Web Services Contracts

Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 205 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 -53 -35
Contract jobs citing Web Services 542 771 1,654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 1.29% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.05% 5.55% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 514 1,065
10th Percentile £411 £406 £377
25th Percentile £463 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +10.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £62.00 £57.88 £46.80
25th Percentile - £65.88 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +16.65% +55.38%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.15
% change year-on-year - - +55.38%

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 contract job vacancies 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 8,961 13,886 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.56% 23.27% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 10,139 17,680
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +23 463 £550 - 232
Work from Home +69 283 £550 +3.19% 115
UK excluding London +16 248 £525 +5.00% 142
London +24 239 £575 +4.55% 82
South East +10 105 £625 +19.05% 46
North of England +42 74 £525 +5.00% 31
Yorkshire +43 39 £550 +2.33% 10
North West +16 31 £450 -10.00% 18
Scotland +30 28 £590 +29.32% 3
Midlands +1 22 £638 +6.25% 31
West Midlands +13 16 £638 +8.51% 16
East of England +2 12 £350 -30.00% 12
South West -12 7 £443 -19.55% 16
East Midlands +15 6 £600 - 15
North East +22 4 £431 -13.80% 3

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 16 (2.95%) Confluence
2 14 (2.58%) IIS
3 10 (1.85%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.66%) Mule
5 8 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.48%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.11%) Apache
7 6 (1.11%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.92%) JBoss
8 5 (0.92%) Mule ESB
8 5 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.74%) CMS
9 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.55%) WordPress
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 12 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.29%) SAP EWM
3 6 (1.11%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.92%) Shopify
5 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (28.41%) Azure
2 118 (21.77%) AWS
3 51 (9.41%) PaaS
4 44 (8.12%) GitHub
5 41 (7.56%) IaaS
6 39 (7.20%) SaaS
7 23 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (4.24%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.06%) Serverless
9 17 (3.14%) Azure API Management
9 17 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (2.95%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.77%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (2.77%) Azure Storage
12 13 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.40%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.75%) SSL
2 31 (5.72%) 5G
2 31 (5.72%) Broadband
3 14 (2.58%) Internet
3 14 (2.58%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.40%) Firewall
5 12 (2.21%) LAN
5 12 (2.21%) WAN
6 11 (2.03%) VPN
7 10 (1.85%) HTTP
7 10 (1.85%) VoIP
8 9 (1.66%) Ethernet
8 9 (1.66%) MPLS
8 9 (1.66%) PBX
8 9 (1.66%) WLAN
9 8 (1.48%) DNS
10 7 (1.29%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.92%) DHCP
11 5 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.18%) SQL Server
2 50 (9.23%) MySQL
3 35 (6.46%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.54%) Oracle Reports
4 30 (5.54%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.61%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (2.40%) Oracle Database
9 11 (2.03%) OLTP
10 10 (1.85%) Big Data
10 10 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.85%) Power BI
11 9 (1.66%) SAP HANA
12 8 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.29%) Redis
14 6 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.11%) Siebel EIM
15 5 (0.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 73 (13.47%) Git
2 53 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 47 (8.67%) JIRA
4 16 (2.95%) Eclipse
4 16 (2.95%) JUnit
4 16 (2.95%) Postman
5 15 (2.77%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.40%) Maven
6 13 (2.40%) Selenium
6 13 (2.40%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.85%) Gatling
7 10 (1.85%) JMeter
8 9 (1.66%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.29%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.11%) GitLab
10 6 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 6 (1.11%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.11%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.92%) Mocha
11 5 (0.92%) Mockito
General
1 121 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.00%) Finance
3 49 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 45 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.64%) Banking
6 32 (5.90%) Law
7 31 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (4.24%) Financial Institution
8 23 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.32%) Marketing
10 17 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.21%) Military
12 10 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.85%) Retail
13 9 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.29%) Billing
16 4 (0.74%) Electronics
16 4 (0.74%) Front Office
17 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 216 (39.85%) Developer
2 103 (19.00%) Architect
3 58 (10.70%) Senior
4 53 (9.78%) Consultant
5 39 (7.20%) Senior Developer
5 39 (7.20%) Tester
6 35 (6.46%) Java Developer
6 35 (6.46%) Lead
7 31 (5.72%) Penetration Tester
7 31 (5.72%) Security Penetration Tester
7 31 (5.72%) Security Specialist
7 31 (5.72%) Security Tester
7 31 (5.72%) Testing Specialist
8 28 (5.17%) Full Stack Developer
8 28 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.24%) ServiceNow Developer
10 18 (3.32%) .NET Developer
11 17 (3.14%) SailPoint Developer
11 17 (3.14%) Technical Consultant
12 16 (2.95%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (20.85%) REST
2 95 (17.53%) HTML
3 86 (15.87%) SOAP
4 85 (15.68%) XML
5 75 (13.84%) .NET
6 73 (13.47%) RESTful
7 69 (12.73%) Spring
8 66 (12.18%) CSS
9 49 (9.04%) Node.js
10 48 (8.86%) LDAP
11 47 (8.67%) JSON
12 43 (7.93%) Spring Boot
13 39 (7.20%) SailPoint
14 37 (6.83%) AngularJS
15 35 (6.46%) Kafka
16 34 (6.27%) ASP.NET
17 32 (5.90%) J2EE
17 32 (5.90%) JSP
17 32 (5.90%) Servlets
18 29 (5.35%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.12%) PKI
2 43 (7.93%) Mobile App
3 33 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.69%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.77%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.92%) CMDB
10 5 (0.92%) DataPower
10 5 (0.92%) IoT
10 5 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (10.89%) Linux
2 36 (6.64%) Windows
3 21 (3.87%) Unix
4 16 (2.95%) Android
4 16 (2.95%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.74%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.97%) Agile
2 72 (13.28%) DevOps
3 71 (13.10%) Scrum
4 69 (12.73%) TDD
5 60 (11.07%) CI/CD
5 60 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
6 59 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (10.70%) Microservices
8 57 (10.52%) Software Engineering
8 57 (10.52%) Test Automation
9 47 (8.67%) Migration
10 43 (7.93%) Cryptography
10 43 (7.93%) OO
10 43 (7.93%) Unit Testing
11 42 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (7.75%) Key Management
12 41 (7.56%) Service Management
12 41 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (7.20%) SDLC
14 37 (6.83%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 167 (30.81%) Java
2 147 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 117 (21.59%) SQL
4 81 (14.94%) C#
5 58 (10.70%) Python
6 23 (4.24%) Scala
7 21 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.77%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.21%) C++
10 11 (2.03%) ABAP
11 8 (1.48%) Go
12 7 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.29%) C
12 7 (1.29%) Perl
13 6 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.11%) XPath
14 5 (0.92%) PHP
14 5 (0.92%) Ruby
15 4 (0.74%) Groovy
15 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 70 (12.92%) Degree
4 34 (6.27%) SANS
5 31 (5.72%) CREST Certified
5 31 (5.72%) GIAC
5 31 (5.72%) GPEN
5 31 (5.72%) OSCP
6 25 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.66%) CCIE
9 9 (1.66%) CCIE Data Center
10 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.74%) CCNP
13 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.72%) GDPR
1 31 (5.72%) NCSC
1 31 (5.72%) PCI DSS
2 28 (5.17%) QA
3 10 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.11%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) GRC
6 3 (0.55%) WCAG
7 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 99 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 49 (9.04%) Docker
3 28 (5.17%) ACF2
3 28 (5.17%) IAG
3 28 (5.17%) RACF
4 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.77%) Terraform
3 13 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.21%) Grafana
5 11 (2.03%) Ansible
6 8 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.92%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.92%) Kibana
8 2 (0.37%) logstash
8 2 (0.37%) Matomo
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) Anchore
9 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.18%) MOM
9 1 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.18%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 82 (15.13%) Oracle
2 79 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 69 (12.73%) ServiceNow
4 31 (5.72%) Virgin Media
5 28 (5.17%) Sybase
6 27 (4.98%) SAP
7 20 (3.69%) Salesforce
8 18 (3.32%) Adobe
9 13 (2.40%) Google
10 12 (2.21%) IBM
11 11 (2.03%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.66%) Cisco
13 7 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 7 (1.29%) Splunk
13 7 (1.29%) VMware
14 6 (1.11%) Cadence
14 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.11%) Siebel
14 6 (1.11%) Workday
15 5 (0.92%) Symantec