WSDL Contract Job Trends in the South East

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WSDL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 178 207
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 -
Contract jobs citing WSDL 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.058% 0.043% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £504 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - £400
75th Percentile £511 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £402 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -23.43% - -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

WSDL 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 570 706 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.50% 15.21% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 473 576
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £624 £625
90th Percentile £625 £669 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 30 39
10th Percentile £19.33 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £42.02 £56.86 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.05 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +3.42% -3.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.86
90th Percentile £58.70 £74.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +5.59% -

WSDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for WSDL in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSDL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSDL

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSDL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WSDL

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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 WSDL within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 September 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 +12 2 £508 - 1
Berkshire +8 2 £508 - 1
WSDL
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript