Web Services Contract Job Trends in Chester

Web Services
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Web Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 3.19% - 3.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.08% - 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £683 - -
25th Percentile £683 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - £375
75th Percentile £743 - -
90th Percentile £755 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £390 £530
% change year-on-year +14.62% -26.42% -15.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 13.83% 7.04% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £643 £557 £375
25th Percentile £656 £565 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £577 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% +4.91% +46.67%
75th Percentile £706 £594 £581
90th Percentile £740 £603 £588
Cheshire median daily rate £405 £424 £499
% change year-on-year -4.54% -14.94% -5.00%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Chester

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Web Services

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (66.67%) Mule
1 2 (66.67%) Mule ESB
2 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ABAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Development Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) BAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP