Web Services Job Trends in England

Web Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 249 199
Rank change year-on-year -163 -50 -6
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 194 565 743
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.16% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 5.40% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 135 285 615
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,980 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,980 £59,430 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.61% -8.57% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Web Services falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,191 10,469 11,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.89% 21.49% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,762 6,157 9,653
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,013 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,563 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Web Services job vacancy trend in England

Web Services
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in England

Web Services
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -48 95 £76,500 +22.40% 37
South East -76 38 £50,000 -16.67% 19
North of England -52 28 £47,500 -17.39% 17
East of England +5 22 £47,500 -17.39% 15
North West -31 14 £51,250 -14.18% 9
Yorkshire -22 13 £56,186 +23.49% 5
Midlands -16 12 £48,500 -6.73% 5
West Midlands +14 11 £39,500 -33.54% 1
South West -21 11 £65,000 -3.70% 12
North East -3 1 £47,372 -20.29% 3
East Midlands -33 1 £62,500 +23.76% 4
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.19%) OpenStack
1 12 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.15%) CMS
3 8 (4.12%) Appian
4 5 (2.58%) Anypoint
5 4 (2.06%) IIS
6 3 (1.55%) Confluence
6 3 (1.55%) JBoss
7 2 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.03%) Mendix
7 2 (1.03%) WebSphere
7 2 (1.03%) WordPress
8 1 (0.52%) Apache
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.58%) Shopify
3 3 (1.55%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.55%) Maximo
4 2 (1.03%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.03%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (1.03%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.75%) Azure
2 51 (26.29%) AWS
3 38 (19.59%) Power Automate
4 29 (14.95%) Power Platform
5 28 (14.43%) Serverless
6 24 (12.37%) Amazon ECS
6 24 (12.37%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (10.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 21 (10.82%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (10.82%) PowerApps
8 14 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (6.19%) GCP
10 9 (4.64%) Boomi
11 8 (4.12%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (4.12%) Azure AI
11 8 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.15%) FTP
2 5 (2.58%) DNS
2 5 (2.58%) IP Telephony
2 5 (2.58%) PSTN
2 5 (2.58%) VoIP
3 4 (2.06%) Unified Communications
4 3 (1.55%) DHCP
4 3 (1.55%) PBX
4 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.03%) AMQP
5 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.03%) Firewall
5 2 (1.03%) SSL
5 2 (1.03%) VLAN
5 2 (1.03%) Wireless
6 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.26%) SQL Server
2 48 (24.74%) Relational Database
3 31 (15.98%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.40%) Power BI
5 19 (9.79%) MySQL
6 13 (6.70%) RDBMS
7 12 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.15%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.12%) Pinecone
10 6 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.06%) Redis
12 4 (2.06%) Tableau
13 3 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.55%) DB2
13 3 (1.55%) Oracle Database
14 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (27.84%) Git
2 26 (13.40%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.25%) Visual Studio
4 13 (6.70%) JUnit
4 13 (6.70%) Mockito
5 12 (6.19%) JMeter
6 10 (5.15%) JIRA
7 8 (4.12%) MLflow
8 2 (1.03%) Postman
8 2 (1.03%) Selenium
8 2 (1.03%) Subversion
8 2 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.52%) Appium
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) Gradle
9 1 (0.52%) MSTest
9 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (25.26%) Finance
2 47 (24.23%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.19%) Retail
5 7 (3.61%) Health Technology
6 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.58%) Law
7 5 (2.58%) Legal
7 5 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.06%) Back Office
9 3 (1.55%) Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Games
9 3 (1.55%) Humanities
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.03%) Front Office
10 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) French Language
Job Titles
1 86 (44.33%) Developer
2 29 (14.95%) Senior
3 28 (14.43%) Java Developer
4 23 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (11.34%) Lead
6 19 (9.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 18 (9.28%) Analyst
7 18 (9.28%) Software Engineer
8 13 (6.70%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 12 (6.19%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.15%) Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Development Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Development Support Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Applications Support Analyst
11 8 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (3.61%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (50.00%) REST
2 55 (28.35%) SOAP
3 51 (26.29%) HTML
4 43 (22.16%) XML
5 39 (20.10%) JSON
6 36 (18.56%) .NET
7 35 (18.04%) Spring
8 31 (15.98%) Spring Boot
9 29 (14.95%) React
10 23 (11.86%) CSS
10 23 (11.86%) Node.js
11 22 (11.34%) RESTful
12 20 (10.31%) jQuery
13 19 (9.79%) Hibernate
14 18 (9.28%) AngularJS
15 16 (8.25%) Apache Camel
16 15 (7.73%) Vue
17 12 (6.19%) .NET Framework
17 12 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
17 12 (6.19%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (8.76%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (8.76%) Low-Code
3 13 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.58%) IVR
6 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.55%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) DataPower
9 2 (1.03%) Derivative
9 2 (1.03%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.64%) Linux
2 5 (2.58%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.58%) Unix
3 4 (2.06%) Android
4 3 (1.55%) Windows
5 2 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (50.00%) Agile
2 70 (36.08%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (21.13%) Scrum
5 40 (20.62%) Microservices
6 37 (19.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (17.53%) TDD
8 31 (15.98%) CRM
9 28 (14.43%) Workflow
10 26 (13.40%) Software Engineering
11 25 (12.89%) SDLC
12 24 (12.37%) AI
13 23 (11.86%) API Integration
14 22 (11.34%) ITIL
15 21 (10.82%) Change Management
15 21 (10.82%) Mentoring
15 21 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (10.31%) Containerisation
16 20 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.05%) JavaScript
2 63 (32.47%) SQL
3 54 (27.84%) Java
4 47 (24.23%) Python
5 42 (21.65%) C#
6 17 (8.76%) Shell Script
7 14 (7.22%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.67%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.15%) VB.NET
10 7 (3.61%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.03%) Go
11 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.03%) PHP
11 2 (1.03%) Swift
12 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Delphi
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.25%) Degree
3 11 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) HNC
8 2 (1.03%) HND
8 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.03%) MCSA
8 2 (1.03%) MCSE
8 2 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.52%) OCA
9 1 (0.52%) OCP
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.12%) QA
2 6 (3.09%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.06%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (25.77%) Docker
2 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (24.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.19%) Kibana
3 7 (3.61%) Terraform
4 6 (3.09%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.73%) Oracle
3 14 (7.22%) Splunk
4 13 (6.70%) Dynatrace
5 12 (6.19%) MuleSoft
5 12 (6.19%) Salesforce
6 10 (5.15%) IBM
7 8 (4.12%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (4.12%) Infor
7 8 (4.12%) OpenAI
7 8 (4.12%) UiPath
8 7 (3.61%) Workday
9 6 (3.09%) SAP
9 6 (3.09%) Talend
10 5 (2.58%) Avaya
10 5 (2.58%) Epicor
10 5 (2.58%) Genesys
10 5 (2.58%) Informatica
10 5 (2.58%) Software AG
10 5 (2.58%) TIBCO