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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 222 215
Rank change year-on-year -124 -7 -18
Contract jobs citing Web Services 335 353 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 1.25% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.35% 4.89% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 232 221
10th Percentile £345 £356 £345
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £712 £700 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 25
10th Percentile £53.50 £55.00 £63.50
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile £77.20 - £66.50
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 9,995 7,214 7,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.35% 25.58% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,577 4,854 5,193
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -5.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 173 152
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £28.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +10.11%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -89 166 £550 +5.77% 9
South East -53 50 £500 +5.26% 10
North of England -77 43 £475 -3.75% 12
Midlands -48 36 £449 +2.91% 6
West Midlands -39 29 £450 -7.22% 3
Yorkshire -23 20 £450 -28.26% 7
East of England -40 17 £525 -3.67% 4
South West -32 13 £488 -2.50% 7
North West -72 13 £625 +37.36% 3
North East -33 10 £638 +27.50% 3
East Midlands -14 5 £428 +10.67% 3
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 (7.16%) Confluence
2 10 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.09%) IIS
3 7 (2.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.19%) Apache
4 4 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.90%) CICS
5 3 (0.90%) OpenEdge
5 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.39%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.19%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.90%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.60%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.60%) iTrent
5 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.60%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.60%) Remedy AR System
5 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.25%) Azure
2 73 (21.79%) AWS
3 24 (7.16%) GCP
4 22 (6.57%) GitHub
5 21 (6.27%) Entra ID
6 20 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (4.18%) Serverless
9 12 (3.58%) SaaS
10 10 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (2.99%) iPaaS
11 9 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.39%) Boomi
12 8 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.09%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.79%) AtomSphere
14 6 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.58%) Ethernet
1 12 (3.58%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.39%) HTTP
3 7 (2.09%) SSL
4 6 (1.79%) FTP
4 6 (1.79%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) Intranet
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 2 (0.60%) X.509
7 1 (0.30%) ATM
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) DMZ
7 1 (0.30%) DNS
7 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.30%) SAN
7 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.13%) Relational Database
3 31 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.48%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.28%) MySQL
6 10 (2.99%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.39%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.39%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.09%) Db2
9 7 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 6 (1.79%) Power BI
11 5 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (23.88%) Git
2 50 (14.93%) JIRA
3 45 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 27 (8.06%) SonarQube
5 26 (7.76%) Maven
6 24 (7.16%) JUnit
7 20 (5.97%) Mockito
7 20 (5.97%) Visual Studio
8 18 (5.37%) Eclipse
9 13 (3.88%) LoadRunner
10 10 (2.99%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.69%) eggPlant
11 9 (2.69%) JMeter
12 8 (2.39%) Postman
12 8 (2.39%) Selenium
12 8 (2.39%) SoapUI
12 8 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.79%) Ant
13 6 (1.79%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (22.69%) Finance
4 69 (20.60%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.96%) Banking
6 22 (6.57%) Military
7 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.79%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.49%) Legal
12 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.19%) Automotive
14 3 (0.90%) Billing
14 3 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 172 (51.34%) Developer
2 52 (15.52%) Senior
3 35 (10.45%) Java Developer
4 30 (8.96%) Consultant
4 30 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 22 (6.57%) .NET Developer
5 22 (6.57%) C# Developer
6 21 (6.27%) Architect
7 19 (5.67%) Lead
8 18 (5.37%) Software Engineer
9 12 (3.58%) C# .NET Developer
9 12 (3.58%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 11 (3.28%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (2.99%) ServiceNow Developer
11 10 (2.99%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (2.69%) C# Software Engineer
13 8 (2.39%) Integration Developer
13 8 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.09%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (35.52%) REST
2 106 (31.64%) SOAP
3 80 (23.88%) .NET
4 70 (20.90%) RESTful
5 64 (19.10%) XML
6 48 (14.33%) HTML
7 42 (12.54%) AngularJS
7 42 (12.54%) Spring
8 40 (11.94%) Spring Boot
9 35 (10.45%) JSON
10 33 (9.85%) CSS
11 32 (9.55%) Middleware
12 31 (9.25%) React
13 27 (8.06%) OAuth
14 26 (7.76%) SailPoint
15 25 (7.46%) Hibernate
15 25 (7.46%) Node.js
16 21 (6.27%) ASP.NET
16 21 (6.27%) LDAP
17 20 (5.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.04%) Enterprise Software
2 31 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.48%) Mobile App
4 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.58%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.58%) CMDB
6 7 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.49%) Replication
9 4 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.90%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.22%) Linux
2 23 (6.87%) Unix
3 22 (6.57%) Windows
4 4 (1.19%) macOS
4 4 (1.19%) VMS
5 3 (0.90%) zOS
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (47.16%) Agile
2 110 (32.84%) CI/CD
3 106 (31.64%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (25.07%) DevOps
5 71 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (18.81%) Test Automation
7 55 (16.42%) SDLC
7 55 (16.42%) Software Engineering
8 52 (15.52%) Scrum
9 49 (14.63%) Microservices
10 47 (14.03%) Unit Testing
11 46 (13.73%) API Integration
12 43 (12.84%) AI
12 43 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (11.94%) Validation
14 38 (11.34%) Code Quality
14 38 (11.34%) ITSM
14 38 (11.34%) TDD
15 36 (10.75%) Containerisation
15 36 (10.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 109 (32.54%) SQL
2 86 (25.67%) JavaScript
3 82 (24.48%) Java
4 71 (21.19%) C#
5 63 (18.81%) Python
6 27 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 26 (7.76%) PowerShell
8 18 (5.37%) C++
9 14 (4.18%) PL/SQL
10 13 (3.88%) Bash
10 13 (3.88%) Shell Script
11 12 (3.58%) ABAP
11 12 (3.58%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.99%) Groovy
13 9 (2.69%) VB.NET
14 7 (2.09%) Apex Code
14 7 (2.09%) XPath
15 6 (1.79%) SOQL
15 6 (1.79%) SOSL
16 4 (1.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 97 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.84%) Degree
4 16 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.49%) PMP
9 4 (1.19%) ISEB
9 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.19%) PhD
10 2 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.60%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.57%) QA
3 13 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.58%) NIST
5 7 (2.09%) NCSC
6 6 (1.79%) HL7
7 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.90%) GDPR
8 3 (0.90%) GRC
9 2 (0.60%) SLA
10 1 (0.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.30%) GMP
10 1 (0.30%) GxP
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) PMO
10 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (16.42%) Docker
2 32 (9.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.90%) Postfix
3 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.60%) IAG
5 1 (0.30%) NFS
5 1 (0.30%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.30%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 30 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.07%) Grafana
3 13 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (3.58%) Ansible
5 10 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.49%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.19%) Control-M
8 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.30%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 61 (18.21%) Oracle
3 33 (9.85%) SAP
4 20 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 19 (5.67%) UiPath
6 13 (3.88%) Google
6 13 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.58%) IBM
7 12 (3.58%) Workday
8 8 (2.39%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.09%) Pega
10 6 (1.79%) Adobe
10 6 (1.79%) Centrify
11 5 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.49%) Citrix
11 5 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.19%) Ariba
12 4 (1.19%) Intapp
12 4 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (1.19%) Planview