WebSockets Contracts in the City of London

WebSockets
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 119 151
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 +36
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 7 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.24% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.56% 0.99% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -26.67% -6.25%
Central London median daily rate £800 £550 £750
% change year-on-year +45.45% -26.67% -6.25%

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 450 504 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.60% 23.80% 26.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 348 587
10th Percentile £404 £411 £425
25th Percentile £452 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £707 £738
90th Percentile £763 £791 £828
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in the City of London

WebSockets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in the City of London

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Cognito
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EventBridge
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Step Functions
1 5 (71.43%) Datadog
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
1 5 (71.43%) GraphQL
1 5 (71.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Clean Code
1 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven
1 5 (71.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
1 5 (71.43%) Observability
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Optimisation
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (71.43%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Stress Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) HP