Hybrid/Remote Web Services Job Trends

Web Services
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 263 202
Rank change year-on-year -84 -61 -44
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 69 169 549
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 1.13% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.01% 3.95% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 58 139 454
10th Percentile £41,521 £43,500 £42,725
25th Percentile £50,664 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,250 £79,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,325 £115,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,173
% change year-on-year -7.69% +17.81% -15.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,433 4,274 8,969
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.70% 28.46% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 2,878 7,713
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,230 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.86% +10.38% -11.11%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Web Services and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Web Services job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Web Services
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Web Services over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Web Services salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (4.35%) CMS
1 3 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.90%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.83%) AWS
2 19 (27.54%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) GitHub
4 8 (11.59%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.59%) Serverless
5 7 (10.14%) GCP
6 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (8.70%) Power Automate
6 6 (8.70%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.25%) Figma
7 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.25%) SaaS
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) AMQP
2 2 (2.90%) PuTTY
2 2 (2.90%) WAN
3 1 (1.45%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) Power BI
3 6 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.25%) MySQL
4 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) Git
2 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) JIRA
4 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.90%) JMeter
4 2 (2.90%) NUnit
4 2 (2.90%) Postman
4 2 (2.90%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.90%) Selenium
4 2 (2.90%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (2.90%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.90%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Law
3 6 (8.70%) Legal
4 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.25%) Social Housing
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.35%) Local Government
6 3 (4.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Billing
7 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (40.58%) Developer
2 20 (28.99%) Software Engineer
3 15 (21.74%) Lead
4 14 (20.29%) Senior
5 13 (18.84%) Lead Software Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Software Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Software Support Analyst
7 5 (7.25%) Support Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
9 3 (4.35%) SEO Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (46.38%) React
2 20 (28.99%) REST
3 17 (24.64%) HTML
4 11 (15.94%) CSS
4 11 (15.94%) XML
5 9 (13.04%) .NET
6 8 (11.59%) Node.js
7 6 (8.70%) JSON
7 6 (8.70%) Spring
7 6 (8.70%) Spring Boot
8 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.25%) Django
8 5 (7.25%) RESTful
8 5 (7.25%) Twisted
8 5 (7.25%) WebSockets
9 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.80%) SOAP
10 3 (4.35%) EDI
10 3 (4.35%) LDAP
10 3 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Product Ownership
2 13 (18.84%) e-Learning
3 9 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (11.59%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (7.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.35%) Blog
8 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.45%) CMDB
9 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.99%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Windows
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) Agile
2 27 (39.13%) Scrum
3 25 (36.23%) Full-Stack Development
4 24 (34.78%) Software Engineering
5 22 (31.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (30.43%) User Experience
7 19 (27.54%) DevOps
8 18 (26.09%) UX Design
9 17 (24.64%) Kanban
9 17 (24.64%) Web Development
10 15 (21.74%) Test Strategy
11 14 (20.29%) OO
12 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
12 13 (18.84%) Product Vision
12 13 (18.84%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (18.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 13 (18.84%) Scrum-ban
12 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
13 10 (14.49%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) JavaScript
2 28 (40.58%) Python
3 27 (39.13%) Java
4 19 (27.54%) TypeScript
5 17 (24.64%) SQL
6 12 (17.39%) C#
7 4 (5.80%) Groovy
8 3 (4.35%) Perl
9 2 (2.90%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) Go
10 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) DBS Check
2 9 (13.04%) Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.43%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) GDPR
3 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.70%) Ansible
2 6 (8.70%) Terraform
3 4 (5.80%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle
4 4 (5.80%) JDA
5 2 (2.90%) Okta
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.45%) Genesys
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) Sage
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk