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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 338 345
Rank change year-on-year -93 +7 +28
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 26 22 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% 0.56% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 19
10th Percentile £593 £556 £400
25th Percentile £663 £619 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -9.38% +10.34%
75th Percentile £788 £800 £1,000
90th Percentile £879 £838 £1,050
England median daily rate £725 £650 £800
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +10.34%

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.

6 months to
19 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,412 3,911 4,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.58% 29.42% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,661 2,668 3,205
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £841
England median daily rate £535 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 23
10th Percentile £36.05 £31.77 £24.12
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £37.50
Median hourly rate £51.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +22.28% -30.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +11.59%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 -30 1 £750 -6.25% 8
South London - 1 £850 -
WebSockets
England

WebSockets Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1React50.0%13
2AngularJS30.8%8
2Redux30.8%8
4FIX Protocol26.9%7
5.NET23.1%6
5RxJS23.1%6
7Next.js19.2%5
7OpenFin19.2%5
7Vitest19.2%5
10ASP.NET15.4%4
10ASP.NET MVC15.4%4
12FastAPI11.5%3
12JWT11.5%3
12pytest11.5%3
12REST11.5%3
12RESTful11.5%3
17Bootstrap7.7%2
17CSS7.7%2
17GraphQL7.7%2
17HTML7.7%2