Web Services Contract Job Trends

Web Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 179 190
Rank change year-on-year -154 +11 +29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 342 457 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 1.55% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.49% 6.79% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 305 336
10th Percentile £363 £357 £400
25th Percentile £422 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £642 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £540
% change year-on-year - -12.04% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 13
10th Percentile £51.25 £54.50 -
25th Percentile £56.72 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £65.00 -
90th Percentile £65.57 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,789 6,726 9,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.85% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 4,599 6,367
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 263
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Web Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Services

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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 -150 298 £500 -2.44% 54
London -86 172 £558 -5.11% 22
UK excluding London -135 146 £475 - 46
Work from Home -117 90 £500 - 46
South East -107 37 £500 +2.83% 10
Midlands -66 34 £475 +11.76% 2
North of England -84 32 £483 -3.50% 9
West Midlands -56 29 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -39 17 £461 +24.66% 2
South West -20 14 £425 - 9
North West -54 14 £650 +36.84% 7
Scotland -17 12 £463 +12.12% 4
East of England -24 12 £460 -12.38% 10
Wales -12 6 £700 +242.72% 2
East Midlands -29 3 £525 +44.63% 1
North East -36 2 £425 -15.00%

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.80%) Appian
3 11 (3.22%) CICS
4 9 (2.63%) Confluence
5 8 (2.34%) JBoss
5 8 (2.34%) WebLogic
6 7 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.75%) IIS
8 4 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (1.17%) Apache
8 4 (1.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.58%) CMS
9 2 (0.58%) Mule
9 2 (0.58%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.92%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.75%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.17%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.88%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.88%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.58%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.58%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.29%) BASE24
7 1 (0.29%) Maximo
7 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.95%) Azure
2 80 (23.39%) AWS
3 34 (9.94%) Entra ID
4 32 (9.36%) PaaS
5 31 (9.06%) GitHub
6 28 (8.19%) Serverless
7 27 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (7.60%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (6.73%) Amazon S3
9 23 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (5.56%) SaaS
12 18 (5.26%) AWS KMS
12 18 (5.26%) OCI
12 18 (5.26%) Route 53
13 17 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.80%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.75%) SSL
4 5 (1.46%) IPsec
4 5 (1.46%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.17%) DNS
5 4 (1.17%) Firewall
5 4 (1.17%) FTP
5 4 (1.17%) HTTP
5 4 (1.17%) Internet
6 3 (0.88%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.58%) VPN
8 1 (0.29%) ATM
8 1 (0.29%) DMZ
8 1 (0.29%) Intranet
8 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.94%) SQL Server
3 30 (8.77%) Relational Database
4 28 (8.19%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (4.09%) Db2
8 10 (2.92%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.92%) SAP HANA
9 9 (2.63%) Pinecone
10 7 (2.05%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.75%) MySQL
11 6 (1.75%) Power BI
12 5 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.46%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (15.50%) Git
2 47 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 28 (8.19%) JUnit
3 28 (8.19%) Maven
4 27 (7.89%) JIRA
5 23 (6.73%) SonarQube
6 20 (5.85%) Mockito
6 20 (5.85%) Visual Studio
7 19 (5.56%) Eclipse
8 14 (4.09%) DbUnit
9 13 (3.80%) jMock
10 12 (3.51%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (3.51%) Postman
11 10 (2.92%) GitLab
12 9 (2.63%) Selenium
12 9 (2.63%) SoapUI
13 8 (2.34%) LoadRunner
13 8 (2.34%) MLflow
14 7 (2.05%) JMeter
15 6 (1.75%) Ant
General
1 98 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.51%) Public Sector
3 53 (15.50%) Finance
4 50 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.60%) Military
6 22 (6.43%) Banking
7 12 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.75%) Billing
9 6 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.46%) Retail
