The first table below looks at the demand for WebSockets skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WebSockets over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebSockets
Rank 754 872 865
Rank change year-on-year
+118 -7
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 104 24 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.096% 0.020% 0.005%
As % of the Application Development category 0.237% 0.048% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 90 23 5
Average salary £50,000 £37,500 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -23.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £23,000 £46,600
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £49,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,500 £27,500 -
% change year-on-year
+32.72% -
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43800 50483 49443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.63% 41.74% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 38094 44930 43658
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

WebSockets
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WebSockets Jobs Demand Trend

WebSockets
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK.

WebSockets Salary Trend

WebSockets
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WebSockets over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

WebSockets Salary Histogram

WebSockets
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +103 93 £50,000 +33.33%
London +82 66 £55,000 +33.33%
East of England +11 9 £30,000 -14.28%
Suffolk - 9 £30,000 -
Manchester - 9 £31,500 -
North West - 9 £31,500 -
City of London +16 8 £62,500 -16.66%
South East +8 7 £40,000 +68.42%
Scotland +3 7 £45,000 +28.57%
Glasgow - 6 £45,000 -
Ipswich - 5 £25,000 -
Hammersmith - 4 £35,000 -
Berkshire - 4 £45,000 -
Bracknell - 3 £45,000 -
Surrey - 3 £40,000 -
South West +6 2 £37,500 -6.25%
Wales - 2 £40,000 -
Bristol - 2 £37,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £41,000 -
Belfast - 1 £41,000 -
County Antrim - 1 £41,000 -

WebSockets
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WebSockets also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WebSockets.

1 141 (86.50%) CSS
2 132 (80.98%) JavaScript
3 121 (74.23%) HTML5
4 100 (61.35%) jQuery
4 100 (61.35%) HTML
5 91 (55.83%) CSS3
6 76 (46.63%) MVC
7 61 (37.42%) JSON
8 59 (36.20%) Ajax
9 54 (33.13%) Java
10 52 (31.90%) Games
11 50 (30.67%) XML
12 48 (29.45%) OO
13 46 (28.22%) Web Services
14 44 (26.99%) SQL
15 42 (25.77%) Agile Software Development
16 37 (22.70%) XHTML
16 37 (22.70%) REST
17 35 (21.47%) C#
18 30 (18.40%) .NET
18 30 (18.40%) Finance
19 29 (17.79%) Windows
19 29 (17.79%) Ext JS
20 28 (17.18%) ASP.NET MVC
20 28 (17.18%) ASP.NET
20 28 (17.18%) MySQL
21 27 (16.56%) Degree
22 26 (15.95%) SOAP
23 25 (15.34%) Node.js
24 24 (14.72%) JSP

WebSockets
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WebSockets also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited WebSockets. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 141 (86.50%) CSS
2 121 (74.23%) HTML5
3 100 (61.35%) jQuery
3 100 (61.35%) HTML
4 91 (55.83%) CSS3
5 61 (37.42%) JSON
6 59 (36.20%) Ajax
7 50 (30.67%) XML
8 46 (28.22%) Web Services
9 37 (22.70%) XHTML
9 37 (22.70%) REST
10 30 (18.40%) .NET
11 29 (17.79%) Ext JS
12 28 (17.18%) ASP.NET MVC
12 28 (17.18%) ASP.NET
13 26 (15.95%) SOAP
14 25 (15.34%) Node.js
15 24 (14.72%) JSP
16 23 (14.11%) AngularJS
17 22 (13.50%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 20 (12.27%) Windows Azure
2 12 (7.362%) nginx
3 11 (6.748%) Tomcat
4 10 (6.135%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (4.294%) Lightstreamer
5 7 (4.294%) Apache
6 5 (3.067%) Jetty
7 3 (1.840%) GlassFish
7 3 (1.840%) Confluence
8 2 (1.227%) Facebook Platform
8 2 (1.227%) Mule
8 2 (1.227%) ESB
8 2 (1.227%) IIS
9 1 (0.613%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (8.589%) Photoshop
2 5 (3.067%) Fireworks
3 2 (1.227%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.227%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.908%) HTTP
2 5 (3.067%) Internet
3 2 (1.227%) LDAP
3 2 (1.227%) LAN
3 2 (1.227%) WAN
3 2 (1.227%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.227%) DNS
3 2 (1.227%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.613%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.18%) MySQL
2 23 (14.11%) SQL Server
3 19 (11.66%) SQL Server 2008
4 18 (11.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (6.135%) MongoDB
5 10 (6.135%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.840%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.227%) OLAP
7 2 (1.227%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.613%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.613%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.613%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.613%) Redis
8 1 (0.613%) Big Data
8 1 (0.613%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.613%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Git (software)
2 16 (9.816%) Subversion
3 15 (9.202%) Maven
4 13 (7.975%) Eclipse
5 8 (4.908%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (4.908%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.294%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.681%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (3.681%) JIRA
8 5 (3.067%) Selenium
8 5 (3.067%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.067%) NetBeans
9 4 (2.454%) Ant
9 4 (2.454%) Jasmine
10 3 (1.840%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.840%) JUnit
10 3 (1.840%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.227%) Firebug
11 2 (1.227%) Hudson
11 2 (1.227%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 52 (31.90%) Games
2 30 (18.40%) Finance
3 11 (6.748%) Financial Institution
4 10 (6.135%) Back Office
5 9 (5.521%) Advertising
6 8 (4.908%) Banking
6 8 (4.908%) Retail
7 6 (3.681%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.681%) Marketing
8 4 (2.454%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 139 (85.28%) Developer
2 38 (23.31%) Senior Developer
3 28 (17.18%) Web Developer
3 28 (17.18%) Front-End Developer
4 25 (15.34%) JavaScript Developer
5 19 (11.66%) Software Developer
6 16 (9.816%) Applications Developer
7 14 (8.589%) .NET Developer
8 13 (7.975%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (6.748%) Python Developer
9 11 (6.748%) PHP Developer
9 11 (6.748%) Java Developer
10 10 (6.135%) Senior Web Developer
11 8 (4.908%) Architect
11 8 (4.908%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 8 (4.908%) PHP MySQL Developer
11 8 (4.908%) Front-End Web Developer
12 7 (4.294%) UI Developer
12 7 (4.294%) Senior Applications Developer
13 6 (3.681%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.04%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (9.816%) Online Games
3 12 (7.362%) Mobile App
4 11 (6.748%) Open Source
5 10 (6.135%) iPad
6 8 (4.908%) Blackberry
7 7 (4.294%) Graphic Design
7 7 (4.294%) Data Integration
8 6 (3.681%) Computer Science
9 4 (2.454%) Social Network
9 4 (2.454%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.454%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.840%) iPhone
11 2 (1.227%) RIA
11 2 (1.227%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.227%) Derivative
11 2 (1.227%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.227%) SaaS
12 1 (0.613%) Animation
12 1 (0.613%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.79%) Windows
2 21 (12.88%) Linux
3 7 (4.294%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.067%) Android
5 2 (1.227%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.613%) UNIX
6 1 (0.613%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.613%) Windows Phone 7
6 1 (0.613%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.63%) MVC
2 48 (29.45%) OO
3 42 (25.77%) Agile Software Development
4 23 (14.11%) TDD
5 22 (13.50%) Scrum
6 18 (11.04%) E-Commerce
7 14 (8.589%) OOP
7 14 (8.589%) SEO
7 14 (8.589%) Asset Management
8 12 (7.362%) BDD
9 11 (6.748%) Responsive Web Design
9 11 (6.748%) Web Design
10 7 (4.294%) Web Development
10 7 (4.294%) Integration Testing
11 6 (3.681%) Web Usability
11 6 (3.681%) Unit Testing
12 5 (3.067%) Web Accessibility
12 5 (3.067%) Website Architecture
12 5 (3.067%) MVVM
12 5 (3.067%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 132 (80.98%) JavaScript
2 54 (33.13%) Java
3 44 (26.99%) SQL
4 35 (21.47%) C#
5 23 (14.11%) Python
6 18 (11.04%) PHP
7 14 (8.589%) Ruby
8 6 (3.681%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.681%) Groovy
9 4 (2.454%) CoffeeScript
10 3 (1.840%) ActionScript 3.0
10 3 (1.840%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.840%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.840%) C++
11 1 (0.613%) C
11 1 (0.613%) Scala
11 1 (0.613%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 27 (16.56%) Degree
2 2 (1.227%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.362%) QA
2 2 (1.227%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.613%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (1.227%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.748%) Oracle
3 9 (5.521%) Sencha
3 9 (5.521%) Facebook
4 6 (3.681%) Sybase
4 6 (3.681%) JBoss
5 4 (2.454%) Caplin
5 4 (2.454%) Twitter
6 3 (1.840%) Google
7 2 (1.227%) GigaSpaces
7 2 (1.227%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.227%) Adobe
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