WebSockets Contracts

WebSockets
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WebSockets skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebSockets over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 596 702
Rank change year-on-year +109 +106 -73
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 88 86 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.67% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 118
10th Percentile £508 £450 £475
25th Percentile £572 £565 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £801 £725 £688
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £800
90th Percentile £950 £825 £804
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.79 - -
90th Percentile £54.01 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebSockets is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Hourly rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +90 77 £850 +17.24% 19
London +101 70 £850 +13.33% 17
Work from Home +113 42 £850 +21.43% 7
UK excluding London +34 5 £500 +5.26% 1
North of England - 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
Midlands +20 1 £500 +5.26%
South West +6 1 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 16 (18.18%) nginx
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) AWS
2 17 (19.32%) npm
3 13 (14.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 13 (14.77%) Azure
4 6 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (6.82%) Serverless
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (4.55%) GitHub
6 3 (3.41%) Akamai
7 2 (2.27%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.14%) Contentful
8 1 (1.14%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) HTTP
2 4 (4.55%) SSL
3 3 (3.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Git
1 20 (22.73%) JIRA
2 17 (19.32%) webpack
3 10 (11.36%) git-flow
4 6 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.68%) Pylint
6 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.41%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.14%) Babel
8 1 (1.14%) Gatling
8 1 (1.14%) JMeter
8 1 (1.14%) Selenium
8 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Front Office
4 10 (11.36%) Finance
5 9 (10.23%) Marketing
6 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.14%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (70.45%) Developer
2 26 (29.55%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (19.32%) Angular Developer
4 15 (17.05%) Senior
5 12 (13.64%) Applications Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Real Time Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Web Applications Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 10 (11.36%) JavaScript Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) UI Developer
7 10 (11.36%) UI Engineer
8 9 (10.23%) C# Developer
9 7 (7.95%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (7.95%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.82%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (6.82%) C# Web Application Developer
10 6 (6.82%) React Developer
10 6 (6.82%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (50.00%) React
2 30 (34.09%) HTML
3 29 (32.95%) CSS
4 28 (31.82%) Sass
5 24 (27.27%) REST
6 21 (23.86%) AngularJS
7 17 (19.32%) RxJS
8 15 (17.05%) FastAPI
8 15 (17.05%) Laravel
9 14 (15.91%) RESTful
10 11 (12.50%) Material-UI
11 10 (11.36%) Jest
11 10 (11.36%) LESS
11 10 (11.36%) OpenFin
11 10 (11.36%) Redux
11 10 (11.36%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (7.95%) HTML5
12 7 (7.95%) Kafka
12 7 (7.95%) pytest
13 6 (6.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Fixed Income
2 10 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.95%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (4.55%) Solar Panel
6 4 (4.55%) Wiki
7 3 (3.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.14%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.14%) Derivative
8 1 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.86%) Linux
2 16 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) Software Engineering
2 30 (34.09%) Full Stack Development
3 27 (30.68%) Electronic Trading
4 22 (25.00%) Agile
4 22 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 20 (22.73%) SDLC
6 18 (20.45%) User Experience
7 16 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.18%) DevOps
7 16 (18.18%) Unit Testing
7 16 (18.18%) Web Application Development
7 16 (18.18%) Web Development
8 15 (17.05%) Analytics
8 15 (17.05%) API Development
8 15 (17.05%) Data Encryption
8 15 (17.05%) End-to-End Testing
8 15 (17.05%) Front End Development
8 15 (17.05%) Integration Testing
9 14 (15.91%) Microservices
9 14 (15.91%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 32 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 30 (34.09%) SQL
4 26 (29.55%) Python
5 23 (26.14%) Java
6 15 (17.05%) PHP
7 14 (15.91%) C#
8 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.27%) C++
9 2 (2.27%) Go
10 1 (1.14%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
1 21 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.77%) Degree
3 9 (10.23%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.82%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) OpenAI
2 4 (4.55%) Black Duck
3 3 (3.41%) F5
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Imperva
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.14%) Finsemble