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

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 188 190
Rank change year-on-year -160 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 289 404 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.46% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 6.58% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 277 282
10th Percentile £391 £358 £382
25th Percentile £425 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -1.12%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £736 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 27
10th Percentile £51.63 £55.00 £62.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £59.69 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £74.65 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -0.81%

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 8,415 6,144 7,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.25% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,514 4,235 5,084
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £772 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 147 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £48.40 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £73.23 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -109 152 £588 +6.82% 47
South East -89 44 £500 +5.26% 29
Midlands -50 36 £475 +11.76% 10
West Midlands -47 30 £475 - 8
North of England -75 30 £460 +2.22% 12
Yorkshire -31 15 £454 -11.59% 1
East of England -28 14 £470 -14.16%
South West -38 14 £485 -4.39% 10
North West -77 12 £650 +45.41% 8
East Midlands -18 4 £482 +30.84% 2
North East -42 3 £425 -15.00% 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 11 (3.81%) Confluence
2 9 (3.11%) CICS
2 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.73%) JBoss
4 4 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.38%) IIS
4 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.04%) Appian
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.04%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.69%) Apache
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.69%) Mule
6 2 (0.69%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.35%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.38%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (1.04%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.69%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (30.10%) Azure
2 68 (23.53%) AWS
3 32 (11.07%) Entra ID
4 26 (9.00%) Amazon SQS
5 25 (8.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (8.30%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.61%) GitHub
8 20 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (6.92%) Serverless
9 18 (6.23%) AWS KMS
9 18 (6.23%) Route 53
10 16 (5.54%) Power Platform
11 15 (5.19%) PaaS
12 14 (4.84%) SaaS
13 13 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.81%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (3.46%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.50%) Ethernet
1 13 (4.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.42%) HTTP
3 5 (1.73%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.73%) SSL
4 4 (1.38%) DNS
5 3 (1.04%) FTP
5 3 (1.04%) Internet
6 2 (0.69%) Firewall
6 2 (0.69%) Intranet
6 2 (0.69%) VPN
7 1 (0.35%) ATM
7 1 (0.35%) DMZ
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 33 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.65%) DynamoDB
4 24 (8.30%) Relational Database
5 19 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (4.15%) Db2
8 9 (3.11%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.42%) Power BI
9 7 (2.42%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.73%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.73%) MySQL
10 5 (1.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.73%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.38%) SAP HANA
12 3 (1.04%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 54 (18.69%) Git
2 48 (16.61%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.73%) JIRA
4 25 (8.65%) JUnit
5 24 (8.30%) Maven
6 20 (6.92%) Eclipse
6 20 (6.92%) Mockito
7 19 (6.57%) SonarQube
8 18 (6.23%) Visual Studio
9 14 (4.84%) DbUnit
10 13 (4.50%) jMock
11 12 (4.15%) Bitbucket Server
12 8 (2.77%) GitLab
12 8 (2.77%) LoadRunner
13 6 (2.08%) Ant
13 6 (2.08%) Cucumber
13 6 (2.08%) Postman
13 6 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (1.73%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.73%) SoapUI
General
1 94 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.80%) Public Sector
3 54 (18.69%) Finance
4 53 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.30%) Banking
6 21 (7.27%) Military
7 12 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.73%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.73%) Billing
9 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.73%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.38%) Automotive
10 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.38%) Legal
10 4 (1.38%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.69%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 151 (52.25%) Developer
2 38 (13.15%) Java Developer
2 38 (13.15%) Senior
3 29 (10.03%) Senior Developer
4 23 (7.96%) Architect
5 22 (7.61%) Consultant
6 17 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 17 (5.88%) C# Developer
7 14 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 12 (4.15%) Azure Developer
8 12 (4.15%) Lead
9 11 (3.81%) IAM Specialist
10 10 (3.46%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (3.11%) Designer
11 9 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.77%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (2.77%) Salesforce Developer
12 8 (2.77%) Technical Consultant
13 6 (2.08%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (45.33%) REST
2 103 (35.64%) SOAP
3 54 (18.69%) .NET
4 49 (16.96%) Spring
5 46 (15.92%) RESTful
5 46 (15.92%) XML
6 40 (13.84%) Spring Boot
7 37 (12.80%) AngularJS
8 33 (11.42%) JSON
9 31 (10.73%) Node.js
10 28 (9.69%) Hibernate
11 26 (9.00%) HTML
12 23 (7.96%) JPA
12 23 (7.96%) SailPoint
13 22 (7.61%) OAuth
14 20 (6.92%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (6.92%) Spring Batch
14 20 (6.92%) Spring Integration
15 19 (6.57%) LDAP
16 18 (6.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.34%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (5.19%) CMDB
4 13 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.15%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.46%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.11%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.11%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.08%) DataPower
9 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.08%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.22%) Linux
2 23 (7.96%) Windows
3 13 (4.50%) Unix
4 8 (2.77%) zOS
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.18%) Agile
2 80 (27.68%) CI/CD
3 73 (25.26%) DevOps
4 66 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (19.03%) Microservices
6 51 (17.65%) Scrum
7 46 (15.92%) TDD
8 41 (14.19%) ITSM
9 38 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (12.11%) Analytics
11 34 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (11.42%) Software Engineering
13 32 (11.07%) Unit Testing
14 31 (10.73%) Performance Tuning
15 30 (10.38%) ITIL
16 29 (10.03%) Workflow
17 28 (9.69%) Containerisation
17 28 (9.69%) SDLC
17 28 (9.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (34.26%) SQL
2 75 (25.95%) Java
3 64 (22.15%) JavaScript
4 57 (19.72%) C#
5 50 (17.30%) Python
6 32 (11.07%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.61%) C++
8 18 (6.23%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.81%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.77%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (2.08%) ABAP
12 6 (2.08%) JCL
12 6 (2.08%) SOQL
12 6 (2.08%) SOSL
12 6 (2.08%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.73%) Groovy
13 5 (1.73%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.73%) XPath
14 4 (1.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 105 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 95 (32.87%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.38%) Degree
4 10 (3.46%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.04%) MBA
9 2 (0.69%) PhD
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PMP
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.81%) NIST
3 11 (3.81%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) SLA
5 4 (1.38%) GRC
5 4 (1.38%) NCSC
6 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.69%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (13.84%) Docker
2 31 (10.73%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.50%) Postfix
4 2 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.69%) NFS
4 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
4 2 (0.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (7.96%) Grafana
2 13 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.81%) Ansible
5 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.73%) Terraform
7 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.69%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.35%) Argo
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.92%) Oracle
3 29 (10.03%) ServiceNow
4 17 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
5 16 (5.54%) SAP
6 14 (4.84%) Atlassian
6 14 (4.84%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.42%) Adobe
7 7 (2.42%) IBM
7 7 (2.42%) Pega
8 6 (2.08%) UiPath
9 5 (1.73%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.73%) Workday
10 4 (1.38%) Centrify
10 4 (1.38%) Citrix
10 4 (1.38%) Intapp
11 3 (1.04%) Google
11 3 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.04%) Splunk
11 3 (1.04%) Sybase
103 Web Services jobs in England