Web Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 199 142
Rank change year-on-year +8 -57 -35
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 1,537 1,921 4,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.90% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.30% 6.29% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,397 2,322
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the UK

Web Services
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +2 1,245 £55,173 -15.12% 204
UK excluding London +31 1,111 £55,000 - 128
Work from Home -55 562 £57,500 -4.17% 116
London -33 380 £65,000 -16.82% 80
South East -10 325 £57,500 - 36
North of England +70 232 £55,173 +5.09% 33
Midlands +73 196 £52,500 -4.55% 26
Scotland +17 180 £65,000 -6.40% 5
North West +68 170 £60,000 +4.35% 17
East Midlands +79 128 £52,500 +5.00% 13
West Midlands +4 67 £55,000 - 13
East of England -45 65 £35,500 -40.83% 7
South West -52 59 £62,500 +21.36% 9
Yorkshire +53 48 £52,500 +16.67% 12
Northern Ireland +26 31 £47,500 +5.56% 8
Wales +5 25 £32,500 -36.40% 4
North East -5 14 £55,000 +3.05% 4

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 86 (5.60%) IIS
2 58 (3.77%) Apache
3 55 (3.58%) CMS
4 38 (2.47%) OpenStack
5 29 (1.89%) JBoss
5 29 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 29 (1.89%) Tomcat
6 22 (1.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 22 (1.43%) SAS
7 15 (0.98%) Confluence
8 10 (0.65%) EPiServer
9 8 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (0.46%) WordPress
11 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.33%) Drupal
13 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.26%) ColdFusion
13 4 (0.26%) nginx
14 3 (0.20%) GeoServer
14 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 23 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Photoshop
3 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.76%) SDL Web 8
3 24 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 21 (1.37%) NEC Housing
5 20 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
6 13 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
7 12 (0.78%) Shopify
8 11 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.46%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.33%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.26%) BusinessWorks
11 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
13 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
13 2 (0.13%) R3 Corda
13 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
13 2 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 612 (39.82%) Azure
2 285 (18.54%) AWS
3 260 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 244 (15.88%) IBM Cloud
5 202 (13.14%) Serverless
6 134 (8.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 133 (8.65%) Azure Functions
8 132 (8.59%) Azure API Management
9 126 (8.20%) Azure Logic Apps
10 106 (6.90%) SaaS
11 63 (4.10%) Power Platform
12 53 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (3.06%) GCP
15 46 (2.99%) GitHub
16 43 (2.80%) PaaS
17 30 (1.95%) IaaS
18 26 (1.69%) PowerApps
19 24 (1.56%) Power Automate
20 19 (1.24%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.49%) Kerberos
2 43 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 32 (2.08%) HTTP
4 22 (1.43%) Internet
5 20 (1.30%) VPN
6 17 (1.11%) Network Security
7 15 (0.98%) DNS
7 15 (0.98%) SSH
8 13 (0.85%) Firewall
8 13 (0.85%) SNMP
8 13 (0.85%) SSL
9 10 (0.65%) SMTP
10 9 (0.59%) MQTT
11 5 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.26%) 5G
12 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.26%) LAN
12 4 (0.26%) RS-232
12 4 (0.26%) WAN
12 4 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (24.79%) NoSQL
2 378 (24.59%) PostgreSQL
3 343 (22.32%) SQL Server
4 273 (17.76%) MongoDB
5 268 (17.44%) Relational Database
6 240 (15.61%) DB2
7 117 (7.61%) MySQL
8 70 (4.55%) Metadata
9 45 (2.93%) Oracle Database
9 45 (2.93%) Power BI
10 38 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 33 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.95%) MS Access
13 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
14 20 (1.30%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
17 13 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 9 (0.59%) Big Data
18 9 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 355 (23.10%) Git
2 178 (11.58%) Jenkins
3 140 (9.11%) Visual Studio
4 100 (6.51%) JIRA
5 80 (5.20%) Bitbucket
6 65 (4.23%) Artifactory
7 37 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 35 (2.28%) Selenium
9 33 (2.15%) Moq
9 33 (2.15%) Postman
10 30 (1.95%) JUnit
11 29 (1.89%) Eclipse
11 29 (1.89%) NUnit
12 28 (1.82%) Jasmine
12 28 (1.82%) Karma Test Runner
13 23 (1.50%) GitLab
14 22 (1.43%) JMeter
14 22 (1.43%) Maven
15 20 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
15 20 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 401 (26.09%) Finance
2 330 (21.47%) Public Sector
3 320 (20.82%) Social Skills
4 288 (18.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (10.80%) Marketing
6 163 (10.61%) Law
7 87 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
8 83 (5.40%) Retail
9 68 (4.42%) Legal
10 57 (3.71%) Banking
11 34 (2.21%) Police
12 33 (2.15%) Local Government
13 24 (1.56%) Publishing
14 22 (1.43%) Back Office
15 17 (1.11%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.85%) Electronics
16 13 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.72%) Billing
18 10 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 804 (52.31%) Developer
2 289 (18.80%) Senior
3 248 (16.14%) Software Engineer
4 237 (15.42%) Full Stack Developer
5 171 (11.13%) Senior Developer
6 170 (11.06%) Full Stack Engineer
7 166 (10.80%) Lead
8 135 (8.78%) Azure Developer
