WebSockets Contract Job Trends in the City of London

WebSockets
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WebSockets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 117 117
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +37
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 1 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 1.03% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £720 £554
25th Percentile £363 £750 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £800 £688
Median % change year-on-year -53.13% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £388 - £772
90th Percentile - - £811
Central London median daily rate £375 £775 £688
% change year-on-year -51.61% +12.73% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 447 484 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.52% 27.55% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 312 343
10th Percentile £372 £413 £400
25th Percentile £464 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSockets relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

WebSockets job vacancy trend in the City of London

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSockets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CockroachDB
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Zustand
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Journey Map
1 1 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Amplitude