WebSockets Contract Job Trends

WebSockets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WebSockets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 506 509
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 +191
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 51 37 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.47% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 70
10th Percentile £439 £400 £568
25th Percentile £600 £488 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -18.17% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £850 £850
90th Percentile £750 £980 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £550 £508
% change year-on-year +13.64% +8.37% -13.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebSockets job vacancy trend in the UK

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

WebSockets
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England -27 45 £625 -16.67% 82
UK excluding London -20 23 £625 +13.64% 83
London -15 19 £650 -16.13% 6
North of England - 13 £525 - 21
Work from Home -4 11 £563 -29.69% 82
West Midlands -22 8 £650 +18.18% 8
Midlands -28 8 £650 +18.18% 15
Yorkshire - 8 £438 - 9
South West - 7 £650 - 8
North West - 5 £600 - 10
South East - 2 £463 - 21

WebSockets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP MRS
1 1 (1.96%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) AWS
3 18 (35.29%) GitHub
3 18 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (23.53%) GCP
5 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (19.61%) Serverless
6 8 (15.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (13.73%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.84%) Firebase
8 4 (7.84%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Run
9 3 (5.88%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (3.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 8 (15.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (15.69%) Redis
4 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Git
1 6 (11.76%) GitLab
2 5 (9.80%) Gatling
2 5 (9.80%) JMeter
3 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Snyk
5 1 (1.96%) Ant
5 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.96%) Vite
General
1 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.84%) Front Office
5 3 (5.88%) Games
6 2 (3.92%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Python Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Backend Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Node.js Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Performance Test Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Delphi Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Architect
7 4 (7.84%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (45.10%) REST
2 21 (41.18%) GraphQL
3 16 (31.37%) gRPC
4 13 (25.49%) AngularJS
4 13 (25.49%) Kafka
4 13 (25.49%) React
5 12 (23.53%) FastAPI
5 12 (23.53%) Flask
6 10 (19.61%) Next.js
7 9 (17.65%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (15.69%) JSON
8 8 (15.69%) RESTful
9 7 (13.73%) .NET
9 7 (13.73%) Express.js
9 7 (13.73%) Node.js
9 7 (13.73%) SignalR
10 6 (11.76%) Middleware
10 6 (11.76%) OAuth
10 6 (11.76%) Playwright
10 6 (11.76%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.69%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Spread Betting
4 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.96%) IoT
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) SCADA
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
1 5 (9.80%) Windows
2 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 21 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 19 (37.25%) Microservices
4 15 (29.41%) DevOps
5 14 (27.45%) Agile
5 14 (27.45%) AI
5 14 (27.45%) Observability
5 14 (27.45%) User Experience
6 9 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
7 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.73%) Clean Code
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) RBAC
8 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (13.73%) Validation
9 6 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (11.76%) Storage Management
9 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) SQL
2 19 (37.25%) Python
3 15 (29.41%) TypeScript
4 8 (15.69%) C#
5 7 (13.73%) Go
6 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.80%) Delphi
7 5 (9.80%) PHP
8 2 (3.92%) Java
9 1 (1.96%) ABAP
9 1 (1.96%) C
9 1 (1.96%) C++
9 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.76%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (54.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (37.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Prometheus
3 8 (15.69%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.92%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) SAP