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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 871 758
Rank change year-on-year +234 -113 -153
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 70 46 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.042% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.21% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 60 40 65
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,875 £49,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £142,750 £117,500 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +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 9,720 22,143 26,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,840 16,322 17,536
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,711
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £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 14 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 14 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 +202 64 £90,000 +24.14% 133
London +136 44 £115,000 +48.39% 106
UK excluding London +191 23 £65,000 +18.18% 28
Work from Home +146 21 £65,000 -3.70% 54
North of England +70 12 £70,000 +115.38% 11
North West +31 6 £76,250 +8.93% 5
North East - 6 £58,250 -
Scotland +115 4 £57,500 +4.55%
Midlands +81 4 £65,000 +30.00% 3
West Midlands - 4 £65,000 - 2
South West +116 3 £65,000 - 2
Wales - 3 £65,000 -
South East +92 2 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 1 (1.43%) Ethereum
2 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 10 (14.29%) Redis
3 8 (11.43%) Power BI
4 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (7.14%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 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%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 17 (24.29%) Lead
3 10 (14.29%) React Developer
3 10 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.43%) Lead Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Lead Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Systems Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Backend Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Administrator
9 3 (4.29%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (4.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.29%) Principal Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.00%) React
2 29 (41.43%) RESTful
3 23 (32.86%) REST
4 20 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 20 (28.57%) HTML
5 19 (27.14%) CSS
6 14 (20.00%) HTML5
6 14 (20.00%) Middleware
6 14 (20.00%) Redux
7 12 (17.14%) CSS3
7 12 (17.14%) Node.js
8 11 (15.71%) Jest
9 8 (11.43%) ADO
9 8 (11.43%) MERN Stack
9 8 (11.43%) SOAP
10 7 (10.00%) Express.js
11 6 (8.57%) SignalR
12 5 (7.14%) React Native
13 4 (5.71%) Flask
13 4 (5.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 11 (15.71%) Mobile App
3 10 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.29%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
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%) Blockchain
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 33 (47.14%) Front End Development
3 30 (42.86%) Agile
4 26 (37.14%) User Experience
5 19 (27.14%) Analytics
5 19 (27.14%) CI/CD
6 17 (24.29%) Containerisation
7 14 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 13 (18.57%) DevOps
8 13 (18.57%) Scrum
9 12 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (15.71%) Responsive Web Design
11 10 (14.29%) Microservices
11 10 (14.29%) Migration
11 10 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (12.86%) MVC
13 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (11.43%) Information Security
13 8 (11.43%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 38 (54.29%) 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%) 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 29 (41.43%) 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