9 113 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
10 108 (7.03%) .NET Developer
11 105 (6.83%) C# Developer
12 88 (5.73%) Architect
12 88 (5.73%) Lead Software Engineer
13 77 (5.01%) Java Developer
14 75 (4.88%) Java Engineer
15 73 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 71 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
17 64 (4.16%) Software Developer
18 55 (3.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
19 51 (3.32%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 703 (45.74%) .NET
2 676 (43.98%) REST
3 639 (41.57%) HTML
4 571 (37.15%) CSS
5 517 (33.64%) AngularJS
6 465 (30.25%) ASP.NET
7 439 (28.56%) XML
8 376 (24.46%) React
9 360 (23.42%) RESTful
10 342 (22.25%) jQuery
11 330 (21.47%) JSON
12 326 (21.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 312 (20.30%) Vue
14 298 (19.39%) SOAP
15 261 (16.98%) ASP.NET Core
16 247 (16.07%) Node.js
17 238 (15.48%) Backbone.js
17 238 (15.48%) Ember.js
18 176 (11.45%) Spring
19 144 (9.37%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 324 (21.08%) Algorithms
2 265 (17.24%) Data Structures
3 253 (16.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 245 (15.94%) Blockchain
5 146 (9.50%) Management Information System
6 114 (7.42%) e-Learning
7 79 (5.14%) Reference Data
8 72 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
9 70 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 60 (3.90%) Onboarding
11 58 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
12 57 (3.71%) CMDB
13 52 (3.38%) Cloud Native
14 39 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
15 34 (2.21%) Product Ownership
16 33 (2.15%) Public Cloud
17 28 (1.82%) Legacy Code
18 26 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
19 23 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
20 19 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 364 (23.68%) Linux
2 318 (20.69%) Windows
3 267 (17.37%) Android
4 251 (16.33%) Apple iOS
5 45 (2.93%) Unix
6 27 (1.76%) AIX
7 21 (1.37%) Solaris
8 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.33%) Windows Mobile
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.065%) CentOS
12 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (44.83%) Agile
2 483 (31.42%) MVC
3 478 (31.10%) Full Stack Development
4 421 (27.39%) DevOps
5 398 (25.89%) OO
6 353 (22.97%) OOP
6 353 (22.97%) Software Engineering
7 334 (21.73%) Design Patterns
8 315 (20.49%) SOLID
8 315 (20.49%) Web Development
9 310 (20.17%) User Experience
10 305 (19.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 301 (19.58%) Mentoring
12 289 (18.80%) CI/CD
13 275 (17.89%) Responsive Web Design
14 249 (16.20%) MVVM
15 246 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
16 242 (15.74%) Design Thinking
17 238 (15.48%) Co-Creation
18 237 (15.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 757 (49.25%) JavaScript
2 749 (48.73%) SQL
3 676 (43.98%) C#
4 444 (28.89%) Java
5 286 (18.61%) Python
6 143 (9.30%) T-SQL
7 131 (8.52%) Go
8 106 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 92 (5.99%) PHP
10 65 (4.23%) Prolog
10 65 (4.23%) SPARQL
11 63 (4.10%) VB
11 63 (4.10%) VB.NET
12 59 (3.84%) PowerShell
13 47 (3.06%) Shell Script
14 44 (2.86%) C
15 40 (2.60%) XPath
16 38 (2.47%) C++
17 28 (1.82%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.82%) VB6
Qualifications
1 220 (14.31%) Degree
2 137 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 110 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 69 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 13 (0.85%) CISSP
10 12 (0.78%) PhD
11 11 (0.72%) MBA
11 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 7 (0.46%) CISM
13 7 (0.46%) GIAC
14 6 (0.39%) HNC
14 6 (0.39%) SANS
15 5 (0.33%) MCAD
16 4 (0.26%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.29%) QA
2 59 (3.84%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.30%) NIST
4 16 (1.04%) GDPR
5 14 (0.91%) COBIT
6 13 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.39%) SLA
9 6 (0.39%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.26%) PMO
12 2 (0.13%) DICOM
12 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.065%) EMIR
13 1 (0.065%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.065%) MiFID
13 1 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (12.10%) Docker
2 86 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.46%) Firmware
5 6 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.26%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.065%) etcd
8 1 (0.065%) RACF
8 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.065%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 112 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.71%) Ansible
3 44 (2.86%) Terraform
4 19 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.85%) WMI
6 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
6 6 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (0.39%) HP UCMDB
7 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.33%) Kibana
7 5 (0.33%) Puppet
7 5 (0.33%) Suricata
8 4 (0.26%) Control-M
8 4 (0.26%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.20%) Consul
9 3 (0.20%) Grafana
9 3 (0.20%) MIIS
9 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 280 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 249 (16.20%) IBM
3 245 (15.94%) Red Hat
4 153 (9.95%) Oracle
5 66 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.25%) Google
7 38 (2.47%) WSO2
8 34 (2.21%) Adobe
8 34 (2.21%) HP
9 30 (1.95%) BMC
9 30 (1.95%) Remedy
10 23 (1.50%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.50%) Splunk
11 21 (1.37%) NEC
12 17 (1.11%) VMware
13 14 (0.91%) Cognizant
14 13 (0.85%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.65%) Atlassian
15 10 (0.65%) Twitter
15 10 (0.65%) Xamarin