Web Services Contracts

Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 211 150
Rank change year-on-year +27 -61 -34
Contract jobs citing Web Services 557 770 1,655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 1.28% 1.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.22% 5.49% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 517 1,071
10th Percentile £407 £409 £375
25th Percentile £463 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +10.26%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.56% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 27
10th Percentile £59.00 £66.70 £45.10
25th Percentile - £70.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.68% +55.38%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.15
% change year-on-year - - +55.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,955 14,016 24,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.35% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 10,231 17,684
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 156 243
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.38 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 15 Contract 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 25 April 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
England +28 474 £550 - 221
Work from Home +79 298 £550 +2.90% 113
UK excluding London +21 262 £525 +5.00% 131
London +28 241 £575 +4.55% 86
South East +13 117 £625 +19.05% 38
North of England +47 74 £525 +5.00% 31
Yorkshire +47 39 £550 +2.33% 11
Scotland +27 32 £486 +10.97% 5
North West +9 31 £450 -10.00% 18
Midlands 0 22 £638 +7.06% 30
West Midlands +14 16 £638 +10.87% 15
East of England +1 11 £350 -30.00% 10
East Midlands +11 6 £600 - 15
South West -2 6 £443 -19.55% 12
North East +21 4 £431 -13.80% 2

Web Services
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 16 (2.87%) Confluence
2 14 (2.51%) IIS
3 11 (1.97%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.62%) Mule
4 9 (1.62%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.44%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.26%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.08%) Apache
7 6 (1.08%) JBoss
8 5 (0.90%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.90%) Mule ESB
8 5 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.72%) CMS
9 4 (0.72%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.54%) WordPress
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.18%) EPiServer
Applications
1 12 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 10 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.26%) SAP EWM
3 6 (1.08%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.90%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (28.01%) Azure
2 123 (22.08%) AWS
3 67 (12.03%) PaaS
4 57 (10.23%) IaaS
5 55 (9.87%) SaaS
6 44 (7.90%) GitHub
7 23 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 23 (4.13%) Serverless
8 22 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (3.05%) Azure API Management
9 17 (3.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 17 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (3.05%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (2.69%) Azure Storage
11 13 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.33%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.44%) 5G
1 47 (8.44%) Broadband
2 42 (7.54%) SSL
3 14 (2.51%) Internet
4 13 (2.33%) Firewall
5 12 (2.15%) LAN
5 12 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.15%) WAN
6 11 (1.97%) VPN
7 10 (1.80%) HTTP
7 10 (1.80%) VoIP
8 9 (1.62%) Kerberos
8 9 (1.62%) MPLS
8 9 (1.62%) PBX
8 9 (1.62%) WLAN
9 8 (1.44%) DNS
10 7 (1.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.90%) DHCP
11 5 (0.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 49 (8.80%) MySQL
3 35 (6.28%) NoSQL
4 33 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.39%) Oracle Reports
6 25 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.33%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.15%) OLTP
11 10 (1.80%) Big Data
11 10 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.80%) Power BI
12 9 (1.62%) SAP HANA
13 8 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.26%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.26%) Redis
15 6 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.08%) OLAP
15 6 (1.08%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 74 (13.29%) Git
2 54 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 48 (8.62%) JIRA
4 19 (3.41%) Cucumber
5 17 (3.05%) JUnit
6 16 (2.87%) Postman
6 16 (2.87%) Selenium
7 15 (2.69%) Eclipse
8 14 (2.51%) Maven
9 11 (1.97%) Visual Studio
10 10 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.80%) Gatling
10 10 (1.80%) JMeter
11 8 (1.44%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.08%) GitLab
12 6 (1.08%) Mockito
12 6 (1.08%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.08%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.90%) Mocha
General
1 118 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.67%) Finance
3 48 (8.62%) Law
4 47 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
4 47 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (6.82%) Banking
7 23 (4.13%) Financial Institution
8 21 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.23%) Marketing
10 17 (3.05%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.80%) Military
11 10 (1.80%) Retail
12 9 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.26%) Billing
13 7 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.72%) Electronics
15 4 (0.72%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 220 (39.50%) Developer
2 104 (18.67%) Architect
3 59 (10.59%) Senior
4 55 (9.87%) Tester
5 52 (9.34%) Consultant
6 47 (8.44%) Penetration Tester
6 47 (8.44%) Security Penetration Tester
6 47 (8.44%) Security Specialist
6 47 (8.44%) Security Tester
6 47 (8.44%) Testing Specialist
7 39 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.82%) Java Developer
9 36 (6.46%) Lead
10 28 (5.03%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.13%) ServiceNow Developer
13 18 (3.23%) .NET Developer
14 17 (3.05%) SailPoint Developer
14 17 (3.05%) Technical Consultant
15 16 (2.87%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (21.01%) REST
2 96 (17.24%) HTML
3 87 (15.62%) SOAP
4 86 (15.44%) XML
5 76 (13.64%) RESTful
6 75 (13.46%) .NET
7 74 (13.29%) Spring
8 66 (11.85%) CSS
9 50 (8.98%) JSON
9 50 (8.98%) LDAP
10 47 (8.44%) Node.js
11 44 (7.90%) Spring Boot
12 40 (7.18%) SailPoint
13 39 (7.00%) Kafka
14 37 (6.64%) AngularJS
15 34 (6.10%) ASP.NET
16 33 (5.92%) JDBC
17 32 (5.75%) J2EE
17 32 (5.75%) JSP
17 32 (5.75%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.59%) Mobile App
2 44 (7.90%) PKI
3 34 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.97%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.90%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.90%) CMDB
9 5 (0.90%) DataPower
9 5 (0.90%) IoT
9 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.41%) Linux
2 34 (6.10%) Windows
3 22 (3.95%) Unix
4 16 (2.87%) Android
4 16 (2.87%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.72%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.19%) Agile
2 74 (13.29%) Scrum
3 71 (12.75%) DevOps
4 68 (12.21%) TDD
5 62 (11.13%) Microservices
6 58 (10.41%) CI/CD
6 58 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
6 58 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (9.87%) Software Engineering
9 53 (9.52%) OWASP
9 53 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 47 (8.44%) Application Security
10 47 (8.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 47 (8.44%) OO
10 47 (8.44%) Penetration Testing
10 47 (8.44%) Security Testing
11 46 (8.26%) Migration
12 43 (7.72%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 172 (30.88%) Java
2 149 (26.75%) JavaScript
3 120 (21.54%) SQL
4 79 (14.18%) C#
5 57 (10.23%) Python
6 23 (4.13%) Scala
7 21 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.69%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.97%) ABAP
10 10 (1.80%) C++
11 8 (1.44%) Go
12 7 (1.26%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.26%) C
12 7 (1.26%) Perl
12 7 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.08%) XPath
14 5 (0.90%) PHP
14 5 (0.90%) Ruby
15 4 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 161 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.21%) Degree
4 50 (8.98%) SANS
5 47 (8.44%) CREST Certified
5 47 (8.44%) GIAC
5 47 (8.44%) GPEN
5 47 (8.44%) OSCP
6 25 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.62%) CCIE
8 9 (1.62%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.72%) CCNP
12 3 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.44%) GDPR
1 47 (8.44%) NCSC
1 47 (8.44%) PCI DSS
2 28 (5.03%) QA
3 10 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.26%) SLA
5 4 (0.72%) GRC
6 3 (0.54%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 100 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 50 (8.98%) Docker
3 28 (5.03%) ACF2
3 28 (5.03%) IAG
3 28 (5.03%) RACF
4 7 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.69%) Terraform
3 14 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.15%) Grafana
5 11 (1.97%) Ansible
6 8 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.90%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.90%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.36%) logstash
8 2 (0.36%) Matomo
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Anchore
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.18%) MOM
9 1 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Podman
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.18%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 84 (15.08%) Oracle
2 78 (14.00%) Microsoft
3 70 (12.57%) ServiceNow
4 47 (8.44%) Virgin Media
5 28 (5.03%) SAP
5 28 (5.03%) Sybase
6 20 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.23%) Adobe
8 13 (2.33%) Google
9 12 (2.15%) IBM
10 11 (1.97%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.62%) Cisco
12 8 (1.44%) Splunk
13 7 (1.26%) Guidewire
13 7 (1.26%) VMware
14 6 (1.08%) Cadence
14 6 (1.08%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.08%) Siebel
14 6 (1.08%) Workday
15 5 (0.90%) Palo Alto