Web Services Contracts in the South West

Web Services
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 144 137
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 -19
Contract jobs citing Web Services 11 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.60% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.90% 3.25% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 19
10th Percentile - £422 £330
25th Percentile - £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile - £491 £663
90th Percentile - £496 £675
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.41% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 282 493 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.38% 15.10% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 298 410
10th Percentile £354 £325 £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £635
90th Percentile £675 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 77 24
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £50.75
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £68.19 - £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.63 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.31% +19.82%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the South West

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the South West

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the South West

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol +6 5 - - 22
Wiltshire +35 4 - - 6
Dorset - 2 - - 7
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) npm
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
2 1 (9.09%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Electronics
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Italian Language
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) CSS
1 7 (63.64%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) AngularJS
3 5 (45.45%) RESTful
4 4 (36.36%) Ajax
4 4 (36.36%) LDAP
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (18.18%) CSS3
6 2 (18.18%) HTML5
6 2 (18.18%) Middleware
6 2 (18.18%) OAuth
6 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
6 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
6 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 1 (9.09%) Jest
7 1 (9.09%) Node.js
7 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Operations Management
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) SIAM
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Change Management
6 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
6 1 (9.09%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) SAP