WebSockets Contracts in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WebSockets skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebSockets over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 458 493
Rank change year-on-year +60 +35 -81
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 8 5 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.020% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.11% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile £507 - £393
25th Percentile £517 £438 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -11.63% +38.71%
75th Percentile £580 £513 £599
90th Percentile £596 - £613
UK median daily rate £800 £725 £650
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

WebSockets is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,295 4,565 6,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.51% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,179 3,409 4,553
10th Percentile £324 £350 £357
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 92 155
10th Percentile £20.77 £22.26 £20.00
25th Percentile £39.96 £48.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSockets in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WebSockets in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
North West - 3 - -
South East - 3 £588 - 10
North of England - 3 - -
South West +28 1 £500 -
Wales +16 1 - -
WebSockets
UK

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JDBC
1 3 (37.50%) JPA
1 3 (37.50%) JWT
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) React Native
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 3 (37.50%) Multithreading
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) CQRS
4 1 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
4 1 (12.50%) Sequence Diagram
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft