Web Services Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Web Services
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Web Services 9 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 12.68% 17.86% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 47.37% 71.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% - -
75th Percentile £488 £430 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £675
% change year-on-year +11.76% -37.04% +22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 19 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 26.76% 25.00% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 7
10th Percentile £436 - £329
25th Percentile £456 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -30.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £813
90th Percentile £678 £596 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -13.64%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Web Services job vacancy trend in Solihull

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Web Services

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
1 7 (77.78%) Amazon SQS
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 6 (66.67%) Route 53
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (66.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Git
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) DbUnit
2 6 (66.67%) jMock
2 6 (66.67%) JUnit
2 6 (66.67%) Maven
2 6 (66.67%) Mockito
2 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) REST
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
2 8 (88.89%) JPA
2 8 (88.89%) SOAP
2 8 (88.89%) Spring Batch
2 8 (88.89%) Spring Integration
3 6 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 6 (66.67%) PowerMock
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (55.56%) Node.js
5 4 (44.44%) Bootstrap
5 4 (44.44%) RESTful
6 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (11.11%) Kafka
6 1 (11.11%) Mustache
6 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Microservices
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) TDD
3 6 (66.67%) BDD
3 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 6 (66.67%) Kanban
4 5 (55.56%) Biometrics
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (44.44%) BPMN
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
5 4 (44.44%) Open Source
5 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Atlassian
1 6 (66.67%) Jaspersoft