WebSockets Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

WebSockets
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 286 302 434
Rank change year-on-year +16 +132 +141
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 18 43 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 1.17% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 19
10th Percentile £406 £540 £470
25th Percentile £413 £600 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £850 £750
90th Percentile £763 £950 £788
UK median daily rate £625 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WebSockets
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WebSockets trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WebSockets.

WebSockets daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

WebSockets daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
1 9 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 9 (50.00%) Serverless
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub
3 6 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Firebase
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.56%) Azure
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) git-flow
3 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 3 (16.67%) Mocha
4 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.56%) JUnit
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) MSTest
5 1 (5.56%) NUnit
5 1 (5.56%) Ranorex
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Backend Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) React Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) React
2 10 (55.56%) CSS
2 10 (55.56%) Jest
3 9 (50.00%) Node.js
4 8 (44.44%) AWS CDK
4 8 (44.44%) HTML
4 8 (44.44%) JSON
4 8 (44.44%) RESTful
5 7 (38.89%) Redux
5 7 (38.89%) Sass
6 5 (27.78%) Apache Cordova
6 5 (27.78%) GraphQL
6 5 (27.78%) LESS
6 5 (27.78%) REST
6 5 (27.78%) Vue
6 5 (27.78%) Web Services
7 3 (16.67%) GatsbyJS
7 3 (16.67%) OpenAPI
7 3 (16.67%) SVG
7 3 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (27.78%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Fintech
3 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 3 (16.67%) Jamstack
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) SEO
5 3 (16.67%) User Experience
5 3 (16.67%) UX Design
6 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) Java
4 5 (27.78%) T-SQL
5 3 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (11.11%) C++
7 1 (5.56%) Go
7 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.56%) Python
7 1 (5.56%) Ruby
7 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform