WebSockets Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 367 413
Rank change year-on-year +4 +46 +75
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 8 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.028% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -0.99% -15.13%
75th Percentile £656 £525 £508
90th Percentile £668 £540 -
UK median daily rate £650 £688 £700
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,826 3,037 3,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.47% 17.01% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,879 1,932 2,769
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £390 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -3.10%
75th Percentile £550 £610 £600
90th Percentile £630 £690 £682
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 162 116
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.08 £42.92
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.94% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £62.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets

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 6 September 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
North of England - 6 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 1
West Midlands -11 2 £650 +23.81% 1
Midlands -11 2 £650 +23.81% 1
South West +26 1 £650 +30.00%
North West - 1 £350 - 2
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
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP MRS
1 1 (12.50%) SAP PM
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) Redis
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ABAP Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) SAP PM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) FastAPI
1 6 (75.00%) Flask
1 6 (75.00%) GraphQL
1 6 (75.00%) RESTful
2 5 (62.50%) Django
2 5 (62.50%) gRPC
3 4 (50.00%) Celery
3 4 (50.00%) Kafka
3 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (12.50%) BAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) React Native
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) OOP
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (37.50%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) ABAP
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP