Web Development Contracts in the North West

Web Development
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Web Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Development over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 139 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 -40 -5
Contract jobs citing Web Development 12 16 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.44% 0.53% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.59% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 51
10th Percentile £253 £319 £406
25th Percentile £334 £431 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +3.75% +26.98%
75th Percentile £518 £588 £650
90th Percentile £590 £599 £675
England median daily rate £483 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -12.27% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
10th Percentile - - £53.63
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +93.18% -68.57% +194.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Web Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,323 2,731 3,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.19% 89.84% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 1,917 2,598
10th Percentile £307 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 139 160
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.24 £10.48
25th Percentile £14.00 £22.27 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.46 £35.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +53.85% +30.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.38 £51.95
90th Percentile £66.61 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Development in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Development in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Web Development in the North West

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester +7 10 £425 -23.60% 26
Merseyside +16 2 - - 3
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Contentstack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Games
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Head of Development
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lecturer
2 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 2 (16.67%) BDD
3 2 (16.67%) Coaching
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Pair Programming
3 2 (16.67%) Product Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Content Management
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) WooCommerce