Web Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 179 178
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -26
Contract jobs citing Web Services 168 240 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.31% 1.16% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 7.29% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 141 206
10th Percentile £273 £363 £400
25th Percentile £371 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £620
90th Percentile £626 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 0
10th Percentile £52.50 £62.00 -
25th Percentile £56.56 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% -10.34% +16.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,391 3,290 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.69% 15.85% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 2,153 3,284
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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 2 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 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
South East +17 63 £500 -16.67% 81
North of England -13 38 £488 -7.14% 67
North West +15 32 £500 +11.11% 41
Midlands +15 19 £420 -34.12% 51
Scotland +3 17 £413 -31.25% 30
West Midlands +12 14 £423 -33.73% 30
South West +46 10 £580 +31.07% 35
Northern Ireland - 10 £323 - 7
East of England +26 9 £525 +50.00% 37
East Midlands +13 5 £326 -45.67% 17
Yorkshire -27 5 £370 -32.73% 20
Wales - 2 £167 - 5
North East -5 1 £475 +10.21% 6
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 9 (5.36%) WebSphere
2 8 (4.76%) Tomcat
3 7 (4.17%) Confluence
3 7 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (4.17%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.17%) WordPress
4 6 (3.57%) CMS
4 6 (3.57%) JBoss
5 5 (2.98%) Apache
5 5 (2.98%) CICS
5 5 (2.98%) Drupal
6 3 (1.79%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.79%) IIS
6 3 (1.79%) Mule
6 3 (1.79%) Mule ESB
6 3 (1.79%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (1.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.60%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.19%) BASE24
3 2 (1.19%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.19%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.19%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.83%) AWS
2 33 (19.64%) Azure
3 10 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (5.95%) AWS KMS
4 9 (5.36%) SaaS
5 8 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (4.17%) OCI
6 7 (4.17%) Route 53
7 5 (2.98%) GCP
7 5 (2.98%) GitHub
7 5 (2.98%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.79%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.79%) iPaaS
8 3 (1.79%) npm
8 3 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.95%) HTTP
2 6 (3.57%) SSL
2 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.98%) Ethernet
3 5 (2.98%) Internet
4 3 (1.79%) Firewall
5 2 (1.19%) ATM
5 2 (1.19%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) DNS
6 1 (0.60%) Network Security
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 13 (7.74%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.95%) MySQL
6 9 (5.36%) SAP HANA
7 8 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (4.76%) DB2
7 8 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
8 7 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.57%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.98%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (2.98%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.38%) Power BI
12 3 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (21.43%) Git
2 22 (13.10%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.12%) JUnit
4 14 (8.33%) JIRA
5 13 (7.74%) Maven
6 11 (6.55%) Selenium
6 11 (6.55%) Subversion
7 10 (5.95%) Mockito
8 8 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.98%) Eclipse
9 5 (2.98%) GitLab
9 5 (2.98%) Postman
9 5 (2.98%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.38%) Gradle
10 4 (2.38%) HP UFT
10 4 (2.38%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.38%) jMock
10 4 (2.38%) NetBeans
10 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.05%) Finance
3 27 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.12%) Banking
6 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Billing
9 5 (2.98%) Front Office
9 5 (2.98%) Military
10 2 (1.19%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.19%) Law
10 2 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (46.43%) Developer
2 28 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 19 (11.31%) Senior
4 14 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 13 (7.74%) Analyst
5 13 (7.74%) SAP Developer
6 12 (7.14%) ABAP Developer
6 12 (7.14%) Architect
7 9 (5.36%) Designer
8 8 (4.76%) Consultant
9 7 (4.17%) Lead
9 7 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.17%) Solutions Designer
10 6 (3.57%) Java Software Developer
10 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Oracle Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (37.50%) REST
2 52 (30.95%) SOAP
3 39 (23.21%) RESTful
4 33 (19.64%) HTML
5 30 (17.86%) AngularJS
6 29 (17.26%) Spring
6 29 (17.26%) XML
7 28 (16.67%) JSON
8 27 (16.07%) Spring Boot
9 24 (14.29%) CSS
10 20 (11.90%) Ajax
10 20 (11.90%) Hibernate
11 14 (8.33%) J2EE
11 14 (8.33%) jQuery
12 12 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (7.14%) BAPI
12 12 (7.14%) React
13 10 (5.95%) Spring Integration
14 9 (5.36%) Bootstrap
14 9 (5.36%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 6 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.57%) Derivative
4 6 (3.57%) Equities
4 6 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
4 6 (3.57%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.98%) Frameworx
5 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.98%) TM Forum
5 5 (2.98%) VSAM
6 4 (2.38%) CMDB
6 4 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 4 (2.38%) PKI
7 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.19%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.69%) Linux
2 13 (7.74%) Unix
3 9 (5.36%) Windows
4 3 (1.79%) AIX
5 2 (1.19%) zOS
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (52.98%) Agile
2 44 (26.19%) Scrum
3 38 (22.62%) Microservices
4 36 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 36 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (18.45%) SDLC
6 22 (13.10%) OO
6 22 (13.10%) TDD
7 20 (11.90%) DevOps
7 20 (11.90%) Test Automation
8 19 (11.31%) Migration
9 18 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (10.12%) MVC
10 17 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (10.12%) Software Engineering
11 15 (8.93%) API Development
11 15 (8.93%) Service Management
11 15 (8.93%) Validation
12 14 (8.33%) ITSM
12 14 (8.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.14%) SQL
2 51 (30.36%) Java
3 50 (29.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (7.14%) ABAP
4 12 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 11 (6.55%) C#
5 11 (6.55%) Python
6 9 (5.36%) PHP
7 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.17%) COBOL
9 5 (2.98%) C++
9 5 (2.98%) JCL
9 5 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.38%) Bash
11 3 (1.79%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.79%) REXX
11 3 (1.79%) Scala
11 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.79%) XPath
12 2 (1.19%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.31%) Degree
4 8 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.57%) CISM
6 6 (3.57%) CISSP
7 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.19%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.60%) OCP
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) WCAG
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.79%) PERC
4 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.19%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) HL7
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (10.12%) Docker
2 9 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.98%) Postfix
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.17%) Grafana
3 6 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.98%) Puppet
5 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.79%) CloudHub
7 2 (1.19%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.86%) Oracle
3 24 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 18 (10.71%) SAP
5 9 (5.36%) Zend
6 6 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (2.98%) Google
7 5 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.98%) Siebel
8 4 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (2.38%) Splunk
9 3 (1.79%) Adobe
9 3 (1.79%) HP
9 3 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.79%) Snow
9 3 (1.79%) Thales
10 2 (1.19%) Citrix
10 2 (1.19%) Dell
10 2 (1.19%) Informatica