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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 178 199
Rank change year-on-year -161 +21 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 290 406 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 1.54% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.47% 6.86% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 271 300
10th Percentile £364 £358 £399
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £666 £638
90th Percentile £740 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -0.59% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 24
10th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £56.72 £56.56 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £65.57 - -
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 8,356 5,921 7,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 22.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,079 5,534
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 126 264
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -98 158 £600 +9.09% 31
South East -94 39 £500 +5.26% 19
Midlands -54 34 £475 +11.76% 3
North of England -89 33 £469 +4.17% 18
West Midlands -56 29 £475 - 2
Yorkshire -39 20 £460 -10.42% 6
South West -29 14 £425 - 11
East of England -38 14 £460 -15.98% 3
North West -66 12 £650 +44.93% 12
East Midlands -23 3 £525 +46.65% 1
North East -38 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 (3.79%) CICS
1 11 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.45%) Confluence
2 10 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.10%) Appian
4 8 (2.76%) JBoss
5 7 (2.41%) IIS
6 6 (2.07%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.38%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.03%) Apache
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.69%) CMS
10 2 (0.69%) Mule
10 2 (0.69%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.38%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (1.38%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.03%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.69%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.34%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.72%) Azure
2 74 (25.52%) AWS
3 31 (10.69%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 24 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
5 24 (8.28%) PaaS
5 24 (8.28%) Serverless
6 23 (7.93%) Amazon S3
7 22 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.24%) GitHub
9 20 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (6.21%) AWS KMS
10 18 (6.21%) Route 53
11 15 (5.17%) SaaS
12 14 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (4.14%) OCI
14 12 (4.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.48%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.07%) SSL
3 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) FTP
3 4 (1.38%) Internet
3 4 (1.38%) IPsec
3 4 (1.38%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.03%) HTTP
4 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.69%) Firewall
5 2 (0.69%) Intranet
5 2 (0.69%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) ATM
6 1 (0.34%) DMZ
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.41%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.97%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.62%) DynamoDB
5 19 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (4.48%) Db2
8 7 (2.41%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.41%) Power BI
8 7 (2.41%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.07%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.72%) MySQL
10 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.72%) SAP HANA
11 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.17%) Git
3 27 (9.31%) JIRA
4 25 (8.62%) JUnit
5 24 (8.28%) Maven
6 20 (6.90%) Eclipse
7 19 (6.55%) Mockito
7 19 (6.55%) SonarQube
7 19 (6.55%) Visual Studio
8 14 (4.83%) DbUnit
9 13 (4.48%) jMock
10 12 (4.14%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (3.10%) GitLab
11 9 (3.10%) Postman
12 8 (2.76%) LoadRunner
13 7 (2.41%) Ant
13 7 (2.41%) SoapUI
14 6 (2.07%) Cucumber
14 6 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 87 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.03%) Public Sector
3 55 (18.97%) Finance
4 47 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.93%) Banking
6 22 (7.59%) Military
7 11 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.72%) Billing
9 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.38%) Legal
10 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Retail
11 3 (1.03%) Automotive
11 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.03%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (49.66%) Developer
2 44 (15.17%) Senior
3 35 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 31 (10.69%) Architect
5 29 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.90%) Consultant
7 16 (5.52%) Software Engineer
8 14 (4.83%) Lead
9 13 (4.48%) Azure Developer
9 13 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 12 (4.14%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (3.45%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.45%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.10%) Salesforce Developer
13 8 (2.76%) Analyst
13 8 (2.76%) C++ Software Engineer
13 8 (2.76%) IAM Specialist
13 8 (2.76%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.41%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (46.55%) REST
2 102 (35.17%) SOAP
3 49 (16.90%) RESTful
4 47 (16.21%) .NET
5 46 (15.86%) XML
6 45 (15.52%) Spring
7 38 (13.10%) JSON
8 36 (12.41%) Spring Boot
9 32 (11.03%) AngularJS
10 31 (10.69%) Node.js
10 31 (10.69%) OAuth
11 26 (8.97%) HTML
12 23 (7.93%) Hibernate
12 23 (7.93%) JPA
13 20 (6.90%) SailPoint
13 20 (6.90%) Spring Batch
13 20 (6.90%) Spring Integration
14 19 (6.55%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.86%) OAuth2
15 17 (5.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (4.83%) Mobile App
2 14 (4.83%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.79%) Mainframe
5 10 (3.45%) CMDB
5 10 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.76%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.41%) DataPower
8 6 (2.07%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.07%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.07%) Online Banking
8 6 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.72%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.17%) Linux
2 25 (8.62%) Windows
3 14 (4.83%) Unix
4 10 (3.45%) zOS
5 2 (0.69%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.97%) Agile
2 88 (30.34%) CI/CD
3 81 (27.93%) DevOps
4 62 (21.38%) Microservices
5 53 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (15.86%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (15.17%) TDD
8 42 (14.48%) Scrum
9 35 (12.07%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.07%) Software Engineering
10 34 (11.72%) Analytics
11 32 (11.03%) Validation
11 32 (11.03%) Workflow
12 31 (10.69%) ITSM
12 31 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
13 29 (10.00%) AI
13 29 (10.00%) Design Patterns
14 28 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.66%) Unit Testing
15 27 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.83%) SQL
2 74 (25.52%) Java
3 60 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 60 (20.69%) Python
4 53 (18.28%) C#
5 30 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.59%) C++
7 14 (4.83%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.14%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.76%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.41%) ABAP
11 6 (2.07%) JCL
11 6 (2.07%) SOQL
11 6 (2.07%) SOSL
11 6 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.07%) XPath
12 5 (1.72%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (31.38%) Security Cleared
2 83 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.00%) Degree
4 11 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.38%) MBA
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.69%) PhD
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.10%) QA
3 8 (2.76%) NIST
3 8 (2.76%) SLA
4 4 (1.38%) NCSC
5 3 (1.03%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) GRC
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (14.83%) Docker
2 28 (9.66%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.48%) Postfix
4 4 (1.38%) RACF
5 2 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.69%) NFS
5 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (7.59%) Grafana
2 18 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.45%) Ansible
5 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.72%) Terraform
6 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (25.52%) Microsoft
2 49 (16.90%) Oracle
3 25 (8.62%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.86%) Jaspersoft
5 16 (5.52%) SAP
6 15 (5.17%) Salesforce
7 14 (4.83%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.41%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.07%) Adobe
9 6 (2.07%) IBM
9 6 (2.07%) Workday
10 5 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.72%) Google
10 5 (1.72%) UiPath
11 4 (1.38%) Centrify
11 4 (1.38%) Intapp
11 4 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.38%) Sybase
12 3 (1.03%) Citrix