Web Services Contracts in the Midlands

Web Services
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 109 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 37 30 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.82% 1.08% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 7.25% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 27
10th Percentile £318 £309 £395
25th Percentile £358 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +2.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £498 £759 £688
90th Percentile £511 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +12.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 378 414 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.57% 14.88% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 283 441
10th Percentile £305 £290 £313
25th Percentile £373 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £539 £621 £594
90th Percentile £638 £710 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands +21 26 £475 -25.49% 155
East Midlands +12 11 £358 -40.33% 108
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (8.11%) Oracle Application Server
1 3 (8.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) IIS
2 2 (5.41%) JBoss
2 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Amazon S3
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (29.73%) AWS KMS
4 11 (29.73%) Route 53
5 9 (24.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (18.92%) Azure
7 4 (10.81%) Serverless
8 3 (8.11%) Azure API Management
8 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Functions
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (5.41%) GCP
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) HTTP
2 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
2 3 (8.11%) SSL
3 2 (5.41%) DMZ
3 2 (5.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (35.14%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (35.14%) DynamoDB
3 12 (32.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
4 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
5 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database
6 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
6 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (5.41%) Tableau
8 1 (2.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 26 (70.27%) Jenkins
2 18 (48.65%) Git
3 17 (45.95%) Maven
4 16 (43.24%) JUnit
5 10 (27.03%) Mockito
6 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
7 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (16.22%) DbUnit
7 6 (16.22%) jMock
8 4 (10.81%) Gradle
9 3 (8.11%) Selenium
10 2 (5.41%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
10 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
10 2 (5.41%) Introscope
10 2 (5.41%) JIRA
10 2 (5.41%) LoadRunner
10 2 (5.41%) NetBeans
10 2 (5.41%) Postman
10 2 (5.41%) Subversion
General
1 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Developer
2 21 (56.76%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) ABAP Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) SAP Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (62.16%) REST
2 22 (59.46%) Spring
2 22 (59.46%) Spring Boot
3 19 (51.35%) RESTful
4 16 (43.24%) Hibernate
4 16 (43.24%) SOAP
5 14 (37.84%) JPA
6 13 (35.14%) AngularJS
6 13 (35.14%) Spring Batch
7 12 (32.43%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (32.43%) HTML
7 12 (32.43%) Spring Integration
8 10 (27.03%) Bootstrap
9 7 (18.92%) .NET
9 7 (18.92%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (16.22%) PowerMock
11 5 (13.51%) CSS
11 5 (13.51%) jQuery
12 4 (10.81%) J2EE
12 4 (10.81%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.11%) State Machine
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Agile
2 24 (64.86%) Microservices
3 21 (56.76%) Scrum
4 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
5 16 (43.24%) TDD
6 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (29.73%) DevOps
6 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.03%) BDD
8 9 (24.32%) Containerisation
8 9 (24.32%) Kanban
9 8 (21.62%) Open Source
10 6 (16.22%) API Development
10 6 (16.22%) Risk Management
11 5 (13.51%) Architectural Design
11 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
11 5 (13.51%) ETL
11 5 (13.51%) SDLC
11 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (10.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) Java
2 20 (54.05%) SQL
3 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.51%) C#
5 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.41%) ABAP
6 2 (5.41%) C
6 2 (5.41%) COBOL
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Python
6 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Docker
2 7 (18.92%) Postfix
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (24.32%) Grafana
3 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) CA Wily
4 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) Adobe
5 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
5 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) VMware
6 1 (2.70%) HP