Web Services Job Trends in the Midlands

Web Services
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 178 145
Rank change year-on-year -33 -33 +36
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 23 98 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.42% 1.07% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 7.05% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 73
10th Percentile £48,300 £42,500 £36,284
25th Percentile £65,625 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,529 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,075 £65,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £64,250
% change year-on-year +21.74% -10.51% -1.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 676 1,391 1,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.21% 15.23% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 460 757 866
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,334
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,350 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Web Services
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +37 22 £72,500 +26.09% 9
East Midlands -53 1 £62,500 +23.76% 1
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (8.70%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (26.09%) AWS KMS
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) Route 53
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.35%) IaaS
8 1 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DHCP
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (30.43%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
2 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (13.04%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (13.04%) Hazelcast
4 3 (13.04%) Power BI
4 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
1 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
1 9 (39.13%) JUnit
1 9 (39.13%) Mockito
2 7 (30.43%) Maven
3 6 (26.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (26.09%) DbUnit
3 6 (26.09%) jMock
3 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) JIRA
5 3 (13.04%) GitLab
6 2 (8.70%) JMeter
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (43.48%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Advertising
6 1 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Lead
3 5 (21.74%) Lead Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Analyst
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
6 2 (8.70%) ERP Developer
6 2 (8.70%) ERP Specialist
6 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Support
6 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Spring
2 12 (52.17%) Hibernate
3 11 (47.83%) AngularJS
4 10 (43.48%) REST
4 10 (43.48%) Spring Boot
5 9 (39.13%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (34.78%) SOAP
7 7 (30.43%) .NET
7 7 (30.43%) Bootstrap
7 7 (30.43%) JPA
7 7 (30.43%) RESTful
8 6 (26.09%) HTML
8 6 (26.09%) PowerMock
8 6 (26.09%) Spring Batch
8 6 (26.09%) Spring Integration
9 5 (21.74%) jQuery
9 5 (21.74%) React
10 4 (17.39%) CSS
11 3 (13.04%) Entity Framework
11 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (8.70%) IoT
3 2 (8.70%) Life Science
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
1 15 (65.22%) Microservices
2 12 (52.17%) TDD
3 9 (39.13%) BDD
4 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (30.43%) Open Source
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (26.09%) Kanban
6 5 (21.74%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (21.74%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) ERP
8 3 (13.04%) Project Management
8 3 (13.04%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Java
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 6 (26.09%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Postfix
3 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Kibana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Atlassian
3 3 (13.04%) Infor
4 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (8.70%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Google