Web Services Contracts in the North West

Web Services
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 126 130
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -48
Contract jobs citing Web Services 30 35 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.09% 1.09% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.02% 5.87% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 39
10th Percentile £311 £410 £360
25th Percentile £375 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £484 £566 £638
90th Percentile £489 £638 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -7.14% +10.04% +51.46%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West 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 498 596 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.12% 18.49% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 470 748
10th Percentile £350 £337 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.46%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £739 £641 £650
England median daily rate £550 £570 £553
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.17% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £19.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester +14 19 £450 -10.00% 14
Cheshire +8 10 £438 -18.60%
Lancashire +4 1 - -
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 4 (13.33%) Mule
3 1 (3.33%) GeoServer
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Apigee
3 5 (16.67%) Kong
4 3 (10.00%) npm
4 3 (10.00%) Yarn
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.67%) OLAP
2 5 (16.67%) OLTP
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (10.00%) Redis
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (3.33%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Git
4 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 4 (13.33%) Gatling
4 4 (13.33%) Liquibase
4 4 (13.33%) Log4j
5 3 (10.00%) Jasmine
5 3 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (10.00%) Mocha
5 3 (10.00%) webpack
6 2 (6.67%) JMeter
6 2 (6.67%) Selenium
6 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Scala Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) RESTful
2 14 (46.67%) Kafka
3 10 (33.33%) OAuth
3 10 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 10 (33.33%) OpenID
4 6 (20.00%) SOAP
5 5 (16.67%) .NET
5 5 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 5 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (16.67%) J2EE
5 5 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (16.67%) React
6 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (13.33%) Apache Camel
6 4 (13.33%) Hibernate
6 4 (13.33%) REST
6 4 (13.33%) Spring
6 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (13.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) DataPower
2 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Mac OS X
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) Scrum
3 9 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 9 (30.00%) OO
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Microservices
4 6 (20.00%) SOA
5 5 (16.67%) API Management
5 5 (16.67%) CQRS
5 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (16.67%) Open Source
5 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 4 (13.33%) SOLID
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) C#
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Scala
5 2 (6.67%) Groovy
5 2 (6.67%) PHP
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) Bicep
6 1 (3.33%) Python
6 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) IBM
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
1 5 (16.67%) TSYS
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft