WebSockets Contracts

WebSockets
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 621 721
Rank change year-on-year +141 +100 -102
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 103 84 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.61% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 39 97
10th Percentile £525 £450 £462
25th Percentile £592 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £850 £788 £800
90th Percentile £875 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.79 - -
90th Percentile £54.01 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebSockets 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 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 8,929 13,805 24,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.57% 23.25% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 10,065 17,636
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.78 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Hourly rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +133 90 £801 +10.41% 22
London +124 82 £813 +8.37% 15
Work from Home +126 43 £650 -8.77% 12
UK excluding London +60 7 £500 +5.26% 8
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
South West +27 1 £500 - 1
Midlands +25 1 £500 +5.26%
South East - 1 £588 - 6
Wales - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (18.45%) nginx
2 6 (5.83%) Tornado
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.86%) AWS
2 22 (21.36%) npm
3 18 (17.48%) Azure
4 17 (16.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 9 (8.74%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (5.83%) Serverless
7 4 (3.88%) GitHub
8 3 (2.91%) Akamai
9 2 (1.94%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.97%) Contentful
10 1 (0.97%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) HTTP
2 4 (3.88%) SSL
3 3 (2.91%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.97%) Network Security
4 1 (0.97%) RFID
4 1 (0.97%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.39%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 25 (24.27%) JIRA
2 22 (21.36%) webpack
3 17 (16.50%) Git
4 7 (6.80%) git-flow
5 6 (5.83%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.85%) Pylint
7 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.91%) Burp Suite
8 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.97%) Babel
9 1 (0.97%) Gatling
9 1 (0.97%) JMeter
9 1 (0.97%) Selenium
9 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (22.33%) Front Office
4 13 (12.62%) Finance
5 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.77%) Banking
7 6 (5.83%) Marketing
7 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.97%) Military
9 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (72.82%) Developer
2 29 (28.16%) Full Stack Developer
3 22 (21.36%) Angular Developer
4 16 (15.53%) Applications Developer
4 16 (15.53%) Real Time Developer
4 16 (15.53%) UI Developer
4 16 (15.53%) Web Applications Developer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior
5 12 (11.65%) Software Developer
6 10 (9.71%) Python Developer
7 9 (8.74%) C# Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 7 (6.80%) JavaScript Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) UI Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (5.83%) C# Web Application Developer
9 6 (5.83%) React Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (50.49%) React
2 34 (33.01%) HTML
3 31 (30.10%) REST
4 30 (29.13%) CSS
5 28 (27.18%) Sass
6 26 (25.24%) AngularJS
7 22 (21.36%) RxJS
8 20 (19.42%) FastAPI
9 18 (17.48%) Laravel
10 14 (13.59%) RESTful
11 12 (11.65%) Kafka
11 12 (11.65%) pytest
12 10 (9.71%) Node.js
13 8 (7.77%) Material-UI
14 7 (6.80%) HTML5
14 7 (6.80%) Jest
14 7 (6.80%) LESS
14 7 (6.80%) OpenFin
14 7 (6.80%) Redux
14 7 (6.80%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Fixed Income
2 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.83%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (5.83%) Solar Panel
5 5 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.85%) Wiki
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.97%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.97%) Derivative
9 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.97%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.30%) Linux
2 20 (19.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.97%) Android
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.57%) Software Engineering
2 35 (33.98%) Agile
3 32 (31.07%) Full Stack Development
4 29 (28.16%) Electronic Trading
5 28 (27.18%) Design Patterns
6 25 (24.27%) Front End Development
7 24 (23.30%) Web Development
8 23 (22.33%) DevOps
9 22 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (20.39%) End-to-End Testing
10 21 (20.39%) Web Application Development
11 20 (19.42%) Microservices
12 19 (18.45%) TDD
12 19 (18.45%) User Experience
13 18 (17.48%) CI/CD
14 17 (16.50%) API Development
14 17 (16.50%) SDLC
14 17 (16.50%) Unit Testing
15 16 (15.53%) Analytics
15 16 (15.53%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 63 (61.17%) JavaScript
2 39 (37.86%) TypeScript
3 37 (35.92%) SQL
4 31 (30.10%) Python
5 23 (22.33%) Java
6 18 (17.48%) PHP
7 15 (14.56%) C#
8 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.94%) C++
9 2 (1.94%) Go
10 1 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.62%) Degree
4 9 (8.74%) Master's Degree
5 8 (7.77%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (7.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) OpenAI
2 5 (4.85%) Confluent
2 5 (4.85%) Databricks
3 4 (3.88%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.91%) F5
4 3 (2.91%) Oracle
5 2 (1.94%) Imperva
5 2 (1.94%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.97%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.97%) Sun