WebSockets Contract Job Trends in London

WebSockets
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WebSockets skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 339 300
Rank change year-on-year -13 -39 +178
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 22 24 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.17% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% 0.66% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 62
10th Percentile £338 £363 £559
25th Percentile £578 £494 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £806 £850
90th Percentile £813 £840 £873
England median daily rate £615 £550 £800
% change year-on-year +11.82% -31.25% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £58.50

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

WebSockets falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,806 3,624 4,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.44% 25.82% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 2,376 3,412
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -7.60% +14.09% -15.72%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebSockets relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

WebSockets job vacancy trend in London

WebSockets
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSockets.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets in London over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in London

WebSockets
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSockets.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebSockets

WebSockets
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the London region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. 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
Central London +2 4 £525 -19.23% 7
WebSockets
England

WebSockets
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) CloudFront
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (18.18%) Google Gemini
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Run
5 3 (13.64%) Figma
5 3 (13.64%) Firebase
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Vertex AI
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) CockroachDB
1 3 (13.64%) Pinecone
2 2 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Gatling
2 5 (22.73%) GitLab
2 5 (22.73%) JMeter
3 2 (9.09%) Snyk
4 1 (4.55%) Ant
4 1 (4.55%) Vite
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Front Office
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Performance Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Performance Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Performance Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Test Automation Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Test Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Front Office Developer
3 4 (18.18%) UX Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (9.09%) UX Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) React
2 11 (50.00%) Kafka
2 11 (50.00%) REST
3 8 (36.36%) AngularJS
4 7 (31.82%) Vue
5 6 (27.27%) CSS
5 6 (27.27%) HTML
5 6 (27.27%) Middleware
5 6 (27.27%) OAuth
6 5 (22.73%) gRPC
6 5 (22.73%) Highcharts JS
6 5 (22.73%) JMS
6 5 (22.73%) Playwright
6 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (18.18%) D3.js
7 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
7 4 (18.18%) Next.js
7 4 (18.18%) Plotly
7 4 (18.18%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (18.18%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Spread Betting
3 3 (13.64%) Derivative
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (9.09%) Energy Derivatives
4 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Equities
5 1 (4.55%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) AI
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) User Experience
3 9 (40.91%) Observability
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
5 7 (31.82%) Conversational UI
5 7 (31.82%) Front End Development
5 7 (31.82%) Generative AI
5 7 (31.82%) LLM
5 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Analytics
6 6 (27.27%) Low Latency
6 6 (27.27%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (22.73%) API Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
7 5 (22.73%) Performance Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) Rust
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) MCP
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (9.09%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) OpenAI
3 2 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Amplitude
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle