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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 231 171
Rank change year-on-year -38 -60 +15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 301 327 577
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.07% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.33% 4.90% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 188 326
10th Percentile £350 £318 £378
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £629
90th Percentile £713 £766 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 9
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.50 £55.76
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - £67.50 £90.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%

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 6,949 6,675 8,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.34% 21.83% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,671 4,252 6,119
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 99 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -15.72%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -33 150 £475 -17.39% 28
North of England -28 44 £550 +17.02% 35
East of England -2 37 £550 +10.00% 20
South East -17 33 £488 -15.22% 38
North West -14 32 £550 +27.91% 20
Midlands -33 15 £430 -8.51% 18
South West -6 13 £488 -12.16% 19
Yorkshire -31 9 £627 +25.45% 13
East Midlands -9 8 £553 +25.57% 7
West Midlands -28 7 £430 -28.33% 10
North East 0 3 £500 - 2
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 (7.97%) Confluence
2 10 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.32%) WebSphere
3 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.33%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.66%) Apache
5 5 (1.66%) IIS
5 5 (1.66%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.66%) NetWeaver
5 5 (1.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.33%) CICS
7 3 (1.00%) CMS
7 3 (1.00%) Mule
7 3 (1.00%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.66%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.66%) Documentum
8 2 (0.66%) Drupal
8 2 (0.66%) JBoss
8 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.66%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (1.99%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.99%) Workday HCM
6 5 (1.66%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (1.66%) Maximo
6 5 (1.66%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (1.00%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.66%) Cloudability
9 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.66%) Primavera
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (23.26%) Azure
2 46 (15.28%) AWS
3 21 (6.98%) PaaS
4 15 (4.98%) OCI
5 13 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.32%) GitHub
6 12 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.65%) Entra ID
7 11 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.32%) GCP
8 10 (3.32%) SaaS
9 8 (2.66%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.33%) iPaaS
11 5 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.66%) Sentry
11 5 (1.66%) Serverless
12 4 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.97%) TCP/IP
2 21 (6.98%) Ethernet
3 14 (4.65%) SSL
4 7 (2.33%) NFC
4 7 (2.33%) PPP
5 5 (1.66%) HTTP
6 4 (1.33%) ATM
7 3 (1.00%) DHCP
7 3 (1.00%) DNS
8 2 (0.66%) SMTP
9 1 (0.33%) FTP
9 1 (0.33%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.98%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.32%) SAP HANA
5 15 (4.98%) DB2
6 10 (3.32%) MySQL
7 9 (2.99%) Redis
8 8 (2.66%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.99%) Power BI
10 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.00%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (1.00%) SAP BW
11 3 (1.00%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.66%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 48 (15.95%) Git
2 35 (11.63%) Eclipse
2 35 (11.63%) JIRA
3 25 (8.31%) Postman
4 22 (7.31%) Visual Studio
5 16 (5.32%) Jenkins
5 16 (5.32%) Selenium
6 11 (3.65%) JUnit
7 10 (3.32%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.33%) Maven
8 7 (2.33%) Mockito
8 7 (2.33%) SoapUI
8 7 (2.33%) Valgrind
9 6 (1.99%) JMeter
9 6 (1.99%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.99%) Subversion
10 5 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.66%) IntelliJ
10 5 (1.66%) Xcode
General
1 87 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.28%) Finance
3 48 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.64%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (7.64%) Banking
6 23 (7.64%) Military
7 9 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.00%) Back Office
10 3 (1.00%) Billing
10 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.66%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Police
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 114 (37.87%) Developer
2 50 (16.61%) Senior
3 38 (12.62%) Consultant
4 35 (11.63%) Architect
5 31 (10.30%) Software Engineer
6 24 (7.97%) Senior Developer
7 20 (6.64%) C# Software Engineer
7 20 (6.64%) C++ Software Engineer
7 20 (6.64%) SAP Consultant
8 19 (6.31%) Lead
9 16 (5.32%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.65%) ServiceNow Architect
10 14 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.32%) ABAP Consultant
11 10 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (3.32%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.32%) Tester
12 9 (2.99%) Analyst
13 8 (2.66%) .NET Developer
13 8 (2.66%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (37.54%) REST
2 106 (35.22%) SOAP
3 43 (14.29%) JSON
4 42 (13.95%) XML
5 41 (13.62%) HTML
6 38 (12.62%) .NET
6 38 (12.62%) Node.js
7 36 (11.96%) AngularJS
7 36 (11.96%) RESTful
8 28 (9.30%) CSS
9 27 (8.97%) Spring
10 23 (7.64%) HTML5
11 21 (6.98%) jQuery
12 20 (6.64%) BAPI
12 20 (6.64%) Spring Boot
13 19 (6.31%) LDAP
13 19 (6.31%) Middleware
14 18 (5.98%) Oracle Fusion
15 16 (5.32%) XSLT
16 14 (4.65%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.66%) CMDB
4 8 (2.66%) Replication
5 7 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.33%) Smartcard
6 6 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.33%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.33%) PACS
8 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.00%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.96%) Linux
1 36 (11.96%) Windows
2 11 (3.65%) Android
3 9 (2.99%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.66%) Unix
7 2 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.20%) Agile
2 68 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (19.60%) DevOps
4 58 (19.27%) CI/CD
5 51 (16.94%) Unit Testing
6 45 (14.95%) Scrum
7 44 (14.62%) Microservices
8 40 (13.29%) Software Engineering
9 37 (12.29%) TDD
10 36 (11.96%) Continuous Integration
11 34 (11.30%) Test Automation
12 32 (10.63%) ERP
13 31 (10.30%) ITSM
14 30 (9.97%) Computer Science
14 30 (9.97%) Integration Patterns
15 28 (9.30%) OO
15 28 (9.30%) Validation
15 28 (9.30%) Visualisation
16 27 (8.97%) Performance Tuning
17 24 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 99 (32.89%) JavaScript
2 70 (23.26%) SQL
3 67 (22.26%) Java
4 52 (17.28%) C#
5 48 (15.95%) Python
6 32 (10.63%) C++
7 31 (10.30%) ABAP
8 13 (4.32%) Ruby
9 11 (3.65%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.65%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.99%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.66%) Groovy
11 8 (2.66%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.66%) PHP
12 7 (2.33%) XPath
13 6 (1.99%) Swift
13 6 (1.99%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.66%) COBOL
14 5 (1.66%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 87 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.30%) Degree
4 18 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.32%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CISA
10 1 (0.33%) CISM
10 1 (0.33%) ISEB
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) OCP
10 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.97%) QA
2 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.33%) COBIT
3 4 (1.33%) GDPR
3 4 (1.33%) ISO 8583
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.66%) GRC
5 2 (0.66%) HL7
6 1 (0.33%) DICOM
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (5.98%) Docker
2 9 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.66%) Ansible
3 5 (1.66%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (1.33%) Terraform
5 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 57 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.28%) Oracle
3 50 (16.61%) SAP
4 32 (10.63%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.32%) Splunk
6 14 (4.65%) HP
7 13 (4.32%) BMC
7 13 (4.32%) IBM
7 13 (4.32%) Ivanti
7 13 (4.32%) Remedy
8 10 (3.32%) Adobe
8 10 (3.32%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.32%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.99%) Workday
10 7 (2.33%) Axway
10 7 (2.33%) Google
11 5 (1.66%) BEA
11 5 (1.66%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.66%) Computacenter
11 5 (1.66%) TIBCO