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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 333 295
Rank change year-on-year -45 -38 +151
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 25 16 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.13% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 0.48% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 59
10th Percentile £328 £413 £545
25th Percentile £525 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £850
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £775 £750 -
90th Percentile £784 £770 £875
England median daily rate £615 £650 £850
% change year-on-year -5.38% -23.53% +19.30%
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 4,218 3,301 4,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.59% 26.03% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,307 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £24.95 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +45.46% -41.30%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £69.40
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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -13 3 £450 -30.77% 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 7 (28.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) CloudFront
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 3 (12.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) Figma
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) 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%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power Query
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Gatling
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) JMeter
2 2 (8.00%) Vite
3 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
3 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Front Office
3 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Police
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (16.00%) UX Developer
5 2 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) UX Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) React Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) React
2 9 (36.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (36.00%) Kafka
3 8 (32.00%) HTML
3 8 (32.00%) RESTful
4 7 (28.00%) Vue
5 6 (24.00%) REST
6 5 (20.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) HTML5
7 4 (16.00%) D3.js
7 4 (16.00%) Highcharts JS
7 4 (16.00%) OAuth
7 4 (16.00%) Plotly
8 3 (12.00%) boto
8 3 (12.00%) LangGraph
8 3 (12.00%) Loki
8 3 (12.00%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
9 2 (8.00%) gRPC
9 2 (8.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Derivative
2 4 (16.00%) Equities
2 4 (16.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Spread Betting
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (12.00%) Energy Derivatives
4 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
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%) User Experience
2 9 (36.00%) Low Latency
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) Observability
4 7 (28.00%) Conversational UI
4 7 (28.00%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (28.00%) Front End Development
4 7 (28.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Analytics
5 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (20.00%) Generative AI
6 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) SQL
4 6 (24.00%) Rust
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.00%) C++
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) BrightScript
7 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.00%) Swift
7 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Apple
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Roku