Web Services Contracts in the South East

Web Services
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 113 107
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Web Services 64 81 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.13% 1.47% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.01% 11.54% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 49 71
10th Percentile £350 £428 £425
25th Percentile £412 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £674
90th Percentile £638 - £750
England median daily rate £532 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.32% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% -10.34% +13.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 492 702 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.38% 12.75% 18.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 462 727
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £413 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £636
90th Percentile £663 £650 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 38
10th Percentile £29.62 £35.00 £41.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.50 £53.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -4.50% +64.51%
75th Percentile £62.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.44 £75.75 £79.51
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%

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 9 May 2025.

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 9 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
Thames Valley +41 31 £500 +2.56% 26
Berkshire +31 28 £500 - 18
Hampshire +18 27 £550 -12.00% 10
Surrey +9 6 £656 +31.25% 3
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £375 -14.29% 5
Kent - 2 £475 - 8
West Sussex +11 1 - - 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 8 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.25%) Apache
2 4 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Drupal
2 4 (6.25%) WordPress
3 3 (4.69%) Anypoint
3 3 (4.69%) Mule
3 3 (4.69%) Mule ESB
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (3.13%) Apache Solr
4 2 (3.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) AWS
3 5 (7.81%) OCI
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.69%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) SSL
2 4 (6.25%) HTTP
2 4 (6.25%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.56%) Firewall
4 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) Relational Database
2 10 (15.63%) MySQL
3 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.69%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.69%) Power BI
5 3 (4.69%) Redis
6 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.13%) MS Access
6 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.56%) ObjectStore
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) JIRA
3 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (7.81%) Subversion
4 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) JUnit
4 3 (4.69%) Maven
4 3 (4.69%) Mockito
5 2 (3.13%) Codeception
5 2 (3.13%) GitLab
5 2 (3.13%) JMeter
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.56%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.56%) jMock
6 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 7 (10.94%) Finance
5 5 (7.81%) Billing
5 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Developer
2 12 (18.75%) Senior
3 9 (14.06%) Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Designer
6 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Lead
6 5 (7.81%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Solutions Designer
7 4 (6.25%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.69%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (4.69%) MuleSoft Developer
8 3 (4.69%) PHP Developer
8 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Software Developer
8 3 (4.69%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.63%) REST
2 21 (32.81%) SOAP
3 13 (20.31%) HTML
3 13 (20.31%) JSON
3 13 (20.31%) RESTful
4 12 (18.75%) XML
5 11 (17.19%) CSS
6 10 (15.63%) Ajax
7 7 (10.94%) jQuery
8 6 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 6 (9.38%) React
8 6 (9.38%) Spring
8 6 (9.38%) Spring Boot
9 5 (7.81%) Laravel
9 5 (7.81%) Phalcon
10 4 (6.25%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (6.25%) LAMP
11 3 (4.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Frameworx
1 5 (7.81%) TM Forum
2 4 (6.25%) CMDB
2 4 (6.25%) Legacy Code
2 4 (6.25%) PKI
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Wiki
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Unix
2 5 (7.81%) Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) Agile
2 19 (29.69%) Scrum
3 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.00%) Microservices
5 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
6 14 (21.88%) SOA
7 11 (17.19%) MVC
7 11 (17.19%) SDLC
7 11 (17.19%) Validation
8 9 (14.06%) OO
9 8 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (12.50%) ITIL
9 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.50%) TDD
10 7 (10.94%) Information Security
10 7 (10.94%) UML
11 6 (9.38%) ITSM
11 6 (9.38%) Security Architecture
11 6 (9.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) SQL
2 16 (25.00%) Java
3 14 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.06%) PHP
5 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.81%) Python
7 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.69%) DataWeave
9 2 (3.13%) C#
9 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.13%) XPath
10 1 (1.56%) Bicep
10 1 (1.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) CISM
3 6 (9.38%) CISSP
4 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) OCP
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) GDPR
1 3 (4.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.81%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.69%) CloudHub
3 2 (3.13%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.56%) Puppet
4 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Oracle
2 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.31%) ServiceNow
3 9 (14.06%) Zend
4 5 (7.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.69%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.69%) Snow
5 3 (4.69%) Thales
6 2 (3.13%) Citrix
6 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
6 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.56%) Jaspersoft