WebSockets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WebSockets skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 565 823
Rank change year-on-year -56 +258 -40
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 81 76 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.19% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.88% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 71 59 38
10th Percentile £80,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £98,750 £50,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -8.77% -5.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £116,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £143,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% +8.33% +20.00%

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 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 8,564 8,670 20,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 21.14% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,264 6,582 15,628
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WebSockets job vacancy trend in the UK

WebSockets
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSockets.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 12 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 11 April 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 -66 79 £125,000 +78.57% 28
London +17 68 £125,000 - 14
Work from Home +3 23 £125,000 +92.31% 14
UK excluding London -93 12 £90,000 +38.46% 17
South East -41 5 - - 6
West Midlands -20 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Midlands -52 3 £90,000 +38.46% 2
Scotland -20 1 £58,565 +30.14% 1
East of England -31 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -55 1 - -
South West -57 1 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North of England -73 1 - - 4

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 (1.23%) Apache
1 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Chatbot
1 3 (3.70%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.93%) AWS
2 18 (22.22%) Azure
3 15 (18.52%) GCP
4 8 (9.88%) Figma
5 7 (8.64%) GitHub
6 2 (2.47%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.23%) Dagster
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) HTTP
2 5 (6.17%) DNS
2 5 (6.17%) LAN
2 5 (6.17%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.70%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.23%) AMQP
4 1 (1.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.23%) InfluxDB
2 1 (1.23%) MySQL
2 1 (1.23%) Redis
2 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (16.05%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.23%) Gradle
2 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Maven
2 1 (1.23%) MLflow
2 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.23%) Vite
General
1 24 (29.63%) Front Office
2 19 (23.46%) Banking
3 16 (19.75%) Telecoms
4 14 (17.28%) Finance
4 14 (17.28%) Investment Banking
5 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.41%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Billing
7 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (55.56%) Developer
2 41 (50.62%) React Developer
3 18 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (22.22%) Senior
4 15 (18.52%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 15 (18.52%) Java Developer
5 14 (17.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (13.58%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Android Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Android Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) UI Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Linux Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (6.17%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (65.43%) React
2 32 (39.51%) REST
3 15 (18.52%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (18.52%) Highcharts JS
3 15 (18.52%) OpenFin
3 15 (18.52%) RESTful
4 13 (16.05%) gRPC
5 11 (13.58%) Kafka
6 6 (7.41%) Django
6 6 (7.41%) Web Services
7 5 (6.17%) Twisted
8 4 (4.94%) Android NDK
8 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.94%) Node.js
9 3 (3.70%) .NET
9 3 (3.70%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (3.70%) Jetpack Compose
9 3 (3.70%) Next.js
10 2 (2.47%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.47%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.63%) Fixed Income
2 13 (16.05%) Cloud Native
3 12 (14.81%) AI Agents
4 9 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (8.64%) Mobile App
6 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
6 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 5 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (6.17%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.47%) IoT
8 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.23%) Blog
9 1 (1.23%) Derivative
9 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.23%) Energy Derivatives
9 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.23%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Android
2 12 (14.81%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Windows
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.51%) Low Latency
2 31 (38.27%) Containerisation
3 30 (37.04%) Visualisation
4 29 (35.80%) Data Visualisation
5 27 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 26 (32.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (30.86%) User Experience
8 24 (29.63%) UX Design
9 21 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (24.69%) Computer Science
11 18 (22.22%) DevOps
12 17 (20.99%) AI
12 17 (20.99%) Electronic Trading
13 15 (18.52%) Analytics
13 15 (18.52%) Dashboard Development
13 15 (18.52%) High Availability
14 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
14 14 (17.28%) Software Engineering
15 13 (16.05%) Code Quality
15 13 (16.05%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) TypeScript
2 30 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 17 (20.99%) Python
4 15 (18.52%) Java
5 11 (13.58%) SQL
6 9 (11.11%) C++
6 9 (11.11%) Go
7 8 (9.88%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.41%) Bash
9 3 (3.70%) C#
10 1 (1.23%) Delphi
10 1 (1.23%) PHP
10 1 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Degree
2 18 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.17%) RHCSA
4 4 (4.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (23.46%) Docker
2 5 (6.17%) Firmware
2 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.17%) Nagios
3 3 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
1 5 (6.17%) SolarWinds
1 5 (6.17%) VMware
2 2 (2.47%) Google
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft