WSDL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WSDL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WSDL over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 332 433
Rank change year-on-year +23 +101 +176
Contract jobs citing WSDL 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.036% 0.090% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £384
25th Percentile - - £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile - - £472
90th Percentile - - £481
UK median daily rate £393 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -25.14% +10.53% -17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

WSDL 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,750 3,347 5,513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 25.42% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,930 2,357 4,094
10th Percentile £350 £325 £373
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £660
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 84 63
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.68 £26.10
25th Percentile £42.56 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £63.75 £43.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -32.81% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%

WSDL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WSDL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WSDL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WSDL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WSDL.

WSDL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WSDL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RAML
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle