WebSockets Contracts with Work from Home Options

WebSockets
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 424 557
Rank change year-on-year +121 +133 -102
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 44 43 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 0.68% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 55
10th Percentile £544 £473 £463
25th Percentile £600 £539 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +9.62% +23.81%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £713
90th Percentile £975 £788 £795
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

WebSockets
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WebSockets trend for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WebSockets.

WebSockets daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

WebSockets daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 5 (11.36%) npm
4 4 (9.09%) Azure
5 2 (4.55%) Azure API Management
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) RFID
1 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Git
2 8 (18.18%) git-flow
3 5 (11.36%) JIRA
3 5 (11.36%) webpack
4 2 (4.55%) Pylint
General
1 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (15.91%) Marketing
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Front Office
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 31 (70.45%) Developer
2 15 (34.09%) Full Stack Developer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
4 8 (18.18%) JavaScript Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) UI Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) C# Developer
5 7 (15.91%) Software Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Angular Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Applications Developer
6 5 (11.36%) C# Application Developer
6 5 (11.36%) C# Web Application Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Python Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Real Time Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Web Applications Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) CSS
1 20 (45.45%) Sass
2 16 (36.36%) React
3 14 (31.82%) HTML
4 12 (27.27%) Laravel
5 11 (25.00%) FastAPI
6 10 (22.73%) REST
7 8 (18.18%) Jest
7 8 (18.18%) LESS
7 8 (18.18%) Material-UI
7 8 (18.18%) OpenFin
7 8 (18.18%) Redux
7 8 (18.18%) RESTful
7 8 (18.18%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
8 5 (11.36%) RxJS
9 3 (6.82%) .NET
10 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
10 2 (4.55%) pytest
10 2 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (18.18%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.27%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
2 11 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Software Engineering
2 16 (36.36%) Full Stack Development
3 13 (29.55%) Electronic Trading
3 13 (29.55%) Unit Testing
4 12 (27.27%) Analytics
4 12 (27.27%) API Development
4 12 (27.27%) Data Encryption
4 12 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (27.27%) Integration Testing
4 12 (27.27%) TDD
4 12 (27.27%) Web Development
5 11 (25.00%) Microservices
5 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (22.73%) SDLC
7 9 (20.45%) Agile
7 9 (20.45%) Security Testing
8 8 (18.18%) Design Patterns
8 8 (18.18%) LLM
8 8 (18.18%) Post-Production
8 8 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) JavaScript
2 17 (38.64%) SQL
3 14 (31.82%) Python
4 13 (29.55%) TypeScript
5 12 (27.27%) PHP
6 11 (25.00%) Java
7 8 (18.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.82%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft