Web Services Contract Job Trends in the North West

Web Services
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 94 75
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 +47
Contract jobs citing Web Services 28 24 65
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.12% 1.12% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.53% 6.80% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 53
10th Percentile £439 £350 £428
25th Percentile £481 £390 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -12.84% -12.80%
75th Percentile £708 £499 £619
90th Percentile £716 £505 £637
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.07% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £95.75 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £96.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile £97.25 - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +6.12% -6.49%

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 506 353 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.23% 16.43% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 231 452
10th Percentile £325 £350 £368
25th Percentile £381 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £620
90th Percentile £663 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 31
10th Percentile - - £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +41.84% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile - £78.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Web Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Web Services job vacancy trend in the North West

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Web Services

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Web Services

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 21 December 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 19 £680 +74.23% 2
Manchester -15 6 £625 +27.55% 9
Lancashire -10 2 £525 -32.26% 5
Merseyside -7 1 £575 -
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) JBoss
1 2 (7.14%) Mule
1 2 (7.14%) Mule ESB
1 2 (7.14%) NetWeaver
1 2 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SAP HANA
2 2 (7.14%) DB2
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) DTS
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Ant
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.57%) IntelliJ
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) NUnit
General
1 6 (21.43%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) ABAP Consultant
1 10 (35.71%) Consultant
1 10 (35.71%) SAP Consultant
2 7 (25.00%) Development Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) SAP Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Scrum Master
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) BAPI
1 10 (35.71%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (25.00%) REST
3 4 (14.29%) XML
4 3 (10.71%) J2EE
4 3 (10.71%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) JSON
5 2 (7.14%) RAML
5 2 (7.14%) SOAP
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.14%) WSDL
6 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.57%) JavaBeans
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) NestJS
6 1 (3.57%) Struts
6 1 (3.57%) Swing
6 1 (3.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) PACS
1 4 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (35.71%) Process Improvement
3 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) Fintech
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Requirements Management
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.71%) Open Source
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) ABAP
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) SAP
2 10 (35.71%) Adobe
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.14%) Axway
4 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.57%) Workday