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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 327 308
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +124
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 22 25 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.20% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.77% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 53
10th Percentile £323 £413 £530
25th Percentile £563 £519 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £801
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.80% +6.73%
75th Percentile £788 £788 £850
90th Percentile - £800 £950
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 4,175 3,261 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.16% 26.07% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 2,284 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 24
10th Percentile £23.00 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +21.25% -40.74%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £72.60
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 17 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 17 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 -19 2 £375 -51.61% 5
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 3 (13.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (13.64%) CloudFront
3 3 (13.64%) Figma
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Redis
2 3 (13.64%) CockroachDB
2 3 (13.64%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Android Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.55%) Vite
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 8 (36.36%) Banking
3 7 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Front Office
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Police
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 9 (40.91%) Developer
3 6 (27.27%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) UX Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Algorithm Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.55%) C++ Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
6 1 (4.55%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) React
2 8 (36.36%) FIX Protocol
2 8 (36.36%) HTML
2 8 (36.36%) RESTful
3 5 (22.73%) HTML5
3 5 (22.73%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 4 (18.18%) CSS
4 4 (18.18%) Kafka
5 3 (13.64%) boto
5 3 (13.64%) LangGraph
5 3 (13.64%) Loki
5 3 (13.64%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (13.64%) OAuth
5 3 (13.64%) Vue
6 2 (9.09%) .NET
6 2 (9.09%) Next.js
6 2 (9.09%) Redux
6 2 (9.09%) SignalR
7 1 (4.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Derivative
2 7 (31.82%) Algorithms
2 7 (31.82%) Data Structures
3 6 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (18.18%) Equities
4 4 (18.18%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (13.64%) Energy Derivatives
6 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Observability
2 9 (40.91%) Low Latency
3 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
3 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
3 7 (31.82%) User Experience
4 6 (27.27%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Performance Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 6 (27.27%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) AI
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 5 (22.73%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (22.73%) Proprietary Trading
6 4 (18.18%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) Python
2 16 (72.73%) TypeScript
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
4 10 (45.45%) Rust
5 8 (36.36%) C#
6 7 (31.82%) C++
6 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
7 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
8 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (4.55%) BrightScript
9 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
9 1 (4.55%) Swift
9 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Apple
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) Roku