Web Services Contracts in the South East

Web Services
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 112 126
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -35
Contract jobs citing Web Services 112 116 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.02% 1.99% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.18% 11.08% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 74 93
10th Percentile £450 £425 £385
25th Percentile £500 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £603
90th Percentile - £739 £638
England median daily rate £550 £545 £538
% change year-on-year +0.92% +1.40% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.54
Median hourly rate - - £62.15
75th Percentile - - £62.98
90th Percentile - - £66.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.62
% change year-on-year -10.34% +13.97% +85.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Web Services is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 738 1,047 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.30% 17.94% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 743 1,032
10th Percentile £313 £363 £353
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £668 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +14 55 £450 -14.29% 15
Berkshire -4 53 £475 -9.52% 8
Hampshire +7 46 £625 +13.64% 9
Surrey +5 6 £500 -17.36% 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £438 - 4
Middlesex - 2 - -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
West Sussex +2 1 £425 -5.56% 5
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 6 (5.36%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Jadu
3 1 (0.89%) JBoss
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) AWS
2 45 (40.18%) Azure
3 43 (38.39%) IaaS
3 43 (38.39%) PaaS
3 43 (38.39%) SaaS
4 7 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (6.25%) Serverless
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.79%) Azure API Management
5 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 41 (36.61%) 5G
1 41 (36.61%) Broadband
2 40 (35.71%) SSL
3 2 (1.79%) Network Security
3 2 (1.79%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) NFC
4 1 (0.89%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.89%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.89%) Power BI
4 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Git
1 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.36%) JUnit
3 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.79%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) JIRA
4 2 (1.79%) JMeter
4 2 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.89%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.89%) Mockito
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.89%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.89%) TestRail
5 1 (0.89%) Valgrind
5 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (36.61%) Law
1 41 (36.61%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.46%) Billing
5 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Finance
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.89%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (37.50%) Architect
1 42 (37.50%) Tester
2 41 (36.61%) Penetration Tester
2 41 (36.61%) Security Penetration Tester
2 41 (36.61%) Security Specialist
2 41 (36.61%) Security Tester
2 41 (36.61%) Testing Specialist
3 20 (17.86%) Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Lead
6 6 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Billing Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Lead Developer
8 2 (1.79%) .NET Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Consultant
8 2 (1.79%) Data Architect
8 2 (1.79%) IAM Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Java Scala Developer
8 2 (1.79%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.93%) REST
2 7 (6.25%) SOAP
2 7 (6.25%) Spring
2 7 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.36%) Node.js
3 6 (5.36%) RESTful
4 4 (3.57%) .NET
4 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.57%) React
5 3 (2.68%) HTML
5 3 (2.68%) J2EE
5 3 (2.68%) OAuth
5 3 (2.68%) XML
6 2 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.79%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.79%) Kafka
6 2 (1.79%) Mustache
6 2 (1.79%) OpenID
6 2 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (36.61%) Mobile App
2 40 (35.71%) PKI
3 9 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Life Science
5 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.89%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (38.39%) Cryptography
3 42 (37.50%) Key Management
3 42 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (36.61%) Application Security
4 41 (36.61%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 41 (36.61%) OWASP
4 41 (36.61%) Penetration Testing
4 41 (36.61%) Security Testing
5 11 (9.82%) Agile
5 11 (9.82%) Scrum
6 10 (8.93%) TDD
7 9 (8.04%) Microservices
8 8 (7.14%) DevOps
8 8 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (7.14%) Kanban
9 7 (6.25%) BDD
9 7 (6.25%) Data Modelling
10 6 (5.36%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (5.36%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
2 14 (12.50%) Java
3 6 (5.36%) Python
3 6 (5.36%) SQL
4 5 (4.46%) C#
5 3 (2.68%) PHP
6 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.79%) Ruby
6 2 (1.79%) Scala
6 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.89%) C++
7 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (83.04%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.50%) Degree
3 41 (36.61%) CREST Certified
3 41 (36.61%) GIAC
3 41 (36.61%) GPEN
3 41 (36.61%) OSCP
3 41 (36.61%) SANS
4 32 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 22 (19.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (36.61%) GDPR
1 41 (36.61%) NCSC
1 41 (36.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.89%) HL7
2 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.93%) Docker
3 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 41 (36.61%) Virgin Media
2 5 (4.46%) Guidewire
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle
4 2 (1.79%) VMware
5 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.89%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Splunk