JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JWT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JWT over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 675 733
Rank change year-on-year +103 +58 -119
Contract jobs citing JWT 28 38 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.064% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.27% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 90
10th Percentile £375 £469 £438
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +23.67%
75th Percentile £594 £570 £675
90th Percentile £600 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £548 £540
% change year-on-year -4.11% +1.39% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JWT 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 8,961 13,886 24,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.56% 23.27% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 10,139 17,680
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £661
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in the UK

JWT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JWT within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +95 20 £525 - 9
UK excluding London +63 10 £525 -4.11% 3
London +96 9 £588 +11.90% 7
North of England +30 9 £525 -7.89% 1
Work from Home +110 7 £575 +0.88% 4
Yorkshire +22 6 £525 -7.89% 1
North West - 3 - -
South East - 1 - - 1

JWT
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) Apigee
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) npm
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) HTTP
1 4 (14.29%) SSL
2 2 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (3.57%) AMQP
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (21.43%) Maven
4 5 (17.86%) Git
4 5 (17.86%) JIRA
5 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
6 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.57%) GitLab
7 1 (3.57%) Mocha
7 1 (3.57%) VersionOne
7 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Electronics
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Scala Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) React Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Full Stack Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Apigee Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) OAuth
2 12 (42.86%) Spring
3 9 (32.14%) Node.js
3 9 (32.14%) RESTful
3 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
3 9 (32.14%) Web Services
4 8 (28.57%) OpenID
4 8 (28.57%) REST
5 7 (25.00%) JSON
6 4 (14.29%) http4s
6 4 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (14.29%) React
7 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
7 3 (10.71%) JDBC
7 3 (10.71%) JPA
7 3 (10.71%) SAML
7 3 (10.71%) WebSockets
8 2 (7.14%) Jest
8 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Software Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) API Integration
5 7 (25.00%) Kanban
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
6 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
7 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) Functional Programming
8 4 (14.29%) OO
8 4 (14.29%) OOP
8 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 4 (14.29%) Scrum-ban
8 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) Scala
4 3 (10.71%) Groovy
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Python
6 1 (3.57%) ABAP
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Kibana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Okta
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Roku
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Ariba
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) Leostream
4 1 (3.57%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.57%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.57%) VMware