Web Services Contracts in Scotland

Web Services
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 100 102 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 -32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 16 27 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.22% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.15% 5.78% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 22
10th Percentile £262 £238 £198
25th Percentile £316 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £456
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +31.51% -13.10%
75th Percentile £586 £750 £498
90th Percentile £615 - £586
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Glasgow +1 8 £452 -8.97% 13
Edinburgh +3 6 £400 +23.08% 13
North Lanarkshire - 1 £400 -
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 3 (18.75%) WordPress
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (6.25%) Drupal
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) OpenEdge
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (18.75%) Google Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Mercurial
2 2 (12.50%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Junior
4 2 (12.50%) Junior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Management Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) OpenEdge Programmer
5 1 (6.25%) Programmer
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Programmer
5 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) REST
2 7 (43.75%) SOAP
3 5 (31.25%) JSON
4 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 4 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) Spring
6 2 (12.50%) JDBC
7 1 (6.25%) DOM
7 1 (6.25%) EJB
7 1 (6.25%) J2EE
7 1 (6.25%) Java EE
7 1 (6.25%) JAX-RS
7 1 (6.25%) JPA
7 1 (6.25%) Middleware
7 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
7 1 (6.25%) RAML
7 1 (6.25%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
1 4 (25.00%) ITSM
1 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 3 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
2 3 (18.75%) Microservices
2 3 (18.75%) SEO
2 3 (18.75%) Service Management
2 3 (18.75%) Web Development
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) Coaching
3 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (12.50%) Push Notifications
3 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) WCAG
2 3 (18.75%) PERC
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (18.75%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Workday
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Progress
4 1 (6.25%) Sybase