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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 209 203
Rank change year-on-year -138 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 326 369 400
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 1.31% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.32% 5.15% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 245 227
10th Percentile £359 £353 £348
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £747
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 27
10th Percentile £52.38 £55.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £65.75 - -
90th Percentile £77.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 9,809 7,168 8,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.17% 25.53% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,842 5,285
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £795
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 175 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.60
25th Percentile £54.84 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.30 £70.00 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -97 164 £550 +4.76% 142
South East -60 51 £500 +5.26% 41
Midlands -37 38 £449 +1.56% 32
North of England -83 38 £475 -4.04% 43
West Midlands -33 31 £450 -9.09% 23
Yorkshire -29 20 £450 -28.26% 15
East of England -33 17 £525 -3.67% 23
South West -30 13 £488 -2.50% 23
North West -72 11 £650 +37.28% 19
North East -37 7 £675 +35.00% 10
East Midlands -17 5 £428 +10.67% 9
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 24 (7.36%) Confluence
2 10 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (2.15%) IIS
5 4 (1.23%) Apache
5 4 (1.23%) CICS
5 4 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.92%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.31%) Appian
8 1 (0.31%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.31%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.31%) JBoss
8 1 (0.31%) Mule
8 1 (0.31%) Mule ESB
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.45%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.23%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.92%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.92%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.61%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.61%) iTrent
5 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.61%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.61%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (28.53%) Azure
2 67 (20.55%) AWS
3 23 (7.06%) GitHub
4 21 (6.44%) Entra ID
5 20 (6.13%) GCP
5 20 (6.13%) Power Platform
6 18 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (3.99%) SaaS
7 13 (3.99%) Serverless
8 11 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.45%) Boomi
11 8 (2.45%) iPaaS
11 8 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (2.15%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.68%) Ethernet
1 12 (3.68%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.45%) HTTP
3 7 (2.15%) FTP
3 7 (2.15%) SSL
4 5 (1.53%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.23%) Firewall
6 2 (0.61%) Internet
6 2 (0.61%) Intranet
6 2 (0.61%) VPN
6 2 (0.61%) X.509
7 1 (0.31%) ATM
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) DMZ
7 1 (0.31%) DNS
7 1 (0.31%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.31%) SAN
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.50%) SQL Server
2 39 (11.96%) Relational Database
3 31 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.68%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.37%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (2.45%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.15%) Db2
8 7 (2.15%) MySQL
9 6 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.84%) Power BI
10 5 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (22.39%) Git
2 47 (14.42%) JIRA
3 46 (14.11%) Jenkins
4 27 (8.28%) SonarQube
5 24 (7.36%) JUnit
5 24 (7.36%) Maven
6 20 (6.13%) Visual Studio
7 19 (5.83%) Eclipse
7 19 (5.83%) Mockito
8 13 (3.99%) LoadRunner
9 9 (2.76%) eggPlant
9 9 (2.76%) JMeter
10 8 (2.45%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.45%) Postman
10 8 (2.45%) Selenium
10 8 (2.45%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.84%) Ant
11 6 (1.84%) GitLab
11 6 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (21.78%) Finance
4 68 (20.86%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.59%) Banking
6 22 (6.75%) Military
7 13 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.84%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.53%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.53%) Legal
12 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.23%) Automotive
13 4 (1.23%) Billing
14 2 (0.61%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 169 (51.84%) Developer
2 53 (16.26%) Senior
3 35 (10.74%) Java Developer
4 31 (9.51%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.20%) Consultant
6 22 (6.75%) Architect
7 21 (6.44%) .NET Developer
7 21 (6.44%) C# Developer
8 17 (5.21%) Lead
8 17 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 11 (3.37%) C# .NET Developer
9 11 (3.37%) IAM Specialist
9 11 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (3.07%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
11 9 (2.76%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (2.76%) ServiceNow Developer
11 9 (2.76%) Technical Consultant
12 8 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.45%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (34.66%) REST
2 103 (31.60%) SOAP
3 77 (23.62%) .NET
4 65 (19.94%) RESTful
5 63 (19.33%) XML
6 46 (14.11%) HTML
7 42 (12.88%) AngularJS
8 41 (12.58%) Spring
9 39 (11.96%) Spring Boot
10 34 (10.43%) JSON
11 30 (9.20%) Middleware
12 29 (8.90%) CSS
13 27 (8.28%) React
14 26 (7.98%) OAuth
14 26 (7.98%) SailPoint
15 25 (7.67%) Node.js
16 24 (7.36%) Hibernate
17 21 (6.44%) ASP.NET
17 21 (6.44%) LDAP
17 21 (6.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.60%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.07%) CMDB
8 9 (2.76%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.53%) Replication
12 4 (1.23%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.92%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.92%) Derivative
13 3 (0.92%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.72%) Linux
2 22 (6.75%) Windows
3 21 (6.44%) Unix
4 4 (1.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.92%) zOS
6 2 (0.61%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.32%) Agile
2 105 (32.21%) CI/CD
3 98 (30.06%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (24.23%) DevOps
5 67 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (16.87%) Test Automation
7 51 (15.64%) Software Engineering
8 50 (15.34%) Scrum
8 50 (15.34%) SDLC
9 46 (14.11%) Microservices
10 43 (13.19%) Unit Testing
11 41 (12.58%) Validation
12 40 (12.27%) API Integration
13 39 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (11.96%) TDD
14 38 (11.66%) AI
15 36 (11.04%) Containerisation
15 36 (11.04%) ITSM
16 34 (10.43%) Data Modelling
17 33 (10.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 102 (31.29%) SQL
2 83 (25.46%) JavaScript
3 82 (25.15%) Java
4 68 (20.86%) C#
5 61 (18.71%) Python
6 26 (7.98%) PowerShell
6 26 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 19 (5.83%) C++
8 13 (3.99%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.68%) ABAP
9 12 (3.68%) Bash
10 11 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.37%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.07%) Groovy
12 9 (2.76%) VB.NET
13 7 (2.15%) Apex Code
13 7 (2.15%) XPath
14 6 (1.84%) SOQL
14 6 (1.84%) SOSL
15 5 (1.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 95 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 85 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 40 (12.27%) Degree
4 15 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.53%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.53%) PMP
9 4 (1.23%) ISEB
9 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.23%) PhD
10 2 (0.61%) CISSP
10 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.61%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.75%) QA
3 13 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.68%) NIST
5 6 (1.84%) HL7
5 6 (1.84%) NCSC
6 4 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.23%) GRC
7 3 (0.92%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.31%) GMP
8 1 (0.31%) GxP
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (16.26%) Docker
2 32 (9.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) Postfix
4 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.61%) IAG
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.31%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.83%) Grafana
3 12 (3.68%) Ansible
3 12 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.53%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.23%) Control-M
7 3 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.61%) Argo
9 1 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (24.85%) Microsoft
2 54 (16.56%) Oracle
3 30 (9.20%) SAP
4 19 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.91%) UiPath
6 13 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.99%) Workday
7 12 (3.68%) IBM
8 11 (3.37%) Google
9 8 (2.45%) CyberArk
10 7 (2.15%) Pega
11 6 (1.84%) Adobe
11 6 (1.84%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.84%) Centrify
11 6 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.23%) Ariba
13 4 (1.23%) Citrix
13 4 (1.23%) Intapp
13 4 (1.23%) Planview