Web Services Contracts in the Thames Valley

Web Services
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 121 113
Rank change year-on-year +19 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Services 25 22 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.79% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.36% 5.31% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 61
10th Percentile £438 £376 £450
25th Percentile £491 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £650
90th Percentile £781 £706 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.31 -
South East median hourly rate - £56.06 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -19.91% +12.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 393 414 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.70% 14.84% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 299 503
10th Percentile £363 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% -4.82% +16.71%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £654 £699 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 4
10th Percentile £50.87 £40.05 £27.15
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £50.00 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -22.40% -0.11%
75th Percentile - £54.94 £69.46
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.00 £73.23
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £62.67
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.25% -0.53%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Berkshire +7 22 £580 +0.87% 6
Buckinghamshire +26 2 - - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £260 - 1
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (12.00%) OpenStack
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) IaaS
3 6 (24.00%) PaaS
3 6 (24.00%) SaaS
3 6 (24.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Network Security
1 3 (12.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SAP HANA
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Big Data
3 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Subversion
4 2 (8.00%) Toad
4 2 (8.00%) VisualAge
5 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Consultant
3 5 (20.00%) Development Consultant
3 5 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (16.00%) ABAP Consultant
5 3 (12.00%) Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) CRM Technical Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Integration Developer
7 1 (4.00%) ITSM Developer
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 7 (28.00%) .NET
3 6 (24.00%) BAPI
3 6 (24.00%) SAP Smart Forms
3 6 (24.00%) XML
4 5 (20.00%) REST
4 5 (20.00%) Spring
5 4 (16.00%) SOAP
6 3 (12.00%) Apache Camel
6 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (12.00%) JSON
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
6 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.00%) Apache CXF
7 2 (8.00%) Kafka
7 2 (8.00%) Mustache
7 2 (8.00%) React
7 2 (8.00%) SAP Fiori
7 2 (8.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Client/Server
1 6 (24.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Life Science
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) NHS
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Microservices
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) OO
4 6 (24.00%) OOP
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (24.00%) Process Improvement
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) TDD
5 5 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) ITSM
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) Cryptography
7 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (12.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) ABAP
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 3 (12.00%) Python
5 3 (12.00%) Ruby
6 2 (8.00%) Groovy
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) HL7
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.00%) IBM
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow