WebSockets Contracts in Central London

WebSockets
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring WebSockets skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebSockets over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 +36
DemandTrendContract jobs citing WebSockets 8 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 0.90% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £663 £550 £579
25th Percentile - £588 £689
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £763 £772
90th Percentile - £800 £811
London median daily rate £700 £800 £725
% change year-on-year -12.53% +10.38% -3.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

WebSockets falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 489 558 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.21% 24.24% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 377 586
10th Percentile £382 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £752 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £52.83 - -
25th Percentile £55.99 £25.40 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £25.79 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.34% -51.34% +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
London median hourly rate £49.47 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +31.92% -44.03% +26.49%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in Central London

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSockets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in Central London over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in Central London

WebSockets
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -1 7 £800 +18.52% 1
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
WebSockets
London

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (62.50%) Datadog
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 5 (62.50%) GraphQL
1 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) gRPC
3 1 (12.50%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
1 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
2 5 (62.50%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Stress Testing
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) HP