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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 99 100
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Web Services 30 46 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.99% 1.71% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.91% 12.53% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 31
10th Percentile £350 £443 £449
25th Percentile £363 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £525 £522 £604
90th Percentile £638 £565 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% +5.00%

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 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Berkshire +14 27 £500 -1.23% 25
Buckinghamshire +17 3 £375 -14.29% 16
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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.67%) OCI
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (6.67%) MS Access
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.00%) JUnit
1 3 (10.00%) Mockito
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (3.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (3.33%) jMock
3 1 (3.33%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (26.67%) Telecoms
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Billing
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Senior
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Designer
3 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) REST
2 9 (30.00%) SOAP
3 7 (23.33%) HTML
3 7 (23.33%) JSON
4 6 (20.00%) XML
5 5 (16.67%) CSS
6 4 (13.33%) Ajax
7 3 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (10.00%) jQuery
7 3 (10.00%) Spring
7 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (6.67%) Apache Camel
8 2 (6.67%) Middleware
8 2 (6.67%) RESTful
8 2 (6.67%) WireMock
9 1 (3.33%) JPA
9 1 (3.33%) OAuth
9 1 (3.33%) Spring Batch
9 1 (3.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Frameworx
1 5 (16.67%) TM Forum
2 4 (13.33%) CMDB
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) Microservices
3 9 (30.00%) Scrum
3 9 (30.00%) Validation
4 8 (26.67%) ITIL
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (26.67%) SOA
5 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (20.00%) Information Security
6 6 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
6 6 (20.00%) ITSM
6 6 (20.00%) Service Management
7 5 (16.67%) Business Strategy
7 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (16.67%) CRM
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 5 (16.67%) DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) Bicep
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CISM
1 5 (16.67%) CISSP
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (10.00%) Snow
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) Jaspersoft