Web Services Contracts in the South East

Web Services
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 114 121
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Web Services 81 107 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.47% 1.89% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.57% 10.43% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 94
10th Percentile £428 £434 £406
25th Percentile £500 £466 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £636
90th Percentile - £728 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.54
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
75th Percentile - - £62.98
90th Percentile - - £63.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.62
% change year-on-year -10.34% +13.97% +42.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East 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 700 1,026 1,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.68% 18.09% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 730 1,002
10th Percentile £313 £363 £357
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £612
90th Percentile £653 £707 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.50 £53.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £79.51 £65.51
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Hampshire +2 39 £625 +13.64% 14
Thames Valley -20 24 £488 -7.14% 12
Berkshire -31 21 £500 -4.76% 7
Surrey +17 12 £500 -21.88% 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £438 - 3
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
Middlesex - 2 - -
West Sussex +2 1 £425 -10.53% 3
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (4.94%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Jadu
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.96%) AWS
2 47 (58.02%) Azure
3 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (6.17%) Serverless
4 3 (3.70%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.70%) IaaS
4 3 (3.70%) PaaS
4 3 (3.70%) SaaS
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (50.62%) SSL
2 3 (3.70%) Network Security
2 3 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) NFC
3 1 (1.23%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.23%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Git
1 6 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.94%) JUnit
2 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.47%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) JIRA
3 2 (2.47%) JMeter
3 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.23%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.23%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.23%) Mockito
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.23%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.23%) TestRail
4 1 (1.23%) Valgrind
4 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.41%) Billing
2 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Finance
4 3 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.23%) Law
5 1 (1.23%) Military
5 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (53.09%) Architect
2 20 (24.69%) Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Lead
3 9 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Billing Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.47%) .NET Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Consultant
8 2 (2.47%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.47%) IAM Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Java Scala Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Scala Developer
9 1 (1.23%) Analyst
9 1 (1.23%) Business Analyst
9 1 (1.23%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) REST
2 6 (7.41%) SOAP
3 5 (6.17%) .NET
3 5 (6.17%) Spring
3 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (4.94%) HTML
4 4 (4.94%) Node.js
4 4 (4.94%) React
4 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 4 (4.94%) XML
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) CSS
5 3 (3.70%) OAuth
6 2 (2.47%) Apache Camel
6 2 (2.47%) Blazor
6 2 (2.47%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.47%) Kafka
6 2 (2.47%) Mustache
6 2 (2.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (50.62%) PKI
2 7 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.41%) Life Science
4 4 (4.94%) NHS
5 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.23%) Smartcard
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (55.56%) Cryptography
2 44 (54.32%) Key Management
3 14 (17.28%) Agile
4 13 (16.05%) Test Automation
5 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.11%) Scrum
6 9 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 8 (9.88%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.88%) Microservices
7 8 (9.88%) Software Testing
7 8 (9.88%) TDD
8 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.64%) Data Mapping
8 7 (8.64%) DevOps
8 7 (8.64%) ITSM
8 7 (8.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (8.64%) Test Management
8 7 (8.64%) UML
9 6 (7.41%) Kanban
9 6 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
2 13 (16.05%) Java
3 7 (8.64%) Python
4 6 (7.41%) C#
4 6 (7.41%) SQL
5 4 (4.94%) PHP
6 3 (3.70%) Ruby
7 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.47%) Scala
7 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.23%) C++
8 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 46 (56.79%) Degree
3 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
4 22 (27.16%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.64%) ISTQB
6 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) HL7
2 1 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (54.32%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.11%) Docker
3 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
4 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Guidewire
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.70%) VMware
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) Splunk