Web Services Contracts in Reading

Web Services
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 58 81
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 13 29 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.10% 2.79% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.57% 13.18% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 8
10th Percentile - £438 £407
25th Percentile - £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.10% +10.88%
75th Percentile - £550 £521
90th Percentile - £700 £608
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +14.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

Web Services is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 198 220 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.72% 21.13% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 173 174
10th Percentile £325 £407 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.82%
75th Percentile £628 £680 £596
90th Percentile £679 £725 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £540 £513
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.37% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £56.50 £72.76 £28.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.89 £29.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +143.66% -45.83%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Reading

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Reading

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Reading

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (46.15%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.69%) Jadu
2 1 (7.69%) JBoss
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Serverless
2 5 (38.46%) IaaS
2 5 (38.46%) PaaS
2 5 (38.46%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) 5G
1 5 (38.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (53.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Git
3 5 (38.46%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 5 (38.46%) Law
1 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Penetration Tester
3 5 (38.46%) Security Penetration Tester
3 5 (38.46%) Security Specialist
3 5 (38.46%) Security Tester
3 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 5 (38.46%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) REST
1 7 (53.85%) Spring
1 7 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (46.15%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
5 2 (15.38%) Apache Camel
5 2 (15.38%) Kafka
5 2 (15.38%) Mustache
5 2 (15.38%) React
6 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (7.69%) Doctrine
6 1 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (7.69%) jQuery
6 1 (7.69%) Symfony
6 1 (7.69%) Twig
6 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Microservices
1 7 (53.85%) Scrum
1 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) Application Security
2 5 (38.46%) BDD
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (38.46%) Kanban
2 5 (38.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 5 (38.46%) OWASP
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Security Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
6 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) CREST Certified
3 5 (38.46%) GIAC
3 5 (38.46%) GPEN
3 5 (38.46%) OSCP
3 5 (38.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
1 5 (38.46%) NCSC
1 5 (38.46%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Virgin Media
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk