Web Services Job Trends in Manchester

Web Services
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 104 121
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 +36
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 10 48 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.33% 1.81% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.68% 8.11% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 34
10th Percentile £48,375 £39,250 £37,389
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £51,924
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +15.55% -10.86%
75th Percentile £72,813 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,118 £84,250 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% +18.86% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Web Services falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 373 592 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.36% 22.36% 29.97%
Number of salaries quoted 317 361 711
10th Percentile £29,900 £41,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in Manchester

Web Services
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in Manchester

Web Services
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford +3 1 £74,830 +25.91%
Web Services
North West

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Einstein
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Games Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 1 (10.00%) Django
5 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) WinForms
5 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) OOP
4 4 (40.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Moogsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Pega
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) WSO2