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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 111 129
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -12
Contract jobs citing Web Services 33 30 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.43% 1.01% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.69% 6.54% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 21
10th Percentile £318 £335 £350
25th Percentile £358 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £498 £775 £700
90th Percentile £500 - £800
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.41% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

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 429 459 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.64% 15.48% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 306 450
10th Percentile £281 £304 £313
25th Percentile £367 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £537 £611 £585
90th Percentile £613 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 1
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £14.16 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -38.24% +82.80%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +7 22 £475 -32.14% 31
East Midlands +5 11 £358 -1.24% 23
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 (9.09%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) JBoss
2 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (27.27%) AWS KMS
4 9 (27.27%) Route 53
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (18.18%) Azure
7 4 (12.12%) Serverless
8 3 (9.09%) Azure API Management
8 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) HTTP
2 3 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 3 (9.09%) SSL
3 2 (6.06%) DMZ
3 2 (6.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (39.39%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (33.33%) DynamoDB
4 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
5 4 (12.12%) Oracle Database
5 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
6 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (6.06%) Tableau
8 1 (3.03%) DB2
Development Applications
1 24 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 20 (60.61%) Git
3 18 (54.55%) Maven
4 14 (42.42%) JUnit
5 9 (27.27%) SonarQube
6 8 (24.24%) Mockito
7 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (21.21%) DbUnit
7 7 (21.21%) jMock
8 4 (12.12%) Gradle
9 3 (9.09%) Selenium
10 2 (6.06%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (6.06%) HP UFT
10 2 (6.06%) IntelliJ
10 2 (6.06%) JIRA
10 2 (6.06%) NetBeans
10 2 (6.06%) Subversion
11 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
11 1 (3.03%) GitLab
11 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (72.73%) Developer
2 20 (60.61%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Lead Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Quality Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Programmer
7 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) Spring
1 21 (63.64%) Spring Boot
2 19 (57.58%) REST
2 19 (57.58%) RESTful
3 16 (48.48%) SOAP
4 15 (45.45%) Hibernate
4 15 (45.45%) JPA
5 14 (42.42%) AngularJS
5 14 (42.42%) Spring Batch
6 13 (39.39%) ActiveMQ
6 13 (39.39%) Spring Integration
7 11 (33.33%) Bootstrap
8 8 (24.24%) HTML
8 8 (24.24%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (21.21%) PowerMock
10 6 (18.18%) .NET
11 5 (15.15%) CSS
12 4 (12.12%) RAML
12 4 (12.12%) React
13 3 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) State Machine
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Agile
2 22 (66.67%) Microservices
3 18 (54.55%) Scrum
4 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
4 14 (42.42%) TDD
5 12 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (36.36%) DevOps
5 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
7 9 (27.27%) Open Source
8 8 (24.24%) BDD
9 7 (21.21%) API Development
9 7 (21.21%) Kanban
10 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
11 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
11 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
11 5 (15.15%) ETL
11 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
12 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) Java
2 20 (60.61%) SQL
3 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) C
7 1 (3.03%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (60.61%) Docker
2 8 (24.24%) Postfix
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Grafana
2 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
3 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (3.03%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (21.21%) Atlassian
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.03%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) VMware