11 4 (1.17%) Automotive
11 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.88%) Front Office
12 3 (0.88%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.88%) Legal
12 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 153 (44.74%) Developer
2 51 (14.91%) Senior
3 40 (11.70%) Java Developer
4 38 (11.11%) Architect
5 33 (9.65%) Senior Developer
6 28 (8.19%) Consultant
7 20 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 16 (4.68%) Azure Developer
8 16 (4.68%) Lead
9 15 (4.39%) Analyst
10 12 (3.51%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.92%) C# Software Engineer
11 10 (2.92%) Cloud Specialist
11 10 (2.92%) Salesforce Developer
11 10 (2.92%) Senior Architect
11 10 (2.92%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (2.63%) C# Developer
12 9 (2.63%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 9 (2.63%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (42.98%) REST
2 110 (32.16%) SOAP
3 60 (17.54%) RESTful
4 52 (15.20%) Spring
5 49 (14.33%) XML
6 44 (12.87%) JSON
7 43 (12.57%) Spring Boot
8 41 (11.99%) .NET
9 37 (10.82%) OAuth
10 35 (10.23%) Node.js
11 30 (8.77%) AngularJS
12 27 (7.89%) HTML
13 24 (7.02%) Hibernate
13 24 (7.02%) JPA
14 20 (5.85%) Spring Batch
14 20 (5.85%) Spring Integration
14 20 (5.85%) XSLT
15 19 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (5.56%) CSS
15 19 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.60%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.09%) Mobile App
3 14 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.80%) CMDB
5 11 (3.22%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.22%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.05%) DataPower
8 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.75%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.75%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.45%) Linux
2 25 (7.31%) Windows
3 14 (4.09%) Unix
4 10 (2.92%) zOS
5 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.30%) Agile
2 98 (28.65%) CI/CD
3 94 (27.49%) DevOps
4 72 (21.05%) Microservices
5 64 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (14.04%) Scrum
7 47 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
7 47 (13.74%) TDD
8 46 (13.45%) Containerisation
9 40 (11.70%) Design Patterns
10 39 (11.40%) Software Engineering
11 36 (10.53%) Test Automation
12 35 (10.23%) Analytics
12 35 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
12 35 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (9.94%) Unit Testing
14 33 (9.65%) Validation
14 33 (9.65%) Workflow
15 32 (9.36%) Architectural Patterns
16 31 (9.06%) AI
Programming Languages
1 109 (31.87%) SQL
2 86 (25.15%) Java
3 70 (20.47%) JavaScript
4 69 (20.18%) Python
5 55 (16.08%) C#
6 34 (9.94%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.14%) C++
8 17 (4.97%) PL/SQL
9 13 (3.80%) Apex Code
10 12 (3.51%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.22%) ABAP
11 11 (3.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.34%) XPath
13 6 (1.75%) JCL
14 5 (1.46%) SOQL
14 5 (1.46%) SOSL
15 4 (1.17%) Ruby
15 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.48%) Degree
4 12 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.46%) MBA
8 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.17%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.92%) QA
4 8 (2.34%) NIST
4 8 (2.34%) SLA
5 6 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.17%) GRC
6 4 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (1.17%) NCSC
7 3 (0.88%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (15.50%) Docker
2 26 (7.60%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.80%) Postfix
4 5 (1.46%) RACF
5 2 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.58%) NFS
5 2 (0.58%) Sendmail
5 2 (0.58%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 25 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.43%) Grafana
3 12 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.63%) Ansible
5 7 (2.05%) Terraform
6 5 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.58%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.29%) Argo
9 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 77 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 65 (19.01%) Oracle
3 29 (8.48%) ServiceNow
4 21 (6.14%) SAP
5 17 (4.97%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 14 (4.09%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.92%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.92%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.63%) Adobe
9 9 (2.63%) UiPath
9 9 (2.63%) Workday
10 8 (2.34%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (1.75%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.75%) IBM
12 5 (1.46%) Google
13 4 (1.17%) Citrix
13 4 (1.17%) Sybase
14 3 (0.88%) Dell
14 3 (0.88%) Splunk