Web Services Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Web Services
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -21 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.36% 2.50% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.13% 12.90% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £273 -
25th Percentile £304 £293 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £326 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% - -
75th Percentile £311 £359 -
90th Percentile - £378 -
East Midlands median daily rate £416 £326 £600
% change year-on-year +27.68% -45.67% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 47 31 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 16.85% 19.38% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 10
10th Percentile £359 £312 £369
25th Percentile £393 £340 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £356 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -18.63% +31.09%
75th Percentile £447 £367 £569
90th Percentile £475 £465 £713
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £400 £419
% change year-on-year +11.75% -4.53% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.90
75th Percentile - - £20.52
90th Percentile - - £41.86
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.08 - £21.73

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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
Northampton -21 1 £308 -5.67% 1
Web Services
East Midlands

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared