Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 January 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 20 January 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Web Services
North West > Manchester
6 months to
20 Jan 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 57 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 351 664 587
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester 5.24% 8.95% 7.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.41% 18.77% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 321 593 529
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £65,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%

Web Services is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,829 3,538 3,356
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester 42.24% 47.70% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,412 3,003 2,979
Manchester median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +10.47% +7.50% -
10th Percentile £30,275 £28,000 £26,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £61,250
North West median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Web Services as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in Manchester

Web Services
Salary Trend in Manchester

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Web Services in Manchester.

Salary trend for Web Services in Manchester

Web Services
Salary Histogram in Manchester

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Web Services in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 January 2019.

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 20 January 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham -2 21 £50,000 -4.76% 8
Stockport -16 16 £43,000 -14.00% 7
Rochdale - 9 £48,750 -
Salford -15 8 £33,750 -17.68% 1
Cheadle -2 3 £39,000 -9.30% 1
Bury -5 3 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Web Services
North West

For the 6 months to 20 January 2019, IT jobs citing Web Services also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region with a requirement for Web Services.

1 190 (54.13%) Agile Software Development
2 152 (43.30%) Amazon AWS
3 147 (41.88%) Java
4 125 (35.61%) DevOps
5 116 (33.05%) C#
5 116 (33.05%) .NET
6 111 (31.62%) JavaScript
7 98 (27.92%) Degree
8 96 (27.35%) XML
9 86 (24.50%) HTML
10 79 (22.51%) CSS
10 79 (22.51%) SOAP
11 78 (22.22%) Open Source
12 75 (21.37%) Software Engineering
12 75 (21.37%) MVC
13 74 (21.08%) ASP.NET
14 73 (20.80%) Scrum
15 72 (20.51%) Computer Science
16 70 (19.94%) RESTful
17 69 (19.66%) AngularJS
17 69 (19.66%) SQL
18 68 (19.37%) TDD
18 68 (19.37%) jQuery
19 67 (19.09%) Hadoop
19 67 (19.09%) Microsoft
20 66 (18.80%) Python
21 63 (17.95%) NoSQL
22 61 (17.38%) OO
22 61 (17.38%) Finance
23 57 (16.24%) SQL Server

Web Services
Co-occurring IT Skills in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (15.95%) Apache
2 51 (14.53%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.56%) Apache Solr
4 14 (3.99%) IIS
5 10 (2.85%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.28%) SharePoint 2013
7 7 (1.99%) CMS
7 7 (1.99%) Confluence
7 7 (1.99%) Tomcat
8 5 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (1.14%) MS Exchange
10 3 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.85%) Drupal
10 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.85%) nginx
11 2 (0.57%) Apache Pig
11 2 (0.57%) JBoss
11 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.57%) WordPress
12 1 (0.28%) Jetty
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.56%) osCommerce
1 9 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (43.30%) Amazon AWS
2 48 (13.68%) Cloud Computing
3 46 (13.11%) Microsoft Azure
4 45 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
5 42 (11.97%) Amazon EMR
6 25 (7.12%) Google Cloud Platform
7 16 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (3.42%) Office 365
9 9 (2.56%) SaaS
10 4 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.14%) Serverless
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.85%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (0.85%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.57%) Algolia
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 2 (0.57%) Firebase
12 2 (0.57%) GitHub
12 2 (0.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.41%) Internet
2 16 (4.56%) HTTP
3 12 (3.42%) LAN
3 12 (3.42%) WAN
4 10 (2.85%) DHCP
4 10 (2.85%) DNS
4 10 (2.85%) SAN
5 9 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.71%) Firewall
7 5 (1.42%) AMQP
7 5 (1.42%) Broadband
8 4 (1.14%) RS-232
9 1 (0.28%) IPv6
9 1 (0.28%) LLU
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) VoIP
9 1 (0.28%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.09%) Hadoop
2 63 (17.95%) NoSQL
3 57 (16.24%) SQL Server
4 51 (14.53%) Big Data
5 50 (14.25%) MongoDB
6 46 (13.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (12.54%) MySQL
8 42 (11.97%) Amazon Athena
8 42 (11.97%) Flink
9 27 (7.69%) Relational Database
10 18 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (4.27%) SQL Server 2008
12 10 (2.85%) MariaDB
13 8 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.42%) SQL Server 2014
14 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.14%) Looker
15 4 (1.14%) Oracle BI EE
15 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (15.10%) JIRA
2 38 (10.83%) Visual Studio
3 30 (8.55%) Git (software)
4 25 (7.12%) Selenium
5 22 (6.27%) MSTest
5 22 (6.27%) NUnit
6 16 (4.56%) Cucumber
6 16 (4.56%) gulp
7 15 (4.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (3.42%) Subversion
9 11 (3.13%) Jenkins
9 11 (3.13%) JMeter
10 10 (2.85%) FitNesse
10 10 (2.85%) HP UFT
10 10 (2.85%) JUnit
11 9 (2.56%) SoapUI
12 6 (1.71%) Grunt
12 6 (1.71%) Maven
13 4 (1.14%) Mercurial
13 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (17.38%) Finance
2 31 (8.83%) Retail
3 16 (4.56%) Marketing
4 11 (3.13%) Law
4 11 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 9 (2.56%) Local Government
6 7 (1.99%) Games
7 4 (1.14%) Advertising
7 4 (1.14%) Back Office
7 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.85%) Banking
8 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.57%) Electronics
9 2 (0.57%) International Banking
9 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.28%) Automotive
10 1 (0.28%) Billing
10 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (45.30%) Developer
2 58 (16.52%) .NET Developer
3 45 (12.82%) C# Developer
4 39 (11.11%) Architect
5 38 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 37 (10.54%) Software Developer
7 36 (10.26%) C# .NET Developer
8 28 (7.98%) Java Developer
9 27 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
9 27 (7.69%) Senior Developer
10 26 (7.41%) Java Engineer
11 24 (6.84%) Data Engineer
11 24 (6.84%) Senior Architect
12 23 (6.55%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (6.27%) Big Data Engineer
13 22 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 22 (6.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 22 (6.27%) PHP Developer
14 21 (5.98%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (33.05%) .NET
2 96 (27.35%) XML
3 86 (24.50%) HTML
4 79 (22.51%) CSS
4 79 (22.51%) SOAP
5 74 (21.08%) ASP.NET
6 70 (19.94%) RESTful
7 69 (19.66%) AngularJS
8 68 (19.37%) jQuery
9 56 (15.95%) WCF
10 51 (14.53%) Kafka
10 51 (14.53%) Spring
11 41 (11.68%) Spark Streaming
12 40 (11.40%) JSON
13 36 (10.26%) Ajax
14 34 (9.69%) ASP.NET MVC
15 32 (9.12%) HTML5
16 29 (8.26%) REST
17 27 (7.69%) WPF
18 26 (7.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (6.27%) Mobile App
3 22 (6.27%) User Experience
4 21 (5.98%) Internet of Things
5 14 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.99%) NHS
8 7 (1.99%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.57%) Smart Energy
11 2 (0.57%) Smart Home
11 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.28%) Online Gambling
12 1 (0.28%) Online Games
12 1 (0.28%) Xbox
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.97%) Windows
2 35 (9.97%) Linux
3 17 (4.84%) Apple iOS
4 16 (4.56%) Android
5 14 (3.99%) Windows Server
6 12 (3.42%) Unix
7 8 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.14%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.57%) CentOS
9 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.28%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (54.13%) Agile Software Development
2 125 (35.61%) DevOps
3 78 (22.22%) Open Source
4 75 (21.37%) MVC
4 75 (21.37%) Software Engineering
5 73 (20.80%) Scrum
6 72 (20.51%) Computer Science
7 68 (19.37%) TDD
8 61 (17.38%) OO
9 56 (15.95%) Test Automation
10 49 (13.96%) Continuous Integration
10 49 (13.96%) Mathematics
10 49 (13.96%) SDLC
11 44 (12.54%) Change Management
11 44 (12.54%) Configuration Management
11 44 (12.54%) Data Modelling
12 43 (12.25%) Mentoring
13 42 (11.97%) Data Engineering
14 41 (11.68%) Data Ingestion
15 38 (10.83%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 147 (41.88%) Java
2 116 (33.05%) C#
3 111 (31.62%) JavaScript
4 69 (19.66%) SQL
5 66 (18.80%) Python
6 47 (13.39%) Scala
7 34 (9.69%) PHP
8 31 (8.83%) C++
8 31 (8.83%) Java 8
9 23 (6.55%) T-SQL
10 22 (6.27%) PL/SQL
11 12 (3.42%) Ruby
12 7 (1.99%) Objective-C
12 7 (1.99%) PHP 5
12 7 (1.99%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.71%) Apple Swift
13 6 (1.71%) Go
14 5 (1.42%) Bash Shell
15 4 (1.14%) Groovy
15 4 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 98 (27.92%) Degree
2 52 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (11.97%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.85%) ISEB
6 9 (2.56%) MCSE
7 8 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.14%) MCSA
9 4 (1.14%) MCTS
9 4 (1.14%) VCP6
10 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.41%) QA
2 3 (0.85%) GDPR
3 2 (0.57%) SLA
3 2 (0.57%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 19 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.84%) Docker
3 16 (4.56%) vSphere
4 14 (3.99%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.99%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.28%) Terminal Services
5 8 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.14%) vCloud
7 2 (0.57%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (5.70%) Puppet
2 14 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 8 (2.28%) Terraform
4 6 (1.71%) Opscode Chef
5 5 (1.42%) Ansible
6 4 (1.14%) cPanel
7 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.57%) Rancher
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.97%) CA Agile Central
3 35 (9.97%) VMware
4 27 (7.69%) Google
5 19 (5.41%) Oracle
6 11 (3.13%) Rackspace
7 7 (1.99%) Tableau
8 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.42%) Cisco
8 5 (1.42%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.14%) CA
9 4 (1.14%) Informatica
10 3 (0.85%) hybris
11 2 (0.57%) Apple
11 2 (0.57%) Facebook
11 2 (0.57%) IBM
11 2 (0.57%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.57%) Splunk
11 2 (0.57%) Zend