WebSockets Contracts

WebSockets
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WebSockets skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebSockets over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 613 732
Rank change year-on-year +142 +119 -121
Contract jobs citing WebSockets 102 87 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.66% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 39 103
10th Percentile £525 £450 £475
25th Percentile £584 £556 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £800
90th Percentile £943 £825 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.79 - -
90th Percentile £54.01 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WebSockets is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

WebSockets
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WebSockets as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Daily rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebSockets over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WebSockets.

Hourly rate trend for WebSockets in the UK

WebSockets
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebSockets within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
England +112 90 £801 +10.41% 18
London +120 82 £801 +6.73% 14
Work from Home +129 45 £700 -1.75% 8
UK excluding London +49 7 £500 +5.26% 4
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
Midlands +30 1 £500 +5.26%
South West +18 1 £500 - 1
Wales - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 £588 - 3

WebSockets
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (19.61%) nginx
2 6 (5.88%) Tornado
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.22%) AWS
2 19 (18.63%) npm
3 18 (17.65%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 18 (17.65%) Azure
4 9 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (5.88%) Serverless
6 4 (3.92%) GitHub
7 3 (2.94%) Akamai
8 2 (1.96%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.98%) Contentful
9 1 (0.98%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.86%) HTTP
2 4 (3.92%) SSL
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.98%) RFID
4 1 (0.98%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.59%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) JIRA
2 19 (18.63%) Git
2 19 (18.63%) webpack
3 9 (8.82%) git-flow
4 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.90%) Pylint
6 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.94%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.98%) Babel
8 1 (0.98%) Gatling
8 1 (0.98%) JMeter
8 1 (0.98%) Selenium
8 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (19.61%) Front Office
4 12 (11.76%) Finance
5 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.84%) Banking
6 8 (7.84%) Marketing
7 6 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.98%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (71.57%) Developer
2 30 (29.41%) Full Stack Developer
3 19 (18.63%) Angular Developer
4 14 (13.73%) Applications Developer
4 14 (13.73%) Real Time Developer
4 14 (13.73%) Senior
4 14 (13.73%) Web Applications Developer
5 13 (12.75%) UI Developer
6 12 (11.76%) Software Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Python Developer
8 9 (8.82%) C# Developer
8 9 (8.82%) JavaScript Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) UI Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (5.88%) C# Web Application Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (5.88%) React Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (50.00%) React
2 34 (33.33%) HTML
3 32 (31.37%) CSS
4 31 (30.39%) Sass
5 27 (26.47%) REST
6 23 (22.55%) AngularJS
7 20 (19.61%) FastAPI
8 19 (18.63%) Laravel
8 19 (18.63%) RxJS
9 14 (13.73%) RESTful
10 12 (11.76%) Kafka
10 12 (11.76%) pytest
11 10 (9.80%) Material-UI
11 10 (9.80%) Node.js
12 9 (8.82%) Jest
12 9 (8.82%) LESS
12 9 (8.82%) OpenFin
12 9 (8.82%) Redux
12 9 (8.82%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (6.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.65%) Fixed Income
2 9 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.86%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (5.88%) Solar Panel
6 5 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.92%) Wiki
8 3 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.98%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.98%) Derivative
10 1 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.98%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 25 (24.51%) Linux
2 21 (20.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.06%) Software Engineering
2 33 (32.35%) Full Stack Development
3 31 (30.39%) Agile
4 28 (27.45%) Electronic Trading
5 25 (24.51%) Design Patterns
5 25 (24.51%) Web Development
6 22 (21.57%) Front End Development
7 21 (20.59%) DevOps
7 21 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
7 21 (20.59%) User Experience
8 20 (19.61%) Microservices
8 20 (19.61%) TDD
9 19 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (18.63%) SDLC
10 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
10 18 (17.65%) Web Application Development
11 17 (16.67%) API Development
11 17 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 17 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 16 (15.69%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (60.78%) JavaScript
2 38 (37.25%) TypeScript
3 37 (36.27%) SQL
4 31 (30.39%) Python
5 24 (23.53%) Java
6 19 (18.63%) PHP
7 15 (14.71%) C#
8 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.96%) C++
9 2 (1.96%) Go
10 1 (0.98%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.75%) Degree
4 9 (8.82%) Master's Degree
5 8 (7.84%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) OpenAI
2 5 (4.90%) Confluent
2 5 (4.90%) Databricks
3 4 (3.92%) Black Duck
4 3 (2.94%) F5
4 3 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (1.96%) Imperva
5 2 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.98%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.98%) Sun