Web Services Job Trends

Web Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 291 210
Rank change year-on-year -187 -81 -15
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 218 445 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 1.03% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.70% 4.71% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 142 298 848
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,909 £47,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,490 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,792 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 8,086 9,446 18,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 21.97% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,917 6,672 15,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,050 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +10.08% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Web Services
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 16 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 17 March 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
England -163 186 £61,740 +2.90% 80
UK excluding London -145 122 £55,000 -4.35% 69
London -62 85 £75,000 - 29
Work from Home -87 85 £59,625 -0.63% 54
North of England -40 32 £55,000 -7.45% 17
South East -77 28 £65,000 +8.33% 16
East of England -26 19 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -29 17 £46,186 +1.51% 4
North West -24 14 £62,500 +4.66% 9
West Midlands +12 13 £48,500 -16.66% 5
Scotland -21 13 £45,000 -27.67% 8
Midlands -32 13 £48,500 -3.96% 6
South West -56 13 £55,000 -23.60% 9
Wales -23 7 £41,500 +10.67% 6
North East -28 1 £47,372 -20.29% 4
Northern Ireland -36 1 £74,830 +25.91%

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (5.96%) OpenStack
2 12 (5.50%) Appian
3 11 (5.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.29%) Anypoint
4 5 (2.29%) CMS
4 5 (2.29%) IIS
5 4 (1.83%) Confluence
6 3 (1.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.92%) Mendix
7 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.92%) WordPress
8 1 (0.46%) Apache
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.46%) WildFly
Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.46%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (6.88%) Unit4 Business World
2 13 (5.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (4.59%) Maximo
4 5 (2.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 5 (2.29%) Shopify
5 3 (1.38%) Alphatax
5 3 (1.38%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.92%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.92%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.92%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.46%) Magento
7 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 88 (40.37%) Azure
2 60 (27.52%) AWS
3 30 (13.76%) Power Automate
4 27 (12.39%) Boomi
4 27 (12.39%) Power Platform
5 24 (11.01%) Serverless
6 20 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (9.17%) iPaaS
6 20 (9.17%) Workato
7 19 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (6.42%) GCP
10 13 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.96%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.50%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (5.50%) Azure AI
11 12 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.59%) SaaS
13 9 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.67%) DNS
2 7 (3.21%) DHCP
3 6 (2.75%) FTP
3 6 (2.75%) IP Telephony
4 5 (2.29%) Firewall
4 5 (2.29%) PSTN
4 5 (2.29%) SSL
4 5 (2.29%) VLAN
4 5 (2.29%) VoIP
5 4 (1.83%) VPN
6 3 (1.38%) AMQP
6 3 (1.38%) Broadband
6 3 (1.38%) Mobile Broadband
6 3 (1.38%) Softphone
6 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.92%) HTTP
7 2 (0.92%) PBX
7 2 (0.92%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.92%) WAN
7 2 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.60%) SQL Server
2 31 (14.22%) Relational Database
3 27 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.17%) Power BI
5 17 (7.80%) MySQL
6 12 (5.50%) Pinecone
7 11 (5.05%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.59%) DB2
9 7 (3.21%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.29%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.38%) Tableau
13 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
14 1 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
14 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (22.94%) Git
2 22 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.88%) JIRA
4 12 (5.50%) JUnit
4 12 (5.50%) MLflow
5 10 (4.59%) Visual Studio
6 9 (4.13%) Mockito
7 8 (3.67%) JMeter
7 8 (3.67%) Selenium
8 5 (2.29%) PowerBuilder
8 5 (2.29%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.29%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.83%) Postman
10 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.38%) Gradle
10 3 (1.38%) NUnit
10 3 (1.38%) Subversion
10 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.92%) GitLab
11 2 (0.92%) Maven
General
1 71 (32.57%) Finance
2 62 (28.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (3.67%) Law
8 7 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.29%) Legal
10 4 (1.83%) Banking
11 3 (1.38%) Marketing
11 3 (1.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.92%) Billing
12 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Back Office
13 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.46%) French Language
13 1 (0.46%) Games
13 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (33.94%) Developer
2 37 (16.97%) Senior
3 30 (13.76%) Analyst
4 27 (12.39%) Java Developer
5 26 (11.93%) Lead
6 23 (10.55%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) Architect
8 15 (6.88%) 3rd Line Support
8 15 (6.88%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 15 (6.88%) ERP Analyst
8 15 (6.88%) ERP Support
8 15 (6.88%) Support Analyst
9 14 (6.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (6.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.05%) Consultant
11 11 (5.05%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.59%) Business Systems Analyst
12 10 (4.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (45.87%) REST
2 47 (21.56%) SOAP
3 39 (17.89%) React
3 39 (17.89%) RESTful
4 37 (16.97%) HTML
5 36 (16.51%) XML
6 34 (15.60%) Spring
7 30 (13.76%) JSON
8 29 (13.30%) Spring Boot
9 26 (11.93%) .NET
9 26 (11.93%) Node.js
10 22 (10.09%) Django
11 21 (9.63%) CSS
12 17 (7.80%) Hibernate
13 14 (6.42%) OAuth
14 13 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (5.96%) OpenAPI
14 13 (5.96%) Swagger
15 12 (5.50%) JWT
15 12 (5.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
1 22 (10.09%) Low-Code
1 22 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 21 (9.63%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.21%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.29%) IVR
5 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.83%) CMDB
6 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.38%) iPhone
7 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.92%) DataPower
8 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 12 (5.50%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.29%) Unix
4 5 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.83%) Android
6 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (45.87%) Agile
2 59 (27.06%) CI/CD
3 45 (20.64%) Workflow
4 41 (18.81%) Scrum
5 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (17.89%) Requirements Gathering
6 38 (17.43%) Test Automation
7 35 (16.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (16.06%) TDD
8 32 (14.68%) Microservices
9 31 (14.22%) Containerisation
9 31 (14.22%) ERP
9 31 (14.22%) Mentoring
10 29 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.84%) DevOps
12 27 (12.39%) AI
12 27 (12.39%) Migration
12 27 (12.39%) OO
12 27 (12.39%) Software Engineering
13 25 (11.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (40.83%) SQL
2 76 (34.86%) Java
3 64 (29.36%) JavaScript
4 56 (25.69%) Python
5 34 (15.60%) C#
6 21 (9.63%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.80%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.05%) Shell Script
9 9 (4.13%) VB.NET
10 7 (3.21%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.29%) VBA
12 4 (1.83%) C++
12 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.92%) Delphi
13 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.92%) Swift
13 2 (0.92%) VB
13 2 (0.92%) VB6
14 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.01%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.26%) Degree
4 14 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.46%) HNC
8 1 (0.46%) HND
8 1 (0.46%) MCSA
8 1 (0.46%) MCSE
8 1 (0.46%) OCA
8 1 (0.46%) OCP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.80%) QA
2 12 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.92%) NIST
5 2 (0.92%) SLA
5 2 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 51 (23.39%) Docker
2 13 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.38%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (22.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.13%) Ansible
2 9 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (3.67%) Terraform
4 6 (2.75%) Kibana
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.09%) Oracle
3 16 (7.34%) IBM
4 13 (5.96%) MuleSoft
4 13 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.50%) Automation Anywhere
5 12 (5.50%) OpenAI
5 12 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 12 (5.50%) UiPath
6 9 (4.13%) Splunk
7 8 (3.67%) Workday
8 7 (3.21%) SAP
9 6 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.75%) Genesys
9 6 (2.75%) Infor
9 6 (2.75%) Talend
10 5 (2.29%) IFS
10 5 (2.29%) Jitterbit
10 5 (2.29%) TIBCO
10 5 (2.29%) WSO2