WebSockets Contracts in England

WebSockets
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 451 578
Rank change year-on-year -6 +127 +103
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 28 91 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 1.21% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 58 38
10th Percentile £401 £518 £450
25th Percentile £438 £577 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £801 £738
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +8.54% +13.46%
75th Percentile £750 £850 £797
90th Percentile £800 £886 £833
UK median daily rate £625 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in England

WebSockets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets in England.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in England

WebSockets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSockets in England.

Hourly rate trend for WebSockets in England

WebSockets
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -21 24 £650 -21.21% 69
South East +47 2 £400 -31.91% 42
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UK

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 11 (39.29%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (39.29%) Serverless
3 10 (35.71%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (32.14%) GitHub
5 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (21.43%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (10.71%) Azure
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (7.14%) Datadog
9 2 (7.14%) Firebase
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (3.57%) GCP
10 1 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) git-flow
3 4 (14.29%) Postman
4 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 3 (10.71%) Mocha
4 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (7.14%) JMeter
5 2 (7.14%) Maven
6 1 (3.57%) JUnit
6 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.57%) MSTest
6 1 (3.57%) NUnit
6 1 (3.57%) Ranorex
6 1 (3.57%) Selenium
6 1 (3.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Node.js Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (17.86%) React Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.71%) UI Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior UI Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (64.29%) React
2 11 (39.29%) CSS
2 11 (39.29%) Jest
3 10 (35.71%) AWS CDK
3 10 (35.71%) JSON
3 10 (35.71%) RESTful
4 9 (32.14%) HTML
4 9 (32.14%) Node.js
4 9 (32.14%) Redux
5 8 (28.57%) Sass
6 7 (25.00%) GraphQL
7 6 (21.43%) .NET
7 6 (21.43%) REST
7 6 (21.43%) Vue
8 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
8 5 (17.86%) Apache Cordova
8 5 (17.86%) LESS
8 5 (17.86%) Web Services
9 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
9 4 (14.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 4 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (10.71%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.57%) Derivative
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.57%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 8 (28.57%) Microservices
6 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (25.00%) User Experience
7 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) Fintech
8 5 (17.86%) UX Design
9 4 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (10.71%) Agile
10 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 3 (10.71%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
3 10 (35.71%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) Java
4 7 (25.00%) Python
5 6 (21.43%) C#
5 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.14%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) Ruby
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Databricks
1 1 (3.57%) HP
1 1 (3.57%) Solace
1 1 (3.57%) TIBCO