Web Services Contracts in the North West

Web Services
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 88 106 118
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Web Services 32 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 1.13% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.32% 6.16% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 31
10th Percentile £373 £311 £410
25th Percentile £402 £375 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £519 £484 £556
90th Percentile £616 £489 £638
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% - +2.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
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 Services 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
Cheshire +3 13 £402 -8.11% 7
Merseyside - 5 £600 - 6
Lancashire +4 3 £775 - 14
Manchester -1 1 - - 21
Web Services
England

Web Services
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 8 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (15.63%) CICS
2 5 (15.63%) JBoss
2 5 (15.63%) Tomcat
3 4 (12.50%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Boomi
2 2 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SAP HANA
2 7 (21.88%) DB2
3 5 (15.63%) Siebel EIM
4 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Easytrieve
4 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (6.25%) Gradle
3 2 (6.25%) HP UFT
3 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) JUnit
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) NetBeans
3 2 (6.25%) SOAtest
3 2 (6.25%) Subversion
4 1 (3.13%) Hudson
General
1 12 (37.50%) Banking
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Billing
7 1 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) ABAP Developer
2 10 (31.25%) SAP Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Scrum Master
4 4 (12.50%) Siebel Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Designer
5 2 (6.25%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (3.13%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.13%) SAP HR Developer
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Siebel Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) SOAP
2 10 (31.25%) BAPI
3 8 (25.00%) J2EE
3 8 (25.00%) REST
4 7 (21.88%) Spring
5 6 (18.75%) JMS
5 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 5 (15.63%) JSP
6 5 (15.63%) Servlets
7 4 (12.50%) EJB
7 4 (12.50%) RAML
7 4 (12.50%) WSDL
8 3 (9.38%) Ajax
8 3 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 3 (9.38%) Spring MVC
9 2 (6.25%) HTML5
9 2 (6.25%) jQuery
9 2 (6.25%) JSON
9 2 (6.25%) Kafka
9 2 (6.25%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Mainframe
2 5 (15.63%) Private Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) VSAM
3 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Unix
3 2 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (37.50%) SDLC
3 11 (34.38%) Migration
4 10 (31.25%) OO
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Process Improvement
6 6 (18.75%) API Development
6 6 (18.75%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.63%) EAI
8 4 (12.50%) Backlog Management
8 4 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (12.50%) Budget Control
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Conflict Resolution
9 3 (9.38%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (9.38%) Servant Leadership
9 3 (9.38%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) ABAP
1 10 (31.25%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) COBOL
4 5 (15.63%) JCL
4 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
5 3 (9.38%) REXX
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 2 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) SAP
2 11 (34.38%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Siebel
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Ab Initio
5 2 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
5 2 (6.25%) Informatica
5 2 (6.25%) Parasoft
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Adobe
6 1 (3.13%) IBM