Web Services Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Web Services
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Web Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 88 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 17 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.95% 1.16% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 6.83% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 23
10th Percentile £373 £575 £435
25th Percentile £414 £619 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.10% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £775 £694
90th Percentile £513 - £740
England median daily rate £500 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +1.82%

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 298 322 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.73% 16.93% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 199 228
10th Percentile £362 £349 £325
25th Percentile £413 £446 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.68% -3.90%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 1
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 -
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - £71.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.70 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% +4.17% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the West Midlands

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 7 September 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
Birmingham +1 9 £475 -25.49% 10
Solihull - 3 £460 -
Shropshire - 2 £394 - 5
Coventry -6 1 £495 - 3
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 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Amazon S3
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (47.06%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (41.18%) AWS KMS
4 7 (41.18%) Route 53
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (23.53%) Serverless
7 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 3 (17.65%) Azure API Management
7 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Functions
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (47.06%) DynamoDB
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (64.71%) Git
3 9 (52.94%) Maven
4 7 (41.18%) JUnit
4 7 (41.18%) SonarQube
5 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (29.41%) DbUnit
5 5 (29.41%) jMock
5 5 (29.41%) Mockito
6 1 (5.88%) ClearCase
6 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (5.88%) JBehave
6 1 (5.88%) Selenium
6 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Integration Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Java Architect
6 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) REST
1 10 (58.82%) RESTful
1 10 (58.82%) Spring
1 10 (58.82%) Spring Boot
2 9 (52.94%) SOAP
3 8 (47.06%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
4 7 (41.18%) JPA
4 7 (41.18%) Spring Batch
4 7 (41.18%) Spring Integration
5 5 (29.41%) .NET
5 5 (29.41%) AngularJS
5 5 (29.41%) Bootstrap
5 5 (29.41%) PowerMock
5 5 (29.41%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (11.76%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) Middleware
7 1 (5.88%) Java SE
7 1 (5.88%) Mustache
7 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Microservices
3 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 9 (52.94%) TDD
4 8 (47.06%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) BDD
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) Kanban
7 5 (29.41%) Open Source
8 3 (17.65%) Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) API Design
8 3 (17.65%) API Management
8 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Log Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
8 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau Certification
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 5 (29.41%) Postfix
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Grafana
2 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Atlassian
1 5 (29.41%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft