Web Services Contracts in Scotland

Web Services
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 95 133 95
Rank change year-on-year +38 -38 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 30 27 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.39% 1.00% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.83% 4.24% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 45
10th Percentile £266 £175 £360
25th Percentile £352 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £419 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.90% -16.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £750 £494 £568
90th Percentile - £628 £634
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £549
% change year-on-year - +0.23% +10.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK 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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Scotland

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +20 13 £475 -15.56% 4
Edinburgh +24 8 £325 -26.30% 3
South Lanarkshire - 6 £750 -
West Lothian - 3 £580 -
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (26.67%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) WordPress
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) EPiServer
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.00%) IaaS
2 3 (10.00%) iPaaS
2 3 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 3 (10.00%) LAN
2 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 2 (6.67%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 8 (26.67%) Git
3 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (13.33%) Maven
5 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
5 1 (3.33%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Military
3 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Applications Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) JIRA Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 6 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) REST
2 9 (30.00%) RESTful
3 6 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (20.00%) JSON
3 6 (20.00%) LDAP
3 6 (20.00%) OpenID
3 6 (20.00%) XML
4 5 (16.67%) Spring
4 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.33%) React
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Batch
6 3 (10.00%) J2EE
7 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 2 (6.67%) HTML
8 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
8 1 (3.33%) Kafka
8 1 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Service Management
2 8 (26.67%) Analytics
2 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (26.67%) Workflow
3 7 (23.33%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (23.33%) Data Migration
3 7 (23.33%) Kalman Filter
3 7 (23.33%) Migration
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) OO
4 6 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (13.33%) MVC
7 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (10.00%) SOA
7 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) C
2 6 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) ISEB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) WCAG
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Docker
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Ansible
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 6 (20.00%) Cadence
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Adobe
5 2 (6.67%) Xamarin
6 1 (3.33%) CA
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk