Web Services Contracts in Merseyside

Web Services
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 24 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Web Services 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 2.98% - 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £525 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £491
90th Percentile £745 - £493
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 30 32 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.86% 14.04% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 34
10th Percentile £388 £350 £345
25th Percentile £450 £356 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -10.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £628 £510 £650
90th Percentile £641 £550 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Merseyside

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Merseyside

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Merseyside

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Merseyside

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 5 £600 - 4
Web Services
North West

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Siebel EIM
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Siebel Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Siebel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) EAI
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Siebel