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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 238 165
Rank change year-on-year -23 -73 +22
Contract jobs citing Web Services 307 317 588
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.02% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.41% 4.71% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 178 331
10th Percentile £346 £318 £375
25th Percentile £413 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £628
90th Percentile £716 £766 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 10
10th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £54.40
25th Percentile - - £56.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%
75th Percentile - - £89.14
90th Percentile - £67.50 £90.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 6,968 6,730 8,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.69% 21.72% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 4,269 6,227
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -5.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £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 174 105 179
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +22.64% -18.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -7 149 £455 -20.87% 25
North of England -21 45 £550 +27.91% 20
East of England -5 38 £550 +33.33% 15
South East -4 37 £475 -13.64% 22
North West -13 33 £563 +44.23% 16
Midlands -31 16 £465 -1.06% 10
South West +4 13 £488 -12.16% 11
Yorkshire -23 9 £627 +25.45% 4
East Midlands -6 8 £553 +25.57% 2
West Midlands -28 8 £465 -22.50% 7
North East -4 3 £500 -
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 (7.82%) Confluence
2 10 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.26%) WebSphere
3 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.28%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.63%) Apache
5 5 (1.63%) IIS
5 5 (1.63%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.63%) NetWeaver
5 5 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.30%) CICS
6 4 (1.30%) CMS
7 3 (0.98%) Mule
7 3 (0.98%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.65%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.65%) Documentum
8 2 (0.65%) Drupal
8 2 (0.65%) JBoss
8 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (6.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (2.61%) SAP HCM
4 7 (2.28%) SAP Payroll
5 6 (1.95%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.95%) Workday HCM
6 5 (1.63%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (1.63%) Maximo
6 5 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.63%) SAP ERP
7 4 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.98%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.98%) SAP MDG-M
8 3 (0.98%) SAP MDG-S
9 2 (0.65%) Primavera
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 73 (23.78%) Azure
2 46 (14.98%) AWS
3 19 (6.19%) PaaS
4 14 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.23%) GitHub
5 13 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.91%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.91%) OCI
7 11 (3.58%) SaaS
8 10 (3.26%) GCP
9 8 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (1.95%) iPaaS
11 6 (1.95%) Serverless
12 5 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.63%) Sentry
13 4 (1.30%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.14%) TCP/IP
2 22 (7.17%) Ethernet
3 13 (4.23%) SSL
4 8 (2.61%) NFC
4 8 (2.61%) PPP
5 5 (1.63%) HTTP
6 4 (1.30%) ATM
7 3 (0.98%) DHCP
7 3 (0.98%) DNS
8 2 (0.65%) SMTP
9 1 (0.33%) FTP
9 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.33%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.45%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.21%) SAP HANA
5 15 (4.89%) DB2
6 10 (3.26%) MySQL
6 10 (3.26%) Redis
7 8 (2.61%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.61%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.95%) Power BI
9 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.98%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (0.98%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (15.64%) Git
2 37 (12.05%) Eclipse
3 36 (11.73%) JIRA
4 23 (7.49%) Postman
4 23 (7.49%) Visual Studio
5 17 (5.54%) Jenkins
5 17 (5.54%) Selenium
6 12 (3.91%) JUnit
7 11 (3.58%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.61%) Maven
8 8 (2.61%) Mockito
8 8 (2.61%) Valgrind
9 7 (2.28%) JMeter
9 7 (2.28%) SoapUI
9 7 (2.28%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.95%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.95%) Subversion
11 5 (1.63%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (1.63%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (1.63%) XCUITest
General
1 89 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.26%) Finance
3 48 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 40 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.79%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (8.14%) Banking
7 24 (7.82%) Military
8 9 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.30%) Back Office
10 4 (1.30%) Law
11 3 (0.98%) Billing
11 3 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Police
12 2 (0.65%) Retail
13 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 122 (39.74%) Developer
2 51 (16.61%) Senior
3 38 (12.38%) Consultant
4 35 (11.40%) Architect
5 33 (10.75%) Software Engineer
6 25 (8.14%) Senior Developer
7 22 (7.17%) C++ Software Engineer
8 21 (6.84%) C# Software Engineer
9 20 (6.51%) SAP Consultant
10 19 (6.19%) Lead
11 18 (5.86%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.56%) ServiceNow Architect
12 14 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.26%) ABAP Consultant
13 10 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.26%) Python Developer
13 10 (3.26%) Tester
14 9 (2.93%) Analyst
15 8 (2.61%) .NET Developer
15 8 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (36.81%) REST
2 105 (34.20%) SOAP
3 43 (14.01%) JSON
4 42 (13.68%) HTML
4 42 (13.68%) XML
5 41 (13.36%) .NET
5 41 (13.36%) Node.js
6 38 (12.38%) RESTful
7 37 (12.05%) AngularJS
8 29 (9.45%) Spring
9 28 (9.12%) CSS
10 22 (7.17%) HTML5
10 22 (7.17%) Spring Boot
11 21 (6.84%) jQuery
12 20 (6.51%) BAPI
12 20 (6.51%) Middleware
13 19 (6.19%) LDAP
14 15 (4.89%) XSLT
15 14 (4.56%) JDBC
15 14 (4.56%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.89%) Mobile App
2 10 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.61%) CMDB
4 8 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.61%) Replication
4 8 (2.61%) Smartcard
5 6 (1.95%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.30%) PACS
6 4 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.98%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.36%) Linux
2 37 (12.05%) Windows
3 10 (3.26%) Android
4 8 (2.61%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.61%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.63%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.04%) Agile
2 68 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (20.52%) CI/CD
4 62 (20.20%) DevOps
5 50 (16.29%) Unit Testing
6 48 (15.64%) Microservices
6 48 (15.64%) Scrum
7 42 (13.68%) Software Engineering
8 39 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
8 39 (12.70%) TDD
9 35 (11.40%) Test Automation
10 32 (10.42%) Computer Science
11 31 (10.10%) ITSM
12 30 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
13 29 (9.45%) ERP
13 29 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
13 29 (9.45%) Validation
13 29 (9.45%) Visualisation
14 28 (9.12%) OO
15 27 (8.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 103 (33.55%) JavaScript
2 75 (24.43%) SQL
3 72 (23.45%) Java
4 55 (17.92%) C#
5 50 (16.29%) Python
6 34 (11.07%) C++
7 31 (10.10%) ABAP
8 14 (4.56%) Ruby
9 13 (4.23%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.91%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.26%) PHP
12 9 (2.93%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.61%) Groovy
13 8 (2.61%) Kotlin
14 7 (2.28%) XPath
15 6 (1.95%) Swift
15 6 (1.95%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.63%) COBOL
16 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 86 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.73%) Degree
4 18 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) 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 28 (9.12%) QA
2 7 (2.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.30%) COBIT
3 4 (1.30%) GDPR
3 4 (1.30%) ISO 8583
4 3 (0.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.65%) GRC
5 2 (0.65%) 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 19 (6.19%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (5.54%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.63%) Ansible
3 5 (1.63%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (1.30%) Terraform
5 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.29%) Oracle
2 50 (16.29%) SAP
3 32 (10.42%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.21%) Splunk
5 14 (4.56%) HP
6 13 (4.23%) BMC
6 13 (4.23%) IBM
6 13 (4.23%) Ivanti
6 13 (4.23%) Remedy
7 10 (3.26%) Adobe
7 10 (3.26%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.93%) Workday
9 7 (2.28%) Axway
9 7 (2.28%) Google
10 5 (1.63%) BEA
10 5 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.63%) Computacenter
10 5 (1.63%) TIBCO