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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 330 307
Rank change year-on-year -54 -23 +120
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 21 25 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.20% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.76% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 54
10th Percentile £318 £413 £533
25th Percentile £513 £519 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £813
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -20.02% +8.37%
75th Percentile £788 £788 £850
90th Percentile - £800 £901
England median daily rate £688 £650 £801
% change year-on-year +5.77% -18.80% +10.41%
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 4,161 3,281 4,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.55% 26.10% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,301 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 27
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -20 2 £375 -51.61% 8
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 4 (19.05%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (14.29%) CloudFront
3 3 (14.29%) Figma
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Redis
2 3 (14.29%) CockroachDB
2 3 (14.29%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Android Studio
2 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.76%) Gradle
2 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
3 5 (23.81%) Front Office
3 5 (23.81%) Investment Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Police
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Python Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) UX Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C++ Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) React Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Developer
6 1 (4.76%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) React
2 8 (38.10%) HTML
2 8 (38.10%) RESTful
3 6 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
4 5 (23.81%) HTML5
4 5 (23.81%) Kafka
4 5 (23.81%) REST
5 4 (19.05%) CSS
5 4 (19.05%) Vue
6 3 (14.29%) boto
6 3 (14.29%) LangGraph
6 3 (14.29%) Loki
6 3 (14.29%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (14.29%) OAuth
7 2 (9.52%) .NET
7 2 (9.52%) Next.js
7 2 (9.52%) Redux
7 2 (9.52%) SignalR
8 1 (4.76%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Derivative
2 5 (23.81%) Algorithms
2 5 (23.81%) Data Structures
3 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (19.05%) Equities
3 4 (19.05%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (14.29%) Energy Derivatives
5 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (4.76%) Spread Betting
6 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Low Latency
1 8 (38.10%) Observability
1 8 (38.10%) User Experience
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) AI
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (23.81%) Microservices
4 5 (23.81%) Multithreading
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Front End Development
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Proprietary Trading
5 4 (19.05%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 14 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 10 (47.62%) SQL
4 8 (38.10%) Rust
5 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (28.57%) C#
7 5 (23.81%) C++
8 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
9 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (4.76%) BrightScript
10 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (4.76%) Swift
10 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Apple
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Roku