Web Services Contracts in England

Web Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 190 211
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -67
Contract jobs citing Web Services 333 458 640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.37% 1.23% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.11% 6.10% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 286 425
10th Percentile £358 £413 £411
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £644
90th Percentile £790 £748 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £57.88
25th Percentile £61.25 - £65.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +13.97%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +16.65%

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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in England

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in England

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +1 184 £600 +4.35% 183
South East +7 62 £500 -18.37% 71
North of England -17 37 £488 -7.14% 61
North West +18 32 £500 +11.11% 36
Midlands +18 19 £420 -34.12% 48
West Midlands +11 14 £423 -33.73% 28
South West +49 10 £580 +31.07% 31
East of England +27 9 £525 +50.00% 39
East Midlands +9 5 £326 -45.67% 16
Yorkshire -27 4 £370 -32.73% 19
North East -3 1 £475 +10.21% 6
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.80%) Confluence
2 12 (3.60%) JBoss
2 12 (3.60%) Tomcat
3 11 (3.30%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.00%) Apache
4 10 (3.00%) CMS
5 9 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (2.40%) SharePoint
7 7 (2.10%) WebLogic
8 6 (1.80%) CICS
9 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
10 4 (1.20%) Drupal
10 4 (1.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.90%) IIS
11 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.90%) Mule
11 3 (0.90%) Mule ESB
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Service Bus
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.60%) BASE24
2 10 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.90%) Shopify
6 2 (0.60%) Actimize
6 2 (0.60%) Magento
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.60%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.60%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.22%) Azure
2 62 (18.62%) AWS
3 16 (4.80%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (4.20%) GitHub
5 14 (4.20%) Serverless
6 13 (3.90%) AWS KMS
6 13 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.60%) Apple Pay
8 11 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (3.30%) SaaS
9 10 (3.00%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.00%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.00%) Route 53
10 9 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.70%) GCP
10 9 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.91%) HTTP
2 12 (3.60%) ATM
2 12 (3.60%) SSL
3 8 (2.40%) POP3
3 8 (2.40%) SMTP
4 7 (2.10%) Firewall
5 5 (1.50%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.20%) Internet
7 3 (0.90%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.60%) IPsec
8 2 (0.60%) Network Security
8 2 (0.60%) SMS
9 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.51%) Relational Database
1 35 (10.51%) SQL Server
2 34 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.51%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.80%) DB2
5 16 (4.80%) MySQL
6 13 (3.90%) DynamoDB
6 13 (3.90%) SAP HANA
7 12 (3.60%) NonStop SQL
8 11 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.00%) Power BI
10 8 (2.40%) Big Data
11 7 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.10%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.10%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.80%) MS Access
12 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 47 (14.11%) Git
2 35 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 30 (9.01%) JIRA
4 21 (6.31%) JUnit
5 20 (6.01%) Maven
6 14 (4.20%) Postman
7 13 (3.90%) Mockito
7 13 (3.90%) Selenium
8 11 (3.30%) Subversion
9 10 (3.00%) GitLab
10 9 (2.70%) SoapUI
11 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (2.10%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.80%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.80%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.80%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.50%) Eclipse
14 5 (1.50%) git-flow
14 5 (1.50%) webpack
General
1 103 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.32%) Finance
3 54 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.81%) Banking
5 27 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.70%) Retail
8 6 (1.80%) Billing
8 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Military
10 4 (1.20%) Front Office
10 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.20%) Marketing
