Web Services Job Trends in the North West

Web Services
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Web Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 142 140
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 +67
Permanent jobs citing Web Services 14 67 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.23% 1.28% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 7.42% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 38
10th Percentile £39,675 £38,750 £38,706
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £59,715 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% +19.43% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,563 £72,188
90th Percentile £73,625 £86,125 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,715 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -4.46% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 509 903 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.28% 17.29% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 434 571 774
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,210 £72,500 £73,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Web Services job vacancy trend in the North West

Web Services
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Web Services

Web Services
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Web Services in the North West

Web Services
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -12 9 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Merseyside -10 2 £44,250 -11.50%
Cheshire -21 2 £42,500 -46.88%
Lancashire - 1 £47,372 - 4
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Boomi
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Einstein
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Games
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Games Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) HTML
2 7 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 6 (42.86%) REST
4 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 3 (21.43%) React
6 2 (14.29%) Blazor
6 2 (14.29%) JSON
6 2 (14.29%) Node.js
6 2 (14.29%) SOAP
6 2 (14.29%) Spring
6 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
6 2 (14.29%) XML
7 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (7.14%) Apache Camel
7 1 (7.14%) Django
7 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (7.14%) RESTful
7 1 (7.14%) WinForms
7 1 (7.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Microservices
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 4 (28.57%) OOP
5 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
6 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Moogsoft
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.14%) Pega
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Talend
2 1 (7.14%) WSO2