JAX-WS Contracts

Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JAX-WS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JAX-WS 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 516 581 715
Rank change year-on-year +65 +134 +123
Contract jobs citing JAX-WS 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.060% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £488 £593 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +13.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £666 £598 £538
90th Percentile £671 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAX-WS 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

JAX-WS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JAX-WS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-WS in the UK

JAX-WS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-WS.

Daily rate trend for JAX-WS in the UK

JAX-WS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-WS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-WS in the UK

JAX-WS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-WS.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-WS in the UK

JAX-WS
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-WS within the UK 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
England +60 4 £638 +7.14%
UK excluding London - 3 £638 -
South East - 2 £656 -
London +38 1 - -
North West - 1 £358 -
North of England - 1 £358 -

JAX-WS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) Hudson
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) JAX-RS
3 2 (50.00%) JAXB
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSD
3 2 (50.00%) XSL
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BPEL
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Pega