WebSockets Jobs

WebSockets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WebSockets skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WebSockets over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 835 785
Rank change year-on-year +234 -50 -174
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 83 50 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.051% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.24% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 67 44 78
10th Percentile £43,850 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -5.17% +3.57%
75th Percentile £120,000 £95,625 £86,250
90th Percentile £147,000 £117,500 £116,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -23.08%

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 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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Salary trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +218 75 £80,000 +8.47% 78
London +128 50 £120,000 +41.18% 53
UK excluding London +215 30 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Work from Home +187 30 £62,500 -7.41% 51
North of England +90 9 £60,000 +84.62% 10
Midlands +67 9 £65,000 +30.00% 4
Scotland +133 7 £57,500 +4.55%
West Midlands - 7 £65,000 - 4
South West +117 6 £65,000 -
Wales - 6 £65,000 -
North East - 6 £58,250 - 1
South East +108 5 £70,000 +16.67% 5
East Midlands +48 2 £70,000 +40.00%
North West +34 2 £85,000 +21.43% 7
Yorkshire +69 1 £31,500 -3.08% 2

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (7.23%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) AWS
1 21 (25.30%) Azure
2 14 (16.87%) Serverless
3 13 (15.66%) Amazon S3
4 12 (14.46%) GitHub
5 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) GCP
7 6 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.41%) MinIO
9 2 (2.41%) SaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.20%) Firebase
10 1 (1.20%) npm
10 1 (1.20%) PaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Bluetooth
2 5 (6.02%) HTTP
3 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.41%) FTP
4 2 (2.41%) LAN
4 2 (2.41%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (1.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.05%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.05%) Redis
3 8 (9.64%) Power BI
4 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.41%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) GIS
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) JIRA
3 6 (7.23%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (7.23%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.41%) Babel
5 2 (2.41%) GitLab
5 2 (2.41%) Maven
5 2 (2.41%) webpack
6 1 (1.20%) Subversion
6 1 (1.20%) Vite
General
1 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (20.48%) Finance
1 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.28%) Games
3 14 (16.87%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.64%) Legal
6 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.02%) Advertising
7 5 (6.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.82%) iGaming
8 4 (4.82%) Publishing
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 52 (62.65%) Developer
2 19 (22.89%) Senior
3 17 (20.48%) Lead
4 16 (19.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 12 (14.46%) Backend Developer
6 11 (13.25%) React Developer
7 10 (12.05%) Architect
8 9 (10.84%) Software Engineer
9 8 (9.64%) Java Developer
9 8 (9.64%) Lead Architect
9 8 (9.64%) Lead Developer
9 8 (9.64%) Senior Developer
10 7 (8.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (7.23%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (7.23%) Senior Backend Developer
12 5 (6.02%) Systems Developer
13 3 (3.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 3 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
14 2 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 2 (2.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.37%) React
2 34 (40.96%) RESTful
3 28 (33.73%) CSS
3 28 (33.73%) REST
4 25 (30.12%) HTML
5 23 (27.71%) GraphQL
6 14 (16.87%) HTML5
6 14 (16.87%) Middleware
7 13 (15.66%) CSS3
7 13 (15.66%) Django
7 13 (15.66%) Redux
8 12 (14.46%) Jest
8 12 (14.46%) Node.js
9 8 (9.64%) ADO
9 8 (9.64%) MERN Stack
9 8 (9.64%) SOAP
10 7 (8.43%) Flask
10 7 (8.43%) OAuth
11 6 (7.23%) FastAPI
11 6 (7.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Data Structures
1 17 (20.48%) Mobile App
2 16 (19.28%) Algorithms
3 10 (12.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (9.64%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.23%) Client/Server
5 6 (7.23%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (7.23%) IoT
6 4 (4.82%) Blockchain
6 4 (4.82%) Mobile Games
6 4 (4.82%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.41%) Equities
7 2 (2.41%) Online Games
7 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.78%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (39.76%) Front End Development
3 30 (36.14%) User Experience
4 29 (34.94%) Agile
5 25 (30.12%) Analytics
6 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
7 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
8 14 (16.87%) DevOps
8 14 (16.87%) Unit Testing
9 12 (14.46%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
9 12 (14.46%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (14.46%) Scrum
10 11 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (12.05%) Migration
11 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.84%) Code Quality
12 9 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (10.84%) MVC
12 9 (10.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) JavaScript
2 36 (43.37%) TypeScript
3 27 (32.53%) Python
4 20 (24.10%) SQL
5 14 (16.87%) Java
6 13 (15.66%) C++
7 12 (14.46%) C
8 6 (7.23%) Ladder Logic
9 3 (3.61%) Rust
9 3 (3.61%) Solidity
10 2 (2.41%) Bash
11 1 (1.20%) Dart
11 1 (1.20%) Haskell
11 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
11 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) RHCSA
5 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (36.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (32.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.84%) Grafana
3 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) Istio
4 2 (2.41%) Kibana
4 2 (2.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Databricks
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Siemens
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.41%) VMware
5 1 (1.20%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.20%) Spotify