JSON Contracts in England

JSON
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JSON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSON over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 202 179
Rank change year-on-year -22 -23 -31
Contract jobs citing JSON 387 649 1,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.32% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 5.73% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 469 787
10th Percentile £402 £412 £413
25th Percentile £461 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £669
90th Percentile £671 £806 £750
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +92.05% -34.91%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £56.56
90th Percentile - - £65.52
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £46.32
% change year-on-year +10.34% +56.52% -20.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JSON 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 advertised in England 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 7,500 11,325 18,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.38% 23.09% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,330 8,393 14,169
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 138 204
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.35 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 235 £536 -5.92% 58
North of England -14 51 £534 +5.74% 19
South East -30 34 £513 -2.38% 30
North West -12 29 £534 +1.71% 12
South West +7 20 £550 -2.57% 9
Midlands +23 19 £577 +2.58% 17
Yorkshire +10 15 £624 +27.57% 6
West Midlands +16 13 £581 +16.25% 10
North East +6 11 £491 -10.82% 1
East of England +3 10 £533 +12.11% 16
East Midlands +20 6 £577 -3.83% 7
JSON
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (5.43%) Confluence
2 13 (3.36%) Apache
3 10 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) Alfresco
5 6 (1.55%) Appian
5 6 (1.55%) Camunda
5 6 (1.55%) IIS
5 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.29%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.29%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.03%) nginx
8 3 (0.78%) CMS
8 3 (0.78%) GemFire
8 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.52%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (2.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (2.07%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) Endur
4 3 (0.78%) Maximo
4 3 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.52%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.97%) Azure
2 64 (16.54%) AWS
3 63 (16.28%) Serverless
4 44 (11.37%) Power Platform
5 41 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (7.24%) GitHub
6 28 (7.24%) Power Automate
7 26 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (6.72%) PowerApps
8 23 (5.94%) GCP
9 21 (5.43%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (5.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 20 (5.17%) PaaS
11 19 (4.91%) Amazon MSK
11 19 (4.91%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.91%) Azure Functions
11 19 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.53%) BGP
2 29 (7.49%) Firewall
2 29 (7.49%) MPLS
3 26 (6.72%) HTTP
4 24 (6.20%) DNS
5 21 (5.43%) VPN
6 20 (5.17%) RSVP
7 18 (4.65%) HSRP
7 18 (4.65%) SNMP
7 18 (4.65%) VPLS
8 17 (4.39%) Ethernet VPN
9 16 (4.13%) IPv4
9 16 (4.13%) TCP/IP
9 16 (4.13%) VRRP
10 15 (3.88%) Cisco IOS
10 15 (3.88%) IOS XR
11 12 (3.10%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 12 (3.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 12 (3.10%) SSH
12 11 (2.84%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.89%) NoSQL
2 44 (11.37%) SQL Server
3 37 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (8.79%) Relational Database
5 32 (8.27%) Parquet
5 32 (8.27%) Power BI
6 30 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (5.17%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.17%) DynamoDB
9 19 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.91%) RDBMS
10 18 (4.65%) MySQL
11 16 (4.13%) MongoDB
12 15 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (3.36%) Big Data
14 11 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (20.16%) Git
2 49 (12.66%) JIRA
3 25 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.91%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.39%) GitLab
6 14 (3.62%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.36%) Postman
8 12 (3.10%) Selenium
9 11 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.33%) JUnit
12 8 (2.07%) Visual Studio Team System
13 7 (1.81%) Maven
13 7 (1.81%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.55%) NUnit
14 6 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (1.55%) Travis CI
15 5 (1.29%) Gradle
General
1 104 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.70%) Finance
3 40 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.68%) Banking
6 14 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.36%) Marketing
8 12 (3.10%) Retail
9 10 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.33%) Front Office
11 8 (2.07%) Back Office
12 7 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.29%) Advertising
14 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.29%) Legal
14 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 96 (24.81%) Developer
2 60 (15.50%) Architect
3 34 (8.79%) Senior
4 32 (8.27%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.24%) Data Architect
5 28 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.43%) Analyst
6 21 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (4.65%) Network Engineer
8 17 (4.39%) Java Developer
8 17 (4.39%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.13%) IP Expert
10 14 (3.62%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.36%) Consultant
12 12 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.10%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.84%) DBA
13 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL DBA
13 11 (2.84%) Senior Architect
13 11 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (52.20%) XML
2 115 (29.72%) REST
3 56 (14.47%) SOAP
4 52 (13.44%) HTML
5 50 (12.92%) .NET
6 49 (12.66%) CSS
7 41 (10.59%) YAML
8 37 (9.56%) Web Services
9 32 (8.27%) YANG
10 29 (7.49%) Apache Avro
10 29 (7.49%) NETCONF
11 28 (7.24%) RESTful
12 27 (6.98%) Kafka
13 23 (5.94%) jQuery
13 23 (5.94%) Spring
14 22 (5.68%) AngularJS
14 22 (5.68%) JSON Schema
15 21 (5.43%) ARM Templates
16 20 (5.17%) OAuth
16 20 (5.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.01%) Data Structures
2 22 (5.68%) Distributed Architecture
2 22 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (2.84%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.33%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.55%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.29%) Derivative
12 5 (1.29%) PKI
12 5 (1.29%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.18%) Linux
2 28 (7.24%) Unix
3 27 (6.98%) Windows
4 6 (1.55%) CentOS
5 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (44.70%) Agile
2 117 (30.23%) DevOps
3 83 (21.45%) CI/CD
4 71 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (16.80%) Data Modelling
6 54 (13.95%) Scrum
7 53 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (13.70%) Migration
8 51 (13.18%) Test Automation
9 49 (12.66%) Microservices
10 40 (10.34%) ETL
11 39 (10.08%) Analytics
11 39 (10.08%) OO
12 38 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
12 38 (9.82%) SDLC
13 34 (8.79%) Software Engineering
14 29 (7.49%) Data Mapping
15 28 (7.24%) TDD
15 28 (7.24%) Workflow
16 26 (6.72%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 139 (35.92%) SQL
2 104 (26.87%) Python
3 87 (22.48%) JavaScript
4 65 (16.80%) Java
5 64 (16.54%) C#
6 49 (12.66%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.68%) T-SQL
8 17 (4.39%) Bash
9 14 (3.62%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.58%) Perl
10 10 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.07%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.81%) SOQL
13 6 (1.55%) PHP
14 5 (1.29%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.29%) C++
14 5 (1.29%) Groovy
14 5 (1.29%) X++
15 4 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.79%) Degree
4 16 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.07%) CCIE
6 8 (2.07%) CCIE Service Provider
7 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.29%) CCNP
8 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CISSP
9 2 (0.52%) HND
10 1 (0.26%) GCIA
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) GSEC
10 1 (0.26%) ISEB
10 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.37%) QA
2 25 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.62%) GDPR
4 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.03%) NCSC
5 4 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.52%) HL7
6 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) COREP
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (9.04%) Docker
2 15 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.03%) NFS
5 4 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.78%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.78%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) IAG
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (11.11%) Terraform
2 38 (9.82%) Ansible
3 30 (7.75%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.88%) Grafana
5 12 (3.10%) Kibana
6 10 (2.58%) logstash
6 10 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.33%) Puppet
8 7 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (1.81%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.29%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.29%) Podman
10 5 (1.29%) yum
11 3 (0.78%) Netcool
11 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.52%) TIBCO Hawk
13 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.53%) Oracle
3 27 (6.98%) Nokia
4 25 (6.46%) Cisco
5 19 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 16 (4.13%) Fortinet
6 16 (4.13%) Splunk
7 15 (3.88%) Google
8 13 (3.36%) F5
9 12 (3.10%) SAP
10 11 (2.84%) Adobe
11 9 (2.33%) Informatica
11 9 (2.33%) Pega
11 9 (2.33%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.81%) Optimizely
12 7 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.55%) IBM
13 6 (1.55%) Talend
14 5 (1.29%) Omniture
14 5 (1.29%) Tealium