Web Services Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Web Services
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 +38
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 34 96 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.94% 2.22% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.21% 11.02% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 59 51
10th Percentile - £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £73,750 - £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 333 871 892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.20% 20.14% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 220 512 624
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the Thames Valley

Web Services
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Berkshire -27 30 £45,000 -43.75% 7
Oxfordshire +10 2 £58,801 +23.79% 2
Buckinghamshire -13 2 £61,250 +44.12%
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (14.71%) CMS
2 4 (11.76%) JBoss
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.88%) WordPress
4 1 (2.94%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (82.35%) AWS
2 25 (73.53%) Amazon ECS
2 25 (73.53%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (73.53%) Serverless
3 21 (61.76%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.88%) Route 53
6 1 (2.94%) Boomi
6 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DHCP
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) Ethernet
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) SSL
1 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.88%) VLAN
1 2 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (79.41%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (76.47%) Relational Database
3 19 (55.88%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (79.41%) Jenkins
2 25 (73.53%) JUnit
3 21 (61.76%) Mockito
4 19 (55.88%) JMeter
5 8 (23.53%) Git
6 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (5.88%) DbUnit
6 2 (5.88%) JIRA
6 2 (5.88%) jMock
6 2 (5.88%) Maven
6 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (73.53%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Humanities
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (91.18%) Developer
2 27 (79.41%) Java Developer
3 17 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (44.12%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Head of IT
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (2.94%) ERP Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) NetSuite Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (79.41%) Spring
1 27 (79.41%) Spring Boot
2 26 (76.47%) REST
3 23 (67.65%) Apache Camel
4 21 (61.76%) ActiveMQ
4 21 (61.76%) Hibernate
5 19 (55.88%) HTML
5 19 (55.88%) jQuery
5 19 (55.88%) JSON
5 19 (55.88%) WireMock
5 19 (55.88%) XML
6 7 (20.59%) RESTful
6 7 (20.59%) SOAP
7 4 (11.76%) J2EE
8 3 (8.82%) .NET
9 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 2 (5.88%) Bootstrap
9 2 (5.88%) JPA
9 2 (5.88%) Node.js
9 2 (5.88%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (73.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Android
2 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Agile
2 27 (79.41%) Microservices
2 27 (79.41%) TDD
3 25 (73.53%) BDD
4 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
5 20 (58.82%) Workflow
6 19 (55.88%) Process Management
7 18 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (44.12%) SDLC
9 9 (26.47%) Scrum
10 7 (20.59%) Kanban
11 4 (11.76%) DevOps
12 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
12 3 (8.82%) CRM
12 3 (8.82%) Data Management
12 3 (8.82%) Integration Testing
12 3 (8.82%) Migration
12 3 (8.82%) Open Source
12 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) Java
2 23 (67.65%) JavaScript
3 20 (58.82%) Python
3 20 (58.82%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.76%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (82.35%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (76.47%) Kubernetes
2 19 (55.88%) Kibana
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Dynatrace
1 19 (55.88%) Splunk
2 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Dell
3 1 (2.94%) Epicor
3 1 (2.94%) IBM
3 1 (2.94%) IFS
3 1 (2.94%) Infor
3 1 (2.94%) Informatica
3 1 (2.94%) Jitterbit
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) SnapLogic
3 1 (2.94%) Software AG
3 1 (2.94%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.94%) Workday