Web Operations Contracts in the North West

Web Operations (WebOps)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Web Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Operations 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 113 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Web Operations 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £373 - £500
25th Percentile £383 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £517
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.63%
75th Percentile £433 - £525
90th Percentile £439 - £525
England median daily rate £410 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -13.63% -6.86% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Web Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Web Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Operations in the North West

Web Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Operations in the North West

Web Operations
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 Operations within the North West 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
Manchester - 7 £410 -
Web Operations
England

Web Operations
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) IaaS
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) BCP
1 7 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 7 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 7 (100.00%) Change Management
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 7 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 6 (85.71%) Line Management
3 5 (71.43%) Analytics
3 5 (71.43%) High Availability
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware