Web Services Contracts in Reading

Web Services
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 78 58
Rank change year-on-year +34 -20 +25
Contract jobs citing Web Services 16 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 1.09% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% 6.50% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 20
10th Percentile £345 £458 £438
25th Percentile £350 £469 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +6.10%
75th Percentile £616 £506 £550
90th Percentile £638 £518 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% +9.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) OCI
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
4 1 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Mockito
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) jMock
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Billing
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Security Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Designer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
3 3 (18.75%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) WireMock
4 2 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
5 1 (6.25%) JPA
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.25%) PowerMock
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Frameworx
1 4 (25.00%) TM Forum
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) SOA
2 7 (43.75%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) Validation
3 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (31.25%) Data Mapping
4 5 (31.25%) Information Security
4 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) CRM
5 4 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (25.00%) UML
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CISM
1 5 (31.25%) CISSP
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
1 4 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft