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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 122 129
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Web Services 77 81 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.37% 1.42% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.68% 10.19% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 52
10th Percentile £350 £413 £412
25th Percentile £404 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% +8.09% +2.38%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £653
90th Percentile £628 - £700
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £51.50 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

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 563 795 974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 13.90% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 532 681
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £402 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £582 £620 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 42
10th Percentile £22.73 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.42 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +33.16%
75th Percentile £58.70 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.79 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.90% -10.54% +22.64%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 41 £500 -4.76% 80
Berkshire +32 35 £500 -4.76% 55
Hampshire +22 27 £520 -16.80% 36
Surrey +20 9 £475 -5.00% 20
Buckinghamshire +13 6 £375 - 16
Kent - 2 £475 - 7
West Sussex +7 1 - - 18
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 7 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.19%) Apache
2 4 (5.19%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) Drupal
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle Service Bus
2 4 (5.19%) WordPress
3 3 (3.90%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.90%) Mule
3 3 (3.90%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) Azure
2 11 (14.29%) AWS
3 7 (9.09%) OCI
4 6 (7.79%) SaaS
5 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.19%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.19%) Serverless
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.90%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.60%) GCP
8 2 (2.60%) GitHub
8 2 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) HTTP
2 5 (6.49%) NFC
2 5 (6.49%) PPP
2 5 (6.49%) SSL
3 4 (5.19%) HTTPS
3 4 (5.19%) Internet
4 1 (1.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 7 (9.09%) MySQL
3 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.90%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.90%) MS Access
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (3.90%) Power BI
5 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.30%) DB2
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) ObjectStore
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (19.48%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (6.49%) Eclipse
3 5 (6.49%) Valgrind
4 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.90%) JUnit
4 3 (3.90%) Mockito
5 2 (2.60%) GitLab
5 2 (2.60%) JMeter
5 2 (2.60%) Subversion
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) Codeception
6 1 (1.30%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.30%) jMock
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.09%) Finance
5 5 (6.49%) Billing
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (12.99%) Analyst
4 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Designer
6 5 (6.49%) Development Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Development Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Development Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Software Development Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (45.45%) REST
2 24 (31.17%) SOAP
3 16 (20.78%) JSON
4 15 (19.48%) XML
5 14 (18.18%) HTML
6 13 (16.88%) RESTful
7 12 (15.58%) CSS
8 8 (10.39%) Ajax
8 8 (10.39%) Hibernate
8 8 (10.39%) Spring
8 8 (10.39%) Spring Boot
9 7 (9.09%) jQuery
10 6 (7.79%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.49%) Middleware
12 4 (5.19%) .NET
12 4 (5.19%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (5.19%) CodeIgniter
12 4 (5.19%) LAMP
13 3 (3.90%) RAML
14 2 (2.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Frameworx
2 5 (6.49%) Smartcard
2 5 (6.49%) TM Forum
3 4 (5.19%) CMDB
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.90%) PKI
4 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Wiki
6 1 (1.30%) AS400
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 5 (6.49%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.19%) Windows
5 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Agile
2 20 (25.97%) Scrum
3 19 (24.68%) Microservices
3 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.88%) SOA
5 13 (16.88%) Software Engineering
6 11 (14.29%) DevOps
6 11 (14.29%) Validation
7 9 (11.69%) ITIL
7 9 (11.69%) UML
8 8 (10.39%) Cryptography
8 8 (10.39%) Design Patterns
8 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (10.39%) Information Security
8 8 (10.39%) Integration Testing
8 8 (10.39%) MVC
8 8 (10.39%) SDLC
8 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (10.39%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) SQL
2 21 (27.27%) Java
3 16 (20.78%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.58%) Python
5 8 (10.39%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.09%) C#
7 6 (7.79%) PHP
8 5 (6.49%) C++
9 3 (3.90%) DataWeave
10 2 (2.60%) Korn
10 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.60%) X++
11 1 (1.30%) Bicep
11 1 (1.30%) RPG
11 1 (1.30%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) Degree
3 6 (7.79%) CISM
3 6 (7.79%) CISSP
4 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) OCP
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GDPR
1 3 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) CloudHub
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Kibana
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Oracle
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.79%) Zend
4 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.90%) Citrix
5 3 (3.90%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.90%) Snow
5 3 (3.90%) Thales
6 2 (2.60%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.60%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) Jaspersoft