WebSockets Contract Job Trends in England

WebSockets
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WebSockets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 469 468
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +199
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 45 35 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 0.55% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 69
10th Percentile £416 £400 £604
25th Percentile £600 £488 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £850
90th Percentile £750 £875 £855
UK median daily rate £613 £750 £800
% change year-on-year -18.33% -6.25% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate - - £62.00

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 7,011 6,325 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.83% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 4,051 5,940
10th Percentile £352 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £631 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 81 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WebSockets job vacancy trend in England

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSockets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in England

WebSockets
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSockets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebSockets

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 19 December 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 -22 19 £650 -13.33% 9
North of England - 13 £525 - 1
West Midlands -28 8 £650 +18.18% 3
Midlands -36 8 £650 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire - 8 £438 -
South West - 7 £650 - 1
North West - 5 £600 -
South East - 2 £463 - 10
WebSockets
UK

WebSockets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Chatbot
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP MRS
1 1 (2.22%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) GitHub
3 15 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (26.67%) GCP
5 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (20.00%) Serverless
7 8 (17.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (8.89%) Google Gemini
9 3 (6.67%) Cloud Run
9 3 (6.67%) Firebase
9 3 (6.67%) Vertex AI
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
11 1 (2.22%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.78%) Redis
2 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
1 6 (13.33%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Gatling
2 5 (11.11%) JMeter
3 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 2 (4.44%) Snyk
5 1 (2.22%) Ant
5 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) Vite
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Front Office
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Backend Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Performance Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Front Office Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Architect
6 4 (8.89%) UX Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Games Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (48.89%) REST
2 20 (44.44%) GraphQL
3 16 (35.56%) gRPC
4 13 (28.89%) Kafka
4 13 (28.89%) React
5 12 (26.67%) FastAPI
5 12 (26.67%) Flask
6 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (20.00%) Next.js
6 9 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (17.78%) RESTful
8 6 (13.33%) JSON
8 6 (13.33%) Middleware
8 6 (13.33%) Playwright
8 6 (13.33%) Zustand
9 5 (11.11%) .NET
9 5 (11.11%) Django
9 5 (11.11%) Highcharts JS
9 5 (11.11%) JMS
9 5 (11.11%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.89%) Spread Betting
4 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
5 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.22%) Derivative
6 1 (2.22%) Equities
6 1 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 16 (35.56%) Microservices
4 14 (31.11%) Agile
4 14 (31.11%) AI
5 13 (28.89%) DevOps
6 12 (26.67%) User Experience
7 11 (24.44%) Observability
8 9 (20.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 6 (13.33%) Analytics
10 6 (13.33%) Clean Code
10 6 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (13.33%) Front End Development
10 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Visualisation
11 5 (11.11%) API Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Python
2 17 (37.78%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) TypeScript
4 7 (15.56%) Go
5 6 (13.33%) C#
6 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.89%) Delphi
7 4 (8.89%) PHP
8 2 (4.44%) Java
9 1 (2.22%) ABAP
9 1 (2.22%) C
9 1 (2.22%) C++
9 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.22%) Rust
9 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.78%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
2 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (57.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
4 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.44%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) SAP