WebSockets Job Trends in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WebSockets skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 539 531
Rank change year-on-year +39 -8 +127
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 10 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.095% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.49% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 21
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £78,750 -
UK median annual salary £125,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +78.57% - -6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,843 7,123 7,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.28% 24.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 3,995 5,903
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WebSockets relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WebSockets job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WebSockets in the UK excluding London

WebSockets
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +24 8 £47,500 -44.12% 15
North West +33 4 £47,500 -44.12% 6
Yorkshire -2 4 - - 7
East of England +23 1 - - 12
South West 0 1 £60,000 -7.69% 8
WebSockets
UK

WebSockets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Redis
4 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Node.js
1 6 (60.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Django
2 4 (40.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) Celery
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (30.00%) Flask
3 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (30.00%) gRPC
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka
3 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Next.js
4 2 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (10.00%) Electron
5 1 (10.00%) Laravel
5 1 (10.00%) React Native
5 1 (10.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (10.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Observability
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google