WebRTC Job Trends

WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebRTC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 694 699
Rank change year-on-year +58 +5 +287
Permanent jobs citing WebRTC 6 13 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.024% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.086% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 36
10th Percentile £63,750 £51,875 £44,375
25th Percentile £69,375 £57,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +38.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £99,375 £73,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £107,250 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% +38.10% +23.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebRTC 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,968 11,502 13,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 21.51% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5,180 6,761 11,335
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

WebRTC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebRTC job vacancy trend in the UK

WebRTC
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebRTC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebRTC

WebRTC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebRTC over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WebRTC in the UK

WebRTC
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebRTC within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +82 6 £82,500 +13.79% 44
London - 4 £105,000 - 2
Work from Home +57 1 - - 7
UK excluding London +33 1 £60,000 -17.24% 46
North of England +12 1 £60,000 +9.09% 8
North West - 1 £60,000 - 3

WebRTC
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 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Dagster
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Twilio
3 1 (16.67%) Google Play
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) MQTT
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (33.33%) RTMP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VLAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jaeger
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) MLflow
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Agriculture
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Android Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (16.67%) Flutter
2 1 (16.67%) React Native
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 2 (33.33%) MPEG
1 2 (33.33%) Robotics
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) VUI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
1 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Edge AI
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) MLOps
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
1 2 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Argo
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) MikroTik
2 2 (33.33%) NETGEAR
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype
2 2 (33.33%) Starlink
2 2 (33.33%) Ubiquiti
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce