Web Services Job Trends in the South East

Web Services
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 195 140
Rank change year-on-year -55 -55 -4
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 32 78 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 1.01% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% 6.46% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11 35 175
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £71,750 £80,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year +8.33% +8.75% -15.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,352 1,208 3,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.42% 15.65% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 864 2,474
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £83,750 £84,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the South East

Web Services
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Thames Valley -22 22 £60,000 - 9
Berkshire -28 19 £83,750 +34.00% 5
Kent -35 5 £65,000 +66.67% 1
Oxfordshire -2 2 £42,500 -29.17% 2
Surrey -24 2 £65,000 - 2
Hampshire -23 1 £74,000 -22.11% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (18.75%) OpenStack
2 4 (12.50%) IIS
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) JBoss
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) PTC Creo
1 1 (3.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 19 (59.38%) Azure
3 14 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (43.75%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (43.75%) Serverless
4 9 (28.13%) GCP
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (15.63%) Figma
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub
5 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Fabric
8 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) IP Telephony
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) Relational Database
2 13 (40.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (56.25%) Git
2 15 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 9 (28.13%) JUnit
4 7 (21.88%) Mockito
5 4 (12.50%) JMeter
6 2 (6.25%) JIRA
7 1 (3.13%) GitLab
7 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Backend Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Support
7 2 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (75.00%) REST
2 17 (53.13%) Spring
2 17 (53.13%) Spring Boot
3 16 (50.00%) React
4 10 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (21.88%) Hibernate
5 7 (21.88%) JPA
5 7 (21.88%) WireMock
6 6 (18.75%) Mustache
6 6 (18.75%) Node.js
6 6 (18.75%) RESTful
7 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (15.63%) Apache Camel
7 5 (15.63%) Django
7 5 (15.63%) HTML
7 5 (15.63%) JSON
7 5 (15.63%) Kafka
7 5 (15.63%) Twisted
7 5 (15.63%) WebSockets
8 4 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (15.63%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.13%) Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) TDD
3 17 (53.13%) Microservices
4 13 (40.63%) Scrum
5 12 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (34.38%) DevOps
6 11 (34.38%) SDLC
7 10 (31.25%) Code Quality
8 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
8 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
9 8 (25.00%) BDD
10 7 (21.88%) Domain-Driven Design
10 7 (21.88%) High Availability
11 5 (15.63%) Kanban
11 5 (15.63%) SBOM
11 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
11 5 (15.63%) User Experience
11 5 (15.63%) UX Design
11 5 (15.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Java
2 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (28.13%) Python
4 7 (21.88%) SQL
5 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
5 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.25%) Delphi
8 2 (6.25%) VB
8 2 (6.25%) VB6
9 1 (3.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) MCAD
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.00%) Kibana
3 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 5 (15.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.50%) IBM
3 4 (12.50%) Splunk
4 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) BMC
5 1 (3.13%) Genesys
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) PTC
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow