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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 107 109
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 38 28 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.53% 1.04% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.88% 7.09% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 18
10th Percentile £350 £450 £450
25th Percentile £375 £481 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £672
90th Percentile £635 £598 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -19.49% +12.38% -

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 295 395 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.67% 14.73% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 269 350
10th Percentile £325 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.62 -
25th Percentile £18.95 £56.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.63 £61.60 £74.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.90% -17.04% +53.89%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £79.46
90th Percentile £81.78 £61.68 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +34 32 £500 -4.76% 59
Buckinghamshire +19 6 £375 - 15
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 5 (13.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.53%) OCI
2 4 (10.53%) SaaS
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (2.63%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (7.89%) MS Access
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.89%) JUnit
1 3 (7.89%) Mockito
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.63%) DbUnit
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) jMock
3 1 (2.63%) Maven
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Billing
4 4 (10.53%) Retail
5 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Designer
4 5 (13.16%) Security Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Telecoms Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) REST
2 11 (28.95%) SOAP
3 7 (18.42%) HTML
3 7 (18.42%) JSON
4 6 (15.79%) XML
5 5 (13.16%) CSS
6 4 (10.53%) Ajax
6 4 (10.53%) Middleware
7 3 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
7 3 (7.89%) jQuery
7 3 (7.89%) Spring
7 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
8 2 (5.26%) .NET
8 2 (5.26%) Apache Camel
8 2 (5.26%) OAuth
8 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.26%) RESTful
8 2 (5.26%) WireMock
9 1 (2.63%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Frameworx
1 5 (13.16%) TM Forum
2 4 (10.53%) CMDB
3 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) Microservices
3 11 (28.95%) Scrum
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) SOA
4 10 (26.32%) Validation
5 9 (23.68%) ITIL
6 8 (21.05%) Integration Testing
7 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
7 7 (18.42%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (18.42%) Service Management
8 6 (15.79%) Data Mapping
8 6 (15.79%) Information Security
8 6 (15.79%) IT Asset Management
8 6 (15.79%) ITSM
8 6 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (13.16%) Security Architecture
9 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 5 (13.16%) Python
4 3 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.26%) Korn
5 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.26%) X++
6 1 (2.63%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) CISM
1 5 (13.16%) CISSP
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) GDPR
1 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) ServiceNow
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle
3 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
5 3 (7.89%) Citrix
5 3 (7.89%) Snow
6 2 (5.26%) Ab Initio
6 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.26%) Google
6 2 (5.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.63%) Jaspersoft