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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 215 150
Rank change year-on-year +26 -65 -30
Contract jobs citing Web Services 545 682 1,624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 1.22% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.97% 5.35% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 442 1,067
10th Percentile £400 £408 £380
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £747 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 22
10th Percentile - £52.30 £48.50
25th Percentile - £58.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.85% +60.77%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +62.50%

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 9,133 12,749 23,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,304 9,299 17,416
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 151 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 8 June 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 16 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 8 June 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 +25 451 £550 - 203
Work from Home +76 254 £550 +2.90% 103
London +26 244 £575 +2.22% 67
UK excluding London +20 236 £540 +2.86% 133
South East -4 74 £613 +16.67% 34
North of England +37 63 £525 +5.00% 32
Scotland +44 34 £538 +11.79% 5
Yorkshire +31 33 £550 - 6
Midlands +9 31 £613 +2.08% 25
North West +12 27 £463 -7.50% 23
West Midlands +5 22 £638 +6.25% 15
East of England 0 20 £350 -30.00% 19
South West -2 11 £475 -13.64% 13
East Midlands +8 9 £600 - 10
North East +13 3 £491 -1.90% 3
Northern Ireland -1 3 £575 +43.75% 7

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 27 (4.95%) Confluence
2 14 (2.57%) IIS
3 9 (1.65%) Mule
4 8 (1.47%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.28%) CMS
5 7 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (1.28%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (1.10%) Appian
6 6 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.92%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.92%) JBoss
7 5 (0.92%) Mule ESB
7 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.55%) Apache
9 3 (0.55%) WordPress
10 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.39%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.47%) Temenos T24
4 7 (1.28%) SAP EWM
5 6 (1.10%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.55%) Shopify
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (33.94%) Azure
2 120 (22.02%) AWS
3 45 (8.26%) GitHub
4 35 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.40%) PaaS
7 20 (3.67%) Entra ID
7 20 (3.67%) Serverless
8 19 (3.49%) Azure API Management
9 18 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (3.12%) GCP
10 17 (3.12%) PowerApps
11 16 (2.94%) Azure Storage
11 16 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (2.94%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.20%) SaaS
14 11 (2.02%) IaaS
14 11 (2.02%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.34%) SSL
2 22 (4.04%) VoIP
3 14 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.39%) Firewall
4 13 (2.39%) HTTP
4 13 (2.39%) Internet
4 13 (2.39%) LAN
4 13 (2.39%) VPN
5 12 (2.20%) Ethernet
5 12 (2.20%) WAN
6 11 (2.02%) CTI
6 11 (2.02%) SSH
7 9 (1.65%) MPLS
7 9 (1.65%) PBX
7 9 (1.65%) WLAN
8 7 (1.28%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.28%) Network Security
9 5 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (0.92%) DHCP
9 5 (0.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 53 (9.72%) MySQL
3 32 (5.87%) NoSQL
4 25 (4.59%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (4.59%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 18 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.75%) Power BI
9 14 (2.57%) Oracle Database
10 13 (2.39%) OLTP
11 12 (2.20%) SAP HANA
12 11 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.65%) Big Data
14 8 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.28%) OLAP
15 7 (1.28%) Redis
16 6 (1.10%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.10%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 71 (13.03%) Git
2 63 (11.56%) JIRA
3 46 (8.44%) Jenkins
4 21 (3.85%) JUnit
4 21 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 20 (3.67%) Eclipse
5 20 (3.67%) Postman
6 17 (3.12%) Maven
7 15 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.39%) Selenium
9 9 (1.65%) JMeter
10 8 (1.47%) Gatling
10 8 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.28%) Gradle
11 7 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.10%) Mockito
12 6 (1.10%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio Team System
12 6 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 135 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 115 (21.10%) Finance
3 59 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.62%) Banking
5 43 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (4.77%) Telecoms
8 22 (4.04%) Retail
9 21 (3.85%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.75%) Marketing
10 15 (2.75%) Military
11 9 (1.65%) Billing
12 8 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.92%) Front Office
15 3 (0.55%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 226 (41.47%) Developer
2 114 (20.92%) Architect
3 59 (10.83%) Senior
4 50 (9.17%) Consultant
5 40 (7.34%) Senior Developer
6 36 (6.61%) Java Developer
6 36 (6.61%) Lead
7 33 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 27 (4.95%) ServiceNow Developer
9 24 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.85%) .NET Developer
10 21 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
11 18 (3.30%) Applications Support
11 18 (3.30%) Applications Support Engineer
11 18 (3.30%) Python Developer
11 18 (3.30%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.30%) Technical Consultant
12 16 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
12 16 (2.94%) Lead Developer
12 16 (2.94%) SailPoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (20.92%) REST
2 102 (18.72%) HTML
3 95 (17.43%) SOAP
4 91 (16.70%) XML
5 84 (15.41%) .NET
6 78 (14.31%) CSS
7 71 (13.03%) Spring
8 70 (12.84%) RESTful
9 53 (9.72%) JSON
10 48 (8.81%) AngularJS
11 45 (8.26%) LDAP
11 45 (8.26%) Node.js
11 45 (8.26%) Spring Boot
12 36 (6.61%) Kafka
13 35 (6.42%) SailPoint
14 34 (6.24%) .NET Framework
15 33 (6.06%) ASP.NET
15 33 (6.06%) J2EE
16 30 (5.50%) React
17 28 (5.14%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.34%) PKI
2 27 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.59%) Data Centre
4 24 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.57%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.02%) IVR
9 11 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.47%) CMDB
11 8 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.28%) DataPower
12 7 (1.28%) Life Science
13 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.58%) Linux
2 38 (6.97%) Windows
3 26 (4.77%) Unix
4 12 (2.20%) Android
4 12 (2.20%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.73%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) zOS
9 1 (0.18%) AIX
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (35.96%) Agile
2 91 (16.70%) DevOps
3 83 (15.23%) TDD
4 76 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (13.58%) Scrum
6 73 (13.39%) Continuous Integration
7 71 (13.03%) CI/CD
7 71 (13.03%) Software Engineering
8 63 (11.56%) Migration
8 63 (11.56%) Test Automation
9 62 (11.38%) Microservices
10 51 (9.36%) Analytics
10 51 (9.36%) Unit Testing
11 47 (8.62%) SDLC
11 47 (8.62%) Service Management
12 44 (8.07%) BDD
13 43 (7.89%) Cryptography
14 41 (7.52%) Key Management
15 40 (7.34%) Design Patterns
15 40 (7.34%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 152 (27.89%) Java
2 145 (26.61%) JavaScript
3 118 (21.65%) SQL
4 93 (17.06%) C#
5 55 (10.09%) Python
6 22 (4.04%) Scala
7 21 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.94%) C++
10 11 (2.02%) ABAP
11 9 (1.65%) Perl
12 8 (1.47%) C
12 8 (1.47%) Go
13 7 (1.28%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.10%) Ruby
15 5 (0.92%) PHP
15 5 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.73%) Bash
16 4 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 114 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.15%) Degree
3 80 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 11 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.65%) CCIE
10 9 (1.65%) CCIE Data Center
10 9 (1.65%) ISTQB
11 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.10%) CISSP
13 4 (0.73%) CCNP
13 4 (0.73%) CISM
14 3 (0.55%) CISA
15 2 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.42%) QA
2 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.65%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.47%) GDPR
3 8 (1.47%) HIPAA
3 8 (1.47%) SLA
3 8 (1.47%) SOC 2
4 6 (1.10%) HL7
5 3 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.55%) GRC
5 3 (0.55%) WCAG
6 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 98 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 45 (8.26%) Docker
3 25 (4.59%) ACF2
3 25 (4.59%) IAG
3 25 (4.59%) RACF
4 9 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.28%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 38 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.12%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.20%) Terraform
4 11 (2.02%) Grafana
5 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.10%) Ansible
6 6 (1.10%) Kibana
7 5 (0.92%) CloudHub
8 3 (0.55%) logstash
9 2 (0.37%) Matomo
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) Anchore
10 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.18%) TADDM
10 1 (0.18%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 99 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 84 (15.41%) Oracle
3 70 (12.84%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.59%) SAP
4 25 (4.59%) Sybase
5 23 (4.22%) Google
6 20 (3.67%) Cisco
6 20 (3.67%) IBM
7 19 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 18 (3.30%) Adobe
9 17 (3.12%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.39%) Genesys
11 11 (2.02%) Avaya
12 10 (1.83%) VMware
13 9 (1.65%) Guidewire
14 8 (1.47%) OpenText
15 7 (1.28%) TSYS
16 6 (1.10%) Cadence
16 6 (1.10%) Pega
17 5 (0.92%) Symantec