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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 202 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 -61 -31
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,544 1,893 4,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.88% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.32% 6.24% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1,369 2,325
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,125 £50,500 £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 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £91,250
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 21,085 30,349 64,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.08% 40.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,771 18,723 29,931
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 11 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 11 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 +3 1,253 £55,173 -15.12% 206
UK excluding London +28 1,114 £55,000 - 127
Work from Home -46 564 £57,500 -5.54% 118
London -33 384 £65,000 -16.82% 82
South East +3 325 £57,500 - 32
North of England +57 235 £55,173 +5.09% 34
Midlands +73 197 £52,500 -4.55% 27
Scotland +15 180 £65,000 -6.40% 5
North West +58 173 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East Midlands +75 129 £52,500 +5.00% 13
West Midlands 0 67 £55,000 - 14
East of England -45 65 £35,500 -40.83% 7
South West -58 59 £62,500 +19.62% 10
Yorkshire +44 48 £52,500 +16.67% 12
Northern Ireland +25 30 £48,500 +7.78% 7
Wales +7 25 £32,500 -36.40% 5
North East -4 14 £55,000 +1.40% 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 88 (5.70%) IIS
2 61 (3.95%) Apache
3 54 (3.50%) CMS
4 38 (2.46%) OpenStack
5 32 (2.07%) Tomcat
6 29 (1.88%) JBoss
6 29 (1.88%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 22 (1.42%) SAS
8 15 (0.97%) Confluence
9 10 (0.65%) EPiServer
10 8 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.45%) WordPress
12 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.32%) Drupal
14 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
14 4 (0.26%) nginx
15 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
16 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
Applications
1 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Photoshop
3 14 (0.91%) 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 30 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.75%) SDL Web 8
3 24 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 24 (1.55%) NEC Housing
4 20 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
6 12 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
6 12 (0.78%) Shopify
7 7 (0.45%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.32%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.26%) BusinessWorks
9 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.19%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.13%) R3 Corda
11 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
11 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 614 (39.77%) Azure
2 287 (18.59%) AWS
3 259 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (15.80%) IBM Cloud
5 202 (13.08%) Serverless
6 133 (8.61%) Azure Functions
6 133 (8.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 131 (8.48%) Azure API Management
8 126 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 104 (6.74%) SaaS
10 63 (4.08%) Power Platform
11 53 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (3.11%) GCP
13 46 (2.98%) GitHub
14 41 (2.66%) PaaS
15 29 (1.88%) IaaS
16 26 (1.68%) PowerApps
17 24 (1.55%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.23%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.47%) Kerberos
2 43 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 32 (2.07%) HTTP
4 21 (1.36%) Internet
5 20 (1.30%) VPN
6 17 (1.10%) Network Security
7 16 (1.04%) DNS
8 15 (0.97%) SSH
9 14 (0.91%) Firewall
10 13 (0.84%) SNMP
10 13 (0.84%) SSL
11 10 (0.65%) SMTP
12 9 (0.58%) MQTT
13 5 (0.32%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.26%) 5G
14 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.26%) LAN
14 4 (0.26%) RS-232
14 4 (0.26%) WAN
14 4 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (24.87%) NoSQL
2 380 (24.61%) PostgreSQL
3 344 (22.28%) SQL Server
4 274 (17.75%) MongoDB
5 268 (17.36%) Relational Database
6 240 (15.54%) DB2
7 118 (7.64%) MySQL
8 70 (4.53%) Metadata
9 48 (3.11%) Oracle Database
10 45 (2.91%) Power BI
11 38 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 33 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.94%) MS Access
14 23 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.42%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
18 13 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 11 (0.71%) Redis
20 9 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 356 (23.06%) Git
2 180 (11.66%) Jenkins
3 139 (9.00%) Visual Studio
4 100 (6.48%) JIRA
5 80 (5.18%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.21%) Artifactory
7 36 (2.33%) TeamCity
8 34 (2.20%) Moq
8 34 (2.20%) Selenium
9 32 (2.07%) Postman
10 30 (1.94%) JUnit
11 29 (1.88%) Eclipse
11 29 (1.88%) NUnit
12 28 (1.81%) Jasmine
12 28 (1.81%) Karma Test Runner
13 23 (1.49%) GitLab
14 22 (1.42%) JMeter
14 22 (1.42%) Maven
15 20 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
15 20 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 405 (26.23%) Finance
2 334 (21.63%) Public Sector
3 323 (20.92%) Social Skills
4 288 (18.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (10.75%) Marketing
6 162 (10.49%) Law
7 88 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
8 83 (5.38%) Retail
9 67 (4.34%) Legal
10 56 (3.63%) Banking
11 37 (2.40%) Police
12 36 (2.33%) Local Government
13 23 (1.49%) Back Office
13 23 (1.49%) Publishing
