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 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 784 752
Rank change year-on-year +126 -32 -127
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 58 46 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.051% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 0.27% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 46 35 58
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £109,063
90th Percentile £136,250 - £175,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +13.04% +12.20% -14.58%

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 9,780 17,216 21,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 19.27% 27.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5,851 12,329 15,912
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £106,289
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +108 52 £90,000 +16.13% 54
London +76 35 £112,500 +45.16% 34
Work from Home +60 24 £65,000 - 23
UK excluding London +111 21 £65,000 +13.04% 23
North of England - 12 £75,000 - 13
North West - 7 £75,000 - 9
Scotland +97 4 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire - 4 - - 2
Midlands +46 2 £56,250 -
South East +23 2 £65,000 +13.04% 5
West Midlands - 2 £56,250 -
South West +68 1 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £65,000 - 1
North East - 1 £65,000 - 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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) Azure
3 12 (20.69%) GCP
4 11 (18.97%) Serverless
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.45%) Heroku
8 2 (3.45%) Twilio
9 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.72%) PaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) HTTP
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) MongoDB
2 13 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 9 (15.52%) Redis
5 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.17%) Hazelcast
6 3 (5.17%) Power BI
7 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) Babel
5 1 (1.72%) Gradle
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.72%) Subversion
5 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.72%) Vite
5 1 (1.72%) webpack
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 9 (15.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (12.07%) Games
6 6 (10.34%) Financial Institution
6 6 (10.34%) Investment Banking
7 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
8 4 (6.90%) Front Office
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (68.97%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 12 (20.69%) Lead
4 8 (13.79%) Lead Developer
4 8 (13.79%) React Developer
4 8 (13.79%) Senior
5 7 (12.07%) Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Systems Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Principal Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (48.28%) React
2 24 (41.38%) RESTful
3 18 (31.03%) GraphQL
4 15 (25.86%) HTML
5 14 (24.14%) CSS
5 14 (24.14%) REST
6 13 (22.41%) Node.js
7 10 (17.24%) HTML5
7 10 (17.24%) Redux
8 9 (15.52%) Middleware
9 8 (13.79%) CSS3
9 8 (13.79%) Kafka
10 7 (12.07%) Jest
11 6 (10.34%) Django
11 6 (10.34%) Flask
11 6 (10.34%) gRPC
11 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (8.62%) Express.js
12 5 (8.62%) FastAPI
13 4 (6.90%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Data Structures
2 7 (12.07%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (10.34%) Mobile App
4 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
7 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.72%) Animation
8 1 (1.72%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.72%) Derivative
8 1 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (46.55%) Agile
1 27 (46.55%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (43.10%) Front End Development
3 19 (32.76%) CI/CD
4 17 (29.31%) Containerisation
5 16 (27.59%) User Experience
6 13 (22.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (22.41%) Microservices
7 12 (20.69%) Analytics
7 12 (20.69%) Scrum
8 11 (18.97%) DevOps
9 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (15.52%) Low Latency
9 9 (15.52%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (13.79%) Unit Testing
10 8 (13.79%) Visualisation
11 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 7 (12.07%) UX Design
11 7 (12.07%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) JavaScript
2 23 (39.66%) TypeScript
3 21 (36.21%) Python
4 13 (22.41%) SQL
5 10 (17.24%) Java
6 7 (12.07%) C++
7 6 (10.34%) C
8 3 (5.17%) Bash
8 3 (5.17%) Rust
9 2 (3.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.72%) Groovy
10 1 (1.72%) Haskell
10 1 (1.72%) Ruby
10 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) RHCSA
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 30 (51.72%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (43.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Nagios
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.17%) Databricks
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
1 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
1 3 (5.17%) SolarWinds
1 3 (5.17%) VMware
2 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.72%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle