Web Services Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 470 309 174
Rank change year-on-year -161 -135 +32
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 111 249 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.87% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% 5.06% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 70 163 555
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,950 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £89,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,126 4,920 13,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.83% 17.12% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,468 10,303
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -38 39 £57,500 -2.95% 11
South East -55 32 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Yorkshire -42 21 £45,000 -1.10% 5
North West -17 18 £57,500 -4.17% 5
East of England -36 17 £76,500 +53.00% 8
Scotland -1 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
South West -72 8 £45,000 -37.49% 11
Wales -25 7 £41,740 +11.31%
West Midlands -48 3 £59,250 +4.23% 4
Midlands -66 3 £59,250 +21.54% 6
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (9.01%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.50%) IIS
4 3 (2.70%) JBoss
5 2 (1.80%) Confluence
5 2 (1.80%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.90%) CMS
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.90%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.80%) Windchill
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.90%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (3.60%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.80%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.90%) Magento
5 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (47.75%) AWS
2 46 (41.44%) Azure
3 21 (18.92%) Serverless
4 18 (16.22%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (12.61%) GitHub
6 12 (10.81%) Boomi
6 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
7 11 (9.91%) GCP
7 11 (9.91%) iPaaS
7 11 (9.91%) Workato
8 10 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon S3
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (7.21%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.41%) Power Automate
12 6 (5.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) SSL
2 3 (2.70%) DHCP
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
2 3 (2.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.80%) Broadband
3 2 (1.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.80%) Mobile Broadband
3 2 (1.80%) Softphone
3 2 (1.80%) VLAN
4 1 (0.90%) FTP
4 1 (0.90%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.90%) L2TP
4 1 (0.90%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) Relational Database
2 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.91%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.41%) Power BI
6 4 (3.60%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (25.23%) Git
2 26 (23.42%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) JUnit
4 7 (6.31%) Mockito
5 5 (4.50%) JMeter
5 5 (4.50%) Selenium
6 4 (3.60%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.70%) JIRA
7 3 (2.70%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.90%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.90%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.90%) GitLab
8 1 (0.90%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.90%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.90%) jMock
8 1 (0.90%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.90%) MSTest
8 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (27.03%) Finance
1 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (7.21%) Law
4 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.60%) Retail
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Legal
6 2 (1.80%) Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Games
7 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (35.14%) Developer
2 21 (18.92%) Lead
2 21 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 19 (17.12%) Analyst
4 16 (14.41%) Java Developer
5 15 (13.51%) Support Analyst
6 14 (12.61%) Lead Software Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Senior
8 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 11 (9.91%) ERP Analyst
8 11 (9.91%) ERP Support
9 9 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) IT Support
11 5 (4.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.04%) REST
2 36 (32.43%) React
3 23 (20.72%) Spring
4 21 (18.92%) Spring Boot
5 17 (15.32%) HTML
6 15 (13.51%) Node.js
7 14 (12.61%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (12.61%) RESTful
7 14 (12.61%) XML
8 11 (9.91%) .NET
9 10 (9.01%) JSON
9 10 (9.01%) SOAP
10 9 (8.11%) Hibernate
11 8 (7.21%) CSS
11 8 (7.21%) Mustache
12 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
12 7 (6.31%) Apache Camel
12 7 (6.31%) JPA
12 7 (6.31%) Kafka
12 7 (6.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Product Ownership
2 19 (17.12%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.71%) e-Learning
4 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.50%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.70%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.80%) DataPower
8 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.80%) iPhone
8 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.90%) Clustering
9 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.90%) PKI
9 1 (0.90%) SCADA
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Linux
1 13 (11.71%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (54.05%) Agile
2 37 (33.33%) Scrum
3 31 (27.93%) CI/CD
3 31 (27.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (25.23%) TDD
6 27 (24.32%) Software Engineering
6 27 (24.32%) User Experience
7 26 (23.42%) DevOps
8 25 (22.52%) Microservices
8 25 (22.52%) Requirements Gathering
9 22 (19.82%) Kanban
9 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (18.92%) Workflow
11 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
12 18 (16.22%) UX Design
13 17 (15.32%) ERP
13 17 (15.32%) OO
13 17 (15.32%) SDLC
13 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 48 (43.24%) JavaScript
2 45 (40.54%) Java
3 37 (33.33%) SQL
4 36 (32.43%) Python
5 23 (20.72%) TypeScript
6 16 (14.41%) C#
7 7 (6.31%) Groovy
8 5 (4.50%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.80%) Delphi
10 2 (1.80%) PHP
10 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.80%) VB
10 2 (1.80%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.80%) VB6
11 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (11.71%) DBS Check
2 10 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.41%) Degree
5 3 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.90%) MCAD
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.90%) OCA
7 1 (0.90%) OCP
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.02%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) SLA
3 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 36 (32.43%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.80%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (26.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.71%) Terraform
3 8 (7.21%) Ansible
3 8 (7.21%) Kibana
4 7 (6.31%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle
3 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.60%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.60%) IBM
4 4 (3.60%) Splunk
5 2 (1.80%) Bomgar
5 2 (1.80%) iManage
5 2 (1.80%) Pega
5 2 (1.80%) WSO2
6 1 (0.90%) Adyen
6 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.90%) Okta
6 1 (0.90%) PTC
6 1 (0.90%) Remedy
6 1 (0.90%) SAP
6 1 (0.90%) Talend
6 1 (0.90%) Veeam