Web Services Contract Job Trends in Essex

Web Services
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.18% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £398 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £474 - -
East of England median daily rate £460 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -12.38% +50.00% -30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 15 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 14.51% 15.96% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 25
10th Percentile £346 £315 £423
25th Percentile £470 £318 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £363 £534
Median % change year-on-year +40.69% -32.12% +2.99%
75th Percentile £580 £409 £575
90th Percentile £600 £469 £599
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £495
% change year-on-year +12.24% -1.01% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.12 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £15.98
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.60%
75th Percentile £57.13 - -
90th Percentile £58.75 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +62.79% -21.82%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Web Services job vacancy trend in Essex

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Essex over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Essex

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Basildon - 2 £408 -
Web Services
East of England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Hudson
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft