Web Services Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Web Services
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.40% 0.99% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 5.11% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £388 £332 £389
25th Percentile £434 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £356 £450
Median % change year-on-year +45.08% -20.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £605 £438 £513
90th Percentile £655 £483 £660
Scotland median daily rate £513 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 206 137 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.43% 19.32% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 107
10th Percentile £350 £348 £393
25th Percentile £410 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £549 £500 £572
90th Percentile £625 £623 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £13.16
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Glasgow

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RAML
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) WSDL
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Budget Control
2 2 (66.67%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Servant Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) SIAM
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow