Web Services Contracts in Scotland

Web Services
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 138 99
Rank change year-on-year +37 -39 -13
Contract jobs citing Web Services 31 29 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.39% 1.02% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.51% 4.17% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 42
10th Percentile £275 £393 £357
25th Percentile £363 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +23.53%
75th Percentile £688 £497 £573
90th Percentile £750 £578 £646
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £539
% change year-on-year - +2.09% +10.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.63% +55.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 476 695 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.39% 24.42% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 528 491
10th Percentile £342 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £550
90th Percentile £653 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +19 15 £425 +6.25%
Edinburgh +22 8 £325 -30.67% 2
South Lanarkshire - 4 £750 -
West Lothian - 3 £580 -
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (19.35%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) WordPress
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) EPiServer
3 1 (3.23%) IIS
3 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.68%) IaaS
3 3 (9.68%) iPaaS
3 3 (9.68%) PaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Kerberos
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Internet
4 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.23%) DNS
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database
1 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Bitbucket
1 6 (19.35%) Git
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
2 4 (12.90%) Maven
2 4 (12.90%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) TestComplete
3 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Military
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Applications Support
4 4 (12.90%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) REST
2 11 (35.48%) RESTful
3 9 (29.03%) JSON
3 9 (29.03%) Spring
4 6 (19.35%) LDAP
4 6 (19.35%) OpenID
4 6 (19.35%) XML
5 4 (12.90%) .NET
5 4 (12.90%) EJB
5 4 (12.90%) JDBC
5 4 (12.90%) Kafka
5 4 (12.90%) React
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Batch
5 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
6 3 (9.68%) DOM
6 3 (9.68%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.68%) J2EE
6 3 (9.68%) Java EE
6 3 (9.68%) JAX-RS
6 3 (9.68%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
3 3 (9.68%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) OO
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (22.58%) MVC
4 7 (22.58%) Scrum
4 7 (22.58%) Service Management
5 6 (19.35%) Analytics
5 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
5 6 (19.35%) Workflow
6 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (16.13%) Microservices
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.90%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) SOA
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 6 (19.35%) C
2 6 (19.35%) Go
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) ISEB
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) WCAG
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Docker
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Atlassian
2 6 (19.35%) Cadence
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) CA
5 1 (3.23%) F5
5 1 (3.23%) Google