Web Engineer Contracts in the North West

Web Engineer
England > North West

The median Web Engineer daily rate in the North West is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Web Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% - 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £400
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £450 £650
% change year-on-year - -30.77% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,822 2,580 2,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.61% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,639 2,046
10th Percentile £263 £272 £301
25th Percentile £380 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £586
90th Percentile £653 £675 £663
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 294 127
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.13 £14.61
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.03 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +7.71% +31.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.88 £47.42
90th Percentile £83.41 £71.32 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.57 £37.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -16.39% +88.21%

Web Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Web Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Web Engineer in the North West

Web Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Web Engineer in the North West

Web Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Web Engineer in the North West

Web Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Manchester - 2 £545 - 3
Web Engineer
England

Web Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 June 2025, Web Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Web Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RxJS
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Java

Web Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RxJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility