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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 210 148
Rank change year-on-year +23 -62 -29
Contract jobs citing Web Services 529 743 1,632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 1.28% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.98% 5.51% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 492 1,054
10th Percentile £407 £406 £380
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.42% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 29
10th Percentile - £57.88 £46.80
25th Percentile - £65.88 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +14.62% +58.13%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £75.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

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 8,851 13,495 23,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.67% 23.23% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,143 9,831 17,461
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 153 234
10th Percentile £21.15 £31.60 £22.15
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +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 7 May 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 7 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
England +15 447 £550 +0.92% 208
Work from Home +79 260 £550 +3.53% 111
London +27 241 £575 +4.55% 85
UK excluding London +7 228 £525 +5.00% 121
South East -8 81 £540 +2.86% 38
North of England +38 70 £525 +5.00% 25
Yorkshire +44 37 £550 +2.33% 7
Scotland +43 29 £590 +31.11% 5
North West +15 29 £450 -10.00% 13
Midlands +10 25 £631 +5.21% 27
West Midlands +12 18 £638 +8.51% 12
East of England -4 15 £350 -30.00% 7
South West -6 8 £475 -13.64% 10
East Midlands +14 7 £600 - 15
North East +17 4 £431 -13.80% 5

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 17 (3.21%) Confluence
2 14 (2.65%) IIS
3 9 (1.70%) Mule
3 9 (1.70%) WebSphere
4 8 (1.51%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (1.13%) Apache
6 6 (1.13%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.95%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.95%) JBoss
7 5 (0.95%) Mule ESB
7 5 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.95%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.76%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.57%) CMS
9 3 (0.57%) WordPress
10 2 (0.38%) Appian
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.32%) SAP EWM
4 6 (1.13%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.95%) Shopify
6 1 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 171 (32.33%) Azure
2 123 (23.25%) AWS
3 40 (7.56%) GitHub
4 28 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (4.73%) Power Platform
6 20 (3.78%) PaaS
7 19 (3.59%) Serverless
8 18 (3.40%) Azure API Management
9 17 (3.21%) Entra ID
10 16 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (2.84%) Azure Storage
11 15 (2.84%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.65%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.27%) GCP
14 11 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.08%) IaaS
14 11 (2.08%) SaaS
15 10 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.13%) SSL
2 19 (3.59%) VoIP
3 16 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.65%) Firewall
4 14 (2.65%) Internet
5 12 (2.27%) LAN
5 12 (2.27%) VPN
5 12 (2.27%) WAN
6 11 (2.08%) Ethernet
7 10 (1.89%) HTTP
8 9 (1.70%) CTI
8 9 (1.70%) MPLS
8 9 (1.70%) PBX
8 9 (1.70%) WLAN
9 8 (1.51%) DNS
10 7 (1.32%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.95%) DHCP
11 5 (0.95%) Network Security
11 5 (0.95%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.48%) SQL Server
2 49 (9.26%) MySQL
3 35 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 27 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.73%) Oracle Reports
6 24 (4.54%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (2.65%) Oracle Database
10 12 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.27%) Power BI
10 12 (2.27%) SAP HANA
11 11 (2.08%) OLTP
12 10 (1.89%) Big Data
13 8 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.32%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.32%) Redis
15 6 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.13%) Siebel EIM
16 5 (0.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 74 (13.99%) Git
2 50 (9.45%) JIRA
3 47 (8.88%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.59%) Visual Studio
5 18 (3.40%) Eclipse
5 18 (3.40%) Postman
6 15 (2.84%) Selenium
7 14 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.65%) JUnit
7 14 (2.65%) Maven
8 11 (2.08%) JMeter
9 9 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.70%) Gatling
10 7 (1.32%) SoapUI
10 7 (1.32%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio Team System
12 5 (0.95%) Liquibase
12 5 (0.95%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 130 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 112 (21.17%) Finance
3 48 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.37%) Banking
6 27 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 25 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (3.97%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.40%) Marketing