14 16 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.97%) Electronics
16 13 (0.84%) Billing
16 13 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 805 (52.14%) Developer
2 292 (18.91%) Senior
3 251 (16.26%) Software Engineer
4 236 (15.28%) Full Stack Developer
5 173 (11.20%) Senior Developer
6 170 (11.01%) Full Stack Engineer
7 165 (10.69%) Lead
8 135 (8.74%) Azure Developer
9 112 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
10 107 (6.93%) C# Developer
11 106 (6.87%) .NET Developer
12 88 (5.70%) Architect
12 88 (5.70%) Lead Software Engineer
13 77 (4.99%) Java Developer
14 75 (4.86%) Java Engineer
14 75 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 71 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
16 64 (4.15%) Software Developer
17 55 (3.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
18 51 (3.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 704 (45.60%) .NET
2 679 (43.98%) REST
3 641 (41.52%) HTML
4 572 (37.05%) CSS
5 517 (33.48%) AngularJS
6 465 (30.12%) ASP.NET
7 437 (28.30%) XML
8 378 (24.48%) React
9 362 (23.45%) RESTful
10 345 (22.34%) jQuery
11 329 (21.31%) JSON
12 327 (21.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 312 (20.21%) Vue
14 297 (19.24%) SOAP
15 261 (16.90%) ASP.NET Core
16 247 (16.00%) Node.js
17 238 (15.41%) Backbone.js
17 238 (15.41%) Ember.js
18 176 (11.40%) Spring
19 144 (9.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 324 (20.98%) Algorithms
2 264 (17.10%) Data Structures
3 252 (16.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 245 (15.87%) Blockchain
5 145 (9.39%) Management Information System
6 114 (7.38%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.12%) Reference Data
8 72 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (4.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 60 (3.89%) Onboarding
11 58 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
12 57 (3.69%) CMDB
13 53 (3.43%) Cloud Native
14 39 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
15 36 (2.33%) Public Cloud
16 34 (2.20%) Product Ownership
17 28 (1.81%) Legacy Code
18 26 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
19 23 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
20 19 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 367 (23.77%) Linux
2 323 (20.92%) Windows
3 267 (17.29%) Android
4 251 (16.26%) Apple iOS
5 48 (3.11%) Unix
6 27 (1.75%) AIX
7 24 (1.55%) Solaris
8 9 (0.58%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.32%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.065%) CentOS
12 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (44.88%) Agile
2 483 (31.28%) MVC
3 478 (30.96%) Full Stack Development
4 422 (27.33%) DevOps
5 400 (25.91%) OO
6 356 (23.06%) Software Engineering
7 354 (22.93%) OOP
8 336 (21.76%) Design Patterns
9 315 (20.40%) SOLID
10 314 (20.34%) Web Development
11 310 (20.08%) User Experience
12 306 (19.82%) Artificial Intelligence
13 302 (19.56%) Mentoring
14 289 (18.72%) CI/CD
15 275 (17.81%) Responsive Web Design
16 249 (16.13%) MVVM
17 248 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
18 242 (15.67%) Design Thinking
19 238 (15.41%) Co-Creation
20 235 (15.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 758 (49.09%) JavaScript
2 751 (48.64%) SQL
3 677 (43.85%) C#
4 446 (28.89%) Java
5 286 (18.52%) Python
6 143 (9.26%) T-SQL
7 131 (8.48%) Go
8 107 (6.93%) TypeScript
9 92 (5.96%) PHP
10 65 (4.21%) Prolog
10 65 (4.21%) SPARQL
11 63 (4.08%) VB
11 63 (4.08%) VB.NET
12 58 (3.76%) PowerShell
13 50 (3.24%) Shell Script
14 44 (2.85%) C
15 40 (2.59%) XPath
16 38 (2.46%) C++
17 28 (1.81%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.81%) VB6
Qualifications
1 227 (14.70%) Degree
2 140 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 14 (0.91%) CISSP
10 12 (0.78%) PhD
11 11 (0.71%) MBA
11 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.52%) CISM
12 8 (0.52%) GIAC
12 8 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (0.39%) SANS
14 5 (0.32%) HNC
14 5 (0.32%) MCAD
15 4 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.19%) QA
2 62 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.30%) NIST
4 16 (1.04%) GDPR
5 15 (0.97%) COBIT
6 13 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.71%) 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
10 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) DICOM
12 2 (0.13%) EMIR
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
12 2 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (12.05%) Docker
2 86 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.45%) Firmware
5 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.065%) etcd
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 112 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.76%) Ansible
3 44 (2.85%) Terraform
4 19 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.84%) WMI
6 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
6 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (0.39%) HP UCMDB
6 6 (0.39%) Kibana
7 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.32%) Puppet
7 5 (0.32%) Suricata
8 4 (0.26%) Grafana
8 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.19%) Consul
9 3 (0.19%) Control-M
9 3 (0.19%) MIIS
9 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 285 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 249 (16.13%) IBM
3 245 (15.87%) Red Hat
4 156 (10.10%) Oracle
5 66 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 51 (3.30%) Google
7 38 (2.46%) WSO2
8 34 (2.20%) Adobe
8 34 (2.20%) HP
9 30 (1.94%) BMC
9 30 (1.94%) Remedy
10 24 (1.55%) NEC
10 24 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.49%) Splunk
12 17 (1.10%) VMware
13 14 (0.91%) Cognizant
14 13 (0.84%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.65%) SAP
15 10 (0.65%) Twitter
15 10 (0.65%) Xamarin