WSDL Contracts in England

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 521 599
Rank change year-on-year +31 +78 +163
Contract jobs citing WSDL 13 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.036% 0.020%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.16% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £358 £418 £393
25th Percentile £380 £472 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £560 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +17.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £445 £606 £553
90th Percentile £576 £625 £593
UK median daily rate £393 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -25.14% +10.53% -17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

WSDL 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 6,171 7,312 10,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.22% 21.81% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,257 5,080 7,421
10th Percentile £350 £360 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 231 137
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.00 £35.15
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +6.50%

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WSDL in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WSDL in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WSDL in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WSDL in England

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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 WSDL within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 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 +11 6 £550 +4.76% 5
North West - 6 £402 - 1
North of England - 6 £402 - 3
Midlands -10 1 £358 -40.33% 1
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
WSDL
UK

WSDL
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 7 (53.85%) JBoss
1 7 (53.85%) Tomcat
1 7 (53.85%) WebLogic
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) CICS
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Bitbucket
1 7 (53.85%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Scrum Master
2 3 (23.08%) Agile Scrum Master
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Web Services
2 11 (84.62%) REST
3 10 (76.92%) SOAP
4 8 (61.54%) RAML
5 6 (46.15%) Spring
5 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
6 5 (38.46%) JSON
7 4 (30.77%) EJB
7 4 (30.77%) J2EE
7 4 (30.77%) JSP
7 4 (30.77%) Servlets
8 3 (23.08%) XML
9 2 (15.38%) JWT
9 2 (15.38%) OAuth
9 2 (15.38%) RESTful
9 2 (15.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Product Ownership
2 7 (53.85%) Private Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) DataPower
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (15.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) API Development
3 8 (61.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 8 (61.54%) SDLC
4 7 (53.85%) Budget Control
4 7 (53.85%) Conflict Resolution
4 7 (53.85%) Servant Leadership
5 6 (46.15%) Backlog Management
5 6 (46.15%) Situational Awareness
6 5 (38.46%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
7 3 (23.08%) Observability
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 2 (15.38%) Agile Coaching
8 2 (15.38%) DevOps
8 2 (15.38%) Functional Programming
8 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) IBM