Web Services Contracts in the Thames Valley

Web Services
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Web Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Services over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 62 113
Rank change year-on-year -44 +51 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 24 82 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.12% 3.09% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.93% 19.25% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 58
10th Percentile £350 £325 £452
25th Percentile £475 £396 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £485 £588
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -17.45% +17.50%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £650
90th Percentile £785 £703 -
South East median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.06 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.03 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -19.96% +16.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

Web Services falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 405 426 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.93% 16.03% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 275 500
10th Percentile £383 £308 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £42.20 £46.68 £27.15
25th Percentile £57.89 £50.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £52.28 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% -18.86% -0.11%
75th Percentile - £81.70 £69.46
90th Percentile £68.23 £90.25 £73.23
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £59.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.41% -8.78% +4.59%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire -41 22 £580 +20.83% 8
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £260 - 2
Web Services
South East

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
4 3 (12.50%) PaaS
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SAP HANA
2 3 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) MariaDB
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) Toad
3 2 (8.33%) VisualAge
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) Development Consultant
3 5 (20.83%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (16.67%) ABAP Consultant
5 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
7 1 (4.17%) ITSM Developer
7 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft Developer
7 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) XML
2 8 (33.33%) RESTful
3 7 (29.17%) JSON
4 6 (25.00%) BAPI
4 6 (25.00%) SAP Smart Forms
5 5 (20.83%) Middleware
6 4 (16.67%) .NET
6 4 (16.67%) SOAP
7 3 (12.50%) CORBA
7 3 (12.50%) REST
7 3 (12.50%) Spring
8 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
8 2 (8.33%) Apache CXF
8 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
8 2 (8.33%) J2EE
8 2 (8.33%) JSP
8 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (8.33%) SAPUI5
9 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 5 (20.83%) TM Forum
3 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
1 10 (41.67%) Microservices
2 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (25.00%) OO
2 6 (25.00%) OOP
2 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 5 (20.83%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) eTOM
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
3 5 (20.83%) Order Management
3 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (16.67%) PLM
4 4 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Java
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) ABAP
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) R
6 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Netcool
1 3 (12.50%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 3 (12.50%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.17%) CloudHub
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) SAP
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow