Web Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 189 150
Rank change year-on-year -2 -39 -27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 225 311 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.30% 1.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 7.11% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 204 364
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.94% +15.41%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £546
% change year-on-year +2.33% -1.60% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 24
10th Percentile £63.50 - -
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.70
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £62.70
% change year-on-year -10.34% +15.63% +56.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,251 4,374 6,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.31% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 3,275 4,420
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 90 144
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.47 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.35 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
South East -6 83 £540 +2.86% 39
North of England +43 71 £525 +5.00% 28
Yorkshire +38 37 £550 +2.33% 7
North West +19 30 £450 -10.00% 16
Scotland +36 27 £600 +33.33% 5
Midlands +4 23 £638 +6.25% 24
West Midlands +9 17 £638 +8.51% 11
East of England +8 14 £350 -30.00% 10
South West 0 7 £475 -13.64% 11
East Midlands +12 6 £600 - 13
North East +19 4 £431 -13.80% 5
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (5.33%) Confluence
2 6 (2.67%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.78%) Mule
4 4 (1.78%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.33%) IIS
5 3 (1.33%) WordPress
6 2 (0.89%) Apache
6 2 (0.89%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) Appian
7 1 (0.44%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.44%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.44%) Jadu
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.78%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (37.33%) AWS
2 70 (31.11%) Azure
3 14 (6.22%) IaaS
3 14 (6.22%) PaaS
4 11 (4.89%) SaaS
5 10 (4.44%) Serverless
6 7 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.22%) Apigee
8 5 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.22%) Kong
8 5 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.33%) Azure API Management
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.33%) iPaaS
9 3 (1.33%) npm
9 3 (1.33%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 41 (18.22%) SSL
2 12 (5.33%) LAN
2 12 (5.33%) VPN
2 12 (5.33%) WAN
3 10 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.44%) VoIP
4 9 (4.00%) MPLS
4 9 (4.00%) PBX
4 9 (4.00%) WLAN
5 8 (3.56%) Ethernet
5 8 (3.56%) Firewall
6 7 (3.11%) Internet
6 7 (3.11%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.67%) DNS
8 5 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.22%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.22%) DHCP
8 5 (2.22%) HTTP
8 5 (2.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.22%) OLAP
4 5 (2.22%) OLTP
4 5 (2.22%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.22%) Oracle OLAP
5 4 (1.78%) MySQL
5 4 (1.78%) Power BI
6 3 (1.33%) Redis
7 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.89%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) DB2
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.78%) JIRA
3 21 (9.33%) Git
4 15 (6.67%) Visual Studio
5 9 (4.00%) Eclipse
6 7 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.11%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.11%) JMeter
7 6 (2.67%) Gatling
7 6 (2.67%) JUnit
8 5 (2.22%) Liquibase
8 5 (2.22%) Selenium
8 5 (2.22%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.78%) GitLab
9 4 (1.78%) Log4j
9 4 (1.78%) Maven
10 3 (1.33%) Karma Test Runner
10 3 (1.33%) Mocha
10 3 (1.33%) webpack
10 3 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (4.89%) Finance
5 10 (4.44%) Military
5 10 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.56%) Billing
7 7 (3.11%) Banking
8 5 (2.22%) Law
8 5 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (35.11%) Developer
2 73 (32.44%) Architect
3 20 (8.89%) Senior
4 17 (7.56%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.11%) ServiceNow Developer
6 15 (6.67%) Consultant
7 11 (4.89%) .NET Developer
7 11 (4.89%) Software Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) C# Software Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Lead
8 10 (4.44%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 8 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (3.56%) Tester
11 7 (3.11%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.11%) Applications Support Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.11%) RESTful
2 26 (11.56%) REST
3 23 (10.22%) .NET
3 23 (10.22%) OpenID
4 22 (9.78%) XML
5 21 (9.33%) Node.js
6 20 (8.89%) Kafka
6 20 (8.89%) Spring
6 20 (8.89%) Spring Boot
7 19 (8.44%) SOAP
8 18 (8.00%) OAuth
9 17 (7.56%) HTML
10 16 (7.11%) JSON
11 14 (6.22%) React
12 12 (5.33%) J2EE
13 11 (4.89%) .NET Framework
13 11 (4.89%) CSS
14 10 (4.44%) AngularJS
15 9 (4.00%) LDAP
15 9 (4.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.56%) PKI
2 16 (7.11%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.22%) DataPower
5 5 (2.22%) Life Science
6 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.78%) IoT
6 4 (1.78%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.33%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) NHS
8 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.44%) Linux
2 17 (7.56%) Windows
3 6 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.22%) Unix
5 4 (1.78%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (28.00%) Agile
2 44 (19.56%) Cryptography
3 43 (19.11%) Key Management
4 33 (14.67%) Service Management
5 31 (13.78%) Scrum
6 30 (13.33%) ITSM
7 27 (12.00%) TDD
7 27 (12.00%) Test Automation
8 26 (11.56%) Customer Service
9 24 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (10.22%) Asset Management
10 23 (10.22%) IT Asset Management
10 23 (10.22%) ITIL
10 23 (10.22%) Operations Management
10 23 (10.22%) Service Delivery
11 20 (8.89%) Analytics
11 20 (8.89%) SOA
11 20 (8.89%) Software Engineering
12 19 (8.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.56%) Java
2 43 (19.11%) JavaScript
3 30 (13.33%) C#
4 21 (9.33%) SQL
5 16 (7.11%) Python
6 11 (4.89%) C++
6 11 (4.89%) Scala
7 7 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.67%) C
8 6 (2.67%) Go
8 6 (2.67%) PHP
9 5 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.78%) Groovy
11 3 (1.33%) Bash
11 3 (1.33%) Ruby
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.44%) ABAP
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 90 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 48 (21.33%) Degree
4 25 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.00%) CCIE
5 9 (4.00%) CCIE Data Center
5 9 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.11%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.78%) CCNP
8 4 (1.78%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.78%) GIAC
8 4 (1.78%) GPEN
8 4 (1.78%) OSCP
8 4 (1.78%) SANS
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) ISEB
10 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.78%) GDPR
1 4 (1.78%) HL7
1 4 (1.78%) NCSC
1 4 (1.78%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.33%) QA
2 3 (1.33%) WCAG
3 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (24.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.33%) Docker
3 7 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (3.11%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.89%) Kibana
5 2 (0.89%) Terraform
6 1 (0.44%) Anchore
6 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.44%) Packer
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.22%) Oracle
4 9 (4.00%) Cisco
5 7 (3.11%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.11%) IBM
5 7 (3.11%) VMware
6 6 (2.67%) Cadence
6 6 (2.67%) Guidewire
7 5 (2.22%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.22%) Google
7 5 (2.22%) Infoblox
7 5 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.22%) Symantec
7 5 (2.22%) TSYS
7 5 (2.22%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.78%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.33%) Adobe
9 3 (1.33%) Okta
10 2 (0.89%) SAP