Web Services Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Web Services
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 77 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Services 3 7 35
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.59% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.46% 3.04% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 29
10th Percentile £450 £403 £450
25th Percentile £488 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -14.78% -
75th Percentile £594 £498 £619
90th Percentile £620 £509 -
North West median daily rate £550 £433 £575
% change year-on-year +27.17% -24.78% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £96.50 £36.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +168.06% -42.40% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 205 230 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 19.00% 19.26% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 143 322
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £597
90th Percentile £642 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £455 £525
% change year-on-year -1.10% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £63.20 £60.50
25th Percentile - £64.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +1.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £74.20 £79.88
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.22% +22.54% -36.52%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Web Services job vacancy trend in Manchester

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Manchester

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Ruby Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Ajax
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) JavaBeans
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) JSTL
1 1 (33.33%) NestJS
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Swing
1 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Identity
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ping Identity
43 Web Services jobs in Manchester