Web Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Web Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 198 154
Rank change year-on-year +11 -44 -31
Contract jobs citing Web Services 236 262 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.15% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.93% 6.35% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 169 359
10th Percentile £332 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 19
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - - £60.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +62.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the UK excluding London

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +3 74 £613 +16.67% 40
North of England +30 62 £525 +5.00% 30
Scotland +54 34 £538 +11.79% 7
Yorkshire +31 33 £550 - 6
Midlands +9 31 £613 +2.08% 30
North West +11 27 £463 -7.50% 21
West Midlands +14 22 £638 +6.25% 21
East of England -1 20 £350 -30.00% 18
South West -13 12 £475 -13.64% 11
East Midlands +5 9 £600 - 9
Northern Ireland -4 3 £575 +43.75% 6
North East +9 2 £550 +10.00% 3
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.78%) Confluence
2 6 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.12%) Appian
4 4 (1.69%) IIS
4 4 (1.69%) Mule
4 4 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.27%) WordPress
6 2 (0.85%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) CATIA
2 1 (0.42%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.42%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Temenos T24
2 5 (2.12%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.32%) Azure
2 77 (32.63%) AWS
3 15 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.08%) PaaS
5 11 (4.66%) Serverless
6 10 (4.24%) IaaS
7 9 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.81%) SaaS
8 8 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.39%) GitHub
9 7 (2.97%) Apigee
9 7 (2.97%) Kong
10 5 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (2.12%) Unqork
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.27%) npm
12 3 (1.27%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.53%) SSL
2 12 (5.08%) LAN
2 12 (5.08%) VPN
2 12 (5.08%) WAN
3 11 (4.66%) Ethernet
3 11 (4.66%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.24%) VoIP
5 9 (3.81%) MPLS
5 9 (3.81%) PBX
5 9 (3.81%) WLAN
6 7 (2.97%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.54%) Firewall
7 6 (2.54%) Internet
8 5 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.12%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.12%) DHCP
8 5 (2.12%) DNS
8 5 (2.12%) HTTP
8 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.39%) Power BI
4 7 (2.97%) MySQL
4 7 (2.97%) OLAP
4 7 (2.97%) OLTP
5 6 (2.54%) Oracle OLAP
5 6 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.27%) Redis
9 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.85%) GIS
9 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (11.02%) JIRA
2 22 (9.32%) Git
3 20 (8.47%) Visual Studio
4 19 (8.05%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.66%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.97%) JMeter
7 6 (2.54%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.54%) Maven
8 5 (2.12%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.12%) JUnit
8 5 (2.12%) Liquibase
8 5 (2.12%) Selenium
8 5 (2.12%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.69%) Gatling
9 4 (1.69%) GitLab
9 4 (1.69%) Log4j
10 3 (1.27%) Gradle
10 3 (1.27%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.27%) Mocha
10 3 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 56 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Presentation Skills
3 22 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.51%) Finance
6 12 (5.08%) Military
7 11 (4.66%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.24%) Banking
9 9 (3.81%) Billing
10 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 80 (33.90%) Developer
2 77 (32.63%) Architect
3 17 (7.20%) Consultant
3 17 (7.20%) Senior
3 17 (7.20%) ServiceNow Developer
3 17 (7.20%) Software Engineer
4 14 (5.93%) Applications Engineer
4 14 (5.93%) Java Developer
5 13 (5.51%) .NET Developer
5 13 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
6 11 (4.66%) Applications Support
6 11 (4.66%) Applications Support Engineer
6 11 (4.66%) Support Engineer
7 10 (4.24%) Lead
8 9 (3.81%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (3.81%) JIRA Engineer
8 9 (3.81%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 9 (3.81%) Test Manager
9 8 (3.39%) Senior Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.14%) RESTful
2 30 (12.71%) REST
3 28 (11.86%) .NET
4 26 (11.02%) SOAP
5 23 (9.75%) Kafka
5 23 (9.75%) XML
6 22 (9.32%) Spring
6 22 (9.32%) Spring Boot
7 19 (8.05%) HTML
8 18 (7.63%) Node.js
9 17 (7.20%) .NET Framework
10 16 (6.78%) OpenID
11 15 (6.36%) CSS
12 14 (5.93%) JSON
12 14 (5.93%) React
13 13 (5.51%) Entity Framework
14 11 (4.66%) J2EE
15 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
15 10 (4.24%) LDAP
15 10 (4.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.53%) PKI
2 18 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.39%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.97%) DataPower
6 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.54%) Life Science
7 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.69%) NHS
8 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.27%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.85%) IoT
10 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.95%) Linux
2 22 (9.32%) Windows
3 7 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.54%) Unix
5 4 (1.69%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.66%) Agile
2 43 (18.22%) Cryptography
3 41 (17.37%) Key Management
4 35 (14.83%) Service Management
5 31 (13.14%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (13.14%) ITSM
5 31 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (12.71%) Scrum
6 30 (12.71%) TDD
7 28 (11.86%) DevOps
7 28 (11.86%) Test Automation
8 26 (11.02%) Software Engineering
9 25 (10.59%) Customer Service
10 24 (10.17%) ITIL
11 23 (9.75%) Asset Management
11 23 (9.75%) IT Asset Management
11 23 (9.75%) Operations Management
11 23 (9.75%) Service Delivery
12 22 (9.32%) Analytics
13 21 (8.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.76%) Java
2 41 (17.37%) JavaScript
3 38 (16.10%) C#
4 22 (9.32%) SQL
5 13 (5.51%) C++
6 11 (4.66%) Python
7 9 (3.81%) Scala
8 8 (3.39%) C
9 7 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.54%) Go
11 5 (2.12%) PHP
11 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.12%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.69%) Groovy
13 3 (1.27%) Bash
13 3 (1.27%) Ruby
14 2 (0.85%) Rust
15 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.42%) Bicep
15 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 61 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 47 (19.92%) Degree
4 33 (13.98%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.81%) CCIE
5 9 (3.81%) CCIE Data Center
5 9 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.39%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.69%) CCNP
9 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CISM
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) ISEB
11 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.12%) HL7
1 5 (2.12%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) SLA
3 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.27%) WCAG
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (24.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.47%) Docker
3 7 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (5.08%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.85%) Ansible
2 2 (0.85%) Grafana
2 2 (0.85%) Kibana
3 1 (0.42%) Anchore
3 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.42%) Packer
3 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.02%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.63%) Oracle
4 13 (5.51%) IBM
5 11 (4.66%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.81%) Cisco
7 8 (3.39%) VMware
8 7 (2.97%) Guidewire
8 7 (2.97%) TSYS
9 6 (2.54%) Cadence
10 5 (2.12%) Adobe
10 5 (2.12%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.12%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.12%) OpenText
10 5 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.12%) Pega
10 5 (2.12%) Symantec
10 5 (2.12%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.69%) Google
12 3 (1.27%) SAP