WebSockets Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

WebSockets
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 566 606
Rank change year-on-year +183 +40 -122
Permanent jobs citing WebSockets 30 23 65
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.068% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 0.26% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 42
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £66,250 £95,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £117,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,933 8,978 14,466
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.28% 26.53% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 7,510 10,860
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

WebSockets
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WebSockets trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WebSockets
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WebSockets.

WebSockets salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

WebSockets salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) GitHub
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.33%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) Firebase
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) npm
5 1 (3.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (3.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (33.33%) Redis
3 2 (6.67%) Hazelcast
3 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) GIS
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) Babel
3 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (20.00%) Games
3 6 (20.00%) Legal
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 16 (53.33%) Senior
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (16.67%) Lead
6 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Flutter Developer
8 1 (3.33%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) CSS
1 13 (43.33%) Django
2 12 (40.00%) REST
3 9 (30.00%) HTML
4 8 (26.67%) GraphQL
4 8 (26.67%) React
4 8 (26.67%) RESTful
5 7 (23.33%) Flask
5 7 (23.33%) OAuth
6 6 (20.00%) FastAPI
6 6 (20.00%) Keycloak
6 6 (20.00%) Middleware
6 6 (20.00%) pytest
6 6 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (10.00%) Kafka
7 3 (10.00%) Node.js
8 2 (6.67%) gRPC
8 2 (6.67%) React Native
8 2 (6.67%) Redux
8 2 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 9 (30.00%) Data Structures
3 7 (23.33%) Mobile App
4 6 (20.00%) Client/Server
4 6 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (20.00%) IoT
4 6 (20.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Front End Development
1 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (23.33%) Analytics
3 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
3 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Data Security
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Distributed Cache
4 6 (20.00%) Fintech
4 6 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (20.00%) Validation
4 6 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 19 (63.33%) JavaScript
3 13 (43.33%) TypeScript
4 12 (40.00%) C
4 12 (40.00%) C++
4 12 (40.00%) SQL
5 8 (26.67%) Java
6 6 (20.00%) Ladder Logic
7 2 (6.67%) Rust
8 1 (3.33%) Dart
8 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Grafana
2 7 (23.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) Siemens
2 1 (3.33%) Mapbox
2 1 (3.33%) Spotify