Web Services Job Trends in the North of England

Web Services
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 180 172
Rank change year-on-year -54 -8 +60
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 27 107 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 1.13% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 6.68% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17 40 88
10th Percentile £40,550 £38,125 £36,270
25th Percentile £45,909 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £73,000 £75,125 -
England median annual salary £60,980 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,063 1,601 1,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.12% 16.93% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 866 962 1,516
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,313 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +3.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the North of England

Web Services
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Web Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West -27 14 £51,250 -14.18% 12
Yorkshire -20 12 £56,186 +23.49% 2
North East -2 1 £47,372 -20.29% 2
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.41%) JBoss
2 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 9 (33.33%) Serverless
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.70%) Boomi
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (18.52%) MySQL
3 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (62.96%) Git
2 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Games
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.70%) Integration Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead .NET Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) REST
2 12 (44.44%) Spring
3 11 (40.74%) HTML
4 10 (37.04%) CSS
4 10 (37.04%) Node.js
4 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
5 9 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (29.63%) .NET
6 8 (29.63%) React
7 5 (18.52%) Kafka
7 5 (18.52%) Mustache
7 5 (18.52%) XML
8 4 (14.81%) .NET Framework
8 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
8 4 (14.81%) Apache Camel
8 4 (14.81%) SOAP
9 3 (11.11%) JSON
10 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
10 2 (7.41%) Middleware
10 2 (7.41%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (7.41%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Agile
2 18 (66.67%) TDD
3 13 (48.15%) Microservices
4 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
7 7 (25.93%) SDLC
8 6 (22.22%) DevOps
9 5 (18.52%) BDD
9 5 (18.52%) Coaching
9 5 (18.52%) Kanban
9 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
9 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
9 5 (18.52%) Web Development
9 5 (18.52%) Workflow
10 4 (14.81%) AI
10 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (14.81%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) JavaScript
2 14 (51.85%) Java
3 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 8 (29.63%) C#
5 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Pega
1 4 (14.81%) WSO2
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Moogsoft
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Talend