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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 198 137
Rank change year-on-year -4 -61 -27
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,498 2,024 4,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 1.92% 2.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 6.32% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 875 1,471 2,397
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,063 £50,000 £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 £70,500 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £92,500
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 21,029 32,044 61,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.47% 30.37% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,742 19,614 30,454
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,234 £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 £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -5 1,204 £57,000 -12.31% 223
UK excluding London +23 1,075 £55,000 - 132
Work from Home -58 538 £57,500 -4.17% 115
London -26 382 £70,000 -10.42% 88
South East -3 301 £57,500 - 38
North of England +71 226 £55,173 +5.09% 32
Scotland +21 184 £66,250 -2.05% 5
Midlands +65 178 £52,500 -4.55% 30
North West +63 162 £60,000 +4.35% 19
East Midlands +73 117 £52,500 +5.00% 16
East of England -46 66 £35,500 -40.83% 10
South West -46 65 £60,000 +20.00% 12
West Midlands +11 60 £55,000 - 14
Yorkshire +48 50 £52,500 +16.67% 11
Northern Ireland +25 31 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Wales +6 24 £32,500 -43.48% 3
North East +5 14 £55,000 +0.24% 2

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 66 (4.41%) IIS
2 52 (3.47%) CMS
3 46 (3.07%) JBoss
4 39 (2.60%) OpenStack
4 39 (2.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 38 (2.54%) Apache
6 32 (2.14%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.47%) SAS
8 14 (0.93%) Confluence
9 11 (0.73%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.67%) EPiServer
11 8 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.47%) WordPress
13 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.33%) Drupal
14 5 (0.33%) nginx
15 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
15 4 (0.27%) NServiceBus
16 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
Applications
1 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.20%) Photoshop
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.80%) SDL Web 8
3 26 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.87%) Adobe Campaign
5 13 (0.87%) Shopify
6 11 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.60%) Elite 3E
8 7 (0.47%) BusinessWorks
9 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.33%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.20%) R3 Corda
11 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
12 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
12 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 571 (38.12%) Azure
2 280 (18.69%) AWS
3 240 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 216 (14.42%) IBM Cloud
5 192 (12.82%) Serverless
6 123 (8.21%) Azure Service Bus
7 122 (8.14%) Azure API Management
7 122 (8.14%) Azure Functions
8 115 (7.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 113 (7.54%) SaaS
10 61 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 54 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (3.27%) GCP
13 47 (3.14%) GitHub
14 44 (2.94%) PaaS
15 31 (2.07%) IaaS
16 22 (1.47%) PowerApps
17 20 (1.34%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.27%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.61%) Kerberos
2 42 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 30 (2.00%) HTTP
4 23 (1.54%) Internet
5 21 (1.40%) VPN
6 17 (1.13%) Network Security
7 15 (1.00%) DNS
7 15 (1.00%) SSH
7 15 (1.00%) SSL
8 13 (0.87%) SNMP
9 11 (0.73%) Firewall
10 10 (0.67%) SMTP
11 8 (0.53%) MQTT
12 4 (0.27%) 5G
12 4 (0.27%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.27%) LAN
12 4 (0.27%) RS-232
12 4 (0.27%) WAN
12 4 (0.27%) WLAN
13 3 (0.20%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (23.30%) NoSQL
2 343 (22.90%) SQL Server
3 341 (22.76%) PostgreSQL
4 260 (17.36%) Relational Database
5 244 (16.29%) MongoDB
6 212 (14.15%) DB2
7 117 (7.81%) MySQL
8 70 (4.67%) Metadata
9 45 (3.00%) Power BI
10 37 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 37 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 30 (2.00%) MS Access
12 26 (1.74%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.54%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.27%) DynamoDB
15 15 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 9 (0.60%) Big Data
17 9 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 338 (22.56%) Git
2 183 (12.22%) Jenkins
3 142 (9.48%) Visual Studio
4 98 (6.54%) JIRA
5 82 (5.47%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.34%) Artifactory
7 43 (2.87%) Selenium
8 37 (2.47%) TeamCity
9 34 (2.27%) Postman
10 33 (2.20%) JUnit
11 31 (2.07%) IntelliJ
11 31 (2.07%) Moq
12 30 (2.00%) NUnit
13 29 (1.94%) Eclipse
14 28 (1.87%) Jasmine
14 28 (1.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 24 (1.60%) JMeter
16 23 (1.54%) Maven
17 22 (1.47%) Cypress.io
17 22 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 374 (24.97%) Finance
2 304 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 299 (19.96%) Public Sector
4 270 (18.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 167 (11.15%) Marketing
6 165 (11.01%) Law
7 86 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
8 81 (5.41%) Retail
9 72 (4.81%) Legal
10 59 (3.94%) Banking
11 24 (1.60%) Publishing
12 19 (1.27%) Back Office
13 18 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.87%) Electronics
14 13 (0.87%) French Language
14 13 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.80%) Local Government
16 11 (0.73%) Billing
16 11 (0.73%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 785 (52.40%) Developer