9 18 (3.40%) Retail
10 14 (2.65%) Military
11 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.51%) Billing
13 8 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.95%) Front Office
15 4 (0.76%) Electronics
15 4 (0.76%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.57%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 215 (40.64%) Developer
2 112 (21.17%) Architect
3 59 (11.15%) Senior
4 52 (9.83%) Consultant
5 39 (7.37%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.43%) Lead
7 32 (6.05%) Software Engineer
8 31 (5.86%) Java Developer
9 27 (5.10%) ServiceNow Developer
10 22 (4.16%) Full Stack Developer
11 21 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.78%) .NET Developer
13 17 (3.21%) C# Developer
13 17 (3.21%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.21%) Technical Consultant
14 16 (3.02%) SailPoint Developer
15 14 (2.65%) Analyst
15 14 (2.65%) Applications Engineer
16 13 (2.46%) Lead Developer
17 12 (2.27%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (20.79%) REST
2 95 (17.96%) HTML
3 86 (16.26%) XML
4 82 (15.50%) .NET
4 82 (15.50%) SOAP
5 70 (13.23%) CSS
5 70 (13.23%) RESTful
6 60 (11.34%) Spring
7 50 (9.45%) JSON
8 47 (8.88%) Node.js
9 46 (8.70%) LDAP
10 42 (7.94%) AngularJS
11 38 (7.18%) Spring Boot
12 37 (6.99%) SailPoint
13 35 (6.62%) ASP.NET
14 34 (6.43%) Kafka
15 29 (5.48%) .NET Framework
16 28 (5.29%) JSP
16 28 (5.29%) Servlets
17 27 (5.10%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.51%) PKI
2 30 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.78%) Data Centre
4 18 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.70%) IVR
11 8 (1.51%) CMDB
11 8 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.32%) Life Science
13 6 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.95%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.29%) Linux
2 41 (7.75%) Windows
3 20 (3.78%) Unix
4 13 (2.46%) Android
4 13 (2.46%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.38%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) AIX
9 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (34.03%) Agile
2 81 (15.31%) DevOps
3 70 (13.23%) Scrum
3 70 (13.23%) TDD
4 66 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (12.48%) Test Automation
5 64 (12.10%) CI/CD
5 64 (12.10%) Software Engineering
6 63 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
7 59 (11.15%) Microservices
8 49 (9.26%) Migration
8 49 (9.26%) Unit Testing
9 45 (8.51%) Analytics
9 45 (8.51%) Cryptography
10 44 (8.32%) Key Management
10 44 (8.32%) SDLC
11 42 (7.94%) OO
11 42 (7.94%) Service Management
12 40 (7.56%) ITSM
13 38 (7.18%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 157 (29.68%) Java
2 144 (27.22%) JavaScript
3 116 (21.93%) SQL
4 93 (17.58%) C#
5 60 (11.34%) Python
6 23 (4.35%) Scala
7 21 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.02%) C++
8 16 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.89%) ABAP
10 8 (1.51%) Go
11 7 (1.32%) C
11 7 (1.32%) Perl
11 7 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.13%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.13%) PHP
12 6 (1.13%) Ruby
13 4 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.76%) Groovy
14 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 84 (15.88%) Degree
3 80 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.46%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.89%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.70%) CCIE
9 9 (1.70%) CCIE Data Center
10 8 (1.51%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.76%) CCNP
12 4 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.57%) SANS
14 2 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.24%) QA
2 10 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.32%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.13%) GDPR
4 6 (1.13%) HIPAA
4 6 (1.13%) HL7
4 6 (1.13%) SLA
4 6 (1.13%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.76%) GRC
6 3 (0.57%) WCAG
7 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (18.71%) Active Directory
2 45 (8.51%) Docker
3 25 (4.73%) ACF2
3 25 (4.73%) IAG
3 25 (4.73%) RACF
4 9 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.84%) Terraform
3 14 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.27%) Grafana
5 9 (1.70%) Ansible
6 8 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.13%) Kibana
8 5 (0.95%) CloudHub
9 3 (0.57%) logstash
10 2 (0.38%) Matomo
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) Anchore
11 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.19%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.19%) MOM
11 1 (0.19%) Packer
11 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.19%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 92 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 78 (14.74%) Oracle
3 71 (13.42%) ServiceNow
4 28 (5.29%) SAP
5 25 (4.73%) Sybase
6 22 (4.16%) Google
7 20 (3.78%) Adobe
8 19 (3.59%) Salesforce
9 18 (3.40%) Cisco
10 15 (2.84%) IBM
11 11 (2.08%) Atlassian
11 11 (2.08%) Genesys
12 9 (1.70%) Avaya
12 9 (1.70%) VMware
13 8 (1.51%) Guidewire
14 7 (1.32%) Splunk
15 6 (1.13%) Cadence
15 6 (1.13%) MuleSoft
15 6 (1.13%) Siebel
16 5 (0.95%) CheckPoint