF
5 2 (0.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.67%) NFS
5 2 (0.67%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.41%) Grafana
2 19 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.05%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.70%) Ansible
5 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.68%) Terraform
6 3 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 79 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.49%) Oracle
3 29 (9.76%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.72%) Jaspersoft
5 16 (5.39%) SAP
6 14 (4.71%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.71%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.69%) IBM
8 7 (2.36%) Workday
9 6 (2.02%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.68%) Adobe
10 5 (1.68%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.68%) Google
10 5 (1.68%) Pega
11 4 (1.35%) Automation Anywhere
11 4 (1.35%) Centrify
11 4 (1.35%) Citrix
11 4 (1.35%) Intapp
11 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.35%) Sybase