Web Services Contracts in the West Midlands

Web Services
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 83 94 108
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 14 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.87% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.14% 6.59% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 18
10th Percentile £343 £575 £350
25th Percentile £410 £594 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -33.73% +8.51% +30.56%
75th Percentile £484 £775 £700
90th Percentile £525 - £830
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England 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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the West Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the West Midlands

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the West Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the West Midlands

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Solihull - 6 £420 -
Birmingham +17 5 £400 -35.35% 18
Shropshire - 1 £425 - 2
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (14.29%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (42.86%) AWS KMS
3 6 (42.86%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
4 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (64.29%) JUnit
3 7 (50.00%) Mockito
4 6 (42.86%) Maven
5 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (21.43%) DbUnit
5 3 (21.43%) Git
5 3 (21.43%) jMock
5 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
6 2 (14.29%) Postman
7 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (7.14%) JBehave
7 1 (7.14%) Selenium
7 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) REST
2 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
2 9 (64.29%) SOAP
2 9 (64.29%) Spring
2 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
3 6 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (42.86%) JPA
4 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
4 5 (35.71%) Bootstrap
4 5 (35.71%) HTML
4 5 (35.71%) RESTful
4 5 (35.71%) Spring Batch
4 5 (35.71%) Spring Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (21.43%) jQuery
6 3 (21.43%) PowerMock
6 3 (21.43%) WireMock
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) Middleware
7 2 (14.29%) SAP Smart Forms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Microservices
2 9 (64.29%) Scrum
2 9 (64.29%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) BDD
3 6 (42.86%) Kanban
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Architectural Design
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Change Management
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) ABAP
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) COBOL
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Postfix
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Grafana
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) SAP