Web Services Contracts in the North of England

Web Services
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Web Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Services over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 154 151
Rank change year-on-year +37 -3 -53
Contract jobs citing Web Services 69 59 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.48% 1.05% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 5.42% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 43 73
10th Percentile £400 £410 £360
25th Percentile £459 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £636
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £64.31
% change year-on-year -10.34% +12.74% +44.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 910 1,088 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.58% 19.45% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 845 1,222
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +76.56%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Web Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Web Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Services in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Services in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Web Services in the North of England

Web Services
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +30 37 £550 - 11
North West +9 29 £450 -10.00% 15
North East +16 3 £491 -1.90% 2
Web Services
England

Web Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.70%) Confluence
1 6 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.80%) Mule
3 3 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (10.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.23%) AWS
2 14 (20.29%) Azure
3 7 (10.14%) Apigee
3 7 (10.14%) Kong
4 3 (4.35%) IaaS
4 3 (4.35%) npm
4 3 (4.35%) PaaS
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
4 3 (4.35%) Yarn
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub
5 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Boomi
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) HTTP
2 2 (2.90%) AMQP
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) MQTT
3 1 (1.45%) DMZ
3 1 (1.45%) Modbus
3 1 (1.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.14%) OLAP
2 7 (10.14%) OLTP
3 6 (8.70%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) Redis
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.90%) MySQL
6 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.90%) Power BI
7 1 (1.45%) Big Data
7 1 (1.45%) GIS
7 1 (1.45%) QGIS
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) JIRA
2 7 (10.14%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.25%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.80%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.80%) Gatling
4 4 (5.80%) JMeter
4 4 (5.80%) Log4j
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
4 4 (5.80%) WebDriver
5 3 (4.35%) Jasmine
5 3 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (4.35%) Mocha
5 3 (4.35%) webpack
6 2 (2.90%) GitLab
6 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.45%) Gradle
7 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Banking
3 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (52.17%) Developer
2 16 (23.19%) ServiceNow Developer
3 11 (15.94%) Architect
4 10 (14.49%) Consultant
4 10 (14.49%) Senior
5 8 (11.59%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.25%) AWS Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.80%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.80%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.35%) ITSM Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Agile Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.99%) Kafka
2 15 (21.74%) RESTful
3 11 (15.94%) Spring
3 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
4 10 (14.49%) SOAP
5 8 (11.59%) J2EE
5 8 (11.59%) OAuth
5 8 (11.59%) OpenID
6 7 (10.14%) HTML
6 7 (10.14%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (10.14%) Node.js
6 7 (10.14%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (8.70%) .NET
7 6 (8.70%) Apache Camel
7 6 (8.70%) React
7 6 (8.70%) Spring Integration
7 6 (8.70%) XML
8 5 (7.25%) .NET Core
8 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) DataPower
2 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) PKI
6 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Unix
2 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Mac OS X
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.78%) ITSM
2 23 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 23 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 23 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 23 (33.33%) Operations Management
2 23 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 23 (33.33%) Service Management
3 21 (30.43%) Agile
4 17 (24.64%) ITIL
5 15 (21.74%) API Development
6 12 (17.39%) Design Patterns
6 12 (17.39%) Scrum
7 11 (15.94%) OO
8 9 (13.04%) DevOps
9 8 (11.59%) Microservices
9 8 (11.59%) SOA
9 8 (11.59%) TDD
10 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.14%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) Java
2 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.49%) SQL
4 8 (11.59%) C#
5 7 (10.14%) Scala
6 4 (5.80%) Groovy
6 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.35%) Python
8 2 (2.90%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) Bicep
9 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (31.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.90%) Grafana
2 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Anchore
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.45%) Kibana
3 1 (1.45%) Packer
3 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (34.78%) ServiceNow
2 7 (10.14%) IBM
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle
2 7 (10.14%) TSYS
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Adobe
4 3 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) Dell
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) VMware