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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 184 158
Rank change year-on-year -71 -26 -19
Contract jobs citing JSON 138 291 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 1.28% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 7.06% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 189 298
10th Percentile £400 £400 £405
25th Percentile £475 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -0.95% +23.53%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 29
10th Percentile - £64.75 -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +40.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £77.00
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +21.74% -8.73%

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 3,366 4,119 6,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.96% 18.13% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 3,066 4,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £407 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £588
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 91 139
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £19.32
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.49 £78.00 £77.06
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

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

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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

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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 June 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 June 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 -4 51 £540 +2.86% 33
South East -47 29 £560 +5.66% 20
North West -9 25 £534 -5.07% 19
Midlands +12 21 £577 -1.79% 26
Yorkshire +8 20 £622 +27.26% 13
South West -3 16 £550 +5.77% 14
Scotland +30 15 £519 +5.33% 3
West Midlands +8 13 £581 +4.49% 18
North East +10 10 £550 -22.75% 1
East of England -3 10 £533 +12.11% 10
East Midlands +9 8 £577 -3.83% 8
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 13 (9.42%) Confluence
2 6 (4.35%) Alfresco
2 6 (4.35%) Appian
2 6 (4.35%) Camunda
3 5 (3.62%) Apache
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.90%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.90%) nginx
4 4 (2.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.17%) IIS
6 2 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.72%) CMS
7 1 (0.72%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.72%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.80%) NetSuite
2 3 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.17%) Maximo
3 2 (1.45%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.26%) Azure
2 26 (18.84%) AWS
3 16 (11.59%) Serverless
4 15 (10.87%) GCP
5 14 (10.14%) GitHub
6 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.52%) Kong
8 8 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (5.80%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (5.07%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.07%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.35%) Apigee
10 6 (4.35%) Azure Stack
10 6 (4.35%) Boomi
10 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (4.35%) PaaS
10 6 (4.35%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.32%) DNS
2 15 (10.87%) Firewall
3 14 (10.14%) HTTP
4 13 (9.42%) TCP/IP
5 12 (8.70%) VPN
6 8 (5.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (4.35%) Kerberos
8 5 (3.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (3.62%) FTP
9 4 (2.90%) 5G
9 4 (2.90%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (2.90%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.90%) IPsec
9 4 (2.90%) LTE
9 4 (2.90%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.90%) SSL
10 3 (2.17%) BGP
10 3 (2.17%) BIG-IP
10 3 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.97%) MySQL
4 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.52%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (3.62%) Big Data
8 5 (3.62%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.62%) SQLite
9 4 (2.90%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.72%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (30.43%) Git
2 24 (17.39%) JIRA
3 19 (13.77%) Jenkins
4 12 (8.70%) GitLab
5 10 (7.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (6.52%) CircleCI
6 9 (6.52%) Travis CI
7 7 (5.07%) Bitbucket
7 7 (5.07%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.62%) Checkstyle
8 5 (3.62%) Subversion
9 4 (2.90%) Postman
9 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
10 3 (2.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.17%) JUnit
10 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.45%) Selenium
11 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.45%) Xcode
12 1 (0.72%) JMeter
General
1 36 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.97%) Finance
4 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.62%) Legal
6 5 (3.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.17%) Billing
8 3 (2.17%) Marketing
9 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (22.46%) Developer
2 21 (15.22%) Architect
3 15 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (5.80%) Analyst
6 7 (5.07%) Data Architect
6 7 (5.07%) Senior
6 7 (5.07%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.07%) Tester
7 6 (4.35%) DBA
7 6 (4.35%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 5 (3.62%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Consultant
8 5 (3.62%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Integration Developer
8 5 (3.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (52.90%) XML
2 39 (28.26%) REST
3 22 (15.94%) YAML
4 20 (14.49%) HTML
5 16 (11.59%) .NET
5 16 (11.59%) CSS
5 16 (11.59%) RESTful
6 15 (10.87%) .NET Framework
6 15 (10.87%) Web Services
7 13 (9.42%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (8.70%) SOAP
9 10 (7.25%) OpenID
10 9 (6.52%) Kafka
11 6 (4.35%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.35%) Drools
11 6 (4.35%) jBPM
11 6 (4.35%) LDAP
12 5 (3.62%) WCF
12 5 (3.62%) XSLT
13 4 (2.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.52%) Low-Code
3 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.07%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.35%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.62%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.90%) ASIC
7 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.90%) FPGA
7 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.90%) Verilog
8 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.45%) CMDB
9 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.90%) CentOS
2 4 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Unix
2 4 (2.90%) Windows
3 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.45%) Android
4 2 (1.45%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.72%) AIX
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (51.45%) Agile
2 41 (29.71%) DevOps
3 36 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 30 (21.74%) OO
4 30 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.39%) Scrum
7 20 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (13.77%) Workflow
9 17 (12.32%) Microservices
10 16 (11.59%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.59%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.87%) Migration
11 15 (10.87%) SDLC
12 14 (10.14%) API Development
12 14 (10.14%) Data Modelling
13 13 (9.42%) Data Mapping
14 12 (8.70%) Data Management
14 12 (8.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.64%) Python
2 33 (23.91%) Java
2 33 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 32 (23.19%) SQL
4 28 (20.29%) C#
5 17 (12.32%) Bash
6 15 (10.87%) PowerShell
7 11 (7.97%) C
8 8 (5.80%) ActionScript
8 8 (5.80%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.80%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.35%) Go
10 5 (3.62%) C++
10 5 (3.62%) X++
11 4 (2.90%) PHP
11 4 (2.90%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (2.90%) Tcl
12 3 (2.17%) Assembly Language
12 3 (2.17%) BeanShell
12 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.25%) Degree
3 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.45%) HND
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.62%) GDPR
4 4 (2.90%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.72%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (13.77%) Docker
2 7 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.17%) OpenAM
4 3 (2.17%) OpenIDM
5 2 (1.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (17.39%) Ansible
2 23 (16.67%) Terraform
3 18 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 14 (10.14%) Grafana
5 13 (9.42%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.25%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (7.25%) Kibana
7 9 (6.52%) logstash
7 9 (6.52%) Progress Chef
7 9 (6.52%) Puppet
8 4 (2.90%) yum
9 1 (0.72%) Anchore
9 1 (0.72%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.72%) Packer
9 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.87%) Oracle
3 10 (7.25%) Splunk
4 9 (6.52%) Cadence
4 9 (6.52%) Informatica
4 9 (6.52%) Pega
4 9 (6.52%) SAP
5 8 (5.80%) F5
6 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.35%) Talend
8 5 (3.62%) Google
8 5 (3.62%) IBM
9 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.17%) Cisco
10 3 (2.17%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.17%) Nintex
10 3 (2.17%) Synopsys
10 3 (2.17%) TOWER Software
10 3 (2.17%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.45%) Adobe