JSON Contracts in the UK excluding London

JSON
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 249 185 162
Rank change year-on-year -64 -23 -15
Contract jobs citing JSON 149 303 503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.29% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 7.04% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 206 311
10th Percentile £409 £400 £405
25th Percentile £473 £453 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £509 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% -2.21% +22.35%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £588
90th Percentile £644 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £45.07
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +60.86% -18.05%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £49.69
90th Percentile - - £65.51
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -14 51 £534 +5.74% 24
South East -30 34 £513 -2.38% 29
North West -12 29 £534 +1.71% 16
South West +7 20 £550 -2.57% 8
Scotland +39 19 £480 -2.54% 6
Midlands +23 19 £577 +2.58% 18
Yorkshire +10 15 £624 +27.57% 7
West Midlands +16 13 £581 +16.25% 11
North East +6 11 £491 -10.82% 1
East of England +3 10 £533 +12.11% 14
East Midlands +20 6 £577 -3.83% 7
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (6.71%) Confluence
2 6 (4.03%) Alfresco
2 6 (4.03%) Appian
2 6 (4.03%) Camunda
3 5 (3.36%) Apache
3 5 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.68%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.68%) CMS
4 4 (2.68%) nginx
4 4 (2.68%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.01%) IIS
6 2 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (1.34%) GemFire
7 1 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.67%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.37%) NetSuite
2 6 (4.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (2.01%) Maximo
4 2 (1.34%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.16%) Azure
2 26 (17.45%) AWS
3 24 (16.11%) Serverless
4 14 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (8.72%) GitHub
6 11 (7.38%) GCP
7 9 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.70%) PaaS
9 7 (4.70%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.70%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.03%) Apigee
10 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.03%) Azure Stack
10 6 (4.03%) Boomi
10 6 (4.03%) Kong
10 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.36%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.40%) DNS
1 14 (9.40%) Firewall
2 11 (7.38%) HTTP
3 10 (6.71%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.71%) VPN
4 6 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 6 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (4.03%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.36%) 5G
5 5 (3.36%) FTP
6 4 (2.68%) BGP
6 4 (2.68%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.68%) HTTPS
6 4 (2.68%) IPsec
6 4 (2.68%) LTE
6 4 (2.68%) NetScaler
7 3 (2.01%) AMQP
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (2.01%) IOS XR
7 3 (2.01%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (13.42%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.07%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.05%) MongoDB
5 11 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (7.38%) MySQL
5 11 (7.38%) RDBMS
6 10 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (6.71%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (5.37%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.03%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.36%) Big Data
9 5 (3.36%) SQLite
10 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.68%) Couchbase
10 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.01%) Redis
11 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (24.83%) Git
2 24 (16.11%) JIRA
3 17 (11.41%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.72%) GitLab
5 8 (5.37%) Visual Studio
6 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.70%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (4.03%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.03%) Travis CI
8 5 (3.36%) Checkstyle
8 5 (3.36%) Postman
8 5 (3.36%) Subversion
9 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.01%) JUnit
10 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.34%) Selenium
11 2 (1.34%) Xcode
General
1 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (8.72%) Finance
3 8 (5.37%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.70%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.03%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.36%) Legal
6 5 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.68%) Retail
8 3 (2.01%) Billing
9 2 (1.34%) Banking
9 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (24.16%) Developer
2 21 (14.09%) Architect
3 13 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (7.38%) DBA
4 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 9 (6.04%) Analyst
5 9 (6.04%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.37%) Software Engineer
7 7 (4.70%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (4.70%) Senior
7 7 (4.70%) Tester
8 6 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Integration Developer
8 6 (4.03%) Pega Developer
9 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) Network Engineer
9 5 (3.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (55.03%) XML
2 45 (30.20%) REST
3 22 (14.77%) YAML
4 17 (11.41%) .NET
4 17 (11.41%) SOAP
4 17 (11.41%) Web Services
5 16 (10.74%) HTML
6 15 (10.07%) RESTful
7 14 (9.40%) Kafka
8 13 (8.72%) CSS
9 12 (8.05%) .NET Framework
9 12 (8.05%) OpenID
10 10 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.03%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.03%) Drools
11 6 (4.03%) jBPM
11 6 (4.03%) LDAP
11 6 (4.03%) OAuth
11 6 (4.03%) XSLT
12 5 (3.36%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.04%) Low-Code
2 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.03%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.68%) ASIC
5 4 (2.68%) FPGA
5 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.68%) Verilog
6 3 (2.01%) PKI
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.09%) Linux
2 6 (4.03%) Windows
3 4 (2.68%) CentOS
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.67%) AIX
5 1 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (54.36%) Agile
2 46 (30.87%) DevOps
3 35 (23.49%) CI/CD
3 35 (23.49%) OO
4 33 (22.15%) Test Automation
5 29 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (15.44%) Scrum
7 20 (13.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (13.42%) Migration
8 19 (12.75%) Workflow
9 18 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (11.41%) Data Modelling
10 17 (11.41%) Microservices
10 17 (11.41%) Software Engineering
11 16 (10.74%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.07%) SDLC
13 14 (9.40%) API Development
13 14 (9.40%) Containerisation
13 14 (9.40%) CRM
13 14 (9.40%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.49%) Java
1 35 (23.49%) JavaScript
1 35 (23.49%) Python
2 31 (20.81%) SQL
3 30 (20.13%) C#
4 15 (10.07%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.72%) Bash
6 9 (6.04%) C
7 8 (5.37%) Shell Script
7 8 (5.37%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.03%) Go
9 5 (3.36%) ActionScript
9 5 (3.36%) X++
10 4 (2.68%) C++
10 4 (2.68%) PHP
10 4 (2.68%) SystemVerilog
10 4 (2.68%) Tcl
10 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.01%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.01%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.71%) Degree
3 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) HND
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.36%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (10.07%) Docker
2 7 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.01%) OpenAM
4 3 (2.01%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (13.42%) Ansible
1 20 (13.42%) Terraform
2 16 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.05%) Grafana
4 10 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.70%) Docker Swarm
5 7 (4.70%) Kibana
6 6 (4.03%) logstash
6 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
6 6 (4.03%) Puppet
7 4 (2.68%) yum
8 1 (0.67%) Anchore
8 1 (0.67%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.67%) Packer
8 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.08%) Oracle
3 13 (8.72%) Salesforce
4 12 (8.05%) Pega
5 9 (6.04%) Cadence
5 9 (6.04%) Informatica
6 7 (4.70%) SAP
6 7 (4.70%) Splunk
7 6 (4.03%) F5
7 6 (4.03%) Talend
8 5 (3.36%) Google
8 5 (3.36%) IBM
9 4 (2.68%) Cisco
9 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.01%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.01%) Nintex
10 3 (2.01%) Synopsys
10 3 (2.01%) TOWER Software
10 3 (2.01%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.34%) Adobe