Web Services Contracts in the North of England

Web Services
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 129 112 160
Rank change year-on-year -17 +48 -19
Contract jobs citing Web Services 37 74 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.12% 1.55% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.40% 8.22% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 58 44
10th Percentile £360 £375 £410
25th Percentile £402 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £599 £600 £626
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +18 32 £500 +11.11% 36
Yorkshire -27 4 £370 -32.73% 19
North East -3 1 £475 +10.21% 6
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (21.62%) WebSphere
2 5 (13.51%) CICS
2 5 (13.51%) JBoss
2 5 (13.51%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.81%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) CMS
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Boomi
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
3 2 (5.41%) npm
3 2 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) SAP HANA
2 7 (18.92%) DB2
3 5 (13.51%) Siebel EIM
4 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.41%) Easytrieve
4 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) JIRA
4 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (10.81%) Selenium
5 3 (8.11%) JUnit
6 2 (5.41%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (5.41%) GitLab
6 2 (5.41%) Gradle
6 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
6 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.41%) Maven
6 2 (5.41%) NetBeans
6 2 (5.41%) SOAtest
6 2 (5.41%) Subversion
6 2 (5.41%) webpack
7 1 (2.70%) Hudson
7 1 (2.70%) Postman
7 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (32.43%) Banking
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) General Ledger
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Billing
7 1 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) ABAP Developer
2 10 (27.03%) SAP Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Scrum Master
4 4 (10.81%) Siebel Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Mainframe Designer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (2.70%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Integration Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Scrum Master
7 1 (2.70%) SAP HR Developer
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Siebel Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) REST
1 13 (35.14%) SOAP
2 10 (27.03%) BAPI
3 8 (21.62%) J2EE
4 7 (18.92%) Spring
5 6 (16.22%) JMS
5 6 (16.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (13.51%) JSP
6 5 (13.51%) RAML
6 5 (13.51%) Servlets
7 4 (10.81%) Ajax
7 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.81%) CSS
7 4 (10.81%) EJB
7 4 (10.81%) HTML
7 4 (10.81%) RESTful
7 4 (10.81%) WSDL
8 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
8 3 (8.11%) JSON
8 3 (8.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Mainframe
2 5 (13.51%) Private Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) VSAM
3 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Performance Tuning
1 14 (37.84%) SDLC
2 12 (32.43%) Migration
3 10 (27.03%) Agile
3 10 (27.03%) OO
4 9 (24.32%) Process Improvement
5 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
6 6 (16.22%) API Development
6 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.51%) EAI
7 5 (13.51%) Microservices
8 4 (10.81%) Backlog Management
8 4 (10.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (10.81%) Budget Control
8 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (8.11%) Servant Leadership
9 3 (8.11%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.03%) ABAP
2 10 (27.03%) Java
3 9 (24.32%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) COBOL
4 5 (13.51%) JCL
4 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.11%) REXX
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) Python
7 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
1 2 (5.41%) Puppet
1 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) SAP
2 11 (29.73%) Oracle
3 5 (13.51%) Siebel
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.41%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.41%) Dell
5 2 (5.41%) Informatica
5 2 (5.41%) Parasoft
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) IBM