Web Services Contracts in Northern Ireland

Web Services
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Web Services 11 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.43% 1.40% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 31.43% 6.45% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £225 £541 -
25th Percentile £250 £547 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £588 £400
Median % change year-on-year -44.68% +46.88% -15.79%
75th Percentile £411 £622 -
90th Percentile £486 £624 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 35 31 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 20.47% 21.68% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 14
10th Percentile £268 £515 -
25th Percentile £325 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +45.45% -14.95%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £459
90th Percentile £539 £670 £526
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Northern Ireland

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in Northern Ireland

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in Northern Ireland

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in Northern Ireland

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 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
County Antrim -1 11 £325 -44.68% 4
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 3 (27.27%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Front Office
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (18.18%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Java Developer
3 6 (54.55%) Java Software Developer
4 4 (36.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Consultant
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (18.18%) Junior
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) XML
2 7 (63.64%) Apache Avro
2 7 (63.64%) JSON
2 7 (63.64%) RESTful
3 6 (54.55%) AngularJS
3 6 (54.55%) React
4 4 (36.36%) REST
4 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
5 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (27.27%) SOAP
6 2 (18.18%) Spring
7 1 (9.09%) .NET
7 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
7 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Derivative
1 6 (54.55%) Equities
1 6 (54.55%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Clean Code
2 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (54.55%) User Experience
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) CRM
6 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) MVC
6 1 (9.09%) OOD
6 1 (9.09%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft