Web Services Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Web Services
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% 0.20% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% 1.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £428 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% - -
75th Percentile £460 £380 -
90th Percentile £466 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -10.42% -6.64% +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 85 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.07% 17.38% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 59 72
10th Percentile £363 £358 £402
25th Percentile £448 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% -10.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £592
90th Percentile £638 £702 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
% change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Web Services job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
Sheffield -40 5 £450 +21.62% 2
Web Services
Yorkshire

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) IAM Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) IT Audit
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Centrify
2 4 (80.00%) CyberArk