2 309 (20.63%) Senior
3 266 (17.76%) Software Engineer
4 233 (15.55%) Full Stack Developer
5 173 (11.55%) Senior Developer
6 167 (11.15%) Lead
7 152 (10.15%) Full Stack Engineer
8 123 (8.21%) Azure Developer
9 108 (7.21%) .NET Developer
10 102 (6.81%) C# Developer
11 100 (6.68%) Azure Engineer
12 90 (6.01%) Java Engineer
13 89 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
14 88 (5.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 87 (5.81%) Architect
15 87 (5.81%) Lead Software Engineer
16 82 (5.47%) Java Developer
17 60 (4.01%) Software Developer
18 55 (3.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 50 (3.34%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 663 (44.26%) .NET
2 654 (43.66%) REST
3 617 (41.19%) HTML
4 543 (36.25%) CSS
5 505 (33.71%) AngularJS
6 455 (30.37%) XML
7 434 (28.97%) ASP.NET
8 377 (25.17%) RESTful
9 356 (23.77%) React
10 345 (23.03%) JSON
11 326 (21.76%) SOAP
12 314 (20.96%) jQuery
13 296 (19.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 288 (19.23%) Vue
15 243 (16.22%) Node.js
16 232 (15.49%) ASP.NET Core
17 210 (14.02%) Backbone.js
17 210 (14.02%) Ember.js
18 188 (12.55%) Spring
19 139 (9.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 296 (19.76%) Algorithms
2 234 (15.62%) Data Structures
3 224 (14.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 219 (14.62%) Blockchain
5 144 (9.61%) Management Information System
6 97 (6.48%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.27%) Reference Data
8 72 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (4.67%) Enterprise Cloud
10 62 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (4.14%) Onboarding
11 59 (3.94%) CMDB
12 50 (3.34%) Cloud Native
13 38 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.87%) Legacy Code
14 28 (1.87%) Product Ownership
15 24 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.34%) Mobile App
17 18 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 314 (20.96%) Linux
2 268 (17.89%) Windows
3 241 (16.09%) Android
4 225 (15.02%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.80%) AIX
6 24 (1.60%) Unix
7 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.33%) Windows Mobile
10 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.067%) CentOS
12 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.067%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (45.13%) Agile
2 456 (30.44%) Full Stack Development
2 456 (30.44%) MVC
3 402 (26.84%) DevOps
4 373 (24.90%) OO
5 364 (24.30%) Software Engineering
6 326 (21.76%) OOP
7 307 (20.49%) Design Patterns
8 298 (19.89%) User Experience
9 295 (19.69%) Mentoring
10 285 (19.03%) SOLID
11 284 (18.96%) Web Development
12 279 (18.62%) CI/CD
13 275 (18.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 259 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
15 247 (16.49%) Responsive Web Design
16 236 (15.75%) SDLC
17 221 (14.75%) MVVM
18 214 (14.29%) Design Thinking
19 211 (14.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 748 (49.93%) JavaScript
2 721 (48.13%) SQL
3 642 (42.86%) C#
4 458 (30.57%) Java
5 277 (18.49%) Python
6 151 (10.08%) T-SQL
7 126 (8.41%) Go
8 108 (7.21%) TypeScript
9 93 (6.21%) PHP
10 65 (4.34%) Prolog
10 65 (4.34%) SPARQL
11 62 (4.14%) VB
12 61 (4.07%) VB.NET
13 60 (4.01%) PowerShell
14 44 (2.94%) C
15 41 (2.74%) XPath
16 37 (2.47%) C++
17 30 (2.00%) PL/SQL
18 28 (1.87%) VB6
19 27 (1.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 197 (13.15%) Degree
2 142 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 137 (9.15%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 25 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 11 (0.73%) MBA
10 11 (0.73%) PhD
11 10 (0.67%) CISSP
11 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.47%) SANS
13 6 (0.40%) CISM
13 6 (0.40%) GIAC
13 6 (0.40%) HNC
14 5 (0.33%) MCAD
15 4 (0.27%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.34%) QA
2 39 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.27%) NIST
4 15 (1.00%) GDPR
5 13 (0.87%) COBIT
6 11 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.40%) SLA
9 6 (0.40%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 4 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.27%) PMO
11 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.13%) DICOM
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.067%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.067%) WCAG
System Software
1 182 (12.15%) Docker
2 86 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.94%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.47%) Firmware
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.13%) RACF
6 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.067%) ACF2
7 1 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.067%) etcd
7 1 (0.067%) IAG
7 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.067%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 113 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.87%) Ansible
3 44 (2.94%) Terraform
4 19 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.87%) WMI
6 8 (0.53%) HP UCMDB
7 6 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.40%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (0.33%) Puppet
9 4 (0.27%) Consul
9 4 (0.27%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) MIIS
10 3 (0.20%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 253 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 221 (14.75%) IBM
3 217 (14.49%) Red Hat
4 135 (9.01%) Oracle
5 71 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 49 (3.27%) Google
7 39 (2.60%) WSO2
8 38 (2.54%) HP
9 34 (2.27%) Adobe
9 34 (2.27%) BMC
9 34 (2.27%) Remedy
10 24 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.40%) Splunk
12 18 (1.20%) VMware
13 14 (0.93%) Cognizant
14 13 (0.87%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.73%) SAP
15 11 (0.73%) Twitter
16 10 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.67%) Xamarin