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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 875 774
Rank change year-on-year +225 -101 -179
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 70 47 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.043% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.21% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 60 41 64
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £95,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £145,500 £117,500 £163,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -16.67%

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 9,725 21,897 26,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.37% 20.09% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5,843 16,228 17,607
10th Percentile £37,606 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 14 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 June 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 +187 64 £90,000 +20.00% 129
London +128 45 £120,000 +54.84% 82
UK excluding London +192 22 £62,500 +13.64% 74
Work from Home +132 20 £65,000 -3.70% 52
North of England +69 11 £65,000 +100.00% 12
North East - 6 £58,250 -
North West +25 5 £77,500 +10.71% 9
Scotland +109 4 £57,500 +4.55%
Midlands +86 4 £65,000 +30.00% 3
West Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 2
South West +118 3 £65,000 - 1
Wales - 3 £65,000 -
South East +72 2 £65,000 +13.04% 48
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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 3 (4.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) AWS
1 20 (28.57%) Azure
2 11 (15.71%) Serverless
3 9 (12.86%) GCP
4 8 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.29%) GitHub
8 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.86%) SaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Firebase
10 1 (1.43%) MinIO
10 1 (1.43%) PaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) HTTP
1 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 3 (4.29%) LAN
3 1 (1.43%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) MongoDB
1 11 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.86%) Redis
3 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.43%) Power BI
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.71%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Git
2 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.57%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (7.14%) JIRA
5 3 (4.29%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (1.43%) Babel
7 1 (1.43%) GitLab
7 1 (1.43%) Gradle
7 1 (1.43%) Subversion
7 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.43%) Vite
7 1 (1.43%) webpack
General
1 19 (27.14%) Finance
2 18 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Banking
4 10 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 9 (12.86%) Games
5 9 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
6 6 (8.57%) Financial Institution
7 5 (7.14%) Advertising
8 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.86%) Front Office
9 2 (2.86%) iGaming
9 2 (2.86%) Publishing
10 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 17 (24.29%) Lead
3 16 (22.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (14.29%) React Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 9 (12.86%) Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Lead Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Node.js Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Systems Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Backend Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Administrator
10 3 (4.29%) Linux Administrator
10 3 (4.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 3 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (48.57%) React
2 30 (42.86%) RESTful
3 23 (32.86%) REST
4 20 (28.57%) GraphQL
5 19 (27.14%) HTML
6 18 (25.71%) CSS
7 14 (20.00%) HTML5
7 14 (20.00%) Middleware
7 14 (20.00%) Redux
8 12 (17.14%) CSS3
8 12 (17.14%) Node.js
9 11 (15.71%) Jest
10 8 (11.43%) ADO
10 8 (11.43%) MERN Stack
10 8 (11.43%) SOAP
11 7 (10.00%) Express.js
12 6 (8.57%) SignalR
13 4 (5.71%) Flask
13 4 (5.71%) Kafka
13 4 (5.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 11 (15.71%) Mobile App
3 10 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (11.43%) Algorithms
5 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.86%) Blockchain
7 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.86%) Mobile Games
7 2 (2.86%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.43%) Animation
8 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.43%) Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.43%) Online Games
8 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Android
3 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (55.71%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (45.71%) Front End Development
3 29 (41.43%) Agile
4 26 (37.14%) User Experience
5 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 19 (27.14%) Analytics
7 18 (25.71%) Containerisation
8 14 (20.00%) DevOps
8 14 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 12 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (17.14%) Scrum
10 11 (15.71%) Responsive Web Design
11 10 (14.29%) Microservices
11 10 (14.29%) Migration
12 9 (12.86%) MVC
12 9 (12.86%) Performance Optimisation
13 8 (11.43%) Capital Modelling
13 8 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (11.43%) Data Governance
13 8 (11.43%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) JavaScript
2 29 (41.43%) TypeScript
3 20 (28.57%) Python
4 15 (21.43%) SQL
5 11 (15.71%) Java
6 7 (10.00%) C++
7 6 (8.57%) C
8 3 (4.29%) Bash
8 3 (4.29%) Rust
9 1 (1.43%) Dart
9 1 (1.43%) Groovy
9 1 (1.43%) Haskell
9 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.43%) PHP
9 1 (1.43%) Ruby
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.43%) Solidity
9 1 (1.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.29%) RHCSA
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 30 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.29%) Nagios
5 1 (1.43%) Istio
5 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Databricks
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
3 3 (4.29%) VMware
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle
4 1 (1.43%) Spotify