Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 194 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 -54 -32
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,546 1,971 4,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.91% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.33% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 885 1,425 2,367
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,450 £97,500 £91,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Web Services is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,033 31,146 63,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.35% 30.11% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,718 19,186 30,317
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,898 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 0 1,251 £57,000 -12.31% 230
UK excluding London +34 1,115 £55,000 - 127
Work from Home -54 555 £57,500 -6.88% 118
London -29 387 £70,000 -10.42% 100
South East 0 320 £57,500 - 38
North of England +64 231 £55,173 +5.09% 29
Midlands +95 197 £52,500 -4.55% 25
Scotland +15 183 £66,250 -4.60% 5
North West +67 167 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East Midlands +85 131 £52,500 +5.00% 13
West Midlands +9 65 £55,000 - 12
East of England -50 65 £35,500 -40.83% 10
South West -53 64 £62,500 +22.55% 11
Yorkshire +48 50 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Northern Ireland +24 31 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Wales +13 24 £32,500 -36.40% 4
North East -8 14 £55,000 +3.05% 5

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 79 (5.11%) IIS
2 53 (3.43%) CMS
3 52 (3.36%) Apache
4 45 (2.91%) JBoss
5 38 (2.46%) OpenStack
5 38 (2.46%) Red Hat Fuse
6 30 (1.94%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.49%) Tomcat
8 22 (1.42%) SAS
9 14 (0.91%) Confluence
10 10 (0.65%) EPiServer
11 8 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.45%) WordPress
13 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.32%) Drupal
14 5 (0.32%) nginx
15 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.26%) NServiceBus
16 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
Applications
1 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.16%) Photoshop
3 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.75%) SDL Web 8
3 25 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
5 14 (0.91%) NEC Housing
6 13 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
6 13 (0.84%) Shopify
7 11 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.52%) Elite 3E
9 5 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
9 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.32%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.19%) R3 Corda
11 3 (0.19%) SAP CX
12 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 606 (39.20%) Azure
2 282 (18.24%) AWS
3 255 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (15.78%) IBM Cloud
5 202 (13.07%) Serverless
6 134 (8.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 133 (8.60%) Azure API Management
7 133 (8.60%) Azure Functions
8 126 (8.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 111 (7.18%) SaaS
10 63 (4.08%) Power Platform
11 53 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.10%) GCP
13 47 (3.04%) GitHub
14 44 (2.85%) PaaS
15 31 (2.01%) IaaS
16 25 (1.62%) PowerApps
17 22 (1.42%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.23%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.46%) Kerberos
2 42 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.88%) HTTP
4 23 (1.49%) Internet
5 21 (1.36%) VPN
6 17 (1.10%) Network Security
7 16 (1.03%) DNS
8 15 (0.97%) SSH
9 14 (0.91%) SSL
10 13 (0.84%) Firewall
10 13 (0.84%) SNMP
11 10 (0.65%) SMTP
12 8 (0.52%) MQTT
13 4 (0.26%) 5G
13 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.26%) LAN
13 4 (0.26%) RS-232
13 4 (0.26%) WAN
13 4 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (24.64%) NoSQL
2 376 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
3 340 (21.99%) SQL Server
4 273 (17.66%) MongoDB
5 268 (17.34%) Relational Database
6 240 (15.52%) DB2
7 117 (7.57%) MySQL
8 70 (4.53%) Metadata
9 45 (2.91%) Power BI
10 39 (2.52%) Oracle Database
11 38 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 34 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.94%) MS Access
14 23 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 20 (1.29%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 9 (0.58%) Big Data
19 9 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 349 (22.57%) Git
2 181 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 141 (9.12%) Visual Studio
4 99 (6.40%) JIRA
5 81 (5.24%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.20%) Artifactory
7 39 (2.52%) Selenium
8 37 (2.39%) TeamCity
9 33 (2.13%) IntelliJ
9 33 (2.13%) Postman
10 32 (2.07%) Moq
11 31 (2.01%) JUnit
12 30 (1.94%) NUnit
13 29 (1.88%) Eclipse
14 28 (1.81%) Jasmine
14 28 (1.81%) Karma Test Runner
15 23 (1.49%) GitLab
15 23 (1.49%) JMeter
15 23 (1.49%) Maven
16 21 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 394 (25.49%) Finance
2 339 (21.93%) Public Sector
3 313 (20.25%) Social Skills
4 288 (18.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (10.87%) Marketing
6 165 (10.67%) Law
7 84 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
8 82 (5.30%) Retail
9 72 (4.66%) Legal
10 59 (3.82%) Banking
11 26 (1.68%) Local Government
11 26 (1.68%) Police
12 24 (1.55%) Publishing
13 21 (1.36%) Back Office
14 18 (1.16%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.84%) Electronics
15 13 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.71%) Billing
16 11 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 803 (51.94%) Developer
2 309 (19.99%) Senior
3 266 (17.21%) Software Engineer
4 242 (15.65%) Full Stack Developer
5 174 (11.25%) Senior Developer
6 169 (10.93%) Full Stack Engineer
7 167 (10.80%) Lead
8 134 (8.67%) Azure Developer
9 114 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
10 110 (7.12%) .NET Developer
11 103 (6.66%) C# Developer
12 92 (5.95%) Java Engineer
13 89 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 88 (5.69%) Architect
14 88 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
14 88 (5.69%) Lead Software Engineer
15 79 (5.11%) Java Developer
16 62 (4.01%) Software Developer
17 55 (3.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 51 (3.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 694 (44.89%) .NET
2 686 (44.37%) REST
3 639 (41.33%) HTML
4 569 (36.80%) CSS
5 531 (34.35%) AngularJS
6 464 (30.01%) ASP.NET
7 454 (29.37%) XML
8 381 (24.64%) React
9 379 (24.51%) RESTful
10 346 (22.38%) JSON
11 343 (22.19%) jQuery
12 325 (21.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 319 (20.63%) SOAP
14 314 (20.31%) Vue
15 261 (16.88%) ASP.NET Core
16 251 (16.24%) Node.js
17 238 (15.39%) Backbone.js
17 238 (15.39%) Ember.js
18 192 (12.42%) Spring
19 142 (9.18%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 324 (20.96%) Algorithms
2 264 (17.08%) Data Structures
3 253 (16.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 247 (15.98%) Blockchain
5 147 (9.51%) Management Information System
6 114 (7.37%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.11%) Reference Data
8 71 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (4.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 60 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
10 60 (3.88%) Onboarding
11 58 (3.75%) CMDB
12 52 (3.36%) Cloud Native
13 39 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
14 29 (1.88%) Product Ownership
15 28 (1.81%) Legacy Code
16 26 (1.68%) Public Cloud
17 25 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
18 23 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
19 18 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 356 (23.03%) Linux
2 311 (20.12%) Windows
3 268 (17.34%) Android
4 252 (16.30%) Apple iOS
5 38 (2.46%) Unix
6 27 (1.75%) AIX
7 14 (0.91%) Solaris
8 9 (0.58%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Windows Mobile
11 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.065%) CentOS
13 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (45.54%) Agile
2 484 (31.31%) MVC
3 481 (31.11%) Full Stack Development
4 418 (27.04%) DevOps
5 399 (25.81%) OO
6 367 (23.74%) Software Engineering
7 352 (22.77%) OOP
8 336 (21.73%) Design Patterns
9 326 (21.09%) User Experience
10 315 (20.38%) Mentoring
10 315 (20.38%) SOLID
11 314 (20.31%) Web Development
12 304 (19.66%) Artificial Intelligence
13 287 (18.56%) CI/CD
14 275 (17.79%) Responsive Web Design
15 260 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
16 249 (16.11%) MVVM
17 242 (15.65%) Design Thinking
18 238 (15.39%) Co-Creation
19 237 (15.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 765 (49.48%) JavaScript
2 745 (48.19%) SQL
3 670 (43.34%) C#
4 463 (29.95%) Java
5 288 (18.63%) Python
6 147 (9.51%) T-SQL
7 130 (8.41%) Go
8 108 (6.99%) TypeScript
9 92 (5.95%) PHP
10 65 (4.20%) Prolog
10 65 (4.20%) SPARQL
11 63 (4.08%) VB
12 61 (3.95%) VB.NET
13 60 (3.88%) PowerShell
14 44 (2.85%) C
15 40 (2.59%) Shell Script
15 40 (2.59%) XPath
16 38 (2.46%) C++
17 28 (1.81%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.81%) VB6
Qualifications
1 212 (13.71%) Degree
2 150 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 130 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 69 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 27 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 12 (0.78%) CISSP
11 11 (0.71%) MBA
11 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.71%) PhD
12 9 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.45%) CISM
13 7 (0.45%) GIAC
14 6 (0.39%) HNC
14 6 (0.39%) SANS
15 5 (0.32%) MCAD
16 4 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.18%) QA
2 53 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.23%) NIST
4 16 (1.03%) GDPR
5 14 (0.91%) COBIT
6 12 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.39%) SLA
9 6 (0.39%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.32%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) DICOM
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.065%) EMIR
13 1 (0.065%) MiFID
13 1 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 188 (12.16%) Docker
2 85 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.45%) Firmware
4 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.065%) etcd
7 1 (0.065%) RACF
7 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 113 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.75%) Ansible
3 44 (2.85%) Terraform
4 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.84%) WMI
6 7 (0.45%) HP UCMDB
7 6 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 5 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (0.32%) Kibana
8 5 (0.32%) Puppet
9 4 (0.26%) Consul
9 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.26%) Suricata
10 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.19%) Grafana
10 3 (0.19%) MIIS
11 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 270 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 249 (16.11%) IBM
3 245 (15.85%) Red Hat
4 146 (9.44%) Oracle
5 68 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.23%) Google
7 38 (2.46%) WSO2
8 36 (2.33%) HP
9 34 (2.20%) Adobe
10 32 (2.07%) BMC
10 32 (2.07%) Remedy
11 24 (1.55%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.42%) Splunk
13 18 (1.16%) VMware
14 14 (0.91%) Cognizant
14 14 (0.91%) NEC
15 13 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.71%) Twitter
17 10 (0.65%) Atlassian
17 10 (0.65%) Xamarin