Web Services Contracts in the Midlands

Web Services
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 118 123
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -32
Contract jobs citing Web Services 27 42 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.00% 1.28% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 7.43% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 70
10th Percentile £340 £395 £362
25th Percentile £575 £500 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £550
90th Percentile - £770 £576
England median daily rate £550 £550 £544
% change year-on-year - +1.15% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £64.31
% change year-on-year -10.34% +12.74% +44.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 392 565 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.56% 17.21% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 443 685
10th Percentile £280 £313 £360
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £550
90th Percentile £720 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.70
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £46.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £47.95
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the Midlands

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +19 19 £638 +2.00% 15
East Midlands +8 8 £600 - 12
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.11%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) Boomi
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) LAN
1 9 (33.33%) MPLS
1 9 (33.33%) PBX
1 9 (33.33%) VoIP
1 9 (33.33%) VPN
1 9 (33.33%) WAN
1 9 (33.33%) WLAN
2 5 (18.52%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (18.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (18.52%) DHCP
2 5 (18.52%) DNS
2 5 (18.52%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) Internet
2 5 (18.52%) SD-WAN
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) IPsec
4 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (11.11%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) JMeter
2 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
2 2 (7.41%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.41%) Billing
2 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) IAM Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Functional Tester
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) XML
2 5 (18.52%) CSS
2 5 (18.52%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 4 (14.81%) JSON
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
4 3 (11.11%) LDAP
4 3 (11.11%) OAuth
4 3 (11.11%) OpenID
4 3 (11.11%) SailPoint
4 3 (11.11%) SAML
4 3 (11.11%) XSLT
5 2 (7.41%) SOAP
6 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (3.70%) IDoc
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
1 10 (37.04%) Architectural Design
1 10 (37.04%) SOA
2 9 (33.33%) Analytics
2 9 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 9 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 9 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 9 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 9 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 9 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 6 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Resource Management
4 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 5 (18.52%) TOGAF
5 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.81%) C#
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) ABAP
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) CCIE
1 9 (33.33%) CCIE Data Center
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.81%) CCNP
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) CheckPoint
3 5 (18.52%) Infoblox
3 5 (18.52%) Palo Alto
3 5 (18.52%) Symantec
3 5 (18.52%) Zscaler
4 3 (11.11%) Okta
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) SAP