JSON Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

JSON
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 72 123
Rank change year-on-year -38 +51 -39
Contract jobs citing JSON 10 24 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.58% 1.89% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.96% 9.16% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 7
10th Percentile £403 £483 £397
25th Percentile £463 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £525 £563
90th Percentile £743 £554 £665
South East median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -2.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

JSON falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 338 262 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.48% 20.61% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 175 151
10th Percentile £363 £385 £313
25th Percentile £415 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £608
90th Percentile £648 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £539 £503
% change year-on-year -7.15% +7.16% -6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £56.01 £78.22 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £79.77 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £83.60 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +35.71% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £88.67 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £90.97 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.13% -4.92%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JSON relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

JSON job vacancy trend in Berkshire

JSON
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JSON

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in Berkshire

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JSON

JSON
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
Reading -19 3 £561 +9.51% 2
Wokingham -37 3 £700 +35.53% 1
Windsor -2 2 £475 -5.00%
JSON
South East

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Appian
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) AtomSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (20.00%) Boomi
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Billing
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Development
3 1 (10.00%) Maximo Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Jinja
4 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) TM Forum
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) MLOps
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Groovy
4 2 (20.00%) Jython
4 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Veracode