Web Services Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Web Services
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Web Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 29 28
Rank change year-on-year -37 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Web Services 2 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.31% 2.15% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 13.16% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
North East median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 140 38 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.57% 16.31% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 33 18
10th Percentile £363 £363 £338
25th Percentile £406 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £519
90th Percentile £590 £575 £574
North East median daily rate £450 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% -22.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 0 0
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £70.00 - £46.18

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Services

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Web Services

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -44 2 £425 -15.00% 2
Web Services
North East

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) BPEL
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft