Web Services Contracts in Lancashire

Web Services
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.71% 1.03% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.89% 6.45% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 31 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 21.71% 15.90% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 15
10th Percentile £413 £550 £420
25th Percentile £447 £588 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £625 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +20.19% +13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £560
90th Percentile £615 - £585
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile - £37.63 -
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £37.80
Median hourly rate £65.50 £46.03 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +42.30% +13.40% -3.36%
75th Percentile £65.75 £46.18 £43.39
90th Percentile - £48.43 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Lancashire

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Lancashire

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Lancashire

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Preston - 3 £775 - 1
Web Services
North West

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Boomi
1 2 (66.67%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) SFIA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft