Web Services Contracts in the South East

Web Services
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 128 119
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing Web Services 75 85 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.51% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.16% 8.67% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 50 103
10th Percentile £424 £427 £385
25th Percentile £500 £473 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £638
90th Percentile - £702 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £61.61
Median hourly rate - - £63.25
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £68.23
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +81.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East 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 738 980 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.08% 17.37% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 692 984
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.13%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 37 37
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.75 £30.95
25th Percentile £56.58 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +44.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £74.75 £79.61 £67.62
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +22.64% +12.47%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the South East

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +4 34 £625 +21.95% 6
Thames Valley +4 23 £488 -7.14% 4
Berkshire -22 20 £500 -4.76% 1
Surrey +18 12 £500 -21.88% 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £438 - 2
Middlesex - 2 - -
M4 Corridor - 2 £540 -
West Sussex +6 1 £425 -15.00% 4
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Jadu
3 1 (1.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.00%) AWS
2 45 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.33%) Serverless
4 3 (4.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.00%) IaaS
4 3 (4.00%) PaaS
4 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.00%) SaaS
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) dbt
6 1 (1.33%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub
6 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (50.67%) SSL
2 3 (4.00%) Network Security
2 3 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.67%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.00%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) JUnit
2 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.67%) GitLab
3 2 (2.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.33%) JMeter
4 1 (1.33%) Mockito
General
1 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Billing
3 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Finance
5 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (53.33%) Architect
2 18 (24.00%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Lead
4 9 (12.00%) Test Manager
5 7 (9.33%) Billing Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Lead Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.67%) .NET Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Consultant
7 2 (2.67%) Data Architect
7 2 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 2 (2.67%) IAM Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Java Scala Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Scala Developer
8 1 (1.33%) CRM Technical Consultant
8 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 1 (1.33%) ITSM Developer
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) REST
2 5 (6.67%) .NET
3 4 (5.33%) HTML
3 4 (5.33%) React
3 4 (5.33%) SOAP
3 4 (5.33%) Spring
3 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.00%) CSS
4 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.67%) Kafka
5 2 (2.67%) Mustache
5 2 (2.67%) OAuth
5 2 (2.67%) OpenID
5 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 2 (2.67%) SAML
5 2 (2.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (50.67%) PKI
2 6 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.00%) Life Science
3 4 (5.33%) NHS
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (54.67%) Cryptography
1 41 (54.67%) Key Management
2 11 (14.67%) Agile
2 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (12.00%) Test Strategy
4 8 (10.67%) Data Mapping
4 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (10.67%) Software Testing
5 7 (9.33%) Batch Processing
5 7 (9.33%) Impact Analysis
5 7 (9.33%) ITSM
5 7 (9.33%) Microservices
5 7 (9.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 7 (9.33%) Sequence Diagram
5 7 (9.33%) TDD
5 7 (9.33%) Test Management
5 7 (9.33%) UML
6 6 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) Java
2 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.67%) C#
3 5 (6.67%) Python
3 5 (6.67%) SQL
4 4 (5.33%) PHP
5 3 (4.00%) Ruby
6 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (56.00%) Degree
3 27 (36.00%) SC Cleared
4 23 (30.67%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.33%) ISTQB
6 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.33%) CISM
8 1 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) HL7
2 1 (1.33%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (54.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.33%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Guidewire
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) VMware
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk