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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 340 307
Rank change year-on-year -28 -33 +165
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 25 14 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.10% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% 0.40% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 56
10th Percentile £338 £638 £556
25th Percentile £550 £650 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £713 £850
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% -16.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £681 £788 -
90th Percentile £775 £813 £875
England median daily rate £615 £675 £850
% change year-on-year -8.89% -20.59% +25.93%
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 - - £45.88

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 4,041 3,523 4,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.53% 26.39% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,735 2,366 3,396
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 36
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.65 £16.56
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.38 £28.10
Median hourly rate £50.50 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% +5.88% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.81
90th Percentile £92.50 £82.75 £74.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -1 3 £525 -30.00% 3
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 (28.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.00%) CloudFront
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (12.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) Figma
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) Google Gemini
6 2 (8.00%) Vertex AI
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
7 1 (4.00%) Firebase
7 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) CockroachDB
1 3 (12.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (12.00%) Redis
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Gatling
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
3 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (4.00%) Snyk
3 1 (4.00%) Vite
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Front Office
3 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.00%) UX Developer
5 2 (8.00%) UX Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) React
2 12 (48.00%) Kafka
3 9 (36.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (36.00%) REST
4 8 (32.00%) HTML
5 7 (28.00%) RESTful
5 7 (28.00%) Vue
6 5 (20.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) gRPC
6 5 (20.00%) HTML5
6 5 (20.00%) JMS
6 5 (20.00%) Middleware
6 5 (20.00%) OAuth
6 5 (20.00%) Playwright
6 5 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (16.00%) D3.js
7 4 (16.00%) Highcharts JS
7 4 (16.00%) Plotly
8 3 (12.00%) boto
8 3 (12.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Derivative
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.00%) Equities
3 4 (16.00%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (16.00%) Spread Betting
4 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (12.00%) Energy Derivatives
5 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) AI
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (44.00%) User Experience
2 10 (40.00%) Observability
3 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (32.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) Conversational UI
5 7 (28.00%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (28.00%) Front End Development
5 7 (28.00%) Low Latency
5 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (24.00%) Generative AI
6 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (24.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) API Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) Rust
6 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (8.00%) C#
8 1 (4.00%) BrightScript
8 1 (4.00%) Java
8 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Grafana
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Google
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Apple
3 1 (4.00%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Roku