Web Services Jobs

Web Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 193 195
Rank change year-on-year -135 +2 -59
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 431 1,528 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.55% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.07% 7.26% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 301 881 1,447
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,140 £46,250 £50,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £88,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Web Services.

Salary trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -120 386 £60,000 +5.26% 321
UK excluding London -132 262 £57,500 +4.55% 183
Work from Home -30 201 £62,500 +8.70% 181
London -44 165 £75,000 +7.14% 166
South East -66 78 £60,000 +4.35% 39
North of England -86 43 £58,000 +5.12% 42
South West +93 42 £78,622 +28.36% 19
East of England +32 39 £50,000 +40.85% 21
Midlands -69 35 £47,500 -9.52% 29
North West -96 29 £58,500 -2.50% 26
West Midlands +9 21 £51,844 -5.74% 19
East Midlands -50 14 £47,500 -9.52% 10
Scotland -16 12 £65,000 -1.89% 27
Yorkshire +31 11 £65,376 +24.53% 12
Wales +25 9 £37,500 +15.38% 3
Northern Ireland +9 4 - - 5
North East +41 3 £52,500 -4.55% 4

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (4.64%) Confluence
2 14 (3.25%) CMS
3 12 (2.78%) JBoss
3 12 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
4 11 (2.55%) Tomcat
5 9 (2.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.39%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.16%) Apache
7 5 (1.16%) IIS
7 5 (1.16%) NetWeaver
7 5 (1.16%) nginx
8 4 (0.93%) CICS
8 4 (0.93%) WordPress
9 3 (0.70%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.70%) Mule
9 3 (0.70%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (4.64%) NetSuite
2 15 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.55%) JDE OneWorld
4 7 (1.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 7 (1.62%) Orchestrade
5 5 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.46%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
7 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 2 (0.46%) Maximo
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.46%) Shopify
7 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.23%) Endur
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.23%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 124 (28.77%) Azure
2 121 (28.07%) AWS
3 53 (12.30%) Serverless
4 36 (8.35%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.12%) GCP
6 29 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (6.03%) GitHub
9 23 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (4.87%) Boomi
10 21 (4.87%) SaaS
11 19 (4.41%) Power Automate
12 18 (4.18%) npm
12 18 (4.18%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.32%) PaaS
15 9 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.32%) FTP
2 6 (1.39%) DNS
3 4 (0.93%) Firewall
3 4 (0.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.70%) DHCP
4 3 (0.70%) HTTP
4 3 (0.70%) SSL
5 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) Network Security
6 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.23%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (20.42%) SQL Server
2 67 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (14.85%) Relational Database
4 56 (12.99%) MySQL
5 27 (6.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (5.57%) RDBMS
7 23 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (4.87%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.71%) Power BI
10 12 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.55%) Redis
12 10 (2.32%) BusinessObjects
13 9 (2.09%) DB2
13 9 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.09%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.09%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (1.16%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 138 (32.02%) Git
2 70 (16.24%) Jenkins
3 45 (10.44%) JIRA
4 41 (9.51%) JUnit
5 27 (6.26%) JMeter
6 25 (5.80%) Mockito
7 19 (4.41%) Postman
8 18 (4.18%) Cypress.io
8 18 (4.18%) webpack
9 17 (3.94%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.94%) Visual Studio
10 14 (3.25%) Maven
10 14 (3.25%) Selenium
10 14 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (3.02%) SoapUI
11 13 (3.02%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.78%) GitLab
13 10 (2.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (2.32%) TeamCity
14 9 (2.09%) Subversion
General
1 107 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 95 (22.04%) Finance
3 44 (10.21%) Retail
4 42 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.74%) Banking
5 41 (9.51%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.71%) Marketing
7 14 (3.25%) Law
8 13 (3.02%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.86%) General Ledger
10 7 (1.62%) Back Office
10 7 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.39%) Advertising
11 6 (1.39%) Automotive
12 5 (1.16%) Agriculture
12 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.70%) Games
14 3 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 225 (52.20%) Developer
2 103 (23.90%) Senior
3 53 (12.30%) Java Developer
4 48 (11.14%) Senior Developer
5 45 (10.44%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.05%) Lead
7 37 (8.58%) Analyst
8 29 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (6.03%) .NET Developer
10 24 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (4.64%) NetSuite Developer
12 19 (4.41%) C# Developer
13 18 (4.18%) Architect
14 15 (3.48%) ServiceNow Developer
14 15 (3.48%) Software Developer
15 14 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.02%) Consultant
16 13 (3.02%) Junior
16 13 (3.02%) SQL Analyst
17 12 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (44.32%) REST
2 142 (32.95%) HTML
3 121 (28.07%) SOAP
4 108 (25.06%) CSS
5 106 (24.59%) RESTful
6 89 (20.65%) XML
7 87 (20.19%) JSON
8 86 (19.95%) .NET
9 65 (15.08%) Spring
10 60 (13.92%) Spring Boot
11 59 (13.69%) React
12 55 (12.76%) jQuery
13 47 (10.90%) AngularJS
14 46 (10.67%) ASP.NET
15 42 (9.74%) Hibernate
16 39 (9.05%) .NET Framework
17 35 (8.12%) Node.js
18 33 (7.66%) CSS3
19 31 (7.19%) Apache Camel
20 30 (6.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.71%) CMDB
3 16 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (3.71%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.02%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (2.32%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.09%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.93%) CUDA
12 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.14%) Linux
2 24 (5.57%) Windows
3 16 (3.71%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.32%) Android
5 9 (2.09%) Unix
6 5 (1.16%) AIX
6 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.93%) zOS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (47.80%) Agile
2 116 (26.91%) Microservices
3 97 (22.51%) CI/CD
4 96 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (18.56%) DevOps
6 74 (17.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 69 (16.01%) MVC
7 69 (16.01%) Scrum
7 69 (16.01%) TDD
8 67 (15.55%) Software Engineering
9 55 (12.76%) OOP
10 53 (12.30%) Test Automation
11 44 (10.21%) SDLC
12 43 (9.98%) OO
13 41 (9.51%) BDD
13 41 (9.51%) Collaborative Working
13 41 (9.51%) Kanban
13 41 (9.51%) User Experience
14 39 (9.05%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (8.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 191 (44.32%) JavaScript
2 165 (38.28%) SQL
3 124 (28.77%) C#
4 105 (24.36%) Java
5 60 (13.92%) Python
6 53 (12.30%) TypeScript
7 33 (7.66%) PHP
8 26 (6.03%) T-SQL
9 23 (5.34%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.64%) Shell Script
11 12 (2.78%) C
12 11 (2.55%) Bash
13 9 (2.09%) C++
13 9 (2.09%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.39%) Swift
15 5 (1.16%) Apex Code
15 5 (1.16%) Groovy
16 4 (0.93%) COBOL
17 3 (0.70%) Go
17 3 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (13.23%) Degree
2 49 (11.37%) Security Cleared
3 43 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.62%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Leader
11 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.23%) PMP
11 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.42%) QA
2 19 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.25%) SLA
4 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.70%) GDPR
6 2 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 94 (21.81%) Docker
2 7 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.70%) Squid
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Postfix
5 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (17.63%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.18%) Kibana
3 15 (3.48%) Ansible
4 13 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.39%) Terraform
6 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (0.93%) CA Endevor
8 3 (0.70%) Control-M
8 3 (0.70%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.46%) MAINVIEW
9 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.42%) Oracle
3 28 (6.50%) ServiceNow
4 22 (5.10%) Splunk
5 19 (4.41%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.25%) Ping Identity
7 14 (3.25%) SAP
8 13 (3.02%) IBM
9 12 (2.78%) Dell
10 11 (2.55%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.62%) VMware
12 6 (1.39%) Twitter
13 5 (1.16%) Apple
13 5 (1.16%) Google
14 4 (0.93%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.93%) HP
14 4 (0.93%) NVIDIA
14 4 (0.93%) Workday
15 3 (0.70%) CA Agile Central