11 3 (0.90%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (45.95%) Developer
2 42 (12.61%) Architect
3 41 (12.31%) Senior
4 28 (8.41%) Java Developer
5 25 (7.51%) C# Developer
6 24 (7.21%) Lead
7 22 (6.61%) Analyst
7 22 (6.61%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.31%) C++ Developer
8 21 (6.31%) Senior Developer
9 20 (6.01%) C++/C# Developer
10 16 (4.80%) ServiceNow Architect
11 15 (4.50%) SAP Developer
11 15 (4.50%) ServiceNow Developer
12 14 (4.20%) ABAP Developer
12 14 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.30%) Designer
13 11 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.00%) Development Engineer
14 10 (3.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (31.83%) REST
2 90 (27.03%) SOAP
3 79 (23.72%) HTML
4 69 (20.72%) RESTful
5 63 (18.92%) CSS
6 58 (17.42%) AngularJS
7 55 (16.52%) .NET
8 45 (13.51%) JSON
9 44 (13.21%) Spring
10 35 (10.51%) ASP.NET
10 35 (10.51%) Kafka
10 35 (10.51%) XML
11 34 (10.21%) Spring Boot
12 28 (8.41%) Node.js
12 28 (8.41%) WCF
13 26 (7.81%) .NET Core
13 26 (7.81%) Ajax
13 26 (7.81%) React
14 24 (7.21%) Hibernate
15 23 (6.91%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (6.01%) CMDB
3 18 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
3 18 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.60%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.70%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.50%) Frameworx
9 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.50%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.50%) PKI
9 5 (1.50%) TM Forum
9 5 (1.50%) VSAM
10 4 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.90%) Social Media
11 3 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.31%) Linux
1 31 (9.31%) Unix
2 28 (8.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.90%) AIX
4 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.90%) zOS
5 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (49.55%) Agile
2 75 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (20.72%) DevOps
4 61 (18.32%) CI/CD
5 60 (18.02%) Scrum
6 58 (17.42%) Microservices
7 42 (12.61%) Analytics
8 41 (12.31%) SDLC
9 40 (12.01%) OO
10 37 (11.11%) TDD
11 33 (9.91%) Test Automation
12 31 (9.31%) ITIL
12 31 (9.31%) ITSM
13 30 (9.01%) MVC
14 28 (8.41%) Migration
14 28 (8.41%) Software Engineering
15 27 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (7.81%) Service Management
17 25 (7.51%) Unit Testing
18 24 (7.21%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 124 (37.24%) JavaScript
2 99 (29.73%) SQL
3 81 (24.32%) Java
4 60 (18.02%) C#
5 34 (10.21%) Python
6 27 (8.11%) C++
7 22 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.01%) PowerShell
9 17 (5.11%) PL/SQL
10 15 (4.50%) ABAP
11 11 (3.30%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.00%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.70%) COBOL
13 9 (2.70%) PHP
14 6 (1.80%) JCL
14 6 (1.80%) Scala
15 5 (1.50%) REXX
16 4 (1.20%) C
16 4 (1.20%) Groovy
16 4 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 73 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.51%) Degree
4 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.80%) CISM
7 6 (1.80%) CISSP
7 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.50%) MCPD
8 5 (1.50%) MCSD
9 4 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.60%) OCP
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Sun Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.30%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.41%) QA
2 12 (3.60%) ISO 8583
3 10 (3.00%) PSD2
4 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.60%) HL7
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (8.71%) Docker
2 20 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.50%) Postfix
4 2 (0.60%) RACF
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 28 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (2.70%) Grafana
4 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.80%) Puppet
5 5 (1.50%) Ansible
5 5 (1.50%) Terraform
6 4 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.90%) CloudHub
7 3 (0.90%) Kibana
7 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.60%) CA Wily
8 2 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 71 (21.32%) Oracle
2 59 (17.72%) ServiceNow
3 53 (15.92%) Microsoft
4 36 (10.81%) SAP
5 13 (3.90%) HP
6 11 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.00%) Splunk
8 9 (2.70%) Zend
9 8 (2.40%) Siebel
10 7 (2.10%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.80%) Adobe
11 6 (1.80%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (1.80%) Citrix
11 6 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (1.50%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.50%) IBM
12 5 (1.50%) Informatica
12 5 (1.50%) Sybase
13 4 (1.20%) Dell
13 4 (1.20%) OpenText